I just did a little patch to 'sub get_dc_metadata' in BasPlugout.pm
so the DSpace export works for qualified dublin core;

DSpace expects
<dublin_core>
<dcvalue element="title" qualifier="none">A Tale of Two Cities</dcvalue>
<dcvalue element="date" qualifier="issued">1990</dcvalue></dublin_core>
<dcvalue element="title" qualifier="alternate" language="fr"
">J'aime les Printemps</dcvalue>
</dublin_core>
(from http://dspace.org/technology/system-docs/application.html#itemimporter )

The following change to the beginning of 'sub get_dc_metadata' does the trick;

# returns an XML representation of the dublin core metadata
# if dc meta is not found, try ex mete
sub get_dc_metadata {
my $self = shift(@_);
my ($doc_obj, $section, $version) = @_;

# build up string of dublin core metadata
$section="" unless defined $section;

my $section_ptr = $doc_obj->_lookup_section($section);
return "" unless defined $section_ptr;

my $explicit_dc = {};
my $explicit_ex = {};

my $all_text="";
foreach my $data (@{$section_ptr->{'metadata'}}){
my $escaped_value = &docprint::escape_text($data->[1]);
if ($data->[0]=~ m/^dc./) {
$data->[0] =~ tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/;
my $pttemp = $data->[0] ;
print STDOUT " $pttemp $pttemp ";
my $dc_element = $pttemp;
my $dc_qualifier = $pttemp;

$dc_element =~ s/^dc.([^.]+)/$1/;
$dc_qualifier = "none";
print STDOUT " $pttemp $pttemp ";

if (defined $2) {
$dc_qualifier = $2;
}

print STDOUT "element $dc_element ";
print STDOUT "qualifier $dc_qualifier ";

if (!defined $explicit_dc->{$dc_element}) {
$explicit_dc->{$dc_element} = [];
}
push(@{$explicit_dc->{$dc_element}},$escaped_value);

if (defined $version && ($version eq "oai_dc")) {
$all_text .= " <dc:$dc_element>$escaped_value</dc:$dc_element> ";
}
else {
# qualifier???
$all_text .= ' <dcvalue element="'. $dc_element.'" qualifier="'.
$dc_qualifier.'">'. $escaped_value. "</dcvalue> ";
}

}
elsif (($data->[0] =~ m/^ex./) || ($data->[0] !~ m/./)) {
$data->[0] =~ m/^(ex.)?(.*)/;
my $ex_element = $2;
my $lc_ex_element = lc($ex_element);

if (defined $dc_set->{$ex_element}) {
if (!defined $explicit_ex->{$lc_ex_element}) {
$explicit_ex->{$lc_ex_element} = [];
}
push(@{$explicit_ex->{$lc_ex_element}},$escaped_value);
}
}
}

# go through dc_set and for any element *not* defined in explicit_dc
# that do exist in explicit_ex, add it in as metadata

-function continues as normal-

I hope this helps someone.

Cheers,

Stephen

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Stephen De Gabrielle