Several thoughts:

o  The structure of your metadata may not lend itself to a neat
   mapping to a two-level hierarchy, which is all that DSpace can
   manipulate directly.

o  You probably have a lot of fields that *could* be shoehorned into
   DC terms by a sufficiently flexible mind, but likely should not be.
   Find or build a set of concepts that fit well what you have.

o  You may wind up using several separate schemae to describe
   different aspects of your holdings.  This could be a good thing.

o  I'm convinced that there are already standards out there which will
   accommodate many if not all of your existing fields.  I just wish I
   could name them for you!

o  Standards make your holdings more discoverable.  I would try *hard*
   to work with existing standards.

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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   [email protected]
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