Assignment Four

I found Dspace to be a lot more intuitive than I thought it would be. I watched Dr. Oguz's presentation and then I went in. The first thing I did was to check out the metadata registry since this was the part that I didn't understand. I wasn't really sure what I would be doing by creating a new field with my name as the qualifier and I wasn't really sure how to achieve that but I followed in some of my fellow classmates footsteps and I eventually I got it right. I emailed my information to Larry and then I started having fun. Dspace, aside from the metadata registry, I think is quite intuitive. I had no problems with creating a community named Boyd's community which is here http://mlis.library.gatech.edu/handle/123456789/34. After creating a community I added two collections, the first of which is MLIS Papers. That collection is here http://mlis.library.gatech.edu/handle/123456789/36. I did have some issue with creating a key words for these collections because I have no experience with controlled vocabulary but then I remembered that this is supposed to be about library 2.0 and that I should enter the words that seemed to make the most sense when describing my collection. I submitted two items to my MLIS Papers collection. The process of submitting these items was also easy or intuitive. After I submitted them I used the advanced search option to see if I could find them. The results of those searches are here http://mlis.library.gatech.edu/simple-search?query=%28%28correctional%29+AND+%28libraries%29%29&from_advanced=true&conjunction2=AND&field3=ANY&field2=ANY&conjunction1=AND&field1=ANY&query1=correctional+&query2=libraries&query3= and here http://mlis.library.gatech.edu/simple-search?query=%28%28mlis%29+AND+%28biography%29%29&from_advanced=true&conjunction2=AND&field3=ANY&field2=ANY&conjunction1=AND&field1=ANY&query1=mlis&query2=biography&query3=. Next I created one more collection. I chose to create a collection of photos to see if submitting photos was just as easy as documents and it was. My photo collection is here http://mlis.library.gatech.edu/handle/123456789/87. Once again, I did an advanced search using key words and the results of that search are here http://mlis.library.gatech.edu/simple-search?query=%28%28standing%29+AND+%28stones%29%29&from_advanced=true&conjunction2=AND&field3=ANY&field2=ANY&conjunction1=AND&field1=ANY&query1=standing+&query2=stones&query3=. I have to say that I really enjoyed being able to experiment with Dspace. It and google reader are my two favorite technologies we've studied in this class.