For better or worse, our DSpace 6.3 XMLUI repository, VTechWorks, is organized as a multi-level hierarchy of communities based on the organizational structure of the University, https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/community-list. I am trying to understand the options for migrating to DSpace 7. I have found the DSpace 7 Wiki - Entities page, https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/Configurable+Entities, quite helpful.
The simplest option is to leave Entities disabled and to migrate our existing community structure as-is. That seems the choice taken for JEWLScholar at Middle Tennessee State, https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/community-list. Iowa State Digital Repository, has enabled Entities, https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/community-list. The Academic and Administrative Units collection, https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/collections/90ee9f70-f4eb-4b4d-87c7-97cc3dccff56?scope=90ee9f70-f4eb-4b4d-87c7-97cc3dccff56, seems to contain all the Organizational Units in a very long simple list. However there seems to be some hierarchy for the OrgUnits, although it is not visible in the list. For instance, The Zoology and Genetics OrgUnit, https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/orgunit/4a2929da-5374-4338-b62f-f5fd9e156ef9/full, has dc.relation.ispartof=ag_hist, which is the Historical Departments, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences OrgUnit, https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/orgunit/577eaec6-f3b3-43cd-92c3-ea9879d56152. Since entities are Items and Items are not hierarchical is this dc.relation.ispartof a way to add a hierarchy to entities that normally would not be hierarchical? I think we prefer to maintain a hierarchy, but only one, either communities or the OrgUnits. It seems like there might be advantages to having the hierarchy within the OrgUnits but I'm not clear whether that is possible. Also we would want a way to visually communicate that hierarchy, which is something that seems missing in the Iowa State list of OrgUnits. I'd appreciate any insights about how entities might be used or avoided for representing this hierarchy. Thanks, Anne -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- 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 on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/56eaeb6c-db93-40db-a081-a1c33b4f9a4en%40googlegroups.com.
