[Dpubs-content] Admin UI - authority selection

[Larry W. <lr...@ps...>]

All,

Just had an interesting situation occur.  I loaded a number of 
conference proceedings into DPubS through the Admin UI.  However, due to 
oddities in how my user account was set up, I did not have the 
authorization to see/select the authority for the conference proceeding 
(in this case, psu.wepan) which had been set up.  The publication was 
listed in the drop down menu (Penn State's Women in Engineering 
Pennsylvania Network), so I did choose that.  Lacking the correct 
authority, I selected "All Authorities" and uploaded the files.  As far 
as I can determine, it worked fine.

My question is, if I can upload files through the Admin UI without 
selecting the correct authority, what is the need/value in having an 
authority to select?

--Larry Wentzel
--Digital Preservation Coordinator
--Penn State Libraries