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Example: The new term BibliographicCitation has the domain Bibliographic resource. This means that by specifying the property BibliographicCitation, it automatically implies that the item you're applying it to is a bibliographic resource.

Concrete changes for specific existing properties

• Contributor
  • Domain: none
  • Range: Agent Class
• Coverage
  • Domain: none
  • Range: LocationPeriodOrJurisdiction (recommended controlled vocabulary like Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN))
• Creator
  • Domain: none
  • Range: Agent Class
• Date
  • Domain: none
  • Range: Literal (recommended W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601)
• Description
  • Domain: none
  • Range: none
• Format
  • Domain: none
  • Range: MediaTypeOrExtent (Recommended list of internet media types (MIME)).
• Identifier
  • Domain: none
  • Range: Literal
• Language
  • Domain: none
  • Range: LinguisticSystem (Recommended RFC 4646 IETF standard)
• Publisher
  • Domain: none
  • Range: Agent
• Relation
  • Domain: none
  • Range: none (YET)
  • Note: This term is intended to be used with NON-LITERAL values. As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage board is seeking a way to express this intention with a formal range declaration.
• Rights
  • Domain: none
  • Range: RightsStatement
• Source
  • Domain: none
  • Range: none (YET)
  • Note: This term is intended to be used with NON-LITERAL values. As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage board is seeking a way to express this intention with a formal range declaration.
• Subject
  • Domain: none
  • Range: none (YET) For spatial or temporal topic of the resource, use the Coverage element instead.
  • Note: This term is intended to be used with NON-LITERAL values. As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage board is seeking a way to express this intention with a formal range declaration.
• Title
  • Domain: none
  • Range: Literal
• Type
  • Domain:none
  • Range: Any Class? (reference needed) (Recommended usage is the DCMI Type Vocabulary (DCMIType). For file format, physical medium or dimensions: use format!

New properties

Following properties are recent and haven't been part of the standard DSpace metadata schema. However, some of these overlap with other properties in DSpace

• Abstract
  • Domain: none
  • Range: none
  • Possible DSpace overlap: dc.description.abstract
• accessRights
  • Domain: none
  • Range: RightsStatement
  • Possible DSpace overlap: ....... (to add)

• accrualMethod
  • Domain: Collection
  • Range: MethodOfAccrual
  • Possible DSpace overlap: none?

• accrualPeriodicity
  • Domain: Collection
  • Range: Frequency
  • Possible DSpace overlap: none?

• accrualPolicy
  • Domain: Collection
  • Range: Policy
  • Possible DSpace overlap: collection policies?

Possible Approaches

Adding a new schema dcterms that lives next to the standard dc schema

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