Community page mockups

Proposed design objectives -

To offer an opportunity to browse meaningfully, for those who are not searching for something specific, and approach from "top down" (probably home page)
To provide greater context to those who land directly on an item page. (And then travel "up" to community page with breadcrumbs or other link)
- Convey the community's prestige, purpose, breadth, level of activity, or other quality
To assure members of that community that this is a legitimate, trustworthy place to deposit materials
To assure visitors from elsewhere that this is a legitimate, trustworthy place to find materials
To provide opportunity for serendipitous discovery
To provide a platform to share specific information on behalf of that community. (ie, via "news" widget)

Format Logo, title, description, handle link, and rights statement nicely with adequate whitespace
- keeping in mind that any of these elements may be absent, if the metadata does not exist
Add sidebar on the right
- Search box, news box, browse all items by title, etc... box, most downloaded / recently uploaded widget
Main Content area –
- Has list of sub-communities and top-level collections

Breadcrumbs. Offer sense of place (grounding) and serve as navigation
For each sub-community / collection – provide a lot of information, as much as possible
- Description. This is really important.
  - Can we make at least a short description a required field?
  - If not, can we emphasize in the submission form links how valuable it is?
- Badges indicating the number of items of each entity type therein
  - These should be links – leading to faceted search results?
  - In the case of an "empty" collection, a badge can provide that information
- Unfolding accordion which reveals the sub-communities / collections inside.
News widget. It would be super useful if its label could be customized as well as its content.
In addition to most downloaded / recently uploaded, what about "featured" items?