[Dspace-general] Change the way the collection list is displayed in submit link with JSPUI

[Nancy Stuart]

Hello Patrick,

At the University of Victoria we have all students submit to one collection called ETD Collection.  It is the only choice they have to choose from on the dropdown list, as they only have permission to submit to the ETD Collection.   But you will notice on the public browse screen in UVicDSpace, that we have all our collections arranged by Faculty then Dept. and the ETD Collection is under the Faculty of Graduate Studies.

Each Faculty or Dept. wanted to have their own theses collections, so we created a Collection for them called Theses (Dept. of XYZ).  In DSpace you can map an item to another collection, called item mapping, so part of the archiving workflow is to map the thesis to the correct dept. collection.  Have a browse of our IR and you will see what I mean.  https://dspace.library.uvic.ca:8443/dspace/community-list

In Canada it is important to have all your student submitted ETDs in one collection because Library and Archives Canada will harvest that collection.  It would be problematic for LAC to harvest 25 different collections.  Any digitized backfiles of theses can be placed in a separate collection.

I am currently on study leave at LAC, so if you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at nancy.stuart at lac-bac.bc.ca<mailto:nancy.stuart at lac-bac.bc.ca>

Regards,
Nancy
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Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:54 AM
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Subject: [Dspace-general] Change the way the collection list is displayed in submit link with JSPUI

(Sorry for cross-posting, I tried dspace-tech Monday with no luck.)

Hi,

I’m trying to modify how the collection list is displayed in the first step of the submission process.

I’m aware of the Manakin solution proposed on the DSpace wiki: (http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Change_the_way_the_collection_list_is_displayed_in_submit_link_%28Manakin%29).

But we are currently running DSpace 1.5.1 with the JSPUI interface and have a different problem.

We are implementing mandatory ETD submission in the fall and will be increasing the number of Thesis & Dissertations collections in the repository. There will be a collection for each faculty or department administrative process. (I would say around 25 different collections.)

We currently repeat the name of the community in the collection name for all the other collections in the repository. (i.e. “Faculty/Department XYZ – Publications”)

I was thinking of inverting this so that all thesis collections start with “Thesis & Dissertations – Faculty/Department XYZ”. That way, they would all show up at the end of the collection list grouped together. (Easier for the students to find.)

So, any solutions or ideas on displaying the list of collections in a better way would be appreciated. If you see any future problems with my proposed solution, I would appreciate the heads up.

Thanks for reading ‘till the end! :o)

Patrick M. Lozeau, M.I.S.
Librarian · Digital Libraries
Direction des bibliothèques
Université de Montréal

514-343-6111 #5225
pm.lozeau at umontreal.ca<mailto:pm.lozeau at umontreal.ca>

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