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dspace.org stats: 30,151 visits, 155 countries / territories, 68% new visitors - for October 2009
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 Volume 2, Issue 17
November 2009
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| Popular DSpace Links |
| Who's Using DSpace
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| New & Upcoming Sites |
Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Argentina
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Org - Australia
University of Liège - Belgium
Universidade de São Paulo, Brasiliana Digital- Brazil
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics - Bulgaria
University of Ottawa - Canada
Copenhagen Business School - Denmark
Universidad Técnica de Manabí - Ecuador
International Livesock Research Institute - Ethiopia
Universities of Applied Sciences - Finland
Deutschen Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Econstor - Germany
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Germany
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Hong Kong
BMS Informatikai Kft, Digital Repository - Hungary
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, National Library - Hungary
University of Debrecen, DEA - Hungary
Rajya Sabha-Parliament of India, Official Debate - India
National University of Ireland, ARAN - Ireland
Akita University - Japan
International Livestock Research - Kenya
Open Universiteit Nederland - Netherlands
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência - Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior - Portugal
Universidade de Évora
- Portugal
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - Portugal
Qatar University - Qatar
Erdelyi Múzeum-Egyesület - Romania
University of Brasov - Romania
Durban University of Technology -
South Africa
Materials Docents En Xarxa, CBUC & CESCA - Spain
Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife - Spain
Universidad de Granada - Spain
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Spain
Swansea Metropolitan University - United Kingdom
Trinity University College Carmarthen - United Kingdom
University of Cambridge, Electronic Theses - United Kingdom
Bowling Green State University Libraries - United States
Indiana State University - United States
Rhodes College, DLynx - United States
University of Cincinnati Libraries - United States
University of Hawaii at Manoa, eVols - United States
University of North Carolina Charlotte, E-Scholar Project - United States
Wake Forest University, ForsythDigital - United States
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (not public) - Uruguay
National University of Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam
University of Dalat (not public) - Vietnam
VBETA Buddhist - Vietnam
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DuraSpace: The DSpace Team
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DuraSpace is pleased to announce Tim Donohue officially joined the DuraSpace organization as Technical Lead for the DSpace Project this month. Tim's focus is to provide guidance and leadership to the DSpace Committers and code contributors as they plan, develop, test and release future versions of DSpace. As a part of the DuraSpace team, he will also provide technical guidance and help lead strategic DuraSpace initiatives within the DSpace user community. Tim will also work with the Fedora developers to find collaborative opportunities between the repository platforms. For more about Tim's biography and background click here.
Partnered with Tim on the DSpace Team is Valorie Hollister, the Director of Community Development and newly appointed Director of the DSpace Project. Valorie will continue her work with the community, providing guidance and leadership to the broader DSpace community in order to promote and facilitate collaboration of all types. Valorie's role now also includes DSpace project lead. As the primary point of contact on the DSpace project, she will coordinate closely with Tim to advance the needs of DSpace users.
Together, Valorie, Tim and the rest of the DuraSpace organization aim to be the catalyst for the continued success of open source software, including the DSpace application, by providing a framework for the long term durability of digital information.
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Enabling Collaboration Through Solution Communities
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DuraSpace Reaches Out to Decision-Makers Through Open Source Development Process with Launch of Solution Communities
At the heart of any open source project are the people who come together to create innovative software. Last week, DuraSpace, the non-profit organization that combines Fedora Commons and DSpace technologies, announced a launch of the Solution Community program to extend participation in open source software development to strategic decision makers.
With over 1000 repository implementations worldwide, DuraSpace Solution Communities seek to increase resources, connections, skills and ideas by engaging people at all organizational levels in order to improve open technologies and strengthen the communities that use them. By providing leadership, tools and coordination DuraSpace Solution Communities bring tech savvy decision-makers together around critical community issues to establish the conditions in which collaboration can flourish to provide durable access to our digital heritage.
Solution Communities provide an opportunity to get involved in grassroots efforts to meet the challenges of rapidly changing information environments faced by knowledge organizations everywhere. The groups have been designed from a bottom-up organizational approach based on the theory that higher levels of order will emerge from complex systems under the right conditions. Solution Communities in Data Curation, Preservation and Archiving, Scholars Workbench, and Small Archives have begun investigations into how to leverage collective interests and priorities. To support Solution Community efforts, DuraSpace has developed a suite of tools and offers free access to anyone with an interest in participating. Individuals will find several ways to engage with Solution Communities including wikis that contain a growing knowledge base, and mailing lists for specific communication around Solution Community topics. In addition, the new DuraSpace social network pilot in Crowdvine features informal groupings for each Solution Community so individuals can connect around their particular interest.
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1.6 Testathon - The Big Bug Hunt
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DSpace 1.6 is in the final weeks of development. There are a just a few items to wrap up before we enter the community testing and bug hunt phase starting on Monday, December 7. This is when we will need YOUR help! Several members of the DSpace community will host public instances of 1.6 for you to sign onto and put 1.6 through it's paces. If you would prefer, you are welcome to download the beta of 1.6 to install, or to test an upgrade of your version 1.5.x test or development system.
If you've never considered participating in a testathon before, please jump in now on the "Big Bug Hunt", get a preview of all the great new 1.6 features (batch metadata editing, embargo, improved statistics and much more) and do your part to help us to root out as many problems as possible before the official release. We need everyone to join in and push 1.6 to its limits, as there are so many new features that require user exploration and lots of old features that have been improved which will also require testing.
