[Dspace-general] How do I prevent anonymous access toa collection?

[Rutherford, James]

Hello all

I would actually like to make a case for being able to make arbitrary
communities / collections invisible from non-administrative users. I'm
currently doing some work on content harvesting across DSpace instances,
and the default policy I have adopted is to define a "root" community
into which harvested content is deposited, and beneath that are
communities corresponding to the remote content repositories, and
collections corresponding to the date the harvest was performed. This
structure provides a sensible, implementation-agnostic method of
ingesting items, though to the user it is utterly meaningless. What I
would like to do is to make the "root" community invisible to users, and
have the items beneath it mapped into more meaningful points in the
hierarchy.

It is important to remember that it isn't our place to judge the
possible motivation for a particular feature, rather we should decide
whether it could be useful and whether the technological barrier is too
high. In this case, I can see a clear case for wanting to hide arbitrary
containers in the DSpace information hierarchy, and I don't think we
should ignore that. It might mean defining a new policy (ACCESS, as
opposed to READ), but it shouldn't be complicated to implement.

Jim 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu 
> [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Buggy
> Sent: 21 November 2006 23:18
> To: Scott Yeadon; dspace-general at mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] How do I prevent anonymous 
> access toa collection?
> 
> Thanks Scott
> 
> If you need an example of real collection that needs the 
> metadata hidden
> I can send you one off the list.
> 
> 
>   Rich
> 
> ---
> Richard Buggy
> Web Developer, UTS Library
> Richard.Buggy at uts.edu.au
> +61 2 9514 3385
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu
> [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Yeadon
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 November 2006 9:35 AM
> To: dspace-general at mit.edu
> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] How do I prevent anonymous access to a
> collection?
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> See http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=36814171
> 
> Scott.
> 
> >Message: 2
> >Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:11:49 +1100
> >From: "Richard Buggy" <Richard.Buggy at uts.edu.au>
> >Subject: [Dspace-general] How do I prevent anonymous access to a
> >	collection?
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> >Hi
> >
> > 
> >
> >I need to create a collection that is invisible to anonymous users.
> >Ideally the collection won't show up for anonymous users but it's
> >probably acceptable if the collection is visible but all of the items
> >are invisible (even the metadata).
> >
> > 
> >
> >1.	Is it possible to prevent anonymous users from seeing items? I
> >can already prevent them from accessing the bitstreams but I want to
> >stop them from seeing the metadata too.
> >2.	Is it possible to prevent anonymous users from seeing the
> >collection even exists?
> >
> > 
> >
> > 
> >
> >            Rich
> >
> > 
> >
> >---
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> >Richard Buggy
> >
> >Web Developer, UTS Library
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> >Richard.Buggy at uts.edu.au
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