[Dspace-general] End-user documentation

[Sverre Magnus Elvenes Joki]

Thank you all! We now have some docs to build upon to create the very 
non-technical admin documentation.


Sverre Magnus

Claudia Jürgen wrote:
> 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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