DSpace

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

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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

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HistoryIn yr 2000 Hewlett Packard Labs and M.I.T collaborated to create an open source software

solution for archiving digital content

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History of DSpace Jul 2005

2nd user group meeting140 attendees, 22 countries

Nov 2002 - Mar 2004HP/MIT development;community support;Federation project

Nov 2002DSpace 1.0 Released

Mar 2004First user group meeting

120 attendees, 7 countries

Apr 2004Committer group formed

Mar 2006Governance advisory

board meeting

Mar 2004 - Mar 2006

Feb 06DSpace UG

meeting, Sydney

Nov 2000 - Nov 2002HP-MIT development of

DSpace 1.0Mar 2006 – Mar 2007

Apr 2004Regional usergroups formed

Open Source communityresearch/development

Mar 2004 – Mar 2006

OR2007Jan 2007

1/22/2007 - 1/29/2007Mar 2006 – Mar 2007DSpace Consortium

Formation of Foundation summer 2007 to support the community and develop the platform

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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

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A select list of current installations MIT University of Cambridge, England University of Michigan University of Texas Glasgow University, Scotland Beihang University, China University of Minnesota University of Delaware New York University University of Toronto University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign Cornell University University of Tokyo, Japan Australia National University

Over 250 organizations worldwide

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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

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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

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Why Libraries? Expertise

Large-scale collection management Assessment/collection policies preservation

Metadata Solid business practices

Commitment Long time frames Fits with Libraries’ mission

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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Submitting Content

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Searching/Browsing Content

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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

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Content indexed in Google Scholar

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Rights management Can assign creative commons license to your

work to allow others to share, remix or reuse if you wish

Creativecommons.org

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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

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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

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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

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For More InformationGo to www.DSpace.org FAQs Articles on DSpace Case studies Information on scholarly

communication, digital preservation, etc.

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