Hello DSpace Community,
We are currently planning a national repository platform using a single DSpace instance to serve approximately 130 universities across Iraq. I would appreciate your advice on the best approach for structuring an implementation of this scale. Our main challenge is mapping each university’s organizational structure—including central libraries, college libraries, colleges, and other equivalent units—to DSpace’s community, subcommunity, and collection hierarchy. We also need to map users and roles received from our HRMS to the appropriate levels within this hierarchy. Our current proposal is to: - Create one top-level community for each university. - Create subcommunities for colleges, libraries, and other equivalent university units. - Assign each library manager an administrative role at the appropriate subcommunity level. - Assign librarians submitter or editor permissions at the relevant level. - Allow each college or library to independently create and manage collections for open-access materials, student projects, research outputs, and similar content. Has anyone implemented a similar multi-university structure, particularly at this scale? We would appreciate any recommendations regarding the most scalable and maintainable hierarchy, permission model, and HRMS role-mapping approach. We want to ensure that Iraq’s national repository platform is designed correctly from the beginning and follows DSpace best practices. *Please leave any other recommendations for a national-level library system (we are also using an independent Koha instance for each university and Vufind as a discovery layer)* Best regards, Mohammad Al-Sendy -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://lyrasis.org/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/64dbe9cf-3edf-4f29-a5f6-f99f9e51c518n%40googlegroups.com.
