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NewSpace - Volume 3, Issue 20 |
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dspace.org stats: 26,599 visits, 152 countries / territories, 67% new visitors - for April 2010
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 Volume 3, Issue 20
May 2010
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| Popular DSpace Links |
| Who's Using DSpace
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| New & Upcoming Sites |
Visit the new and improved DSpace Registry! There are now over 800 DSpace repositories in over 80 countries. We begin identifying new instances again in the DuraSpace Blogdigest due out later this month.
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To view previous editions of NewSpace, click here
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DuraSpace Digest Replaces NewSpace
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 Later this month, the DSpace community will receive the DuraSpace Blogdigest, which will replace the distribution of this newsletter. The content of the blogdigest will include information designed for the DSpace community, keeping you up-to-date on the latest news about software releases, DSpace events as well as more general information on activities in the broader community. As many of you may already be aware, the DuraSpace organization has been producing the monthly blogdigest which serves both Fedora and DSpace users, in an easy-to-read outline format so you can zero in and read topics of interest quickly. By consolidating into one monthly news vehicle we hope to provide more streamlined content for the community.
We look forward to your feedback as we continue to improve the way we disseminate news and information for the DSpace community.
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New and Improved DSpace Registry
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Have you ever wondered which institutions have upgraded to the most recent version of DSpace or which repositories have video files stored?
DuraSpace is pleased to announce a new resource, the community DSpace Registry.
The database was conceived of and designed by members of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) to address one of the biggest challenges within the DSpace user community; not just to identify which institutions used DSpace, but also cultivate a resource with some basic information about those repositories to help facilitate connections between users. The work started early last year and included a Community Networking Survey, which gathered data about repositories and seeded the information now available in the database.
Members of the DSpace community will now be able to search the database to discover other institutions which have similar repositories, environments or interests to their own. The hope of DGOC and the DuraSpace organization is that this listing will help foster all types of connections and collaborations in the future.
What is new?
The most popular page on the dspace.org site for the last few years has been the "Who's Using DSpace?" page. This page was a simple list of DSpace repositories with only the institution name, country and URL link listed. The list was not easily searchable or sortable.
The new DSpace repositories database provides much more information and functionality. And there are now over 800 known repositories included in the database, representing over 80 countries.
Main Table View
The main database view provides you with a sortable table of all known DSpace instances. It includes the institution name, country, type of institution (academic, museum, government, etc), DSpace version/user interface and the URL link. This list can be re-ordered by any of the fields listed -- so if you want to get a quick view of who is using 1.6 XML/Manakin it can be done in an instant by clicking on the column header.
Detailed Repository View
To view all the available information about a specific repository (use case, file types stored, type of content stored, addons/extensions, database, operating system, etc), you simply click on the institution name. You will then view all the information available in the database about that particular repository.
Search/Filters
On the left hand side there is a number of search filters, including an open text search which you can use to perform a single or multi-faceted search and will produce a listing of those institutions which meet your selected criteria.
How can you add or update your institution's information?
The information available in the repositories database is limited to what has been provided by the institution either by registering previously on dspace.org, the ROAR listing or by responding to the April 2009 Community Networking Survey. We would love to help foster more connections. Please take the time to register or to update your repository's information by making use of the registration form for new listings or update form for existing listings. Please note that we expect updates to existing listings may take a few days to show up in the database and we ask for your patience.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the DGOC for their design and review work on this project. Thanks also to Valorie Hollister, Director of Community Development, DSpace Project/DuraSpace for driving the project forward and to Lauren L'Esperance, DSpace.org webmaster who worked out all the technical pieces.
We look forward to hearing your feedback and comments about the new DSpace Registry. Please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollister[at]duraspace.org directly.
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Release Planning
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Over the last few months, the DSpace committers and developers have reviewed the current release procedures, timelines, etc. There is much we have all learned in recent releases (1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.0) which could help us to streamline or take steps towards improving the release process in the future.
To begin, everyone in the community was invited to brainstorm on how our current development and release processes could be improved. There were several ideas posted on the wiki Proposals page by the community and a transcript of the IRC developers' meeting discussing the various proposals can be viewed here.
Recently, several of the developers' meetings have in part been devoted to the release process. The DSpace committers and developers have agreed to the following changes thus far:
1) To set a timed release schedule, where major releases are performed at regular intervals. Our next major release, 1.7.0, has already been scheduled for December 2010. After the 1.7.0 release, we will reanalyze to determine the regular interval for all major releases.
2) To still release minor, bug-fix only releases as necessary. The next minor release, 1.6.1, has already been scheduled for late May 2010. We've decided that minor releases will only contain bug-fixes, and should be released only when necessary (i.e. only when bugs have been located that require more immediate attention).
3) To solicit assistance and feedback from the broader community through a group representing both repository managers and developers. This group would provide additional support to the Release Coordinator, while also allowing more opportunities for non-techies to take a more active part in the evolution of DSpace. More details about this proposed group are available on the wiki.
We anticipate the release process will evolve for the next few releases cycles and invite everyone (developers, administrators, repository managers, etc) to continue to provided feedback on the current proposals/ideas. We cannot guarantee that all proposed changes would be integrated immediately into the next cycle, but this is an opportunity for the entire community to think about what we'd like to do differently and make small steps in that direction. Please feel free to contact Tim Donohue at tdonohue[@]duraspace.org or Valorie Hollister at vhollister[@]duraspace.org with any comments, questions or concerns.
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DSpace 1.6.1 and 1.7.0
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The DSpace Developers have two upcoming releases to announce to the DSpace Community.
1.6.1
DSpace 1.6.1 is scheduled for release on Friday, May 21, 2010.
DSpace 1.6.1 is a bug-fix release which will resolve various bugs/issues that people have noticed in 1.6.0. This release will not introduce any new features, but will resolve over 20-25 bugs/issues that have been located since 1.6.0 was released in early March.
The 1.6.1 release is being coordinated by Kim Shepherd of The University of Waikato in New Zealand. A huge thanks goes out to Kim for helping to decrease the turnaround of this bug-fix release to the benefit of us all!
Additional information on 1.6.1 can be found on the 1.6.1 Release Notes page.
1.7.0
In keeping with the new decision to set a regular, timed release schedule, the DSpace Developers have scheduled DSpace 1.7.0 for release in December 2010. DSpace 1.7.0 will be the next major release of the software, promising new features and improvements to the platform.
Although the exact features have yet to be finalized, many potential features are listed on our new 1.7.0 Release Notes page, along with a tentative release schedule. The 1.7.0 feature list may change in the coming months and only those features fully completed by the cut-off date of Oct 22, 2010 will be included in the 1.7.0 release.
