[Dspace-general] Migrating materials from current to new release of DSpace

[Richard Rodgers]

Hi Suzanne:

There might be some terminological issues here, but I think the answer
is yes, you can deposit within the current DSpace and reorganize it under
DSpace 1.2. What I mean by terminological is this: DSpace 1.2 supports
the notion of 'sub-communities', not sub-collections, but they could amount
to the same thing under some circumstances of use.

Here's an example of what I mean:

Let's say you have (in DSpace 1,1) a community 'A' with collections A1 A2 & A3,
and a community 'B' with collections B1, B2, and B3. Using a tool provided
with 1.2 you will be able to make B a sub-community of A, which means that A
now effectively has 6 collections, A1-A3, and B1-B3 on 2 'levels'. If this is
what you want, then you can go ahead with creating the B collections, in the
knowledge that they can later be put 'under' A.

What you cannot do with 1.2 is define a sub-collection of A1 - A1sub1, ie.a
collection within a collection.

Let me know if this doens't address your question.

Thanks,

Richard Rodgers
DSpace Federation Systems Manager

Quoting Suzanne Bell <sbell at library.rochester.edu>:

> Hello all -
>  This is a question that seems to have a foot in both the DSpace-Tech
> and -general camps: I think it's the tech folks who *can* answer it, but
> us "general" folks who are most interested in what that answer *is*...
> so I decided to post here first. Um, sorry if I've goofed up.
>  
>  The situation: the new release of DSpace will support sub-collections.
> I have a group that wants to archive the back issues of their online
> journal in DSpace. I think the sub-collection structure will be ideal
> for this... but it may take us a while to get the new release installed
> and debugged and so forth. I hate to have my potential community's ardor
> cool. If we deposit their material within the constraints of the
> existing DSpace structure...
>  
> --> will it be possible to migrate this material, and *re-organize it*
> using the new sub-collections structure possible in the new release?
>  
> Or should we chill out and just wait?
>  
>  Thanks very much for your help!
>  Suzanne
>  
> *******************************************
> Suzanne Bell, Economics/Data Librarian
> DSpace Projects Coordinator
> University of Rochester
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> sbell at library.rochester.edu
>