DSpace update

David MillmanColumbia

from notes by MacKenzie Smith

MIT

Millman/Smith--September 2005--2

Software Status

• Current release is version 1.3 (August 05)

• Version 1.4 due next winter

• Fully internationalized

• Support for San Diego Supercomputer Center’s SRB grid-based storage layer

• Developing Lightweight Network Interface layer (Web Services: SOAP and WebDAV)

Millman/Smith--September 2005--3

Community Profile

• Voluntary registration at http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceInstances

• 103 live sites• ~250,000 unique items

smallest are <10; largest is >100,000

• 38 US; 65 non-US (US probably underrepresented based on CNI survey)

• Mainly research universities, other research-generating organizations

Millman/Smith--September 2005--4

Community Profile

Service Providers emerging– BioMed Central’s Open Repository

http://www.openrepository.com/– AePIC service from CILEA (Italy)

http://www.aepic.it/– HP India and HP China– Private consultant in US

Millman/Smith--September 2005--5

Community Governance

• Committer Group for code– Apache Foundation model– 7 committers from 7 institutions– Self-managed and independent– Developing product road map and release schedule

• Significant contributions from adoptershttp://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceContributors– Patches and new modules– Testing and debugging new releases– Help with documentation and support

Millman/Smith--September 2005--6

Community Governance

• DSpace Federation– Governs Intellectual Property and

relationships to other legal entities– High-level steering committee to be formed

this fall to recommend direction:• New non-profit corporation (501c3 or 501c6) OR• Leave legal responsibility with MIT & HP (current

copyright holders) OR• Transfer IP to another entity (e.g. Apache

Foundation, JASIG, other non-profit OSS organization)

Millman/Smith--September 2005--7

Summary

• Code continues to stabilize and improve

• Focus on building a large, diverse community around the system for continued improvement, sustainability

• Open Source Software development model

• Emerging Governance structure