DSpace DSpace User Support Manager

1. DSpace <DSpace User Support Manager>

2. 2 Agenda Introduction to DSpace DSpace community Institutional Repository Easy to add/find content in DSpace Building Online Communities DSpace Demo Q&A

3. 3 What is DSpace? Captures Digital research material in any formats Directly from creators (faculty) Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage Describes Descriptive, technical, rights metadata Persistent identifiers Distributes Via WWW, with necessary access control Preserves Bitstream guaranteed

4. 4 History In yr 2000 Hewlett Packard Labs and M.I.T collaborated to create an open source software solution for archiving digital content MIT had a need to manage their intellectual output coming from faculity and researchers that was now born digital. They partnered with Hewlett Packard Labs- a leader in computer systems- to develop a complete digital archiving solution. It was a unique collaboration between education and industry in that the software developed would be freely available with no proprietary rights management. Both institutions felt it important to make the software opensource in order to build a strong community of users with diverse sets of needs able to contribute and drive the development of the platform in the future.MIT had a need to manage their intellectual output coming from faculity and researchers that was now born digital. They partnered with Hewlett Packard Labs- a leader in computer systems- to develop a complete digital archiving solution. It was a unique collaboration between education and industry in that the software developed would be freely available with no proprietary rights management. Both institutions felt it important to make the software opensource in order to build a strong community of users with diverse sets of needs able to contribute and drive the development of the platform in the future.

5. 5 History of DSpace Yr 2000 project started Yr 2002 software released opensource on sourceforge Yr 2004 first user group meeting, 120 attendees, 7 countries Yr 2006 Governance advisory board formed Yr 2007 Foundation formed as separate non profit organization Yr 2000 project started Yr 2002 software released opensource on sourceforge Yr 2004 first user group meeting, 120 attendees, 7 countries Yr 2006 Governance advisory board formed Yr 2007 Foundation formed as separate non profit organization

6. 6 Community ~250 registered live sites World-wide adoption >1m digital assets and growing fast, largest sites several hundred thousand items Profile Primarily research and higher education institutions Cultural heritage organizations, state libraries/archives Some commercial users and service providers Goals Open Access/Content sharing Long-term archiving and preservation Branding and promotion through aggregation

7. 7 A select list of current installations

8. 8 Key Factors to DSpace�s adoption Open source, freely available Great support network of current users World Wide Easy to use as packaged Can handle a multitude of digital formats Initially developed by leading institutions Content all accessible through Google Scholar

9. 9 Institutional Repository Institution-based Scholarly material in digital formats Cumulative and perpetual Open source and interoperable Potentially new publishing models Provides faculty with long-term storage of research data and publications

10. 10 Why Libraries? Expertise Large-scale collection management Assessment/collection policies preservation Metadata Solid business practices Commitment Long time frames Fits with Libraries� mission

11. 11 Digital Preservation Philosophy Lots of digital material is already lost Most digital material is at risk Better to have it, do bit preservation than to lose it completely Need to capture as much information as possible to support functional preservation Cost/benefit tradeoffs

12. 12 DSpace Information Model Communities Research units of the organization Collections (in communities) Distinct groupings of like items Items (in collections) Logical content objects Receive persistent identifier Bitstreams (in items) Individual files Receive preservation treatment

13. 13 Possible DSpace Content Articles Preprints, e-prints Technical Reports Working Papers Conference Papers E-theses Audio/Video Datasets Statistical, geospatial Images Visual, scientific Teaching material Lecture notes, visualizations, simulations Digitized library collections

14. 14 Communities Departments, Labs, Research Centers, Programs, Schools, etc. Localized policy decisions Who can contribute, access material Submission workflow Submitters, approvers, reviewers, editors Collections definition, management Communities supply metadata Or contract with library

15. 15 Easy to Use Easy to add content Easy to browse and search content Permanent identifier for your content

16. 16 Submitting Content

17. 17 Searching/Browsing Content

18. 18 Search All metadata and text is indexed and fully searchable Can customize which fields you want to enable browsing Can choose what fields and text you want to index for search

19. 19 Content indexed in Google Scholar

20. 20 Rights management Can assign creative commons license to your work to allow others to share, remix or reuse if you wish Creativecommons.org

21. 21 Rights management

22. 22 Metadata Currently uses standard Dublin core descriptive metadata Possible to extend fields as you wish Possible to import MARC and MODs but lose hierarchal structure Supports any named space flat non-hierarchal metadata schema

23. 23 Other areas you can customize Submission process- you can configure the submission steps to suit your organization Browse and search terms- can set what fields and files you choose to index and display in the browse interface Database- can choose Postgres or Oracle OAI-PMH-can expose your catalog for harvesting and access Extend DSpace to work with other web services- using Light Network Interface you can pull or push content to/from DSpace User interface- you can create your own user interface

24. 24 Next Steps: Build a Community Work with DSpace team on campus to create a Community Add content Use metadata (keywords, descriptions) to aid search and retrieval Update community�s content with new research

25. 25 For More Information Go to www.DSpace.org FAQs Articles on DSpace Case studies Information on scholarly communication, digital preservation, etc.

26. 26 Q&A

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