[LON-CAPA-admin] Co-author role but without the right to publish?

[Ray Batchelor]

Hi,
 My past experience suggests that anyone seriously developing
resources will need to be able to publish them and test them in some
course.  I would suggest that assistant co-authors need
author-configurable privileges.... but, then, I just like to create
headaches for software developers.

Possibly, any work done by an assistant co-author SHOULD be thoroughly
vetted anyway, and thus publication  and in-course testing should be
the responsibility of the Author or full co-authors.

Cheers,
Ray

On 7/2/07, Peter Riegler <p.riegler at fh-wolfenbuettel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my experience is that students are quite good at implementing problems.
> However, it is often difficult to them to provide suitable metadata.
>
> Moreover, in the full implementing-publishing process I envisage I want
> the RESPONSIBLE author (i.e. not co-author) to "sign" that the job is
> done. So a co-author (without publishing rights) would implement the
> problem, the responsible author will do a quality check (has the ability
> to do a quality check, depending on his time budget ...) and release the
> problem into public.
>
> Based on Gerd's earlier remark ("What  do others think?") I am posting
> this to lon-capa-users as well.
>
> Peter
>
> Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Stefan Bisitz wrote:
> >
> >> Felicia Berryman wrote:
> >>
> >>> You can create an assistant author instead of co-author.  Assistant
> >>> author cannot publish and can't browse resources.  This role was
> >>> created so a professor can have an undergraduate employee code
> >>> questions.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks, Felicia. I tried "Assistant Co-Author". Do you mean this  role? I
> >> can confirm that users with this role can't browse resources, but
> >> publishing is possible! Just a "little" bug?
> >
> >
> > A good point was just raised "out-of-band": some faculty might want
> > students to do the cataloging and proper metadata tagging for them,  so
> > publishing should be an available privilege.
> >
> > Why do you want them to be unable to publish, i.e., what is the  concern
> > there?
> >
> > - Gerd.
> >
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Raymond J. Batchelor
Dept of Chemistry
Simon Fraser University