[Dspace-general] End-user documentation

Claudia Jürgen Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de
Fri Dec 1 11:10:33 EST 2006


Hi Sverre Magnus,

maybe you could use the help/collection-admin.html as a starting point 
and build your own docs upon it.

Claudia


Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki schrieb:
> Hi Claudia.
> 
> I've had a look at the documentation you mention, and this is 
> unfortunately not the documentation we are looking for. Both the "tips & 
> tricks..." and the DSpace Sys Doc are great, but they are intended for 
> the DSpace admin.
> 
> I was quite uclear about this in my first mail, but what we are looking 
> for, is documentation for the collections administrators. Very 
> non-technical and not about the files, configs, styles etc. Just about:
> - the use of the DSpace admin interface
> - what a collections is and what a community is
> - what a workflow is and how the admins can achieve what they want using 
> them
> - and how it all works (non-technical of cource).
> 
> 
> I hope this clarifies things a bit.
> 
> 
> Sverre Magnus
> 
> 
> Claudia Jürgen wrote:
>> Hi Sverre Magnus,
>>
>> there is some documentation and additional guides on the wiki:
>> http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceResources#Documentation_and_Guides
>> like the
>> DSpace how-to guide: tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores 
>> (by Dorothea Salo and Tim Donohue)
>>
>> Claudia
>>
>>
>> Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki schrieb:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We are testing our DSpace installations before we launch them out to 
>>> the users. One of the things that has come up during this test is 
>>> that there should be better help texts, or some kind of introductory 
>>> user documentations for the administrator.
>>>
>>> We are looking for a non-technical documentation like "Introduction 
>>> to administrering DSpace" or "Setting up your DSpace communities and 
>>> collections during your lunch break" or something like that.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone who has user documentation or anything like this that 
>>> they would like to share?
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Sverre Magnus
>>>
>>
> 
> 



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