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dspace.org stats: 25,059 visits, 149 countries / territories, 64% new visitors - for May 2009
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 Volume 2, Issue 14
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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
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 As announced last month, the DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons are joining their organizations together in July. The new organization will be called "DuraSpace" and will support the DSpace platform, the Fedora platform, the Mulgara semantic store, and our new cloud offering DuraCloud (in development).
NewSpace, this newsletter, will continue to be produced and will focus on the interests of the DSpace community. The Fedora community also has a regular newsletter, HatCheck, which will be produced for the Fedora community
For a full copy of the press release and a list of frequently asked questions, visit the on the new www.duraspace.org site. top
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DSpace Add-ons and Extensions Reference
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With the support and coordination of the DSpace Foundation, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee is pleased to announce the availability of of the "Add-ons and Extensions" reference grid on the dspace.org website.
As many of you are aware, DSpace users are continually adding new functionality to the DSpace platform to suit their organization's needs. Some organizations/developers are willing to share their work with the larger DSpace community. The reference grid identifies extensions, add-ons and other resources that provide additional functionality to the software which may be of interest to users.
If you have an extension/add-on that you believe would be of interest to the DSpace community, please contact Valorie Hollister at
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. If you are currently working on a project the may result in an add-on, please list it on the DSpace Extensions and Add-ons Work wiki.
A special thanks to DGOC members Ronee Francis of Vanderbilt University, Alvin Hutchinson of Smithsonian Institution Libraries and Valorie Hollister of DSpace Foundation for their hard work on this project.top |
DSpace 1.6 Release Update
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Following the community survey asking for the top three features that should be included in DSpace 1.6, three committers each volunteered to adopt one of the features. Mark Wood is looking after the statistics feature, Richard Rodgers the embargo feature, and Stuart Lewis the batch metadata editing. Here is an update on each:
Statistics: Please contribute to the wiki page or contact Mark directly with your views on what statistics you need to have measured, and how to present those measurements most usefully.
Embargoes: The DSpace 1.6 effort on embargoes is gathering requirements and suggestions on the DSpace Embargo wiki. We have received detailed and useful write-ups from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. If you have any ideas, please submit them soon or contact Richard directly, to allow us to synthesize these requirements into a reference design specific enough to secure community approval, and then build for 1.6.
Batch Metadata Editing: Following a requirements gathering exercise a working prototype based around exporting and importing metadata using CSV (comma separated values) files has now been created at the University of Auckland. Work is now progressing to allow the exports and imports to work via the user interfaces as well as the command line. The prototype not only allows item metadata to be edited, but allows items to be moved between collections, and new items to be added from a spreadsheet. Please see JIRA if you would like to download a copy of the code to test.top |
DSpace 2.0 Update
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| Ben Bosman of @mire gave an excellent demonstration of a DSpace 2.0 prototype at OR2009. This demo highlights the possibilities of the enhanced data model. Work to package up development thus far continues.top |
Voting Enabled on JIRA Feature Issue Tracking System
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If you would like to express your opinion on what you would like to see in the next DSpace release, you can now show your support for a particular feature or bug fix by voting for it on JIRA. JIRA is the issue and feature tracking system used by the DSpace development community to manage all bug fixes, identify issues and plan features. We have enabled the voting functionality, so anyone in the community can voice their opinion on what they would like to see fixed or improved. Voting alone does not ensure the fix or feature will be added to the next release, but it gives everyone in the community a chance to be heard and allows the decision making process to be more democratic and transparent.
