[Dspace-general] Community admin.s; statistics

[Tim Donohue]

Mark,

Quick response to your comment about a Community Administration patch...

Mark H. Wood wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:57:36AM -0500, Sarah L. Shreeves wrote:
>> - I'd agree with Dorothea that the community / collection structure and 
>> administration could be re-thought. We've actually customized our 
>> instance and have added community administration functionality which  
>> has turned out to be so crucial for us. It's allowed me to get 
>> departmental libraries and colleges involved in IDEALS at a level that I 
>> don't think would have been possible otherwise.
> 
> If you haven't yet prepared a patch to share -- I think this would be
> widely appreciated.

The patch we are currently using at U of Illinois is one that has been 
available since just before DSpace 1.4.  It was originally created by 
Andrea Bollini:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1373613&group_id=19984&atid=319984

However, since that patch is now very *out of date*, I'm currently 
working on an updated version specifically for the DSpace 1.5 XMLUI. 
I'll be posting it as soon as it is stable/complete for others to use 
(hopefully by early-to-mid Sept).  At this time, I'm not planning on 
implementing it for the DSpace 1.5 JSPUI, as that would be additional 
work and U of Illinois isn't planning to use the JSPUI any longer.

I don't anticipate my patch making it into a DSpace out-of-the-box 
release, as I'm hoping that the DSpace 2.0 work will implement this 
functionality in a much more complete manner.

Let me know if you have any more questions on this...

- Tim


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Tim Donohue
Research Programmer, Illinois Digital Environment for
Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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