Thanks for the insight. I am just taking this over so I am trying to come
up with ways to make the structure more user friendly. Interestingly the
proceedings collection is actually one of the larger collections with
proceedings and presentations our professors did from a wide variety of
conferences and symposiums. I want to make it more clear but it is a
matter of coming up with a term that makes sense. Hence why I was hoping
for thoughts from the community. So the response is appreciated.
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Williamson, Kelsey CTR NUWC NWPT <
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> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Matthew Sherman
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 11:49 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>
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