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dspace.org stats: 23,275 visits, 152 countries / territories, 64% new visitors - for September 2009
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 Volume 2, Issue 16
October 2009
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| Popular DSpace Links |
| Who's Using DSpace
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To view previous editions of NewSpace, click here
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DuraSpace Supports Open Access Week
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In celebration of online development and the dissemination of diverse, often hidden digital assets, DuraSpace has partnered with SPARC and to promote the SPARC Global Open Access Week through the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest. The contest solicited examples of repositories that have made significant resources have more available and helped shape the global knowledge landscape. We are pleased to announce the selection of three winners:
- "Cold, Dark, and Lonely: An Archive Moves Online" from Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan
- "Social Policy Research: How Access Shaped Practice" from IssueLab
- "Building a community digital library using DSpace" from Wake Forest University
The finalists will be featured on a Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC "All About Repositories" Web Seminar on Oct. 14, 2009.
For more details on the contest and the winners, click here.
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DSpace Community Reaches 700 Instances
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The are over 700 known instances of DSpace installed in over 70 different countries worldwide. DSpace continues to be the most popular repository solution, with well over a third of the known institutional repositories using the DSpace software. Each month there are between 20-30 new instances of DSpace. Check out "Who's Using DSpace" to see the complete list. If your repository isn't included, please register with us as we'd love to include your organization in our growing community!
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DSpace Ambassador Program Launched
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DuraSpace and the DSpace Global Outreach Committee are pleased to announce the official launch of the DSpace Ambassador Program.
The Ambassador Program seeks to develop a global network of volunteers who can help new and potential users get started with DSpace and/or help solicit the necessary help for users with questions. While the Ambassador is not intended to be a technical expert on DSpace, they should be able to answer basic questions about DSpace and help point people in the right direction for more technical questions. Ideally the Ambassador will also help to identify resources, such as new references or service providers in their country or region. Some Ambassadors may also be involved in planning regional DSpace user group meetings or trainings. Ambassadors are encouraged to leverage their efforts along with other networks, associations and groups that may already exist in their country. Already the program has 18 volunteers to serve as Ambassadors from around the world. Check out the list of countries/regions here.
The success of any open-source project lies with the community voluntarily contributing its collective knowledge, energy, enthusiasm and effort. If you are interested in volunteering to serve as a DSpace Ambassador for your country or region, please contact Valorie Hollister at
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1.6 Update
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DSpace 1.6 is now in the final stages of development and a beta version will be released at the DSpace User Group meeting in October. If you're at the DSUG meeting you'll have the chance to participate in a tutorial that will cover the main new features of DSpace 1.6, and to listen to a presentation about the new release. There are many new features based on the community survey that was undertaken in April this year, including an improved statistics collection system, an embargo feature, batch metadata editing, batch update of bitstreams, delegated community administration, OAI-PMH harvesting support, more configuration options for the OAI-PMH interface, and dozens of small patches and bug fixes.
At the same time as the beta version is released, we'll release a 'LiveCD' of DSpace 1.6 that you will be able to run on your own computer. This will allow you to test the new release without having to install any software. We'll be encouraging the whole community to take part in the testing. We'll gather all the feedback, make any changes required, and release DSpace 1.6.
If you have any questions about the release or beta testing, please get in contact with the Stuart Lewis, the release coordinator at
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2.0 Update
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DSpace Services for 1.6/2.0
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The release of "DSpace Services" represents the first offering of the DSpace 2.0 technology developed with funding from JISC, and staffing support from the DSpace Foundation, CARET, MIT, @mire, Open Repository, and HP.
DSpace Services will be included in DSpace 1.6 and enabled in the JSPUI, XMLUI and CLI applications. This is not just a technology preview for DSpace 2.0 services, but a fully functional Service Locator framework which can be used as a tool in the customization of your current DSpace instance. Based on this framework, @mire has contributed portions of its Statistics and Reporting framework as the basis for a Usage Reporting Service that will be made available in DSpace 1.6 JSPUI and XMLUI. Mark Diggory will present on using the DSpace Services framework, including the Usage Reporting services at DSUG 2009.
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Documentation Update
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| There will be substantial upgrades to the DSpace documentation for version 1.6.
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of Youngstown State University has merged known errata, reorganized, and reformatted the manual. Volunteers are needed to review it for clarity and accuracy. For the most current version of the documentation click here. If you find corrections that need to be made please use the DSpace JIRA and submit an issue against the "Documentation" component.top |
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Google Summer of Code
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 This was another successful year of activities for the DSpace community in the Google Summer of Code. This year our project administrator was Mark Diggory and active mentors were Richard Rodgers, Aaron Zeckoski, ARD Prasad, Claudia Jürgen, Stuart Lewis, and Jayan Kurian. At the end of the summer we saw four projects followed through to completion. DSpace Collection Administration Enhancements by Gaurav Kejriwal, a Fedora DAO implementation for DSpace, by Andrius Blazinskas a Report Generation Tool for DSpace by Ashly Markose and finally a DSpace REST webapp by Bojan Suzic. ARD Prasad, mentor for Gaurav Kejriwal, will attend the Google Mentors Summit this October on Google's Campus in San Jose California.
We thank the all the individuals mentioned above as well as all those from the development community who helped advise the students. Congratulations to this year's students! top
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Fall DSpace User Group Meeting Preveiw
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 The DSpace community is looking forward to the DSpace User Group Meeting in Gothenburg, Swedennext week on October 14-16. There are 90 participants registered from 20 different countries who plan to attend. In addition to the European community, there will be DSpace users from United States, Brazil, New Zealand and Singapore. Online registration is closed, but you may contact the organizers at
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about onsite registration.
Program Highlights:
- Tutorial sessions on Manakin, DSpace 1.6 and search engine optimization
- Opening talk by invited speaker Robert Tansley, Google
- Presentations by the DuraSpace Organization
- Presentations on BibApp, SWORD integration and managing/enhancing metadata
- Use cases on enhanced content for repositories (video digital library, research data)
- Networked/federated repositories (OceanDocs, COAR)
- Update on DuraCloud
Posters:
Proposals for the poster session can still be submitted. Send an email including title, author and affiliation to
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| Conferences and Events |
October 14-16: DSpace User Group Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden
October 19-23: SPARC Open Access Week
October 20: DRIVER Confederation Summit in Ghent, Belgium
October 25-29: International Semantic Web Conference in Washington D.C.
November 3-6: EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado
November 11-13: DLF Fall Forum 2009 in Long Beach, California
November 20-22: International Association for Development of the Information Society International Confernce (IADIS) in Rome, Italy
Dec 2-4: 5th International Digital Curation Conference 2009 (DCC 2009) in London, United Kingdom
December 3-4: Digital Repository Federation International Conference 2009 (DRFIC) in Tokoyo Japan
December 9-10: Digital Strategies for Heritage Conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands
December 14-15: Coalition for Networked Information Conference 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting in Washington, DC
January 28-29, 2010: Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context in London, United Kingdom
February 23-26, 2010: International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) in New Delhi, India
March 8-10, 2010: JASIG 10th Anniversary Conference in San Diego, California
June 21-25, 2010: Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, California
July 8-10, 2010: Open Repositories 2010 in Madrid Spain
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