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 Sprint 7 - Community Release: domain customization functionality

As of the release of Sprint 7 (Community release) any domain administrator will be able to use Thalia's "Manage Domain" functionality to customize each of the elements covered on this page.

Customer requirements for a new domain:

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Metadata is extra information about an item, such as title, contributor, etc .  Metadata tells more about the image, as well as makes it easier to search for.  Thalia is preconfigured with some metadata markup, and allows you to add others.unmigrated-wiki-markup

There are some standardized sets of metadata. Librarians have devised Dublin Core  \[link to good Dublin Core explanation \-  Wikipedia? MIT libraries resource? \] Thalia •    Default Dublin Core metadata fields are: o    Title o    Description o    Contributor o    Coverage o    Creator o    Date o    Format o    Identifier o    Language o    Publisher o    Relation o    Rights o    Source o    Subject o    Type Wiki Markup \[ can we link to explanations of these fields? some of them are unclear \]Core
•    Default Dublin Core metadata fields are:
o    Title
o    Description
o    Contributor
o    Coverage
o    Creator
o    Date
o    Format
o    Identifier
o    Language
o    Publisher
o    Relation
o    Rights
o    Source
o    Subject
o    Type

Please follow this link to read descriptions of each Dublin Core metadata field.

You can configure these by ....    \[ Manage Domain  > Manage Metadata , link to help or quickstart \] 

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You may wish to add your own custom set.  Academic disciplines have some standardized ones to describe their field of knowledge;  picking from a menu makes them more consistantconsistent.  

Do you want to limit input for any of these fields?
•    You can have a drop box with a choice of values for the user to enter

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