Earlier today, I drafted the following document to support member discussion of our ProQuest Dissertation Metadata to MODS to Simple DC wrapped in METS with a FezACML insert for an administrative section for Fedora ingest. We’re auto-loading “raw” or “pre-print” versions of students’ ETD Administrator submissions into the repository portals, on behalf of participating member libraries…and some things clearly need to be “translated” from the ProQuest/UMI world to ours…
ProQuest DISS_XML Metadata: Selected Attribute Codes and Definitions
Overview:
Various DISS_XML metadata schema elements capture raw information from the ETD Administrator student submission process. There are attributes with coded values with some connection to open access, publishing, and other administrative and rights-related activities. The Alliance is interested in determining from members which attributes, codes, information, and actions are relevant to the deposit workflow of ProQuest-shared ETDs in the repository. The primary element attributes and values of question are: embargo_code, publishing option, third_party_search, as well as the sales_restriction element.
From dissertations_metadata Document Type Definition (DTD):
· publishing_option (0|1)
o default “0”
o ProQuest comments: Publishing option can be 0 (Traditional) or 1 (Open Access). Open Access publishing requires an extra fee, in addition to the Traditional publishing fee.
· embargo_code (0|1|2|3|4)
o default “0”
o ProQuest comments: Embargo code can be 0 corresponding to no embargo OR
§ 1 – 6 months embargo
§ 2 – 1 year embargo
§ 3 – 2 year embargo
§ 4 – Reserved for future use
· third_party_search (Y|N)
o default “Y”
o ProQuest comments: Indicates the author would like to have his or her
metadata indexed by search engines like Google Scholar. Use N if the
author does not want that.
· DISS_sales_restriction code (0|1|2|4) remove
o default “0”
o ProQuest comments: The sales restriction codes are as follows:
§ 0: No sales restriction
§ 1: Not available for sale
§ 2: Sell to author only/copyright
§ 4: Sell to author only
o ProQuest comments: the remove attribute is a mm/dd/yyyy date on which the restriction is to be removed