As DSpace 1.7.0 is our first scheduled, "time-based" release, it is likely that it will include fewer major features than 1.6.0. However, scheduling releases will benefit us all as it should decrease the delays in releasing new features, and increase the transparency of the development process. The DSpace Developers feel that these benefits will far outweigh the cost of having fewer major features in a given DSpace release. We hope the DSpace Community will also realize the immediate benefits, which should allow them to receive new features more quickly, rather than potentially waiting years for the next major release of the software.
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Google Summer of Code
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For the fourth year in a row, the DSpace community is participating in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project. The global program offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects, like DSpace.
The students accepted to this years DSpace GSoC 2010 may seem familiar, as we have two returning students, Andrius Blazinskas and Bojan Suzic, who will both be working further on integrating their previous projects into the next DSpace release.
Add Unit Testing to DSpace
DSpace currently lacks unit testing, which harms the development of the platform and makes easier to reintroduce past bugs while developing. This project is a proposal to add a set of unit test classes to DSpace, based on JUnit, plus some tools that detect issues in the code so we can improve its quality. (Student: Pere Villega)
Backport of DSpace 2 Storage Services API for DSpace 1.x
DSpace 2.0 storage mechanism provides convenient way to store DSpace contents in various storage solutions. It is based on set of interfaces for which various implementations are possible and some beta releases already exist (Jackrabbit, Fedora, etc). DSpace 2.0 is in its early stages of development and DSpace 1.x releases yet can not take advantage of this new mechanism. To fix this, it is necessary to port DSpace 2.0 storage interfaces to 1.x. I propose implementing this backport. (Student: Andrius Blazinskas)
DSpace REST API
Integration, testing, documentation and further development of DSpace REST services for 1.x and 2.0 versions. (Student: Bojan Suzic)
Storage Service Implementations Based on Semantic Content Repository
Develop DSpace storage service implementations based on semantic content repositories (TripleStore). (Student: Yigang Zhou)
GSoC Team Project Strategy:
This year the GSoC project strategy we be a bit different. We plan to pair mentor/student teams together where projects overlap. The goal is to assure that individual projects are aware of each other and solution sets are synergistic. We expect the students to assist one another in the process of vetting their work. To encourage this collaboration, we are exploring setting up a requirement that students participate in group IRC meetings in a manner that will challenge them to interact with both mentors and other students to evaluate each others work.
We also plan to use JIRA for each project. The students and mentors will work together to create tasks with time estimates that the student and other mentors can participate on. Likewise, we will use the wiki to manage all projects documentation. Finally, all projects will exist in the scm.dspace.org repository.
For more information about this year's GSoC DSpace projects, please click here.
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Open Repositories 2010 Planning Update
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Plans for the DSpace User Group Meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Open Repositories Conference 2010 in Madrid, Spain on July 6-9, 2010 are underway. All the submitted proposals have been reviewed by the planning committee, which is in the final stages of designing the program. In addition to a DuraSpace plenary session to provide a strategic overview of the organization as well as the roadmaps for both DSpace and Fedora, there will be presentations on the following topics: DSpace 1.6, Open Access, DSpace Repository Manager Workshop, Fedora Core Development, Workflow/Metadata, Preservation, Customization, Resource Discovery, Learning Resources, Research Management and Digital Media.
A detailed program schedule will be posted shortly on the OR10 website.
Many thanks to the OR2010 DSUG Planning Committee:
Elin Stangeland, Planning Committee Chair, University of Cambridge
Ben Boseman, @mire
Scott Phillips, Texas Digital Libraries
Leonie Hayes, University of Auckland
Sarah Shreeves, University of Illinois
Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace
To register for OR2010 and the DSUG meeting, please click here. For further information about the DSUG, please contact Elin Stangeland at es444[at]cam.ac.uk.
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| Conferences and Events |
May 7: Learning how to play nicely: Repositories and CRIS in Leeds, United Kingdom
May 10-11: Canadian ETD and Open Repositories Workshop in Ottawa Canada
May 25-26: Tectonics of Digital Curation: A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
June 5-13: Seventeenth International Conference (Crimea 2010) in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine
June 9: Seeing is Believing: New Technologies for Cultural Heritage in London, United Kingdom
June 16-18: ELPUB 2010 Publishing in the networked world: transforming the nature of communication in Helsinki, Finland
June 16-18: 13th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD2010) in Austin, Texas
June 21-25: JCDL 2010: Digital Libraries - 10 years past, 10 years forward, a 2020 Vision in Gold Coast, Australia
June 21-25: Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, California
June 24-29: American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington D.C
June 29: 2010 SPARC Europe Annual Meeting in Aarhus, ???
June 29-July 2: 2010 LIBER Annual Conference in Aarhus, Denmark
July 1-2: The JISC/CNI Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland
July 6-9: Fifth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2010) in Madrid, Spain
August 6-8: Open Access to Science Information: Trends, Models and Strategies for Libraries in Chania, Crete, Greece
September 6-10: European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2010) in Glasgow, United Kingdom
October 18-24: Open Access Week 2010
November 8-9: SPARC Digital Repository Meeting in Baltimore, MD
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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May 12: "Disaster Preparedness and Planning" an ALCTS Webinar presented by Nancy Kraft
May 14: "Communication Skills for Effective Advocacy" sponsored by the Repositories Support Group
May 19: "Perpetual Beta: IRs Then and Now" an ALCTS Webinar presented by Allison Sivac and Leah Vanderjagt
June 2-4: Repositories Support Project (RSP) Summer School 2010 in Cambridge, United Kingdom
June 9: "Disaster Response" an ALCTS Webinar presented by Nancy Kraft
June 13-18: Digital Preservation Management Five-Day Workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 26: "Open Access Publishing & Open Access Publishing Support: Transitioning from Subscriptions to Open Access" part of the ARL-ACRL ISC
August 18: "Continuity of Operations (COOP) after a Disaster" an ALCTS Webinar presented by Nancy Kraft
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NewSpace - Volume 3, Issue 19 |
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dspace.org stats: 24,898 visits, 154 countries / territories, 68% new visitors - for February 2010
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Volume 3, Issue 19
March 2010
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| Popular DSpace Links |
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| New & Upcoming Sites |
There have been 21 new DSpace instances added in February. An updated list will be available on dspace.org this spring.
