Can't resist commenting. The greatest criticism I have of DSpace is the difficulty of installation and upgrade. For the IT team is is big responsibility as each DSpace instance acrues importance. DSpace is a big product. To get going isn't too bad but there is a lot to learn and users always want more.
Having said that the flexibility and features of DSpace have made it extremely popular at the University of Sydney. We have many instances of DSpace for different security levels and purposes. Some instances are apparently a temporary measure until the powers that be identify a better solution - which never seems to materialise. Point 1. DSpace comes with a good authorisation system with a variety of login protocols placing users into groups with a whole criteria set of access permissions. Also workflow regimes placing new items into collection on the basis of management authorisations. Point 2. There is good statistical information that comes with DSpace but if you want more it is possible to invoke Piwik Analytics and also Google Analystics, ( if you can possibly ever trust "The Cloud" (which you can't)) Point 2 With DSpace collections you can define multiple sets of metadata items relating to object that you store maintaining a collection of information with meta data about the other collections. Point 3. Not sure what you want to do but I suspect you would have to write something in SQl to feed your calendar. To do the unusual, you need a person skilled in SQL - sounds like you have that. The relationship of the DSpace tables is mostly represented in in a schema graphic in the doco but some of the data items that are keys to other tables are poorly named and its hard to works out what points to what and thereby write unorthodox scripts. You can use PHP to access the DSpace tables although I often use Unix scripts wrapped around a psql command for "one off" data requests and then later find the "one-off" is suddenly ongoing production and then I wish I'd used Python. In my view Option B is the most desirable. Mostly DSpace can be convinced to perform unusual tasks without change. To me consolidating your operations into one product make it easier to maintain. On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 12:01 +0800, lei chen wrote: > Dear All, > > I am new to Dspace and have very limited IT knowledge. > Recently my institute decided to develop a online archive to store > papers/reports produced, Dspace was suggested. > Beside the uploading, searching and downloading function, we have > extra requirement from management team: > 1. more detailed personal information(work, edu,geo location etc), > different level of authorization, supervisor- supervisee interaction > (and supervisor have the authority to access/edit supervisees' work > docu, ). > 2. statistic module to retrieve summary of personnel, papers/reports > 3. integrating the electronic calendar(already exist) to online > archive, allow users upload and download event related documents. > > After some reading, I am trying to wrote my first plan, here come's my > question: > A: Use Dspace as it is, and construct another database to store extra > data needed(personnel,work relation), and build a API to communicate > between Dspace and new database. > B: Modify Dspace's tables and use its database, write extra codes to > execute function needed > C: use some other software other than Dspace. > > When we have only one PHP/Mysql programmer in our team, which way > should be the most feasible and easy. > > Your advices will be very appreciated. > > Best regards, > > CL2004 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
