Archive for August 26, 2011

The collection is dead! Long live the collection!

“The collection is dead! Long live the collection!”  That summarises my current thoughts and feelings about the collection hierarchy structure in DSpace. When first installed, DSpace shows its need for a community and collection hierarchy, because without at least one community, containing at least one collection, it is impossible to even submit an item.  Therefore, [...]

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