What is a DSpace Community?
A DSpace Community is an administrative unit at MIT that produces research, has a defined leader, has long-term stability, and can assume responsibility for setting Community policies. Each community must be able to assign a coordinator who can work with DSpace staff. See http://web.mit.edu/research/index.html for a list of research entities at MIT. Groups wishing to establish a DSpace Community that do not fall into this definition will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Each Community can contain one or more collections. Communities can also contain sub-communities, which in turn house collections. See this illustration showing how communities and collections are organized in DSpace.
