At the request of the DSpace Committers and Developers, the DSpace Community Advisory Team|../../../../../../../../../../display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team\ (DCAT) has begun an effort to build a community consensus on improving the metadata support in future DSpace releases. Last month this process began with a community survey to collect feedback on what improvements organizations would like to see relative to metadata support in DSpace.
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2) Updating the Qualified Dublin Core registry to the current DCMI standards and locking it down (allow adds, but not changes) as well as isolating where customizations are done to ensure better standardization while still allowing for local customization standardization
3) Enhancing the metadata available for Community, Collections and Files (bitstreams)
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