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dspace.org stats: 21,546 visits, 145 countries / territories, 67% new visitors - for December 2009
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 Volume 3, Issue 18
January 2010
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| Popular DSpace Links |
| Who's Using DSpace
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| New & Upcoming Sites |
There have been 53 new DSpace instances added since December 2009. An updated list will be available this spring. For more information, see the Future Improvements to the "Who's Using DSpace" List section.
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To view previous editions of NewSpace, click here
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DuraSpace Organization News
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 2010 is off to a rolling start! Planning is in full swing for the Fifth International Conference on Open Repositories 2010 "The Grand Integration Challenge" which will be held in Madrid, Spain on July 6-9, 2010. This is the only conference focused on entirely on repositories and a great opportunity to get up to speed on all the new developments on the major platforms. Following the main conference there will be a one and a half day DSpace User Group Meeting which will have a number of informative and innovative presentations from the community. The call for proposals for both the main conference or the DSpace User Group Meeting is open until March 1. Check out the event calendar below for other upcoming conferences of interest.
In other news, DuraSpace has an opening for a Java programmer on the DuraCloud project team. For a full job description click here.
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DuraCloud Beta Tester Program
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DuraCloud is a hosted service and open technology currently being developed by DuraSpace that will make it easy for organizations and end users to use cloud services. DuraCloud is focused on providing preservation support services and access services for academic libraries, academic research centers, and other cultural heritage organizations. Later this spring, the DuraSpace team will pick a number of beta testers from the community to exercise the DuraCloud technology. We are seeking volunteer organizations to participate in beta testing and are particularly interested in recruiting testers currently running either DSpace or Fedora repositories who are willing to experiment using DuraCloud for preservation support. The beta test pilot program will run for three months starting this spring. If you are interested in being considered r, please complete the form by February 28. If you would like to learn more about DuraCloud and the pilot program, you can view a recording of the recent webinar "Repositories in the Cloud: How to Participate in the DuraCloud Pilot Program", which was a part of the "All About Repositories" series featuring technology solutions from the industry leaders DuraSpace, SPARC, and Sun Microsystems. If you have any questions about pilot program, please contact Michele Kimpton at
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Future Improvements to "Who's Using DSpace" List
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The "Who's Using DSpace" list on dspace.org is undergoing some major renovations and a new, searchable version will be launched this spring. The new list will provide expanded information for registered DSpace users including fields like, DSpace version, institution type, content type, metadata type, addons/customizations and much more. The new list combines the existing "Who's Using DSpace" list with data gathered from the DSpace Community Networking Survey, April 2009. All information will be searchable with filters.
Please note that any updates or new registrations since December 2009 have NOT been included in the current version of the "Who's Using DSpace" list on dspace.org, but they will be included in a new version this spring. If you registered or updated your information after December 2009, look for your instance in the upcoming renovated listing.
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DSpace General Mailing List Move
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On January 27 we will be moving the 'dspace-general' mailing list from its current location at MIT to a new location at SourceForge. We'd like to thank MIT for kindly hosting this mailing list for us over the years!
Why are we doing this?
The primary reason for this migration is to make sure the 'dspace-general' mailing list uses the same infrastructure as our other mailing lists. Moving 'dspace-general' allows us to manage it similar to the other lists, and makes us less reliant on MIT staff for general maintenance tasks. It also allows us to use similar spam filters across all of our lists, to hopefully minimize the spam in your inbox.
How will this affect you as a subscriber to the list?
During this migration, we will automatically add all subscribers of the old listserv as subscribers to the new listserv. You will not need to re-subscribe.
If you have set your subscription to receive daily digests, these digest settings will also be added for you automatically on the new list. If you've customized any other subscription settings, you may need to re-customize them for the new list (only your digest settings will be automatically migrated).
What will be the new list address?
The new list address as of Wednesday, January 27 will be:
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Any emails sent to the old list address (
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Will all the email archives also be migrated to SourceForge?
Yes. The entire email archives (which go back to 2003) will be migrated over to SourceForge, where they can be accessed alongside the archives of all our other mailing lists.
If I wasn't signed up for the old list, how can I join the new list?
You can sign up for the new mailing list here: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general.
