I have to say that our contributor pages are wonderful. I love looking at these pages to see all the downloads the contributors have. Plus we can send a link to the faculty member and this is one way to show faculty how the repository provides value to them withour having to change their work practices. This is very important because our research faculty just like the rest of us don’t want to be any busier!
Here is the contributor page for one of our faculty members:
Contributor Example
The contributor page also serves another very useful purpose: it lists all works for a particular author. Since we have name authority control we can relate all publications to a given author even when they have published under different names!
Check it out here:
Name Authority Control Example
Another one of the major problems we had in our old DSpace system was we could not qualify the type of contribution a person made – everyone was an Author. There were no composers, photographers, thesis advisors. What a pain! In the new system, we made sure this was fixed and boy was the Music Library happy. We now have composers!
I hope Bach would be pleased!
I hope our thesis advisors are happy too:
Advisor Example
From the sound of things, our faculty are starting to talk about how they can see all the downloads for their publications.
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Hi Nate,
ReplyDeleteI work in a special library with public OPAC but some part of the collection suppressed. We have 1300 bib records in our LMS and we are thinking of potentially digitising those but making them available only internally due to confidentiality issues. Does IR+ handle the MARC import at all? Ideally we would like to set up a repository for the above mentioned records and digitise them. What would you advise? Thanks Renata
Hi Renata,
ReplyDeleteRight now we don't support MARC ingest. We have talked about it but currently there are other features that have priority.
Best Wishes,
-Nate