Digital Commons annual refresh

Digital Commons annual refresh

Digital Commons has 3 level of hierarchy: Communities, collections, submissions.

It is Search Engine Optimized to make indexing by Google, etc. most effective. The two primary ways of doing that is by introductory text on the community and collection level, and metadata on the submission level.

As a new community or collection is built, introductory text needs to be added. Sometimes this gets overlooked, so once a year it’s good to review each community/collection to be sure the information exists and is up to date.

What we like to see on each page is some descriptive text, sometimes lifted directly from their college web page, links to the department where appropriate, and on the school/department levels the name of their Dean or Chair. These especially need to be refreshed annually, as they change over time. I keep a spreadsheet in the Digital Commons FC2 drive, which may need some updating, that lists all the communities and what we have. I will probably need to give you access to the drive, but for now I have it on a flash drive. One thing you might notice is that some of the collections have a Y in the other administrator column (C). These are administered by someone else, who should be adding the Intro text themselves. If you notice some without, though, please drop me a note.