I keep seeking a spot to jump in here and have about 4 unsent versions of responses to this email thread, so it much be a good one ;-)
Owning Collections are used for Inheritance of permissions. IMO, linking should have been better accomplished so that there was a clear difference between a "Link" and the Original Item in a Collection. Likewise, placing a collection into two separate communities is possible in the API, but never used, theres another dark spot for review, I'm sure there would be unintended consequences to delegated authorization. TBH, the cases I've seen for using Item Mapping seem to have more to do with grouping on departmental metadata than a need to actually have an item in two separate collections. Cases such as MITs thesis collections show us that having the same collection of items grouped under two different communities is really the maintainers attempt to deal with an inflexible system of presentation and classification (Community/Collection hierarchy) than any real need to actually place an item into two separate collections. I'd love to hear other example where folks actually think mapping items is actually not a kludge to group items to present under "Scholarly Department X" vs "Library Thesis Community Y". Mark On May 3, 2011, at 1:38 AM, Robin Taylor wrote: > The only explanation that I have ever been able to come up with is that > if you enter an item handle in a browser the item needs to be displayed > in the context of some collection, the owning collection. > > Not a serious suggestion but - you could effectively abandon the current > community/collection structure by only having one collection, depositing > everything in there, and then tag items with keywords as required. But > in doing so you would lose much of the authorisation functionality that > is based on collections. > > > On Mon, 2011-05-02 at 19:30 +0100, Mark H. Wood wrote: >> [tangent alert!] >> I'd like to hear why we have the "owning collection" concept at all. >> We would need a convenient way to find unlinked Items and operate on >> them (link, delete, edit). >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-devel mailing list > Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
