Dspace Metadata Customization

Dspace Metadata Customization

Dspace 5.1

  

•    Available metadata.

•    For add own metadata login with admin account.
•    Go to Administer > General Setting > Metadata Registry for add new metadata
•    Here i add new metadata for "No of pages".
•    Here you can see list of other metadata schema provide by dspace.

• Add new metadata schema.

• Now newly added metadata schema see in list. click on it.

• Here i add new metadata for "No of pages" into newly added schema.

• Please see note list of metadata after add  "Note: Adding a new field to the registry does not add a corresponding input field to the the submit forms!".

• Still "No of pages" metadata field not display on submit form.

• Open file "dspace/config/input-forms.xml" files.
• This file is responsible for display filed into input forms dspace. 

• Here i have write code for add filed for "No of pages".

     <field>

         <dc-schema>uni</dc-schema> <!-- Write schema name added by me above-->

         <dc-element>number</dc-element> <!-- Write element name added by me above--> 

         <dc-qualifier>totalPage</dc-qualifier> <!-- Write qualifier name added by me above-->

         <repeatable>false</repeatable> <!-- Allow metadata have multiple one& more filed-->

         <label>No of pages</label>  <!-- Display label of input filed.-->

         <input-type>onebox</input-type> <!-- Input control for filed-->

         <hint>No of pages in document.</hint> <!-- Hint display on input page.-->

         <required>You must enter total no of pages in document.</required><!-- Require validation message. -->

     </field>

• Now you need to restart you server.
• After restart server you are able to view "No of pages" filed into input form.

• Add new book with "No of pages" filed value is 200.

• Add new metadata field in "No of pages" into browse item by.

• Please open file dspace/config/dspace.cfg file
• This file is most important file this file have all basic configuration.
• get backup before changes.

• Search content in file like "webui.browse.index.1" or go to line no 1139.

• Add new line for "No of pages" filed.

     webui.browse.index.5 = totalPage:metadata:dc.number.*:text

• Now newly added filed display in Browse menu.

• For add display label for "browse.menu.totalPage"  you need source of Messages.properties file. source
• Open file "dspace-5.1-src-release/dspace-api/src/main/resources/Messages.properties".
• Add properties for "browse.menu.totalPage" E.g browse.menu.totalPage=No of Pages
• Now copy updated Messages.properties files into "tomcat/webapps/jspui/WEB_INF/classes"
• Restart tomcat server.

• Now newly added label display in Browse menu.

• Now we need do changes related to add metadata into browse and search index.
• Open file "dspace/config/dspace.cfg". Remove comment from mark line below image.
• Now  add filed into search index. search content "search.index."

        search.index.13 = totalPage:uni.number.* < add this line for search index.

• Now we need to run few command for update into database.
• open terminal or cmd (window).
• run following command.
• cd /dspace/bin
• ./dspace index-lucene-init
• ./dspace index-lucene-update
• ./dspace index-db-browse -fi
• then restart tomcat server.

• For this type of value we need to perform same step to add properties into "Messages.properties" file.

Fore more information read this document.