Hi Matt,

I would wonder about the value of grouping a collection by form rather than content. Is that how everything else is grouped? Do your users actually browse by collection or do they just search for things? If your collection relies on a content type, you might look into different ways of displaying the data. You can probably identify subjects or other defining bits of metadata by which to group your objects for display. 

I didn't see any response on the list, it's kind of hard question to answer because it depends specifically on what your repository is for and who is using it. At the very least, "conference proceedings" might be more clear. But I don't think any of your users will bother accessing your collection that way unless they already know what is in there. Just my 2 cents. Good luck!
Also you might try some more targeted lists for this kind of thing. These guys mostly like to argue about code. There is a metadata librarians list here: http://metadatalibrarians.monarchos.com/

R, 
Kelsey

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question

Hello Code4Libbers,

I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work and one of the collections is labelled "proceedings".  I find this to be a rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and symposium proceedings.  It is just not so obvious to someone who has not run into that item before.  I was wondering if any other people have a category in their repositories for conference and symposium proceedings and what you call it.  I am hoping to find a slightly more user friendly name so I wanted to see what others have done.  Thanks for any thoughts you can provide.

Matt Sherman
Digital Content Librarian
University of Bridgeport