COAR Resource Type Controlled Vocabulary: Dspace Prototype implementation

Open access repositories are evolving in terms of the roles they play and the attributes they
aim to express in their records. The use of controlled vocabularies in bibliographic metadata
is essential to ensure interoperability in terms of data exchange and the provision of value
added services. The Resource Type vocabulary defines concepts to identify the genre of a
resource. Such resources, like publications, research data, audio and video objects, are
typically deposited in institutional and thematic repositories or published in ejournals. Using
the example of the COAR ResourceType vocabulary to describe the genre of a digital object
organizational, methodological and technical steps of its implementation are presented using
the integration process in DSpace. There two main ways to develop an implementation of the
COAR resource types Controlled Vocabularies in DSpace: Controlled vocabulary and
Dropdown (list).