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Summary: Adding to affiliation tree or use keywords?
Type: Policy

Priority (1<5) = 3
Status: Open

Raised by: hal
Project: CORE Organic
Related to Issues?
Date opened: 2005–09–07
Assigned to Profiles
Hours used (estimates in brackets) =
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Description:
When should we add categories (organisations, projects) to the research affiliation tree and when should we use keywords?

1. Adding to the tree gives a ‘folder’ in the browse views where all eprints from an organisation or project can be seen.
2. But the affiliation tree is becoming very large, which
   • makes it more difficult to overview
   • slows the system down when the tree is shown
3. Using keywords to identify e.g. a project within an organisation (the Swiss style) enables searches that include all eprints within that or project.
   • But the eprints for all projects are shown together in the organisation ‘folder’ in the browse tree

A possible policy in this regard is to only make separate categories/’folder’ in the research affiliation tree for larger organisations and projects where several eprints are expected.