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DuraSpace Announces the Release of DSpace 1.6
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We are pleased to announce that DSpace 1.6 has been released! This release is a culmination of much hard work from DSpace committers, developers, community and DuraSpace staff. The process started last spring with a survey of the user community to find out what features they most wanted to see in the next version. Stuart Lewis, the 1.6 Release Manager and the rest of the DSpace committers resolved that they would do their best to include the top three features requested:
- Enhanced statistics
- Embargo feature
- Batch metadata editing
The committers have delivered on their resolution to include the community-requested features, along with many more new features, enhancements, performance improvements and bug fixes. Here are some of the highlights:
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Authority control
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Delegated administration
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OpenSearch
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Command launcher
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OAI-PMH harvesting of items from remote repositories
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Configurable OAI-PMH Dublin Core output
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Move item functionality in XMLUI
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If-Modified-Since / Last-Modified header support in XMLUI
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Change to logging behavior to ensure better log retention and management
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Update to the latest handle server library
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Ability to perform batch imports and exports from zip files of items
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New test scripts to test database and email settings
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Ability to set legal jurisdiction in creative commons licensing
This newsletter will highlight the key modifications to DSpace and what users can look forward to if they chose to update their existing repositories. Much of this content has come from Stuart Lewis blog, "DSpace 1.6: What will be in it for me?".
We also invite the community to attend the March 17 webinar where Stuart will present an overview of 1.6 live along with an overview of the latest Fedora 3.3 release.
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1.6 Acknowledgments
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The DSpace application would not exist without the hard work and support of the community. We would like to say a big "THANK YOU" to Stuart Lewis the Release Manager and IT Innovations Analyst and Developer from the University of Auckland Library. Stuart truly innovated the DSpace software release process for 1.6. From soliciting community input through the survey, to finding teams to work on new major feature development, to writing code himself, Stuart was committed to making sure the release included improvements the community most desired. We'd like to extend our gratitude to the developers who have worked very hard to deliver all the new features and improvements. Also thanks to the users who provided input and feedback on the feature development, as well those who participated in the "Big Bug Hunt" testing. And many thanks to Jeffery Trimble from Youngstown State University for his major renovations on the 1.6 documentation.
You will see the contributors' names mentioned alongside the new feature highlights below. Of course there are many more individuals that could be mentioned. Thank you to everyone who made it possible to pack so much into 1.6 and for helping to ensure the DSpace continues to be stable and robust.
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Community Requested Features
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DSpace 1.6 includes the top three most desired new features based on a survey of the user community conducted last spring.
Improved Statistics Feature: The new version of DSpace includes better usage statistics, in particular for individual items and bitstream downloads, which has emerged as a primary requirement within the DSpace community. Thanks to contributions from @mire, who open sourced the back-end of their commercial statistics package for DSpace. 1.6 now contains a full fledged usage event logging and query service based on the Apache SOLR search platform. Rather than storing item views in a log file, or in a database table, they store the item view data in a SOLR index. This means that statistics are stored in a search engine index that can be queried very fast and efficiently and in powerful ways. The out-the-box simple statistical views are available for each item, collection, and community in both the JSPUI and the XMLUI. Information is given about item views, bitstream downloads, and user metadata, such as the location the users of the repository came from. Basic statistical reports are available that fulfill the community 1.6 requirements. The benefit of using the SOLR index is that it holds a lot of statistical information, so that in future the statistics feature can continue to be improved to include more information based on additional community feedback.
The new statistics feature comes with a script to convert your old dspace.log files into the new format, which means you can import statistics from old log files for as far back as you have archived logs. (Contributed by the @mire staff: Mark Diggory, Ben Bosman and Kevin Van de Velde, JSP interface contributed by Kim Shepherd from the Library Consortium of New Zealand)
Embargo: With 1.6 it is now possible to configure a DSpace instance to have an "embargo" feature for bitstreams that need to remain dark for a given period. The embargo feature has been written as a framework rather than a fixed implementation. This means that it is possible to write your own embargo rules in Java classes. Out-the-box 1.6 includes a simple implementation that should fulfill the needs of many users by allowing an embargo lift date to be set during the submission of the item. The metadata will be viewable, but the bitstreams are locked from public view until that date has passed. A script runs daily to lift any expired embargoes and make the bitstreams public. (Contributed by Richard Rodgers from MIT and Larry Stone from Harvard University)
Batch Metadata Editing: DSpace 1.6 now provides a batch metadata editing tool which can be used to change, add, find/replace metadata as well as facilitate mass moves, re-order values or add new items in bulk. The batch metadata editing tool was developed with the assumption that there plenty of existing tools for editing large amounts of metadata. Rather than trying to re-create this functionality in DSpace, the developers enabled the import and export of metadata into these existing tools. The batch editing tool produces a comma delimited file in CSV format which can then be used in Excel or a similar spreadsheet program to change metadata. Metadata can be exported for entire collections, communities, search results, browse results, or for the whole repository. Repository administrators can batch edit all metadata (e.g. perform an external spell check), batch add metadata (e.g. add an abstract to a set of items, add controlled vocabulary such as LCSH), batch find and replace of metadata values (e.g. correct misspelled surname across several records), perform mass item moves between collections, enable the batch addition of new items (without bitstreams) and re-order the values in a list (e.g. authors) via a CSV file. Once changes have been made to the CSV file, it is uploaded back into DSpace which detects the changes and displays them to the administrator. If the administrator confirms that the changes are correct, the changes will be made in the repository. (Contributed by Stuart Lewis from the University of Auckland and Kim Shepherd from the Library Consortium of New Zealand)
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Highlights of Other New Features and Improvements
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The original intention was to finalize DSpace 1.6 as soon as the community requested features above were completed. However, while the new feature work was on-going, the DSpace community worked its magic, and once again came up with loads of other new features and improvements to include. The list below highlights a handful of the additional new features and improvements:
Delegated administration: Previous versions of DSpace have allowed the system administrators to delegate permissions at a collection level, so that individual collections could be managed by a collection administrator. Some aspects of this feature have not worked as fully as expected, such as allowing collection administrators to edit or delete existing items. In DSpace 1.6 this administrative feature has been extended and made fully configurable so that permissions can also be delegated at a community level. (Contributed by Andrea Bollini from AePIC Team CILEA and Tim Donohue from University of Illinois/DuraSpace)
Authority control: A new authority control framework has been included which allows authority sources to be developed for metadata input. For example, you may wish to link up author names with a local or national identity database (via Library of Congress Name Authority), or link up publications to their ISSNs (via SHERPA RoMEO). In addition to the raw functionality, AJAX lookups are enabled to allow auto complete functionality to show users matches to the data as they are typing. (Contributed by Larry Stone from Harvard University and Andrea Bollini from AePIC Team CILEA )
OpenSearch: An open XML search results system. DSpace 1.6 now supports OpenSearch format, allowing repository users to add DSpace to their list of search engines in web browsers like Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. OpenSearch also allows you to subscribe to a search via an RSS feed. (Contributed by Richard Rodgers from MIT)
OAI-PMH / OAI-ORE harvesting support: This isn't the ability for DSpace to expose its items via OAI-PMH, which has been available since version 1, but instead is a facility that allows DSpace to harvest other repositories and import their data into DSpace. It is now possible to create collections which harvest all their items (metadata only, or metadata and files) from another location via OAI-PMH. This could be useful if you want to mirror all or parts of another repository. (Contributed by Alexey Maslov from Texas from A&M University)
Batch imports and exports using zip files: Since version 1.5.1 administrators have been able to export all the items within a community or collection from the administrative user interface. In 1.6 administrators have the ability for the command line version of the batch importer and exporter to handle zip files of multiple items, rather than requiring an item directory hierarchy. This means you can export multiple items to just one zip file, transfer the single file to a new server, and re-import it. (Contributed by Stuart Lewis from the University of Auckland)
Command launcher: A new command launcher has been written to replace all of the old DSpace command line scripts. This means that one script can be used to perform all command line functions, and works on all platforms. In the past we only shipped DSpace with UNIX scripts. The new launcher allows Windows users to use the same commands as UNIX users. (Contributed by Stuart Lewis from the University of Auckland)
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Downloading 1.6
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DSpace 1.6 can be downloaded from the files area in SourceForge or with SVN. A copy of the documentation is comes with the the software download. You may also download the documentation -- either in HTML or PDF format. Documentation for previous versions and available documentation translations on the wiki.
