Dear Richard et al., On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 23:27, Richard Jones wrote: > Hi Mark, > > > This is a survey to see if anyone is actually utilizing the existing > > History System in production. If you are using the history system, > > would you please be kind and respond with a quick sentence on how > > your applying it? > > I am not currently using it, but bringing it up is timely because I'm > reaching a point where what I am being drawn towards is the necessity of > an audit tool for certain system activities. I haven't had time to > evaluate what the history system can do for me in that regard, but if > anyone is planning on making changes to it, I'd be interested in being > involved in some way, shape, or form. > > Let me give you one or two examples of the kind of auditing that I need: > as users add/remove files over time from their item as they prepare it, > I need to track what was added/removed and by whom when (multiple users > can work on a single item in our system). Similarly for licences. > Also, administrators perform many tasks on items before they hit the > public repository, and a navigable audit trail on item activities which > can actually be interacted with would be of great benefit.
A decent version control system for DSpace is a must. Not only should one be able to track the changes over time to each document, but one has to be able to consult and revert to previous versions. This functionality is taken for granted with any decent Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform. In the hope that they might provide some pointers, I have uploaded a couple of screenshots of a document's `Status History' available within the IeB ECM system (powered by CPS-3.4/Zope): (http://indica-et-buddhica.org/sections/repositorium/desired-features/versioning-system) The current incarnation of CPS -- Nuxeo 5 -- is an open source Java app.. It is possible that some of the version control code could be modified by the DSpace community: (http://www.nuxeo.org/sections/about/) Best regards, Richard MAHONEY -- Richard MAHONEY | internet: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/ Littledene | telephone/telefax (man.): +64 3 312 1699 Bay Road | cellular: +64 27 482 9986 OXFORD, NZ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Indica et Buddhica: Materials for Indology and Buddhology Repositorium: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/repositorium/ Philologica: http://indica-et-buddhica.org/philologica/ Subscriptions: http://subscriptions.indica-et-buddhica.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
