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Valet mapping to Access Portal 2.1

20th July 2006

Shaded boxes indicate either no mapping or problematic mapping

Author: Neil Godfrey, RUBRIC Metadata Specialist

Valet Resource (Deposit Form)

Deposit Form Heading: About the Files

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Description

(free text field)

Yes

Deposit Form Heading: General Resource Description

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Title

(free text field)

Yes

But in cases of the resource type Journal Article the Title field (along with rubric and valet pids) in the Portal is separated from the remainder of the record by the Document name, size and format details and links.

For all other resource types the Title field (along with rubric and valet pids) in the Portal appears with the remainder of the metadata record beneath the Document details.

Description/Abstract

(free text field)

Yes

(maps to the label "Description" -- which is the same label as the Additional Notes data.)

Year

(free text field)

Yes

(maps to the label "Date")

Language

(drop down box)

Yes

(but no entry if the language is English)

Keywords

(free text field)

Yes  

But a blank Dublin Core subject field is also regularly created obligating one to edit the DC file in the Manager each time to remove the blank entry from the Access Portal.

(maps to the label "Subjects" -- which is the same label as the RFCD codes)

Subjects

(RFCD codes)

Yes

(maps to the label "Subjects" -- which is the same label as the keywords)

Deposit Form Heading: About the Creator

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Creator (Original) Last name, First name

Yes

Creator (Original) Affiliation

Yes  -- but:

Incorrectly if there are multiple authors

Creator (1) Last name, First name

Yes

Creator (1) Affiliation

Incorrectly

(The raw data maps but in the case of multiple authors the different affiliations will rarely match the correct authors; sometimes the different affiliations will appear in a bundle and the authors in another bundle so no match is indicated.)

Deposit Form Heading: Select resource type

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Resource Type

(drop down box)

Yes

Deposit Form Heading: Additional information -- About the book

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Edition

(free text)

No

ISBN

(free text)

Yes

Publisher

(free text)

Yes

Place of publication

(free text)

Yes

Deposit Form Heading: Additional information -- About the book chapter

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Chapter number

(free text)

No

Pages

(free text)

No

Book title

(free text)

No

Edition

(free text)

No

ISBN

(free text)

Yes

Publisher

(free text)

Yes

Place of publication

(free text)

Yes

Deposit Form Heading: Additional information -- About the conference paper

Conference

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Name

(free text)

No

Date

(free text)

No

Location

(free text)

No

Proceedings

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Title

(free text)

No

ISBN

(free text)

Yes

ISSN

(free text)

Yes

Publisher

(free text)

Yes

Place of publication

(free text)

Yes

Pages

(free text)

No

Peer reviewed

(radio button)

No

(The Valet deposit form relies on a value of "Yes" to indicate peer review status but the Vital looks for the value of "1"in the 787  $n tag of the xmlmarc record to indicate peer review status.)

Deposit Form Heading: Additional information -- About the Journal Article

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Journal title

(free text)

No

Vol / Issue / Number

(free text)

No

Pages

(free text)

No

ISSN

(free text)

No

Publisher

(free text)

Yes

Place of publication

(free text)

Yes

Peer reviewed

(radio button)

No

Deposit Form Heading: About the originating faculty/unit

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Faculty

(drop down box)

No

Research Unit

(drop down box)

No

Deposit Form Heading: About the rights

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

I am the rights owner...
I have permission of the rights owner...
I am unclear...

(radio button)

No -- if resource type is Journal article

Yes -- all other resource types

Deposit Form Heading: Additional information

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Please enter (data for public view)

(free text)

Yes -- if resource type is Book (maps to the label "Description", the same label used for the Abstract)

No -- all other resource types

Deposit Form Heading: Comments

Valet metadata element

Maps to Access Portal?

Please enter (data not for public view)

(free text)

No

(This field is not for the public Access Portal but it maps to nowhere else, either.)