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Documentation
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There have been substantial improvements made to the DSpace documentation for version 1.6. Jeffrey Trimble of Youngstown State University, has merged known errata, reorganized, and reformatted the manual. In addition to adding documentation for the new 1.6 features, the manual now includes significantly expanded documentation on configuration, a more detailed section on Plugin Manager, better integrated information about XMLUI/Manakin, guidance on how to upgrade to 1.6 as well as more helpful tables and examples throughout. The DSpace 1.6 manual is available in both PDF or HTML format. If you find errors or omissions in the documentation, please create an issue on JIRA so it can be addressed in the next version.
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DuraSpace Open Technologies Update Webinar: DSpace 1.6 and Fedora 3.3
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Get a look at all the new 1.6 features in the live webinar "DuraSpace Open Technologies Update: DSpace 1.6 and Fedora 3.3" on March 17, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. Stuart Lewis will provide an overview of all that is packed into the latest release and show you how it can help you manage your repository. This webinar presented through the DuraSpace/SPARC "All About Repositories" series and is free. To register, click here.
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Next Release Planning
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DuraSpace would like to encourage the DSpace Community to take time to review our current release procedures, timelines, etc. There is much we have all learned in recent releases (1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.0) which may help us to streamline or take steps towards improving for the release process in the future.
To begin, Tim Donohue has requested that the developers (committers and non-committers) brainstorm on how our current development and release processes could be improved. There are already several ideas posted on the wiki. Everyone (developers, administrators, repository managers, etc) should feel to add your own thoughts and/or add comments to other's proposals/ideas as well as writing up an idea of your own. There will be open discussions with the developers and the community starting next week -- so please post your ideas there if you'd like them discussed. Again, ideas from anyone are encouraged -- you don't have to be a recent release manager or even have been involved in recent releases.
There will likely be several phases to this release review process and it will likely continue as we plan for the next DSpace release. Proposed changes may not get integrated immediately into the next cycle, but this is an opportunity for the entire community to think about what we'd like to do differently and make small steps in that direction. Please let Tim Donohue at tdonohue[@]duraspace.org or Valorie Hollister at vhollister[@]duraspace.org know if you have any comments, questions, concerns about this proposed review process.
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DSpace User Group Meeting at OR10
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The next DSpace User Group Meeting will be held in conjunction with the Open Repositories Conference 2010 in Madrid, Spain on July 6-9, 2010. The planning committee is still welcoming presentation proposals from the community. 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.
Deadlines:
REVISED Paper Submission Deadline: March 5, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: May 1, 2010
Themes include, but are not limited to:
-Interoperability and integration: among repositories, with other systems, with the Web
-Object reuse and exchange (OAI-ORE), SWORD and SWAP
-Workflow integration
-Digital preservation environments, policies and issues
-Managing ETD workflows
-Supporting e-research, data and local communities
-Utilization of Statistics for your repository
-Increasing searching, promotion and visibility through data mining or other means
-Metadata in DSpace - use of alternative standards to DC, METS solutions, new tools etc.
-Developing/customizing the interface for your repository: Manakin etc.
Submission:
Please submit papers online, details about requirements and the submission process can be found here: http://or2010.fecyt.es/Publico/Call/index.aspx
For further information, please contact Elin Stangeland at es444[@]cam.ac.uk.
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| Conferences and Events |
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 5-13: Seventeenth International Conference (Crimea 2010), Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine
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 8-9: SPARC Digital Repository Meeting in Baltimore, MD
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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March 17: "All About Repositories: DuraSpace Technologies Update-DSpace 1.6 and Fedora 3.3" at 2pm EST presented by Stuart Lewis
March 24: "Making the Most of Your Metadata" an ALCTS Webinar presented by Marisa Ramirez and Nancy Fallgren
April 28: "Consortial Implementation", an ALCTS Webinar presented by Sharon Farb, Bonnie Tijerina, and Catherine Mitchell
May 12: "Preparedness and Planning" an ALCTS Webinar presented by Nancy Kraft
May 19: "What We Thought Then and What We Know Now", an ALCTS Webinar by Leah Vanderjagt and Allison Sivak
June 9: "Disaster Response" an ALCTS Webinar presented by Nancy Kraft
June 13-18, 2010: Digital Preservation Management Five-Day Workshops in Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 18: "Continuity of Operations (COOP) after a Disaster" an ALCTS Webinar presented by Nancy Kraft
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NewSpace - Volume 3, Issue 18 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Volume 2, Issue 17
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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
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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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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
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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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DuraSpace Organizational News
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 The DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons officially joined their organizations together in July and formed a new organization, DuraSpace. DuraSpace will support the DSpace platform, the Fedora platform, the Mulgara semantic store, and our new cloud offering DuraCloud (in development).