In order to vote you first must register on JIRA. Once on the home page, under Project 1.x, click on version, click on 1.6. All issues and features being worked on will be displayed. You can vote on any issue by opening the issue and clicking the vote tab on the left. You can also create a new issue if there is one you are interested in and see that it is not listed. Please use the JIRA system to request new features and identify bugs so we can keep track of your request.top
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DSpace 1.5 Public Search Engine Issue
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If you are currently running DSpace 1.5 or DSpace 1.5.1, your site may not be indexed by Google, Google Scholar or any public search engine. While the issue has been fixed in 1.5.2, you can fix the problem immediately for other 1.5 versions by removing the line in the robots.txt file that reads "disallow/browse". Click here for more detailed information. We highly recommend you take this simple action as soon as possible, so your publicly available content is indexed. As many of you know, as much as 60% of traffic to your DSpace resources comes from Google and other public search engines. Additionally, since Google and most other search engines do not use OAI-PMH for indexing, DSpace users should not rely on this protocol for search engine exposure. Instead, to improve the ability of your site to be indexed you should install site maps, which makes it much easier for any search engine to discover all the links within your site. This is part of version 1.5.2, but you can also install a patch. top |
Virtual Application for DSpace
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 JumpBox, publisher of virtual appliances that provide the easiest way to trial, develop, and deploy open source applications, has just made JumpBox for DSpace available. JumpBox for DSpace is a great way to run DSpace locally with a pre-built and pre-configured virtual application and swiftly deploy DSpace on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.
To view a quick tutorial video on how to get started click here or to download, click here. top |
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OR09 DSpace User Group Meeting
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There were a number of informative and innovative presentations at the DSpace User Group Meeting following the Open Repositories Conference last month. For anyone who was unable to attend the Open Repositories Conference 2009, recordings of the DSpace User Group Meeting are available. You may download both streaming mpegs as well as copies of the presentation slides from Georgia Tech's repository SMARTech. top
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Fall DSpace User Group Meeting
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The next DSpace user group meeting will be in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 14, 2009 - October 16, 2009. The meeting is an opportunity for DSpace users to share experiences from their work with DSpace and institutional repositories. The Program Committee invites you to submit proposals and posters in all areas relevant to the use of DSpace until June 30.
Suggested and example topics:
- DSpace extensions developed within the community
- Utilization of statistics and metrics for your repository
- Interoperability: among repositories, with other systems, with the Web
- Incorporating video and audio in your repository
- Value added services for your DSpace repository
- Managing and integrating workflows (ETDs)
- Increasing searching, promotion and visibility through data mining or other means
- Object reuse and exchange (OAI-ORE)
- Digital preservation environments, policies and issues
- Lessons learned upgrading to 1.5
- New use cases for DSpace outside of a traditional IR
Visit the conference website for more information or contact
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New Look for DSpace.org
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Last month the DSpace Foundation lauched a newly redesigned website, www.dspace.org. After monitoring and studying how visitors use the DSpace website and many discussions with community members and experts, the website has been streamlined and re-organized. It will now be easier for those new to DSpace and for the veteran DSpace users to find what they need. If you haven't visited dspace.org site lately, check it out.
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| Conferences and Events |
June 30-Jul 1: JISC Digital Content Conference 2009 in South Cerney, Gloucestershire
July 16-17: 4th International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL) in Toronto, Canada
July 30-31: Beyond the Repository Fringe (RF09) in Edinburgh, Scotland
September 14-16: 1st Conference for Open Access Scholarly Publishers in Lund, Sweden
September 27-October 2: 13th European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2009) in Corfu, Greece
October 5-6: iPRES 2009 Conference in San Francisco, California
October 5-8: International Conference on Academic Libraries (ICAL-2009) in Delhi, India
October 14-16: DSpace User Group Meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden
November 3-6: EDUCAUSE 2009 Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado
November 11-13: DLF Fall Forum 2009 in Long Beach, California
Dec 2-4: 5th International Digital Curation Conference 2009 (DCC 2009) in London, United Kingdom
December 14-15: Coalition for Networked Information Conference 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting in Washington, DC
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| Upcoming Training |
| There are no scheduled trainings. However, NITLE offers both online and face-to-face training on DSpace for a fee, including a highly rated 2-day Manakin Workshop. For a complete list of their offerings click here. For any questions or general inquires, please contact Christina Richison. top |
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