[Dspace-tech] Authorizing users to submit to a collection
Hi all (with due apologies for cross posting), At K-State, we have been using Dspace for managing Electronic thesis dissertations. We want to start collecting research publications from faculty and organize them into collections based on their department affiliations. We have a central campus authentication system to verify user credentials but we are not sure yet if we can get their department affiliation for authorization. This would mean restricting users to submit to collections would have to be done in some other way. How are others managing user access for submitting to a collection? If there is a good external authorization system then this could be automated. But in its absence, do you manually add eperson to authorized groups or do you just show all the collections in dspace let users pick which one to submit to or do you do it any other way? Would members of this group please share their approach. Best, Harish Harish Maringanti Systems Analyst K-State Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] : Authorizing users to submit to a collection
hi! A possible approach under consideration here is to define a group using DSpace Admin interface. Each group is given submission privileges to specified collections. When a user authenticates he may be added to specifed groups using the LDAP user context. This approach is yet to be tried here. I believe other members do have some solid suggestions. Cheers! Jayan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Harish Maringanti Sent: Sat 3/22/2008 2:23 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Dspace-tech] Authorizing users to submit to a collection Hi all (with due apologies for cross posting), At K-State, we have been using Dspace for managing Electronic thesis dissertations. We want to start collecting research publications from faculty and organize them into collections based on their department affiliations. We have a central campus authentication system to verify user credentials but we are not sure yet if we can get their department affiliation for authorization. This would mean restricting users to submit to collections would have to be done in some other way. How are others managing user access for submitting to a collection? If there is a good external authorization system then this could be automated. But in its absence, do you manually add eperson to authorized groups or do you just show all the collections in dspace let users pick which one to submit to or do you do it any other way? Would members of this group please share their approach. Best, Harish Harish Maringanti Systems Analyst K-State Libraries - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