Over the past few months the DuraSpace team has been developing strategic plans for the new organization as well as re-defining roles and responsibilities to support those plans. Sandy Payette, former the Executive Director of Fedora Commons, is the Chief Executive Officer of DuraSpace. Michele Kimpton now serves as the Chief Business Officer for DuraSpace, focused on strategic partnerships, fundraising and business development. Michele will also serve as the Project Lead for DuraCloud. Brad McLean now serves as DuraSpace's Chief Technology Officer, overseeing technical development on all the projects as well as the infrastructure for the new organization. Brad's move into the overall DuraSpace technology role leaves a vacancy for the DSpace Technical Lead and Developer, for which a search has just been completed. We are pleased to announce that Tim Donohue, a long time DSpace Committer, will be taking on the role in mid-November. For more information about Tim and his new position, read below.
Valorie Hollister will continue to work with the DSpace community as the Director of Community Development.
If you would like to learn more about the roles for the rest of the DuraSpace Team or about the new organization, visit the on the www.duraspace.org site. top
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Tim Donohue to Join DuraSpace Team
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DuraSpace is pleased to announce that Tim Donohue will be joining the DuraSpace organization as technical lead and developer for the DSpace Project in mid-November. He was most recently the Technology Lead for IDEALS, the digital repository for scholarship and research at the University of Illinois. Along with colleagues from University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Illinois, Tim is also one of the lead developers for BibApp, an open source campus research gateway and expert finder.
At the Open Repositories Conference in 2009 and 2007 respectively, Tim won awards for the creation of the "Mention-It" javascript library and the DSpace OpenOffice.org Format Converter.
Tim has been an active Code Committer for DSpace since 2006. One of his initial code contributions included the DSpace configurable submission system. Along with colleagues Dorothea Salo and Scott Phillips, he also helped create the first DSpace "How To Guide", and taught several "Making DSpace Your Own" customization tutorials.
Tim received his Masters in Library & Information Science from the University of Illinois in 2005. Prior to that, he worked for a small Chicago-based consulting firm, helping Fortune 500 companies better manage their digital documents. top
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DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest
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Have you been a part of establishing or maintaining a unique digital repository that provides open access to a collection that was previously not used or under-used? Do you enjoy showcasing your repository's content and/or the cool tools that encourage the use of the materials? Please consider sharing your passion and knowledge for collecting, curating managing and sharing digital repository resources by entering the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest and telling your story. The aim of the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest is to shine a light on your organization's commitment to online development and dissemination of diverse--and often hidden--digital assets by describing unique cases and serendipitous uses that made something remarkable happen.
Entries will be accepted at the http://duraspace.org/contest.php beginning on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest winners will be announced on October 1, 2009. Winners will receive $50 Amazon gift certificates and will be invited to tell their stories during the Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC "All About Repositories" Web Seminar on October 14, 2009. This Web Seminar will be made available as part of the DuraSpace SPARC Global Open Access Week celebration October 19-23, 2009.
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DSpace Ambassador Program
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There are currently over 600 DSpace instances in over 70 different countries with a variety of use cases. While there are many helpful resources available to the community, barriers due to geography and language can make it challenging for new or potential DSpace users to connect with the DSpace community. To aide those new to DSpace, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee, with the support and coordination from DuraSpace, will launch the DSpace Ambassador Program in late September.
The main focus of a DSpace Ambassador Program is to identify a DSpace user in every country or region who is willing to be a point of contact for organizations just getting started. These Ambassadors will help new or potential users with general questions about DSpace, as well as providing guidance on additional resources available in the larger DSpace community. The Ambassador is not intended to be a technical expert and instead will point individuals in the right direction for more technical questions. Ideally the Ambassador will also help to identify resources, such as new helpful references or new service providers in their country or region. Some Ambassadors may also be involved in planning regional DSpace user group meetings or trainings. Ambassadors can also leverage their efforts along with other networks, associations and groups that may already exist in their region/country. 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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DuraCloud/NDIIPP Pilot Program
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 The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) and DuraSpace have announced that they will launch a one-year pilot program to test the use of cloud technologies to enable perpetual access to digital content. The pilot will help define and develop the DuraCloud technology and service, developed and hosted by the DuraSpace organization. Among the NDIIPP partners participating in the DuraCloud pilot program are the New York Public Library and the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
To the full press release on the pilot program, click here.
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| There will be substantial upgrades to the DSpace documentation for version 1.6. Jeffrey Trimble 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 |
1.6 Update - Community Administration
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Development is still continuing for DSpace version 1.6. In this month's newsletter we briefly highlight a newly completed feature known as "Community Administration".
Previous versions of DSpace have allowed System Administrators to delegate permissions at a Collection level, so that individual collections could be managed by a Collection Administrator. Some aspects of this feature have not worked as fully as expected, such as allowing collection administrators to edit existing items. Thanks to the efforts of Tim Donohue and Andrea Bollini, in DSpace 1.6 this administrative feature will be extended and fixed so that permissions can also be delegated at a Community level. As a basic example, your institution's DSpace Administrator will be able to allow an individual college or department to manage their own Community (and any sub-Communities or Collections within it). This means that institutions will be able to manage DSpace in a more decentralized manner and provide more management control directly to colleges, departments or research groups.
If you would like to be involved in the design, development, or testing of DSpace 1.6, please get in contact with the Stuart Lewis. top
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| There is a recent flurry of interest around OSGi in the broader community of open source Java projects for higher education, with design work occurring in both the Sakai and Fedora repository projects. OSGi potentially provides a cross-project component reuse model, although as always, there are no silver bullets. There are a few initiatives beginning in the DSpace community; if this is an area you are working in, or interested in, please contact the DSpace developers at
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Improve Your Chances of Getting Help
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One of the strengths of the DSpace community is the active participation of users and developers on the DSpace mailing lists for those who may have general and technical questions. As with most open source communities individual's who help answer questions on the mailing list do not represent a commercial help desk, they are all volunteers from the user community who aim to help anyone in need. Occasionally questions to the lists may not be answered, but this quick guide will help improve your chances of you getting the help you need:
BEFORE you post to the mailing list:
- If you have questions about getting started with DSpace, there are a number of resources available on the Quickstart Guide on www.dspace.org.
- If you install or run DSpace, the "Internal Error" message is to prompt your users to come to you. If a user brings the error message to you, the first thing to do is to find out precisely what time the error message appeared. That information will help you check the logs for that time frame. The logs may help describe the error. Both your servlet container (Tomcat, or whatever you chose) and DSpace write detailed logs of significant events. Exactly where those log files are is installation dependent. You should be able to find the Tomcat logs by examining its configuration, and likewise for DSpace.
