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• Create a Community and Sub-community
• Edit a Community
• Authorize EPerson as Community administrator

• Ubuntu Linux OS 18.04
• DSpace version 6.3 and
• Firefox web browser

However you may use any other web browser of your choice.

• Tomcat service should be running
• Administrator’s authority in DSpace

• This tutorial assumes that you have done the immediate previous tutorial assignment in this series.
• If not, pls do so before proceeding ahead.

• The metadata and the image used in this tutorial is available in the Code Files link on this tutorial page.
• Please download and extract the file before practicing.

• Community is the highest level of the content hierarchy in DSpace.
• Communities consist of Sub-communities and Collections.

Address Bar >> localhost:8080

Username: dspace.u1@gmail.com Password : u1pass

I will login with the administrator account.

Communities and Collections page opens up.

It displays the Community's metadata form.

Basic metadata elements of communities are,

• Community Name
• Short Description
• Introductory text
• Copyright text
• Sidebar text and
• Logo

But, it is recommended to enter at least a Community Name. Otherwise an untitled Community will be created.

I will use the same for entering the Community metadata.

Name : IITB Digital Library Introductory text : IITB Digital Library Community contains educational resources

You can use basic HTML tags in the Introductory text field.

Copyright text, Sidebar text

To do so, click on the Upload a Logo button.

Select communitylogo.png from Downloads directory.

The same is available in the Code Files link. I have downloaded the logo image in the Downloads directory in my machine.

• Logo of any size can be used.
• Logos of size approximately 200 by 75 pixels makes a good visual appearance.

Edit Community page has details of the newly created Community.

But, If we upload a Community logo, DSpace directly creates a Community. In that case, it is not required to click the Create button on the Create Community page.

Let us proceed to cross-verify the newly created Community.

Communities and Collections interface opens up.

Admin Tools are used for managing Community.

Introductory text: IITB Digital Library Community contains educational resources from various domains like Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering,etc

I have edited, Introductory text as shown here.

So, I will click on the Cancel button.

We will assign the Community Administrator role to the EPerson with the ID dspace.u2@gmail.com

That means, DSpace is creating a group of Community Administrators.

But we can provide our own name to the group of Community Administrators. For this demonstration, I will keep the default name as it is.

Click on the Select E-people button below the EPerson Members field.

I will select the user with the email ID dspace.u2@gmail.com.

Once done, close the Select E-people pop-up window by clicking on the Close button.

Select EPerson from EPerson Member field

To do so, select the respective member to be removed from the EPerson Members field.

I’m skipping this step for this demonstration.

Let us proceed to cross-verify the same.

I am selecting the IITB Digital Library.

Hierarchically, Sub-community is created under the Community.

It contains the Community's metadata form.

The form is the same as the one which we used to create the Community.

Sub-community Name : Electrical Engineering Introductory text : Electrical Engineering Sub -community contains educational resources of Electrical Domain.

Let us summarise.

• Edit a Community and
• Authorize EPerson as Community Administrator

• Create another Community with the name IITB archives
• Assign a Community administrator to IITB archives

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