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, working paper, conference paper, etc.. I’m wondering if this is the best way to go about structuring the repository.
Pete had a different take on this – the communities reflect the administration requirements, so they’re structured from how you want people to administer them. This made sense at the time, and I expect to a large degree this overlaps with the departmental structure here, but it may help with deciding how to set out the tricky parts, like the Research Centres (which sometimes overlap departments).