The DSpace 1.6 documentation has also been through a major revision. We ask everyone to join in the documentation review to make sure that it not only supports the new features in 1.6, but also improves the guidance on DSpace overall.
There will be more details to come about the testathon - and we'll make sure it is really easy to get admin access to a DSpace 1.6 instance and to report bugs or issues. Please do join the rest of the community in the "Big Bug Hunt" starting on December 7 and help to make this the best release ever!
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Open Access Week Update
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Last month, DuraSpace joined 200 organizations worldwide in celebrating Open Access Week. The concept of Open Access is based on the simple idea that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication. As a part of the Open Access Week celebration DuraSpace released a package of tools and resources to help information managers everywhere learn more about how to make their information available, accessible and durable that includes:
To read more about Open Access Week activities, click here.
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Fall DSUG Meeting Recap and Survey
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Thank you to Jonas Gilbert, the DSUG Fall 2009 Program Committee Chairperson, the rest of the Program Committee, the local organizing team, the University of Gothenburg, the City of Gothenburg, the sponsors and the presenters for an informative and enjoyable event!
Over 90 participants from 20 different countries attend the fall DSUG 2009 meeting. In addition to the European community, there was DSpace users from the United States, Brazil, New Zealand and Singapore. Copies of the presentations and video recordings are now available for most of the sessions.
Here are some of the highlights:
For copies of all the presentations and video recordings, click here.
If you attended the conference, your feedback is important! Please complete the brief survey so we may continue to improve our meetings.
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New DSpace.org Resources - Issue Tracker Tutorial and DSpace Use Cases
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There are a couple new resources for the DSpace community now available on dspace.org. First is a use case example grid, which provides new or potential DSpace users with an idea of how DSpace is used by other organizations. It describes the eight of the most common use cases and several specific examples of each. Click here to see the grid.
There is also a new short tutorial video that shows DSpace users how to use JIRA, the issue/feature tracking tool used by the DSpace community. The video, produced by @mire, a DSpace service provider, takes users through searching/querying the JIRA issue list, how to add a new issue/bug to the list as well as how to get notifications about activity on a specific issue. Click here to watch the video.
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Georgia Tech's Federated Repository Project
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) recently awarded a grant to Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center to build a statewide institutional repository using the DSpace platform called the GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR). The GKR grant project is a partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Georgia State University, the Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Valdosta State University, Albany State University, North Georgia College and State University, and the College of Coastal Georgia.
Tyler Walters from Georgia Tech's Library and Toby Graham from the University of Georgia Libraries are the co-principal investigators on the grant. According to Walters there are three layers to the project. First, the project will create individual repositories for each partner institution that does not currently have one. Secondly, the records from each repository will be harvested and migrated to a single site so "a user can then go to one single site and search all member repositories at one time," says Walters. The intent is that the content on the federated site will showcase the collaboration within the USG system. Walter says "we're hoping that if users are looking for research, they will see the similarities and partnerships throughout the campuses," and that "this will help make research increasingly available to the public." The last layer of the project will offer repository services, scanning/converting materials to digital formats, checking on publishing rights and assisting in content submission. In addition there is also an opportunity to store research materials in the MetaArchive Cooperative, a collaborative effort between Emory University, Georgia Tech and 13 other research institutions. The Cooperative is a member-driven organization that has been funded by the Library of Congress and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
In addition to building a federated repository, the GKR partners also plan to host a national symposium on statewide and consortial repositories, create instructional materials, conduct consortial IR training, and offer consulting services. "By the project's end, the GKR will become a comprehensive statewide repository program and has as one of its major goals to increase the number of consortially managed digital repositories in the U.S. through training and instruction." For more information, see the press release here.
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| Conferences and Events |
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 (DISH) in Rotterdam, Netherlands
December 10: New England PASIG Seminar and Networking in Boston, MA
December 14-15: Coalition for Networked Information Conference 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting in Washington, DC
January 8, 2010: DigCCurr Public Symposium: Engaging Communities for the Curation of Digital Products of Scholarly Endeavors in Chapel Hill, NC
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 6-9, 2010: Fifth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2010) in Madrid, Spain
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| Upcoming Training |
December 16: "All About Repositories Webinar: Repositories in the Cloud - How to Participate in the DuraCloud Pilot Program" at 1pm EST
December 16: "The Potential of Partnerships: Dissolving Silos for a Successful IR Implementation", an ALCTS Webinar at 2pm EST by presenter Marilyn Billings of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
January 13, 2010: "All About Repositories Webinar: Enabling (Open) Scholarship" at 1pm EST
February 10, 2010: "Selecting a Platform", an ALCTS Webinar by Bob Gerrity
March 24, 2010: "Metadata", an ALCTS Webinar by Marisa Ramirez and Nancy Fallgren
April 28, 2010: "Consortial Implementation", an ALCTS Webinar by Sharon Farb, Bonnie Tijerina, and Catherine Mitchell
May 19, 2010: "What We Thought Then and What We Know Now", an ALCTS Webinar by Leah Vanderjagt and Allison Sivak
June 13-18, 2010: Digital Preservation Management Five-Day Workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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