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dspace.org stats: 19,591 visits, 144 countries / territories, 68% new visitors - for January 2009
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 Volume 2, Issue 11
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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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| DSpace / Fedora Collaboration Update |
Join Michele Kimpton, Executive Director, DSpace Foundation, and Sandy Payette, Executive Director Fedora Commons for the 60-minute webinar "All About Repositories: DSpace and Fedora: A Collaboration Update" on Wednesday, February 18 at 9am PST/12pm EST. The webinar will focus on the multiple dimensions of the dynamic collaboration between two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content. Both DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons came together in 2008 to work on joint initiatives that would better serve both open source repository communities. Several directions have emerged, including working together to improve interoperability of the software, forming joint collaborations with other organizations that offer value to both communities, and developing joint programs for advocacy, education and outreach. In addition, Fedora Commons and the DSpace Foundation are collaborating to investigate the prospect of jointly developing new technologies and to that end the organizations received a grant from the Mellon Foundation to design "DuraSpace", a service that will allow users to replicate and access their digital content in the cloud. Pre-registration is required for the webinar at http://www.education-webevents.com/.
For more information about the collaboration, please visit the DSpace/Fedora Collaboration wiki and the joint project wiki. top |
| DSpace User Group at OR2009 - Call for Papers |
Members of the DSpace community are invited to submit presentation proposals for the next DSpace User Group Meeting, to be held Atlanta, Georgia on May 20-2, 2009. The meeting is in conjunction with the Open Repositories 2009 Conference. We invite repository managers, developers and researchers to submit presentations proposals describing their experiences implementing, using, customizing and developing DSpace. The DSpace program committee is soliciting proposals of both a practical (tutorials, case studies, best practices) and theoretical nature. The deadline for submissions is Friday, March 6, 2009. Themes include, but are not limited to: incorporating video and audio in your repository, value added services for your DSpace repository, utilization of statistics for your repository, lessons learned upgrading to 1.5, managing ETD workflows, increasing searching, promotion and visibility through data mining or other means, Interoperability among repositories and with other systems or the internet, object reuse and exchange (OAI-ORE), supporting eresearch, data and local communities, workflow integration, digital preservation environments, policies and issues, new use cases for DSpace outside of a traditional IR, developing/customizing the interface for your repository (using Manakin etc.)
Submissions should be made via the the Open Repositories author submission site powered by Open Conference Systems. For further information, please contact
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| Ensuring Your Instance Is Indexed |
By Robert Tansley, Google Engineer and Architect of DSpace 1.0
Anyone who has analyzed traffic to their DSpace site (e.g. using Google Analytics) will notice that a significant (and in many cases a majority) of visitors arrive via a search engine such as Google or Yahoo. Hence, to help maximize the impact of content and thus encourage further deposits, it's important to ensure that your DSpace instance is indexed effectively. Here is how.
-DSpace 1.5 and 1.5.1 ship with a bad robots.txt. Remove the
line that reads Disallow: /browse. If you do not, your site will not be correctly indexed.
-Upgrade to the latest possible DSpace.
-Ensure that your DSpace is visible to search engines.
-Use the simple HTML sitemap feature -- this does not require e.g. registering with Google Webmaster tools.
-Ensure your robots.txt allows access to item "splash" pages and full text.
-Ensure item metadata appears in HTML headers correctly.
-Don't worry about OAI-PMH; it is not particularly useful for indexing. Really.
For more detail, please visit the DSpace wiki on Ensuring Your Instance is Indexed. top
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| 1.5.2 Update |
The DSpace committers and contributors are working towards a code freeze for 1.5.2 at the end of February. They are currently reviewing the patch queue in both SourceForge and Jira to determine which items can be included in 1.5.2. The Foundation will be copying patches and feature requests for DSpace 1.5.x from SourceForge patches to the live Jira patch queue list. If you have any patches that you would like to see included in 1.5.2, but that are not yet in either of the patch queues, please be sure to get them into Jira as soon as possible. The community is also encouraged to vote on any patches or feature request. Jira provides a way not only to vote on items, but allows you to request updates on specific items. top
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| 2.0 Update |
The 2.0 development continues and work to port the XMLUI and JSP user interfaces to the 2.0 core is nearly complete. As a result, customizations via modifications to user interfaces will continue to be possible in 2.0.
The initial 2.0 beta release is still scheduled for late spring and although a 2.0 end user version will likely not be available for some time, the committers and contributors will be working with a number of institutions during the beta phase.
