[Dspace-general] Communites by subject

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Swarna,

Structuring your DSpace to use subjects for the communities is fine. The 
community/collection structure was meant to be a convenience for 
adopters, not a constraint on how the repository is set up in your 
institution...you should do whatever makes the most sense. The one issue 
you may run into is submission rights...if you intend to have 
distributed submission by authors (as opposed to the library doing it 
for them), then you need to create a DSpace e-person for each of them 
and assign them rights to deposit to specific communities/collections. 
If you organize you site by subject and you can't be sure which subjects 
a particular author might need to submit to, then you'll have a lot of 
work setting up those permissions... but it's doable.

Best wishes,

MacKenzie
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> Dear Friends
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> I am coordinating the ETD Project for the University of the West 
> Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica. We are about to install DSpace for 
> this purpose and also we have expanded the ETD to an Institutional 
> Repository.
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> There is a suggestion from a member of the Project team that we divide 
> the communities by subject, instead of faculties/departments.
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> Has anybody in the discussion group have set up the communities by 
> subject and what are the implications in doing so?
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> Any comments/guidance on this matter will be most appreciated.
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> Thanking you in advance
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> Swarna Bandara
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> ETD Coordinator/UWI
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> Head, Medical Library
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> University of the West Indies
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> Mona Campus, Kingston 7
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> Jamaica (W.I.)
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MacKenzie Smith
MIT Libraries