Zoe wrote:
> Sorry that I was not very clear in my previous post. I am actually looking
> at the SWAP for our institutional repository. It would be useful if we can
> describe the author as well as the article in one record.
OK, time to drag out my soap-box (if the cat will GET OFF THE KEYBOARD!!
sorry 'bout that..)
OK, standard repository software comes with the fundamental idea that
there is a thing to deposit, and some metadata to describe that thing...
its all basically flat: a title, a (list of) authors, an abstract, a
(set of) files, etc)
Swap, on the other hand, is a heirarchical one-to-many structure: one
Work has multiple Expressions; each Expression has multiple
Manifestations, and so on.
The two views, fundamentally, do not mix.
You can, in EPrints.org software (and I presume DSpace) add in all the
SWAP fields, and make it look SWAPish, but the heirarchy will be
forced/fudged.
You could look at Fedora, which is a more complex beast - its a backend
repository database, and you supply your own front end (or use something
like Fez) - but the system will not be as Quick'n'Easy to set up as
EPrints/DSpace.
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