Hi,
We are at an early stage of moving all our thesis metadata from a standard LMS (Alma) to the institutional repository (e-prints). We are moving to an e-deposit only model and are looking to deprecate all out MARC records in the LMS and only have record in the institutional repository.
We have several thousand records in the LMS with Dewey Decimal Classification terms (used locally as shelf marks) and LoC Subject headings. The question we have is do we migrate these terms to the repository set up. There are several local drivers around this work that impact on this, but I’d like to ask the community whether there is any work, or indeed consensus, on the value of having controlled subject terms in the e-thesis repository set up?
On the basis on a very small survey I’m doing there appears to be varying practice both at local level (i.e. individual institutional repositories) and wider level (e.g. EThOS and Proquest).
I appreciate this is pretty complex – especially as discovery of this content is in part being shifted from a library discovery environment to a web search. Moreover, there are differing types of search/discovery behaviour that more complex subject classification may facilitate i.e. finding/browsing similar materials. But any tips would be gratefully received.
Thanks!
Chris
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