DSpace metadata structure

Medline metadata structure is different from other bibliographic applications: history, specificities from Medicine and database size entailed most of the differences. Achieving a nearly lossless hosting of Pubmed data request to extend the standard DSpace "DC" metadata. A reasonable compromise has been defined for the Belgian PoisonCentre which adds:

1. contributor.Affiliation : Affiliation of first author
2. coverage.references : Number of references from the document to others
3. identifier.issue : Journal issue
4. identifier.volume : Journal volume
5. identifier.pagination : Journal issue pages interval (Medline format)
6. identifier.nlmuid : Journal NLM unique id.
7. identifier.pmid : Article Pubmed id.
8. publisher.Country : Country of publication
9. rights.abstract : Copyright on abstracts
10. subject.person : Person (or organisation) as a subject
11. subjetc.substance : Linked chemical substance (Future links included as [cas:...] or [einecs:...])

Existing fields which are used:

1. contributor.author : persons (lastname, firstnames) and organisations
2. date.issued : Publication date
3. description.abstract : Abstract(s)
4. identifier.citation : Medline "source" field (concatenation of journal abbreviation, publication date, volume, issue and page)
5. identifier.issn : ISSN of journal
6. language : three letters code of Article language
7. subject.mesh : Mesh subjects with qualifiers and "major topic" indicators
8. subject.other : Other keywords
9. title.alternative: Transliterrated title
10. title : English title
11. type : Publication type(s)

Pubmed Dates (other than PublicationDate) remain to be better managed.