Hi Stuart,

For bullet point #2 below, how do you manage the workflow of the "creative spelling" correction. Is the correction handled manually or automatically, or somewhere in between?

Thanks,
Lisa

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Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu
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From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of stuart yeates [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 1:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

I run the techie side of http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ and we use
dc.subject:

(*) We ask for at least three depositor-supplied keywords

(*) When a depositor uses creative spelling in any of the
depositor-supplied fields, we add standard spelling as a dc.subject

(*) When any field uses non-English language terms we add an English
term as a dc.subject

(*) When any field uses English language terms to refer to non-English
subjects, we add a dc.subject with the native-language term

(*) We have some hacky stuff in vuwschema.subject.* which the DSpace
development team have told use to keep hacky while they migrate to
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ in the next couple of releases.

We'd love to have the resources to do proper subject classification,
because it would be a huge enabler of deep interoperability.

cheers
stuart

On 31/08/13 01:36, Matthew Sherman wrote:
> Sorry, I probably should have provided a bit more depth.  It is a
> University Institutional Repository so we have a rather varied collection
> of materials from engineering to education to computer science to
> chiropractic to dental to some student theses and posters.  So I guess I
> need to find something at is extensible.  Does that provide a better idea
> or should I provide more info?
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Jacob Ratliff <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> It depends on the subject area of your repository. There are dozens of
>> controlled vocabularies that exist (not including specific Enterprise
>> Content Management controlled vocabularies). If you can describe your
>> collection, people might be able to advise you better.
>>
>> Jacob Ratliff
>> Archivist/Taxonomy Librarian
>> National Fire Protection Association
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Matthew Sherman
>> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Code4Libbers,
>>>
>>> I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of the
>>> big areas of improvement needed is the list of terms from the subject
>>> fields.  It is messy and I want to take the subject terms and place them
>>> into a much better order.  I was contemplating using Library of Congress
>>> Subject Headings, but I wanted to see what others have done in this area
>> to
>>> see if there is another good controlled vocabulary that could work
>> better.
>>> Any insight is welcome.  Thanks for your time everyone.
>>>
>>> Matt Sherman
>>> Digital Content Librarian
>>> University of Bridgeport
>>>
>>
>


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