That's handled by staff with cataloguing training and disposition.

cheers
stuart

On 03/09/13 05:24, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote:
> 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
>
> -------------------------------------
> Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
> Librarian for Digital Collection Development
> UCLA Digital Library Program
> http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
> email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu
> ________________________________________
> 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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> Stuart Yeates
> Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
>


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