- If you discover a specific issue, use the "Search" box in the upper right hand corner on the dspace.org website. Search on the issue or error message. This search will review all resources available on dspace.org, the DSpace wiki and the archive of the mailing lists.
- Review the DSpace manual. There is a detailed Table of Contents to help you find a specific topic or you may use the PDF "Find" feature.
ASKING your questions on the mailing list:
- All general inquires about DSpace should be made on the DSpace General list. All technical questions should be made on the DSpace Technical list. Please chose the most relevant list for your question and post your questions to ONLY one list at a time
- Provide detailed information about your DSpace instance. Include the DSpace version you are using, JSPUI or XMLUI (or both), settings, the specific error message you received, log entries, stack traces, etc.
- Keep all DSpace related discussions on the list, as any discussion off list is lost to the larger DSpace community.
- Be patient, if you don't receive an answer, review your question again. One likely reason for no responses is that everyone on the list is stumped and can't even think of a good question to get the ball rolling again. Digging out more information or re-phrasing your question may help. If your question goes unanswered, it may be up to you to solve the problem and then provide the solution for others of the community.
- In addition to the DSpace community there are service providers which offer professional help with regards to DSpace. Click here for a list.
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DSpace in the Blogosphere - Direct from Microsoft Word to DSpace via SWORD
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Stuart Lewis, DSpace Committer from University of Auckland, has added new functionality to DSpace so that it can accept deposits from Microsoft Word by using SWORD. To read more details about Stuart's proof of concept, visit his blog. top
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DSpace User Group Meeting
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Registration is now open for the DSpace User Group Meeting DSUG09!
DSpace represents one of the most successful open source platforms with more than 600 installations worldwide. The aim of the meeting is to share experiences with other users, administrators, developers and to discuss the further possibilities for the DSpace platform and the DuraSpace organization.
The conference will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 14-16. The program includes tutorial session on Manakin, DSpace 1.6 and search engine optimization. In addition to interesting use cases (video digital library, research data), there will bepresentations on BibApp, SWORD integration and managing/enhancing metadata. The progress for networked/federated repositories is also covered by the program with presentations on OceanDocs, COAR and DuraCloud.
For details on the conference program and registration, see: http://dsug09.ub.gu.se/.
Proposals for the poster session can still be submitted. Send an email including title, author and affiliation to
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We are still seeking sponsors for the meeting -- please contact
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September 8-11: The International Conferences on Digital Libraries and the Semantic Web 2009 (ICSD2009) in Trento, Italy
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
September 30: Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving Scholarship in Logan Utah
October 5-6: iPRES 2009 Conference in San Francisco, California
October 5-8: International Conference on Academic Libraries (ICAL-2009) in Delhi, India
October 7-9: Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group Fall Meeting (PASIG) in San Francisco, California
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
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 14-15: Coalition for Networked Information Conference 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting in Washington, DC
February 23-26, 2010: International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) in New Delhi, India
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dspace.org stats: 25,059 visits, 149 countries / territories, 64% new visitors - for May 2009
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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.
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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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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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dspace.org stats: 27,440 visits, 158 countries / territories, 65% new visitors - for April 2009
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DSpace Foundation & Fedora Commons Join Together
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 As most of you are already aware, DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons announced this week that they will join their organizations together. Both organizations and their Board of Directors are enthusiastic about the future opportunities for a combined organization, whose purpose is to provide sustainable open technologies and services for building durable digital content spaces that support scholarship, science, and culture. 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). DuraSpace will be led by an executive team consisting of Sandy Payette (Chief Executive Officer), Michele Kimpton (Chief Business Officer) and Brad McLean (Chief Technology Officer). You can view a full copy of the press release and a list of frequently asked questions on the new http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=wyulo8cab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.duraspace.org%2Findex.html&id=preview site. Both the DSpace and Fedora communities will have an opportunity to hear more about the strategic and technical overview of DuraSpace next week at a joint user group plenary on May 20 at Open Repositories 2009. top
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Next week the DSpace Foundation will launch a newly redesigned website at www.dspace.org. The new website design is a culmination of several months of effort. 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. Special thanks to Lauren L'Esperance, DSpace Foundation's webmaster and the rest of the DSpace team for their contributions.
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Open Repositories 2009 is coming up next week May 18-21. 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 two day DSpace User Group Meeting which will have a number of informative and innovative presentations from the community. Here are some highlights:
- A joint session for DSpace and Fedora communities covering strategic overview of the new organization, DuraSpace, as well as a review of the technical roadmaps of each platform
- Demonstrations of 1.5 and 2.0
- Presentations from the community including several interesting use case studies and examples of unique customizations, extensions and integrations
- Special dual track sessions for developers and repository managers
- An informal workshop with a developer panel available for user questions
- A developers 2.0 workshop
For those who cannot make it to Atlanta in person, the DSpace User Group Meeting will be webcast live. To view the current meeting schedule click here. For the webcast, click on the day you wish to attend: May 20th broadcast or May 21st broadcast. Copies of the presentations will also be made available on the OR09 website following the conference.
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It is with great pleasure that the DSpace Committers would like to announce two new members to their group: Ben Bosman and Kim Shepherd.
Ben Bosman is a founding partner in @mire, a consultancy providing add-on products, support and custom development for DSpace. Ben has made significant contribution to DSpace in the past, including new features for RSS support and a number of proposed enhancements for Access Control and Bitstream format conversion. Ben is a member of the DSpace 2.0 development team and will continue to work not only in the area of 2.0, but also in maintaining and improving DSpace 1.x.
Kim Shepard works at Waikato University in New Zealand for the Library Consortium Of New Zealand (LCONZ). He is responsible for managing, developing and supporting four DSpace instances. Over the past year Kim has been active in helping out on the DSpace email lists, and in coding bug fixes and new features for DSpace. His current interests and areas of development are statistics, workflow and submission, authentication and authorisation, and integration with external research management applications. He can also be found working away at various JSPUI/XMLUI ideas.
Please join us in welcoming both Ben and Kim to the DSpace Committer Group! For a complete list of the current DSpace Committers visit the wiki. top |
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DSpace 1.5.2 was released last month. A special thank you to the 1.5.2 release manager, Andrea Bollini of CILEA and all those who helped to make this release possible with bug reports, patches and involvement in the Testhaton Day.
This release was primarily a bug fix release incorporating numerous fixes and feature improvements, including:
- SWORD module/version 1.3.1 supporting the sword standard version 1.3
- Cocoon upgraded to 2.2
- Fix for the UTF-8 issues with the XMLUI
- New authentication methods: Hierarchical LDAP and Shibboleth
- Full update translations: German, Italian for both XMLUI and JSPUI and Ukrainian for JSPUI
- New translations for 1.5.x: Greek and Thai
- Graceful resolver for urn in the item page for the JSPUI
- New hook for statistics plugins which provides a consistent API for retrieving usage events
For details on these and other modifications please refer to Jira and SVN history.
