> - It's configurable on a collection by collection basis, although the > way different input forms get assigned to collections is abominable.
Expanding on this: When I create a collection, I usually forget to go over to input-forms.xml and put the right form on it. I have (to my shame be it spoken) confused users with thesis collections by demoing them the form customized for theses... and then they don't see it when they first try to deposit! It'd be nice if the collection-creation UI read input-forms.xml and let me assign an existing form to the collection (a single radio-button control would seem to do the trick, yes?). No, that doesn't solve the whole issue (still can't design a new form via UI, which doesn't bother me much because creating UI for that is an *evil* problem), but it's a nice 80/20 point. > - I don't really understand why the metadata entry needs to be split > into two screens. It should be organized into REQUIRED and OPTIONAL > areas and allow users to easily see what they have to do. Perhaps I am > able to do this and simply haven't dug in that deeply? This could be done with input-forms.xml -- or it could if it weren't for the published-before checkbox externalities, at least. To the best of my knowledge, nobody's done the user testing to figure out what's the most intuitive metadata-entering paradigm, though Marty and Twidale's ASIST demo last year showed pretty conclusively that the out-of-the-box DSpace one is substantially broken. I do know of several efforts to strip down deposit to the absolute bare minimum for later correction (usually by a third party): upload plus citation plus license, end of story. This strikes me as a common enough workflow to be worth baking in to DSpace proper. > - The file uploaded successfully screen, while informative to IR > managers, is just another step no one else really cares about and just > has to hit another "Next >" button. Oof. Agreed. Sorry I forgot to mention this! Okay, closing out GMail now to reboot the test 1.5 instance with a new dspace.cfg and xmlui.xconf. I expect much breakage to ensue, with associated wailing and gnashing of teeth... Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608) 262-5493 _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
