Hello Hilton, This would make it possible to delegate administration of communities and collections.
What I am looking at is to create a private community which will only be accessible by authorized users. By default in dspace we can set authorization to view the content of the item but not the metadata, i.e. the metadata of items that require authentication will still be displayed to anonymous users. So I was wondering if there is a way to constraint access even to the metadata of an item. Regards, Jamil -----Original Message----- From: Hilton Gibson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:26 AM To: Jamil Haddad Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] authorizing access to metadata Hi Jamil With Dspace 1.6.0 it looks like you can. See below for excerpt from the config file. >>>> ##### Authorization system configuration - Delegate ADMIN ##### # COMMUNITY ADMIN configuration # subcommunities and collections #core.authorization.community-admin.create-subelement = true #core.authorization.community-admin.delete-subelement = true # his community #core.authorization.community-admin.policies = true #core.authorization.community-admin.admin-group = true # collections in his community #core.authorization.community-admin.collection.policies = true #core.authorization.community-admin.collection.template-item = true #core.authorization.community-admin.collection.submitters = true #core.authorization.community-admin.collection.workflows = true #core.authorization.community-admin.collection.admin-group = true # item owned by collections in his community #core.authorization.community-admin.item.delete = true #core.authorization.community-admin.item.withdraw = true #core.authorization.community-admin.item.reinstatiate = true #core.authorization.community-admin.item.policies = true # also bundle... #core.authorization.community-admin.item.create-bitstream = true #core.authorization.community-admin.item.delete-bitstream = true #core.authorization.community-admin.item-admin.cc-license = true # COLLECTION ADMIN #core.authorization.collection-admin.policies = true #core.authorization.collection-admin.template-item = true #core.authorization.collection-admin.submitters = true #core.authorization.collection-admin.workflows = true #core.authorization.collection-admin.admin-group = true # item owned by his collection #core.authorization.collection-admin.item.delete = true #core.authorization.collection-admin.item.withdraw = true #core.authorization.collection-admin.item.reinstatiate = true #core.authorization.collection-admin.item.policies = true # also bundle... #core.authorization.collection-admin.item.create-bitstream = true #core.authorization.collection-admin.item.delete-bitstream = true #core.authorization.collection-admin.item-admin.cc-license = true # ITEM ADMIN #core.authorization.item-admin.policies = true # also bundle... #core.authorization.item-admin.create-bitstream = true #core.authorization.item-admin.delete-bitstream = true #core.authorization.item-admin.cc-license = true >>>> Cheers hg. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Jamil Haddad <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > > > I've posted this on the "tech" mailing list and thought might also be > helpful to post on other mailing lists too. > > > > I need to create a private community where even the metadata of the items in > this community shall not be displayed to unauthorized users. Is this > possible in dspace? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Jamil > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general > > -- Systems Administrator Library and Information Services Stellenbosch University http://www.sun.ac.za http://library.sun.ac.za http://scholar.sun.ac.za http://ubuntu.sun.ac.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
