Stream: troubleshooting

Topic: Issue with OAI feed and changed field

Deirdre Kirmis (Apr 01 2025 at 14:58):

hi there .. I admit I haven't done much with the OAI feed other than just make it available for our LSP folks to grab. However, a while ago we did set up a rule in Primo that looks at one of the fields exported and designates it as "asu affiliates only". We recently noticed that isn't happening anymore. We had originally used the "Kind of Data" field in the dataset, which I believe mapped to "dc:type" in the feed. From the Primo side, if the dc:type field showed "asu-affiliates-only" we did not add the open access icon. I'm noticing now that the dataset has a "Date Type" field but I'm not seeing the "Kind of Data" field anywhere anymore. Is my memory failing me (again) .. was there a "Kind of Data" field, and did it perhaps change or go away? Or, did I somehow mess up the schema and/or the OAI feed and make it disappear? We are on v6.5 and I've always followed the published instructions for updating the solr schema, at least I think I have, and we did recently regenerate the OAI feed for a different issue. Any assistance is truly appreciated in untangling this one!

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 15:19):

Hi! Let's start by reviewing "Remap oai_dc Export and Harvesting Format Fields: dc:type and dc:date" at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v6.4

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 15:19):

• dc:type was mapped to the field "Kind of Data". Now it is hard-coded to the word "Dataset".

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 15:19):

• dc:date was mapped to the field "Production Date" when available and otherwise to "Publication Date". Now it is mapped the field "Publication Date" or the field used for the citation date, if set (see Set Citation Date Field Type for a Dataset).

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 15:19):

From this PR: Remap oai_dc fields dc:type and dc:date #10737

Deirdre Kirmis (Apr 01 2025 at 16:03):

ah well .. that explains it :-)

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 16:04):

Can you work around it?

Deirdre Kirmis (Apr 01 2025 at 16:06):

i think we will have to pick a different field in the metadata this is also exported in the OAI feed that makes sense

Deirdre Kirmis (Apr 01 2025 at 16:06):

or figure out another way to designate non-OA datasets .. maybe have 2 feeds

Deirdre Kirmis (Apr 01 2025 at 16:07):

sorry i missed that .. i DID search the release notes! :big_smile:

Deirdre Kirmis (Apr 01 2025 at 16:09):

or .. if I'm reading that right, we could use the API to change some of the types to our custom tag?

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 16:09):

No worries. I did make the PR. Sounded familiar. :thinking:

Deirdre Kirmis (Apr 01 2025 at 16:10):

oh no i guess that is the date field only

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 16:10):

Yeah, that's only for the citation date: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.4/api/native-api.html#set-citation-date-field-type-for-a-dataset

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 17:40):

Yeah? Ignore all that? :sweat_smile:

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 17:40):

Again, "Dataset" is now hard-coded:

• dc:type was mapped to the field "Kind of Data". Now it is hard-coded to the word "Dataset".

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Apr 01 2025 at 19:33):

Please try again.

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