Hi Arthur
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I agree completely, and I should have elaborated a little further.=20
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The main reason we want to stick with some form of grouping of objects
at all is so that we can set security on groups of objects in as large a
scope as possible to
manage ownership and security over objects. So security is really the
main driver to group objects for us. Fez is designed to be more than an
Open Access system,
in fact the main use of it here at UQ is for the research quality
assessment (RQA/RQF) which required us to set security on the entire
process and on a per-school level.
Grouping also allowed us related organisational structure information to
a collection so that objects created under that grouping could
populate certain input
form controls with suggest style lookups for the authors, submitting
authors, research groups that school was assessing and more.=20
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What we are aiming to do is make the grouping structure more dynamic.=20
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Currently its statically community->collection->end document type
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What we want to do is let the admin user determine the structure they
want to group their documents with.
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So they can specify (through an admin gui) the top level is called
'Community' or something else, the next level is 'Collection' (or
whatever else they want to call it), then Sub collection,
and they can keep going down to a very long hierachical grouping. This
will satisfy those who like the idea of grouping objects semantically by
communities, collections and subcollections
in whatever terminology they wish to call them.
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In a future release we aim to have customisable view of objects in the
areas the user is interested in - eg give me all the objects that match
my complex search criteria set
in a 'saved search' for a user in their personal space. We aim to
provide the user with RSS feeds based on their own personal search
criteria and more. This is actually tty easy
for us to do as it is already in our IT helpdesk software (MySQL's open
source Eventum) along with email routing integration and many more
possible features like IRC chat integration etc that we can feed off.
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Christiaan
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[mailto:fez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Arthur
Sale
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 5:09 PM
To: fez-users@lists.sourceforge.net />
Subject: Re: [Fez-users] Collections within collections
What an awful idea. Just like collections themselves. What is needed is
customizable "views" of data.
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Arthur Sale
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[mailto:fez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Christiaan
Kortekaas
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2006 3:45 PM
To: fez-users@lists.sourceforge.net />
Subject: Re: [Fez-users] Collections within collections
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Hi Richard
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Fez 1.2 doesn't support collections within collections. Its something we
would like to do as well, so will be in a future version (probably the
next one).=20
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Christiaan
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[mailto:fez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Richard
Green
Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 11:21 PM
To: fez-users@lists.sourceforge.net />
Subject: [Fez-users] Collections within collections
Please, how do you create a collection within a collection? For
example, a collection called exam papers might contain second-level
collections called English, Maths, Physics....
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When I create the parent collection (exam papers) the only content types
I can declare in the drop-down are for objects. I need to be able to
declare a second level Fedora Collection Display?
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www.hull.ac.uk/esig/repomman=20
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