If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to contact Tim Donohue at
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or Valorie Hollister
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DSpace Wiki Migration
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After many community discussions and some limited testing, the DuraSpace organization plans to migrate the DSpace wiki, currently based on MediaWiki to a Confluence wiki. The migration would provide more functionality to the DSpace community, including:
- Ability to edit using a basic Word-like interface (WYSIWYG interface)
- Ability to export pages to Word/PDF
- Capable of supporting the DSpace manual natively to ease editing and contributing
- Support for simple diagrams
- Better integration into existing DuraSpace.org infrastructure
- In addition, moving the DSpace wiki to Confluence would also mean that both the DSpace and the Fedora communities would use the same wiki platform, allowing for more easily shared information infrastructure.
We are currently have a small team of volunteers from the community to help perform additional migration testing as well as help to clean up and reorganize the content once it is migrated. The project is likely to begin in the next few weeks (exact date forthcoming) and last a month. If you are interested in helping with the wiki migration project, please contact Tim Donohue at
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or Valorie Hollister
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. Your help will ensure the DSpace Wiki receives a much needed facelift!
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1.6 Update
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The much anticipated DSpace version 1.6 is nearing completion. The committers and developers are almost finished fixing the remaining bugs found during the December testathon and ensuring that the documentation is up to date and includes guidance for the new features. Within the next couple of weeks we plan to produce a final release candidate for the last round of testing. Once testing is complete we will be in a position to release the final version of 1.6 -- hopefully sometime in February. Stay tuned to the mailing lists for more information on the final testing as well as the official 1.6 release date!
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2.0 Update
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The DSpace 2.0 funded project has closed and the resulting service framework and services code are being considered for inclusion in forthcoming DSpace releases. Because of the significant architectural changes proposed by the DSpace 2.0 project, the DSpace developers feel it is best to bring this technology into future releases incrementally. In fact, the 1.5.x releases included the Spring Framework and Apache Cocoon upgrades (XMLUI only) from this 2.0 work. The upcoming DSpace 1.6 release will also include the 2.0 service framework."
The data model and code partitioning work in 2.0 was targeted at increasing integration opportunities, and exploration in these areas continues. We are currently investigating the export/import of DSpace Communities/Collections/Items in standard formats. In addition, there is ongoing investigation on using DSpace in concert with separate underlying systems, including DuraCloud.
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DSpace Ambassadors
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The DSpace Ambassador Program announced late last fall has been gaining momentum. We now have 28 Ambassadors in 21 different countries! The volunteers are enthusiastic about helping new and potential DSpace users as well as building user network in their region/country. To learn more about the program or to see the list of current Ambassadors, visit the wiki. If you would like to volunteer to be an Ambassador, please contact Valorie Hollister at
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Using SWORD and SWAP to Implement the MIT Open Access Mandate
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 In March of 2009 the faculty at MIT voted on a policy that would make their scholarly articles openly available on the Web. It states, "The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible." The DSpace repository at MIT (http://dspace.mit.edu/) is being used to house those articles and to make them openly available to the world. In order to ensure that efficient workflows were in place to receive the articles, the MIT Libraries undertook to customize their ingest workflows, leveraging functionality recently made available to the DSpace community, as well as, looking at efforts by others in the broader repository community. To read the full article, click here.
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| Conferences and Events |
January 28-29: Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context in London, United Kingdom
February 22-25: Code4Lib in Asheville, North Carolina
Februrary 23: Repositories in the Cloud in London, United Kingdom
February 23-26: International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) in New Delhi, India
February 24-27: Dev8D in London, United Kingdom
March 8-10: JASIG 10th Anniversary Conference in San Diego, California
April 9-10: ASIS&T Summit - Research Data Access and Preservation in Phoenix, AZ
April 12-13: Coalition for Networked Information Conference 2009 Spring Task Force Meeting in Baltimore, MD
June 21-25, 2010: Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, California
July 1-2: The JISC/CNI Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland
July 6-9, 2010: Fifth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2010) in Madrid, Spain
November 9-10: SPARC Meeting
December 6-8: 6th International Digital Curation Conference in Chicago, IL
December 13-14: Coalition for Networked Information Conference 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting in Washington, DC
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| Upcoming Training |
January 27: "All About Repositories: The IA Web Archive and Sun's Modular Data Repository - A Grand Experiment in Production" at 1pm EST
February 10, 2010: "Selecting a Platform", an ALCTS Webinar by Bob Gerrity
February 17: "All About Repositories: New Releases from DuraSpace - Fedora 3.3 and DSpace 1.6" at 1pm EST
February 24: "All About Repositories: The Challenge of Data Conservation" at 1pm EST
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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