"Calculated" Metadata field

[Stephen Brush]

Hi all,

Is there a best practice to add a "calculated" metadata field? (e.g. let's say to build citation field from 3-4 other elements)? I see it can be done in ItemServiceImpl -- curious if there's another supported way I'm not aware of.

Thanks,

Steve

[Tim Donohue]

Hi Steve,

In case you are still looking for an answer, I'm not recalling a way to do this "out-of-the-box" in DSpace.  I think it'd require custom code (I'm not even aware of what you are referencing in ItemServiceImpl... but that's a very large class, so I might be overlooking it).

Tim

[hbla...@gmail.com]

Stephen, 

I don't know if you already found what you are looking for, if so please share it. Otherwise I've been looking for it for a while, and I think it can be done with javascript by reading the metadata of the document.