Creating a Community or Sub-community

• Login to Repository
• Decide where you want your proposed community or sub-community to be located in the repository hierarchy
  • Communities and sub-communities are useful for organizing content within your repository, but they do not actually hold items - collections hold items. Think through the architecture for your content before creating any communities, sub-communities, or collections as it can be difficult to change things after you’ve started adding content.
  • See Relationships in DSpace for more information about the DSpace repository hierarchy
• Navigate to the appropriate location in the hierarchy
• If you are adding a top-level community, you should only see one option for Create Community

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• Here you will be able to add the following information about your community

  • Name of community (required)
  • Short description of community (optional)
  • Introductory text to your community (optional)
  • Copyright text (optional)
  • News about your community (optional)
  • You can also upload a logo or image by browsing to the file on your local computer
• Once you have added your content, click Create at the bottom of the page

• Your screen should switch to the Edit Metadata tab within the edit community menu
• Switch to the Assign Roles tab to designate administrators for your community

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• Type the last name of the person you wish to add in the Search members to add box
  • That person should have logged into the repository at least once in order for the system to recognize them.
• Click the E-People button or press enter to search for that person’s name

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• If you are adding a sub-community, go to the higher level community (where you want your sub-community to be listed) and then click on Create Sub-community. After doing that, the instructions are the same as adding a new community.

Creating a Collection

• Login to Repository
• Navigate to the community or sub-community where you want to add your collection
• Click Create Collection under CONTEXT in the right-hand navigation bar

• Here you will be able to add the following information about your collection:
  • Name of collection (required)
  • Short description of collection (optional)
  • Introductory text to your collection (optional)
  • Copyright text (optional)
  • News about your collection (optional)
  • License (optional) – if there is a specific license that applies to the entire collection (for instance CC-BY) you can add that information here. There is also space to add license information when uploading an individual item.
  • Provenance (optional) – provenance is the history of ownership of materials prior to acquisition by the current institution. Typically used to refer to art collections or historical materials.
  • You can also upload a logo or image by browsing to the file on your local computer
• Once you have added your content, click Create at the bottom of the page

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