[Dspace-general] Week 5: Submission process

[Christophe Dupriez]

Hi Dorothea! (copy to the General list)

My 2 cents on submission:
1) Submission should be named Contribution (more positive, more Web 2 
minded!)
2) Librarians do not understand why record update should be different 
from submission! They would appreciate to be "helped" (menus, 
validations) when updating the same way contributors are helped during 
submission. (Current update form can be retained for more extraordinary 
updates)
3) Submission is not multilingual now (I had to modify it locally in 
depth for this): some fields (like title) must be entered in multiple 
languages in Quebec, Belgium, etc.
4) Dynamic Authority lists are essentials (collections, subjects, 
authors, etc.): this mean some way to manage authority lists is needed. 
I am working on this by using dedicated collections for each Authority 
list we have to manage. The trick is to store only the handle of the 
linked item (entry in the authority list) but to index and display the 
dc.titles of the linked item (the name of the subject, authors, etc. and 
its synonyms: dc.title.alternative)

Have a nice day!

Christophe

Dorothea Salo a écrit :
> This week's question is about the DSpace submission and workflow
> process. What works? What doesn't? What do you do at your institution
> that the DSpace workflow doesn't account for? What would an ideal set
> of processes (because there's rarely just one) look like?
>
> Because the submission process changed considerably in 1.5 owing to
> the Configurable Submission patch, please mention which version of
> DSpace you are running on.
>
> I apologize for not running a chat last week -- I'm under the gun as
> regards our 1.5 rollout. I will run a chat on this week's question,
> Wednesday 17 September at 10 am CT, 11 am ET, 4 pm GMT. I will not be
> able to run a chat on the 24th owing to a must-attend meeting; if
> anyone's willing to facilitate in my place, please let me know -- feel
> free to suggest a question as well!
>
> Dorothea
>
>   

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