CGSpace Notes

Changes to CGSpace metadata fields to align more with DC, QDC, and DCTERMS as well as CG Core v2. Implemented on 2021-02-21.

With reference to CG Core v2 draft standard by Marie-Angélique as well as DCMI DCTERMS.

• Proposed Changes
  • Out of Scope
• Fields to Create
• Fields to Delete
• Implementation Progress

Proposed Changes

As of 2021-01-18 the scope of the changes includes the following fields:

• cg.creator.id→cg.creator.identifier
  • ORCID identifiers
• dc.format.extent→dcterms.extent
• dc.date.issued→dcterms.issued
• dc.description.abstract→dcterms.abstract
• dc.description→dcterms.description
• dc.description.sponsorship→cg.contributor.donor
  • values from CrossRef or Grid.ac if possible
• dc.description.version→cg.reviewStatus
• cg.fulltextstatus→cg.howPublished
  • CGSpace uses values like “Formally Published” or “Grey Literature”
• dc.identifier.citation→dcterms.bibliographicCitation
• cg.identifier.status→dcterms.accessRights
  • current values are “Open Access” and “Limited Access”
  • future values are possibly “Open” and “Restricted”?
• dc.language.iso→dcterms.language
  • current values are ISO 639-1 (aka Alpha 2)
  • future values are possibly ISO 639-3 (aka Alpha 3)?
• cg.link.reference→dcterms.relation
• dc.publisher→dcterms.publisher
• dc.relation.ispartofseries will be split into:
  • series name: dcterms.isPartOf
  • series number: cg.number
• dc.rights→dcterms.license
  • Using SPDX license identifiers if possible
• dc.source→cg.journal
• dc.subject→dcterms.subject
• dc.type→dcterms.type
• dc.identifier.isbn→cg.isbn
• dc.identifier.issn→cg.issn
• cg.targetaudience→dcterms.audience

Out of Scope

The following fields are currently out of the scope of this migration because they are used internally by DSpace 5.x/6.x and would be difficult to change without significant modifications to the core of the code:

• dc.title (IncludePageMeta.java only considers DC when building pageMeta, which we rely on in XMLUI because of XSLT from DRI)
• dc.title.alternative
• dc.date.available
• dc.date.accessioned
• dc.identifier.uri (hard coded for Handle assignment upon item submission)
• dc.description.provenance
• dc.contributor.author (IncludePageMeta.java only considers DC when building pageMeta, which we rely on in XMLUI because of XSLT from DRI)

Fields to Create

Make sure the following fields exist:

• cg.creator.identifier (247)
• cg.contributor.donor (248)
• cg.reviewStatus (249)
• cg.howPublished (250)
• cg.journal (251)
• cg.isbn (252)
• cg.issn (253)
• cg.volume (254)
• cg.number (255)
• cg.issue (256)

Fields to delete

Fields to delete after migration:

• cg.creator.id
• cg.fulltextstatus
• cg.identifier.status
• cg.link.reference
• cg.targetaudience

Implementation Progress

Tally of the status of the implementation of the new fields in the CGSpace 6_x-cgcorev2 branch.

There are a few things that I need to check once I get a deployment of this code up and running:

• Assess the XSL changes to see if things like not(@qualifier)] still make sense after we move fields from DC to DCTERMS, as some fields will no longer have qualifiers
• Do I need to edit crosswalks that we are not using, like MODS?
• There is potentially a lot of work in the OAI metadata formats like DIM, METS, and QDC (see dspace/config/crosswalks/oai/*.xsl)

¹ Not committed yet because I don’t want to have to make minor adjustments in multiple commits. Re-apply the gauntlet of fixes with the sed script:

$ find dspace/modules/xmlui-mirage2/src/main/webapp/themes -iname "*.xsl" -exec sed -i -f ./cgcore-xsl-replacements.sed {} \;