Hello,
Now that I have finally got DSpace working and I have been able to customize
the xmlui so it looks more like what I want, I am ready to consider
importing documents into it. So I have to look at how they will organised
with respect to communities, collections and items. But I have a problem
understanding how my documents fit into the {communities, collections,items}
way of looking at things.
The documents I have are articles from issues from journals. So it seems to
me like an articles corresponds to an item. There is a PDF for each article.
So what would correspond to an issue? Would that be a collection? If so then
I suppose journal would correspond to community. I am not completely
comfortable with this because there is an additional level of abstraction
that this does not cope with. A number of journals are published by a given
society. For example, the Royal Society of Chemistry publishes 'The
Analyst', 'Chemical Communications and molecular biosystems' and 'Chemistry
education research and practice' (amongst others). I want to be able to
start my navigation from a list of societies, go down to the journal titles
it publishes, pick a particular issue of that journal, then choose an
article from that issue.
My guess is that I would say that the 'Chemical Communications and molecular
biosystems' (for example) is a community and each issue of the journal is a
collection. Within a collection the items correspond to the articles for
that issue. But the language of communities, collections,items makes me
think that my approach would be wrong. To me, community sounds much more
like the society. But then what would collection correspond to?
Can someone please give me some guidance on how my collections etc can be
arranged to allow a hierachy of society, journal, issue, article?
--
Regards,
Andrew M.
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