Asbjørn Skødt (Nov 11 2025 at 12:09): Asbjørn Skødt (Nov 11 2025 at 12:09):Hello, long time no see friends. We have a question regarding custom metadata blocks. These can be enabled for datasets, can they also be enabled for collections (sub dataverse metadata)? Our use case is we want to mark which collections/sub dataverses can have their metadata exported and shown as collections in other online repositories. Thank you, Asbjørn
@Philip Durbin 🚀 , @Oliver Bertuch
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Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 12 2025 at 15:39):@Asbjørn Skødt hi! Yes, it's been a while.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 12 2025 at 15:39):I don't think we have an issue tracking this but before I ask you to create one, I'd like to tease apart at least two concepts.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 12 2025 at 15:41):Your use case reminds me of harvesting via OAI-PMH. Currently, datasets and files are supported but collections are not. Is that what you had in mind? Harvesting? Or did you have some other mechanism in mind exporting collections and making them discoverable in other systems?
Asbjørn Skødt (Nov 13 2025 at 09:05):Yes, nice to be in touch. I moved from operations to IT Architect here at University of Copenhagen and my tasks are somewhere else these days. However, we got a wish from the owner of the Danish Dataverse to harvest the metadata for dissemination in our national data catalogue based on the DCAT-AP-DK format specification.
It is very interesting what you inform us. Using the OAI-PMH endpoint would be ideal, what are your thoughts on accepting DCAT-AP and our nationalt variant DCAT-AP-DK as formats?
The use case is also to allow collections to be harvested. What are your thoughts on enabling these through the OAI-PMH endpoint?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 13 2025 at 11:38):There has been some recent chatter about DCAT here:
Support for Importing and Exporting DCAT Metadata #1592
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 13 2025 at 11:43):I think it would take a fair amount of work to make collections harvestable. You're welcome to create an issue about this, though!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 13 2025 at 11:43):Also, congrats on the new job!
Asbjørn Skødt (Nov 17 2025 at 12:40):Thanks for the guidance. We look into it.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 17 2025 at 13:53):Sure, and please keep the questions coming!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 18 2025 at 15:30):@Asbjørn Skødt check out https://github.com/Dans-labs/dataverse-exporter-dcatap by @Paul Boon via https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/1592#issuecomment-3548051224
Asbjørn Skødt (Nov 19 2025 at 09:18):That's great!
Our OAI endpoint is not available. See: https://dataverse.deic.dk/oai
I can't find documentation on how to enable it here: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/admin/harvestserver.html
How do we enable it? :)
Johannes D (Nov 19 2025 at 10:05):Harvesting DCAT-AP and specific extensions into custom metadatablocks is also on our list of needed features.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Nov 19 2025 at 11:55):@Asbjørn Skødt you can enable it in the superuser dashboard: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.6/admin/harvestserver.html#how-does-it-work
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