Although this is a tested stable release new issues may be uncovered. We request that community members interested in testing the release please download it and verify that they can complete upgrade and fresh installation. Please use the mailing lists to provide feedback on this release. top
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The results are in! The DSpace community was recently asked to complete a simple survey asking just one question: "What three features would you like to see in DSpace version 1.6?". We received over a hundred responses containing a vast array of useful and imaginative suggestions.
The responses have now been analyzed, and the top three feature requests are: #1 Better statistics, #2 An embargo facility, #3 Batch metadata editing. The full results of the survey can be seen in a 'wordle'.
In order to move forward with these requests, we have formed working groups of interested parties and relevant stakeholders. Each feature has been assigned a point of contact that will drive forward this process so that we can come to an agreement as to the precise requirements for each of these features. Here are the points of contact for each work group:
Statistics: Mark H. Wood
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Embargoes: Richard Rodgers
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Batch editing: Stuart Lewis
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One of the first tasks for the work groups is to determine if any solutions already exist in the community which can be used to provide these features or if new development efforts are required. Look out for further communication from these individuals concerning this, and get involved in the process!
As always, DSpace relies on development contributions from interested parties. Without the support and effort provided by the community, DSpace would not be able to develop and improve. There are many ways to get involved. If you have encountered problems and learnt how to fix them, why not help out by answering enquiries on the email lists or by documenting your knowledge in the DSpace wiki? If you have developed a new feature that you think would be of use to the whole DSpace community, why not submit your patch into Jira for consideration for inclusion into DSpace? Or if you are not technical but a good writer, we'd love to see our documentation improved, and if you just love pointing out problems, software testers are always wanted!
Stuart Lewis, the 1.6 release manager, and the rest of the DSpace Committers look forward to working with you to make DSpace 1.6 a great release, packed full of new and exciting features. Look out for regular updates on the twitter feed: http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=wyulo8cab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fdspacetweets&id=preview. top |
2.0 Update
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Google Summer of Code
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The DSpace Foundation has started what looks to be another successful year of participation in the Google Summer of Code project. This will be the third year of participation and the projects look to be not only conceptually interesting, but also practical and applicable to our next releases of DSpace 1.6 and 2.0. Four students have been accepted and matched with mentors. We have a returning student, Andrius Blazinskas working again with Richard Rodgers on getting a release of the Fedora DAO implementation put together for DSpace 1.6/2.0; Gaurav Kejriwal will be working on Collection Administration Enhancements, mentored by Claudia Juergen; Bojan Suzic will be working on a DSpace REST webapp under the mentorship of Aaron Zeckoski; finally, Ashly Markose will be working with Jayan Kurian on a Report Generation Tool for DSpace. All community members are encouraged to take a quick survey to assist Ashly with his work on the reporting tool.
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With the support and coordination of the DSpace Foundation, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) completed a DSpace community survey last month. The goal of the survey is to provide information to the DSpace user community which will help to facilitate connections for organizations and individuals using the DSpace platform. The response to the survey was a excellent -- in all, 309 people participated. For a PDF summary of the survey results, click here.
Here are a few highlights:
- Type of institution: 83% of respondents represent academic institutions, 19% research centers, 10% archive/public library, 10% government *
- Number of items: More than half of the respondents have 2,500 or less items in their repositories, only 15% have 10,000 or more items
- DSpace version: 51% are using 1.5.x, 36% using 1.4.x and 20% are using 1.3 or less, other 3%*
- Upgrade plans: 37% already have upgraded to 1.5.x, 39% plan to upgrade within a year, 19% don't know, %4 don't plan to upgrade
- Modifications to software: 54% minor cosmetic, 29% new features, 29% significant UI customizations, 23% no changes, 8% core code changes*
- UI used: 67% use JSP, 39% use Manakin
- Java version used: 57% Java SE 6, 36% J2SE 5.0, 7% Java SE 7*
*Many of the questions allowed for multiple answers, therefore some of the numbers and percentages represent multiple answers from the same respondent.
The ultimate goal of the survey was to use information to seed a dynamic database where DSpace users can search to find other users who have similar repositories, environments or interests. The work on this database is still on-going, but because the information gathered from the survey may be useful to the community now, the DGOC has posted an Excel file on the wiki with all the info gathered. This file is available for anyone to download and sort. Respondent names and emails have been removed for security precautions - but if members of the community are interested in making a connection with a specific institution, the DGOC will help facilitate a connection where possible.
The DGOC is interested in feedback and recommendations on the next iteration of the database. Please send your feedback to Valorie Hollister at
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| Conferences and Events |
May 18-21: Open Repositories 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia
May 20-21: DSpace User Group Meeting held in conjuction with OR2009 in Atlanta, Georgia
June 1-3: Digital Repositories and DSpace User Community Meeting: an Information Services Camp event at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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 17-19: OAI6 - CERN Workshop On Innovations In Scholarly Communication in Geneva, Switzerland
July 16-17: 4th International Conference on e-Learning in Toronto, Canada
June 24-26: PASIG Summer Meeting in St. Julian's, Malta
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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Below is an archive of the DSpace newsletter, NewSpace, which was produced from January 2008 through May 2010. To see current news and information about the DSpace community, please visit the DuraSpace Blog. You may subscribe to the RSS from this blog, and/or receive a monthly DuraSpace Blog Digest by subscribing to
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dspace.org stats: 21,894 visits, 138 countries / territories, 68% new visitors - for February 2009
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Volume 2, Issue 12
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To view previous editions of NewSpace, click here
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Foundation Message
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For those of you that have not heard the news, I would like to applaud the MIT faculty for approving a university-wide initiative to provide free and open access to their scholarly articles on the web in MIT's DSpace repository. This is poised to have broad implications in the repository community, as in many cases repositories are an enabling technology for hosting this output. Let's hope MIT's example encourages others to be as bold in taking steps towards free and open access of research output. Click here to read the full press release from MIT.
OR2009 is coming up May 18-21 and I encourage everyone who can to attend this conference. 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. Sandy Payette, Executive Director of Fedora Commons and I will also talk about the Fedora/DSpace partnership and our new joint venture, DuraSpace. Brad McLean, DSpace Foundation's Technical Director, will discuss the roadmap for the platform, including 2.0. In addition, following the conference their will be a half day developer workshop on DSpace 1.5 and beyond, with specific focus on the new architecture of 2.0.
