This week we entered our collection into EPrints. I have found from the three repositories that we have entered our collections into so far that my metadata differs slightly depending upon the set-up of the repository, as well as ease of use. I found that Drupal allowed me to customize my metadata to my collection the best. Due to the academic focus of DSpace and EPrints, the metadata was less detailed and slightly different. For example, I chose the option for my image as be "Submitted" in EPrints, whereas this was not an element in the other repositories.
I can definitely see the challenges and expenses that could be involved on a larger scale. A larger organization would want to either create or adopt one certain controlled vocabulary (whereas mine has varied depending upon the ease with which I can personalize the taxonomy). I refer to the application profile which I created at the beginning of the semester in order to keep things as consistent as possible (for example, I wrote a copyright statement which I use when that is an option). However, if I was focusing on a collection in one repository, I would need to spend more time on consistent metadata, as well as documenting it thoroughly for anyone else who is entering data.
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