Curation Task Workshop for Repository Managers: Stay in the Light and have a Dark Side

Abstract

The problem facing many DSpace Repository Managers is the complex task of matching content policies with complex business rules. The authorisation and access within the DSpace software is challenging for most Repository Managers, and it dictates that policy is uniform across collections, in reality our collections are a mixture of items and we need flexibility to change and amend policies. We have solved many problems using authentication systems to create access to matching collections but we struggle at the application end matching the access to the system capabilities. There are some things that cannot be solved with authentication.