Hi Andrew, communities are containers for communities and collections, collections are containers for items, items are containers for bundles, bundles are containers for bitstreams. Thats the basic hierarchy.
You thus can create the Societies as top level communities and the journals as subcommunities, with further division as you need. - Society A (top level community) -- Journal A (subcommunity) --- Year (subcommunity) ---- Issue (collection ----- Article (item) -- Journal B (subcommunity) - Society B ... And so on. Here is an example for a journal (without issues) https://eldorado.uni-dortmund.de/handle/2003/22130. Another approach would be adding the issue information as metadata and use the new configurable browse to browse by issue. Hope that helps Claudia Jürgen > Hello, > > Now that I have finally got DSpace working and I have been able to > customize > the xmlui so it looks more like what I want, I am ready to consider > importing documents into it. So I have to look at how they will organised > with respect to communities, collections and items. But I have a problem > understanding how my documents fit into the {communities, > collections,items} > way of looking at things. > > The documents I have are articles from issues from journals. So it seems > to > me like an articles corresponds to an item. There is a PDF for each > article. > So what would correspond to an issue? Would that be a collection? If so > then > I suppose journal would correspond to community. I am not completely > comfortable with this because there is an additional level of abstraction > that this does not cope with. A number of journals are published by a > given > society. For example, the Royal Society of Chemistry publishes 'The > Analyst', 'Chemical Communications and molecular biosystems' and > 'Chemistry > education research and practice' (amongst others). I want to be able to > start my navigation from a list of societies, go down to the journal > titles > it publishes, pick a particular issue of that journal, then choose an > article from that issue. > > My guess is that I would say that the 'Chemical Communications and > molecular > biosystems' (for example) is a community and each issue of the journal is > a > collection. Within a collection the items correspond to the articles for > that issue. But the language of communities, collections,items makes me > think that my approach would be wrong. To me, community sounds much more > like the society. But then what would collection correspond to? > > Can someone please give me some guidance on how my collections etc can be > arranged to allow a hierachy of society, journal, issue, article? > > -- > Regards, > > Andrew M. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, > Nevada. > The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help > pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/_______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
