DSpace versão 1.4 Uma anáise das facilidades relacionadas ao assunto

Abstract

DSpace version 1.4 begins a new possibility to use a controlled vocabulary to fill keywords in subject form and retrieve item by subject. This paper intent to analyze the suggested controlled vocabulary in DSpace and recommended by Dublin Core Metadata Initiative for keyword and retrieve documents by subject option. The analysis of suggested controlled vocabulary in DSpace, in Norwegian, for Information Science have only three levels and six terms, impossible to cover the subjects researched by this knowledge area. Comparing the terms of controlled vocabularies recommended by Dublin Core Metadata Initiative and the terms most frequently used by journal “Ciência da Informação” – last three years, demonstrate a few coincidences. An analysis in repositories created or migrated to DSpace version 1.4 in the browse by subject demonstrate some problems with terminology. Variations in terms, like use of uppercase or plural, retrieve different documents even for a same term. The metadata keyword has an independent rule to filling, title and authors needs to be the same in the document and metadata, but is not proper to keyword, this metadata could be used to retrieve and organize the information. This is a preliminary analysis of the tool