[Dspace-devel] FW: [dspace-theses] Community configuration for theses in DSpace

[Tansley, Robert]

Can the platform do this (community X is a sub-community of both Y and Z), or do communities have to be a strict hierarchy?  It's been a while since I've played around with this...

 

Rob

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From: dspace-the...@mit.edu [mailto:dspace-the...@mit.edu] On Behalf Of Margret Branschofsky
Sent: 22 November 2004 12:12
To: Mark Jordan; dspace...@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [dspace-theses] Community configuration for theses in DSpace

We're planning to do it both ways here at MIT.  Since the theses are under the "curatorship" of the libraries, we decided they had to go into a "Library" community.  With the 1.2 software we can create sub-communities, so we plan to divide them up by sub-community, with each sub-community corresponding to the degree-granting department. 

Of course we know that nobody will look for the theses in the "Library" community, so we will use the new "mapping" feature to have them show up under each of the degree-granting departments also.  So here is the structure using the Dept. of Mathematics as an example:

MIT Libraries (Community)
        MIT Theses (Subcommunity)
                Dept. of Mathematics Theses (Subcommunity)
                        Mathematics Ph.D. Theses(Collection)
                        Mathematics Masters Theses(Collection)
                        Mathematics Bachelors Theses(Collection)

Dept. of Mathematics (Community)
        Dept. of Mathematics Theses (Subcommunity)
                Mathematics Ph.D. Theses(Collection)
                Mathematics Masters Theses(Collection)
                Mathematics Bachelors Theses(Collection)                        

Margret Branschofsky

At 04:36 PM 11/21/2004 -0800, Mark Jordan wrote:

Hi,

I'd like to get a sense of how sites who are adding theses to DSpace have configured the community structure.
Specifically, has anyone created a single "Theses and Dissertations" community and used that for all theses? Or is it
more common to create individual communities for departments/schools/faculties?

Thanks,

Mark


Mark Jordan
Acting Coordinator of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Phone (604) 291 5753 / Fax (604) 291 3023                
mjo...@sfu.ca / http://www.sfu.ca/~mjordan/

 
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