Re: [Dspace-devel] Merging Community and Collection, into Container

2014-12-08 Thread helix84
Well, feel free to discuss it. I just don't think of it as a use case, rather as refactoring to make things simpler (which in turn could open some new use cases). On Dec 8, 2014 7:16 PM, "Terry Brady" wrote: > The DCAT agenda for tomorrow will cover some use cases similar to these > ideas. > > h

Re: [Dspace-devel] Merging Community and Collection, into Container

2014-12-08 Thread Terry Brady
The DCAT agenda for tomorrow will cover some use cases similar to these ideas. https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+December+2014 Perhaps your proposals could be added to the comments/use cases for tomorrow's discussion. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 8:12 AM, helix84 wrote: > On Thu

Re: [Dspace-devel] Merging Community and Collection, into Container

2014-12-04 Thread helix84
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:07 PM, helix84 wrote: > Regarding the lack of bundle as a superfluous container correction: Regarding the bundle as a superfluous container On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > Community and Collection have different metadata. We need to think > about

Re: [Dspace-devel] Merging Community and Collection, into Container

2014-12-04 Thread Mark H. Wood
Community and Collection have different metadata. We need to think about that. Community can't hold Item but Collection can. So Container would need an attribute: can-hold-Item. Some sites might want to enforce that Items must be pushed down to the lowest level. Bundle should die. We really

Re: [Dspace-devel] Merging Community and Collection, into Container

2014-12-04 Thread helix84
I agree completely. I listed this a long time ago as one of my pet peeves with DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/~helix84/DSpace+pet+peeves But I wouldn't make the restriction that site cannot contain items. We can imagine a site without the rigid hierarchy, where you would slice through

[Dspace-devel] Merging Community and Collection, into Container

2014-12-04 Thread Peter Dietz
Hi All, Here's an idea that I've been thinking about for some time. What if DSpaceObjects Community and Container got merged together into an object called Container. Thus, you could submit an item to a container. You could also add a container to a container. You couldn't submit an item to the ro