diff --git a/oaipmh-core/src/main/java/info/textgrid/middleware/DublinCoreBuilder.java b/oaipmh-core/src/main/java/info/textgrid/middleware/DublinCoreBuilder.java
index c9d9c5b1ae8510d53b60023aee3144947d0d80c9..607337234853dea29c823784ef2e456e618cfcac 100644
--- a/oaipmh-core/src/main/java/info/textgrid/middleware/DublinCoreBuilder.java
+++ b/oaipmh-core/src/main/java/info/textgrid/middleware/DublinCoreBuilder.java
@@ -163,7 +163,9 @@ public final class DublinCoreBuilder {
    * @param identifiers
    */
   public void setIdentifier(List<String> identifiers) {
+	
     for (String dcidentifier : identifiers) {
+    	System.out.println("hooray");
       ElementType identifierElement = new ElementType();
       identifierElement.setValue(dcidentifier);
       JAXBElement<ElementType> dcCoreIdentifier = oaiDcObj.createIdentifier(identifierElement);
diff --git a/oaipmh-core/src/main/java/info/textgrid/middleware/OAIPMHUtilities.java b/oaipmh-core/src/main/java/info/textgrid/middleware/OAIPMHUtilities.java
index 643ecf72ab7727d45e3a2db0d4af34732acd2aa2..6a77e7848b4ab402ceae46eee75df151eed6234f 100644
--- a/oaipmh-core/src/main/java/info/textgrid/middleware/OAIPMHUtilities.java
+++ b/oaipmh-core/src/main/java/info/textgrid/middleware/OAIPMHUtilities.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.SearchHit;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.builder.SearchSourceBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.search.fetch.subphase.FetchSourceContext;
+import org.json.JSONArray;
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 import info.textgrid.clients.AuthClient;
@@ -472,8 +473,18 @@ public class OAIPMHUtilities {
         } else if (fieldPathForESIndex.length == 1) {
         
           fieldResulsts.add(resultFromGetRequestInES.get(fieldPathForESIndex[i]).toString());
-        } else {          
-          fieldResulsts.add(singlePath.get(fieldPathForESIndex[i]).toString());
+        } else {
+          String res = singlePath.get(fieldPathForESIndex[i]).toString();
+          if(res.startsWith("[")) {
+        	  JSONArray array = new JSONArray(res);
+        	  for(int j=0; j<array.length(); j++) {
+           		  String find = array.getString(j).toString();        		  
+        		  fieldResulsts.add(find);
+        	  }
+          }else {
+        	  fieldResulsts.add(singlePath.get(fieldPathForESIndex[i]).toString());  
+          }
+          
         }
       }
     }
diff --git a/oaipmh-core/src/test/java/info/textgrid/middleware/OaiPmhTestTG.java b/oaipmh-core/src/test/java/info/textgrid/middleware/OaiPmhTestTG.java
index f6cae25904f1cb6e7d3e93061cf720949105bdf2..b48168c8fc11d8f0043e4475c5233d343c5e1c41 100644
--- a/oaipmh-core/src/test/java/info/textgrid/middleware/OaiPmhTestTG.java
+++ b/oaipmh-core/src/test/java/info/textgrid/middleware/OaiPmhTestTG.java
@@ -110,13 +110,16 @@ public class OaiPmhTestTG {
 	  
 	  JSONObject json = new JSONObject(jsonAsString);
 	  //System.out.println(json);
-	  
+	  DublinCoreBuilder result = new DublinCoreBuilder();
 	  List<String> identifier = new ArrayList<String>();
 	  String[] fieldsForIdentifier = {"descriptiveMetadata.dc:identifier"};
 	  System.out.println(OAIPMHUtilities.fieldLoader(json, DARIAHConstants.IDENTIFIER));
-	  /*for(String id : identifier) {
+	  identifier = OAIPMHUtilities.fieldLoader(json, fieldsForIdentifier);
+	  for(String id : identifier) {
 		  System.out.println(id);
-	  }*/
+	  }
+	  
+	  result.setIdentifier(identifier);
   }
   
   @Test