The DSpace 2.0 work can be followed on the wiki and on the DSpace Jira , where you can submit issues and vote on their priority. top |
| DSpace Global Outreach Committee Update |
The DSpace Global Outreach Committee has finalized their projects for 2009:
1) Help organize the DSUG Meetings at OR2009 in May 2009 and DSUG stand alone mtg in Sweden in October 2009.
2) Create a social network for the DSpace user community searchable by area of interest or expertise.
3) Survey the DSpace user community and make all information available to the community through a dynamic database which can be queried and updated easily by users going forward.
4) Create a list of projects/integrations/addons available for the DSpace platform.
5) Recruit and organize a list of regional contacts for potential / new users who want to talk to someone local.
You do not need to be a part of the DGOC to help with any of the above projects. For example, maybe you are aware of some DSpace addons that are used at your institution or perhaps you would like to be one of the regional contacts for potential/new DSpace users. If you would like to get involved in any way, please contact Valorie Hollister at
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| DSpace User Group Meeting at OR2009 |
| DSpace Global Outreach Committee member, Rea Devakos from the University of Toronto, has been selected to be the OR2009 DSpace User Group Meeting Committee Chair. Rea will work closely with another DGOC member, Julie Speers from Georgia Institute of Technology and to plan and organize the DSUG meeting on May 20 - 21 in Atlanta, Georgia. Other committee members include Andrea Bollini, a DSpace committer from the AePIC Team CILEA as well as Elliot Metsger, a DSpace committer from Johns Hopkins University. The DSUG meeting presentation proposals are due by March 6 through the OR2009 Conference website. top |
| All About Repositories Webinars |
| This spring DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun Microsystems and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition) will offer a free All About Repositories Webinar Series to provide professional learning opportunities for repository managers, developers, curators and decision makers. "DSpace and Fedora: A Collaboration Update" is first webinar in the series and will be held on February 18. All the webinars are all listed under "Conferences & Events" below. Pre-registration is required for each seminar at http://www.education-webevents.com/. top |
| DSpace Sponsors |
The sponsorship program is one component in our strategy for the foundation to become self-sustaining over time. In addition, the foundation also plans to offer services to the DSpace community, as well as secure corporate support and grant funding for our projects. The details of the sponsorship program and current initiatives can be found on the website.
DSpace Foundation would like to thank the following sponsors so far for their consideration and support.
US Sponsors
Indiana University, Kansas State University, New York University, Rice University, Smithsonian Institute, University of Arizona, University of Delaware, University of Kansas, University of Michigan,
Vanderbilt University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Youngstown State University
International Sponsors
Athabasca University Libraries-Canada, EDINA National Data Centre/University of Edinburgh-UK
Gothenburg University Library-Sweden, University of Technology-Sydney, University of Regina-Canada, University of Toronto-Canada
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| Conferences and Events |
February 9-13: developerHappiness Days in London, England
February 9-11: O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in New York
February 18:"All About Repostories Webinar: DSpace and Fedora: A Collaboration Update" from 9am PST/12pm EST
March 1-4: JASIG Spring Conference in Dallas, Texas
March 18: "All About Repostories Webinar: All About Fedora" from 9am PST/12pm EST
March 19: 2009 RSP Repository Software Day in Manchester, England
April 1-3: 4th Institutional Repository Workshop hosted by the University of Pretoria, South Africa
April 15:"All About Repostories Webinar: Topics from the SPARC Repositories Meeting" from 9am PST/12pm EST
May 13: "All About Repostories Webinar: An Open Repositories 2009 Preview" from 9am PST/12pm EST
May 18-21: Open Repositories 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia
June 1-2: Digital Repositories and DSpace User Community Meeting: an Information Services Camp event at Smith College, Northampton, MA.
June 10-12: 13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB 2009) in Milano, Italy
June 10-13: 12th International Symposium on Electronic Thesis and Dissertations in Pittsburgh, PA
June 17: "All About Repostories Webinar: Two Repository Platforms: Key Features of Fedora and DSpace" from 9am PST/12pm EST
June 17-19: OAI6 - CERN Workshop On Innovations In Scholarly Communication in Geneva, Switzerland
July 16-17: 4th International Conference on e-Learning in Toronto, Canada
September 27-October 2: 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2009) in Corfu, Greece
October 14-16: DSpace User Group Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden
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