CSpace Administrators here at UCB have several times expressed the desire to include additional information with a user's profile. Minimally, they'd like to be able to make a few notes about the user, to record some formal metadata such as title, contact info, to record an "end date" or "review date" for a user's account, and to be able to group users, perhaps using some sort of tags. More ambitiously, they would like users themselves to be able to flesh out their own profiles, as one can do in e.g. JIRA and GitHub -- a photo, favorite quote, interests, etc etc. In the design docs and early JIRA issues for CSpace, there seems to be some anticipation of this, and that this would somehow be handled by relating user records to person records (at least, that's how I interpret these documents). See, e.g. CSPACE-887 and CSPACE-1011 and https://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Wireframes+-+Administration+-+User Our question: is there a way to do any of this now? Is there a best practice or document explaining how to do this? Perhaps we have missed those details somehow... TYIA! John

Hi John, Thanks for this. This could really help at PAHMA, where we have several dozen accounts active at any time. Currently, I have to track this information in a binder full of paper, which requires me to do regular manual checks of all accounts to make sure there aren't any accounts that are still active after the date they were supposed to be retired. Having this information captured in CSpace would make this part of my job less time-consuming and would make our instance of CSpace more secure. Michael On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:43 PM, John B Lowe <jblowe@berkeley.edu> wrote: > CSpace Administrators here at UCB have several times expressed the desire > to include additional information with a user's profile. Minimally, they'd > like to be able to make a few notes about the user, to record some formal > metadata such as title, contact info, to record an "end date" or "review > date" for a user's account, and to be able to group users, perhaps using > some sort of tags. More ambitiously, they would like users themselves to > be able to flesh out their own profiles, as one can do in e.g. JIRA and > GitHub -- a photo, favorite quote, interests, etc etc. > > In the design docs and early JIRA issues for CSpace, there seems to be > some anticipation of this, and that this would somehow be handled by > relating user records to person records (at least, that's how I interpret > these documents). > > See, e.g. CSPACE-887 and CSPACE-1011 > > and > > > https://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/collectionspace/Wireframes+-+Administration+-+User > > Our question: is there a way to do any of this now? Is there a best > practice or document explaining how to do this? Perhaps we have missed > those details somehow... > > TYIA! > > John > > _______________________________________________ > Talk mailing list > Talk@lists.collectionspace.org > > http://lists.collectionspace.org/mailman/listinfo/talk_lists.collectionspace.org > > -- Michael Black, Ph.D. Head of Research and Information Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology University of California, Berkeley mtblack@berkeley.edu