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Configurable Submission is a very useful and popular feature of DSpace, but one quickly runs up against design limits. For example, the only mode of configurability for a given set of metadata inputs is by collection, whereas it might make more sense for the item's content type to determine it, or other factors.
General Problem
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Configurable submission is one of only a few mechanisms in DSpace to assist the process of managing the metadata or other characteristics of items being ingested. Another tool is the Item template, which notably also is only configurable by collection. You can think of both of them in terms of a more general capability: using contextual information to streamline or automate the ingest. We can call this capability 'context-driven ingest' or perhaps 'context-assisted ingest'. Maybe the best description would be 'context-guided ingest' (CGI), since it suggests that context can provide relevant data, but need not rigidly determine all ingest properties. |
Design Principles
What would a more flexible facility for CGI look like? We begin by examining a few general dimensions of the problem.
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