Painted Into a Corner by Communities and Collections? Free Yourself with Metadata

Poster at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

Posters, Demos and Developer "How-To's"

Building a community and collection hierarchy that matched our institution seemed like a good idea at the time, but then we found ourselves in input-form hell, with a wall of form-map entries, huge pull-down menus for users, a long list of empty collections, and other cumbersome gotchas. This poster will present the results of our experiments with using the new Discovery system to maintain a similar sense of hierarchy, while allowing us to reserve DSpace communities and collections specifically for the access control and metadata definition purposes to which they are best suited.