I would like to thank CILEA and Andrea Bollini for taking the role of release manager for 1.5.2. He has been doing an excellent job working with the development community to track down bug fixes and new features. He also is the first release manager to use Jira to manage and drive the release process. We thank him for taking on this challenge!
Michele Kimpton,
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| Software Update |
1.5.2 Release: Andrea Bollini from CILEA has been coordinating the release of DSpace 1.5.2. A code freeze took place on March 23rd, and a testathon on March 25th. We are anticipating a release on or after April 6th, pending the resolution of remaining issues. 1.5.2 contains numerous bug fixes and feature improvements, including: SWORD 1.3 support, a new hook for statistics plugins, and UI translations for Greek, Italian and Thai. There is also an improvement for the item page in JSPUI which will allow many urn to be resolved graceful with only configuration work (DOI, ISSN, ISBN, etc.). In addition, Shibboleth support will also be integrated into 1.5.2.
The complete list of patches and issues can be found on the wiki, which includes links to see the current status in Jira.
Note that the hook for statistics plugins just provides a consistent API for retrieving usage events. There is additional work being done to utilize this hook for both University of Rochester statistics and for University of Minho statistics. These add-ons are expected to become available sometime after the 1.5.2 release.
2.0 Work: The 2.0 team is continuing to work on integrating XMLUI, new JSPUI, and a DSpace 1.5 compatible data model on top of the 2.0 framework. XMLUI has been updated to operate with Cocoon 2.2. Reviews of the 2.0 framework, the UIs, and the data model are being prepared for presentation at OR2009, as is a list of potential projects for future development. All of the current 2.0 code is available for review at Sourceforge. top |
| Google Summer of Code |
| The DSpace Foundation has been accepted as a participating organization for the Google Summer of Code program (GSoC). Members of the DSpace community are encouraged to review the existing project ideas or to create their own on the GSoC wiki. Student interns have until April 3, 2009 to apply GSoC website.
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Jira - Feature Request & Issue Tracking
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The DSpace community is now using Jira to track, prioritize and guide its work. In addition to the DSpace platform work, Jira also allows the community to watch specific issues - receive updates when there are changes - as well as vote on an issue's relevance. Although there are no guarantees when a specific item will be addressed, the community can build a consensus on items captured in Jira and it will enhance the visibility of that issue. Jira also allows developers to create hierarchal tasks, vary the privilege levels and create a variety of status reports. Community members are encouraged to create Jira accounts, comment on issues and participate in the steering process. Jira participants can also subscribe to feeds, if they are interested in tracking activity.
You can get an overview of activity on DSpace 1.5.2 (and beyond) here without logging in. The "Roadmap" tab/link will give a good overview of issues sorted by their associated release. The "Open Issues" link will allow you to drill down, either by component (E.G. XMLUI), or by release, including issues not yet associated with any releases. You may also use the "Quick Search" box located at the upper right to enter keywords and locate issues.
Once you've located an issue of interest, and clicked on it, you will be presented with an overview page for that issue. Below the description is a tab bar; generally you'll want the "All" tab, as the others merely filter away sections.
If you create an account and log in, you will see additional options throughout the Jira. On the overview page you will be able to create new issues. On the issue status pages, a menu of operations will appear at the left, allowing you to comment, vote, and monitor the status of the issue.
The resolution of issues related to Shibboleth for DSpace 1.5.2 is an interesting example of Jira use. Please see http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-109 and http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-48 to get an idea of how the work has progressed. top
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Community Networking Survey
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| With the support and coordination of the DSpace Foundation, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) will release a DSpace community survey later this week. The goal of the survey is to provide information to the DSpace user community which will help to facilitate connections for organizations and individuals using the DSpace platform. The survey was designed by DGOC, which is made up of a group of DSpace users from around the world. The information gathered from the survey will be made available to the DSpace community in a dynamic database later this year. Members of the community will be able to search the database to find users who have similar repositories, environments or interests. Please take the time to complete the survey - not only will help you connect more easily with the rest of the DSpace community, but all respondents who complete the survey will be eligible for a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift certificate. If you did not receive an email with the survey link, please contact Valorie Hollister at
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DSpace User Group Meeting at OR2009
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The OR2009 DSpace User Group Meeting plans are underway. Eligible presentation proposals were submitted by March 20th and the DSUG Planning Committee is currently reviewing all proposals. Notification of acceptances will be sent out on April 3rd. More information, including a meeting schedule will be posted on the OR2009 website by late April.
The OR2009 DSUG Planning Committee includes:
Rea Devakos, University of Toronto and Planning Committee Chair
Andrea Bollini, AePIC Team CILEA
Valorie Hollister, DSpace Foundation
Elliot Metsger, Johns Hopkins University
Julie Speers, Georgia Institute of Technology
To register for OR2009 and the DSUG meeting, please click here. If you have any questions about the DSUG meeting, please contact Rea Devakos at
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| DSpace Global Outreach Committee Update |
The DSpace Global Outreach Committee is moving forward on several of their 2009 projects. Several members of the committee are helping to plan the DSpace User Group Meetings (DSUG) at OR2009 in May 2009 and DSUG stand alone meeting in Sweden in October 2009.
The committee is also designing and testing the new social network for the DSpace user community searchable by area of interest or expertise. They expect to have the new social network available at OR2009.
And lastly, as mentioned above, the DGOC has developed and released a community networking survey to help inform 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.
The DGOC welcomes feedback and assistance at any time. You do not need to be a part of the DGOC to help with any of the above projects. If you would like to get involved in any way - big or small -- please contact Valorie Hollister at
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All About Repositories Webinars
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If you missed last month's "All About Repositories: DSpace and Fedora - A Collaboration Update" webinar, which included a discussion about DuraSpace, both the playback and presentation slides are available.
Click here to register for the next webinar in the "All About Repositories" series on April 15, "Increasing Use and Content Through Creative Service-Repository Bundling". The "All About Repositories" is a free series offered by a joint effort between DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, Sun Microsystems and The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). top |
| Conferences and Events |
April 1-3: 4th Institutional Repository Workshop hosted by the University of Pretoria, South Africa
April 6-7: CNI Spring 2009 Task Force Meeting includes presentation "DuraSpace: New Value from Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation" in Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 18-21: Open Repositories 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia
May 20-21: DSpace User Group Meeting held in conjunction with OR2009 in Atlanta, Georgia
June 1-3: Digital Repositories and DSpace User Community Meeting: an Information Services Camp event at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
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 17-19: 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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