Metadata For The Terrified

I think I could probably be a case study in a book called Metadata For The Terrified. Or Metadata For Dummies.
Over the last week or two I’ve been coming to terms with how the DSpace metadata works and relates to the input submissions form – the metadata is pretty good, I like how DSpace [...]

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Communities and deposit checklist

It’s the little things that sometimes take ages.. like deciding how to describe the communities and sub-communities for our repository installation. We’re a University, so the faculties and schools are easy enough, and I can put the research centres and institutes together but what about ‘the leftovers’? What is the collective noun for [...]

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Communities in DSpace

I met with Pete from UKOLN this afternoon to chat about communities and collections in DSpace. From the examples I’ve seen it seems most Higher Ed institutions use the communities and sub-communities to reflect the faculties and departments of the university, and the collections to describe the type of item, such as journal article, [...]

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RSP ramping up events

The Repository Support Project has just advertised a suite of events for repository practitioners in the UK over the next few months. Topics for the Professional Briefing and Networking event series include: Repository developments; Metadata issues; Stakeholder roles & perceptions and more to be announced.
Additionally, here at Bath there will be a DSpace Technical [...]

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Out and About

I’ve been neglecting the blog about lately as I’ve had my attention diverted elsewhere. This week has been taken up with the Internet Librarian International Conference in London. It seemed to be a well-recieved conference (apart from lots of muttering under the breath about the ridiculous cost of wifi – I mean, honestly, [...]

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