A page for notes and thoughts from DSUG Bergen 2006 - http://dsug2006.uib.no/^{Image Removed}

If we all use the tag 'dspacebergen2006' for our photos on flickr, and links on del.icio.us (and so on, please add others), we'll have a convenient source of photos and web resources related to this user group meeting.

Presentations

Presentations will be available on the conference website shortly.

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• Content type is entered in the keywords
• No particular structure is imposed (Cambridge)
• Each community can structure on their own needs
• By research areas
• By file or document type
• By time
• By the way the university is structured; departments - – though some may be closed so those documents become legacied and/ or placed in other departments.
• Decentralized, by faculty structure of the university (Cambridge - – most likely decision)
• Originally organized by units within the university (Edinburgh), but lists are large without many entries; did not reflect the whole university. Interdisciplinary groups did not fit into the traditional academic structure; set up separate communities for them. Can choose to submit single items into several collections.
• Authors can select one or more collections for their submissions (MINHO); can appear in the collection of the library as well as the community. Advise authors to limit levels of hierarchy.
• Does this matter with Search capability? perhaps this is a theoretical discussion but not really critical
• How to structure the e-thesis for harvest? Separate collection for theses and student reports.

How deep can our hierarchies be?

Naming conventions - – best practice

Multilingual problems and solutions

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• Also - not discussed but may be relevant -
  • Java Plugin Framework - http://jpf.sourceforge.net/^{Image Removed}
  • Java services - http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/jar/jar.html#Service%20Provider

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• Short term and long term road maps, taken from the users - – what new features they want. Members vote which add-ons and features they value most.

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