Re: [CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question
Thanks for the insight. I am just taking this over so I am trying to come up with ways to make the structure more user friendly. Interestingly the proceedings collection is actually one of the larger collections with proceedings and presentations our professors did from a wide variety of conferences and symposiums. I want to make it more clear but it is a matter of coming up with a term that makes sense. Hence why I was hoping for thoughts from the community. So the response is appreciated. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Williamson, Kelsey CTR NUWC NWPT kelsey.williamson@navy.mil wrote: Hi Matt, I would wonder about the value of grouping a collection by form rather than content. Is that how everything else is grouped? Do your users actually browse by collection or do they just search for things? If your collection relies on a content type, you might look into different ways of displaying the data. You can probably identify subjects or other defining bits of metadata by which to group your objects for display. I didn't see any response on the list, it's kind of hard question to answer because it depends specifically on what your repository is for and who is using it. At the very least, conference proceedings might be more clear. But I don't think any of your users will bother accessing your collection that way unless they already know what is in there. Just my 2 cents. Good luck! Also you might try some more targeted lists for this kind of thing. These guys mostly like to argue about code. There is a metadata librarians list here: http://metadatalibrarians.monarchos.com/ R, Kelsey -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 11:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question Hello Code4Libbers, I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work and one of the collections is labelled proceedings. I find this to be a rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and symposium proceedings. It is just not so obvious to someone who has not run into that item before. I was wondering if any other people have a category in their repositories for conference and symposium proceedings and what you call it. I am hoping to find a slightly more user friendly name so I wanted to see what others have done. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport
[CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question
Hello Code4Libbers, I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work and one of the collections is labelled proceedings. I find this to be a rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and symposium proceedings. It is just not so obvious to someone who has not run into that item before. I was wondering if any other people have a category in their repositories for conference and symposium proceedings and what you call it. I am hoping to find a slightly more user friendly name so I wanted to see what others have done. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport
Re: [CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question
Hi Matt, I would wonder about the value of grouping a collection by form rather than content. Is that how everything else is grouped? Do your users actually browse by collection or do they just search for things? If your collection relies on a content type, you might look into different ways of displaying the data. You can probably identify subjects or other defining bits of metadata by which to group your objects for display. I didn't see any response on the list, it's kind of hard question to answer because it depends specifically on what your repository is for and who is using it. At the very least, conference proceedings might be more clear. But I don't think any of your users will bother accessing your collection that way unless they already know what is in there. Just my 2 cents. Good luck! Also you might try some more targeted lists for this kind of thing. These guys mostly like to argue about code. There is a metadata librarians list here: http://metadatalibrarians.monarchos.com/ R, Kelsey -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 11:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question Hello Code4Libbers, I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work and one of the collections is labelled proceedings. I find this to be a rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and symposium proceedings. It is just not so obvious to someone who has not run into that item before. I was wondering if any other people have a category in their repositories for conference and symposium proceedings and what you call it. I am hoping to find a slightly more user friendly name so I wanted to see what others have done. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
