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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 |
| Who's Using DSpace
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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 |
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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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Any emails sent to the old list address (
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Will all the email archives also be migrated to SourceForge?
Yes. The entire email archives (which go back to 2003) will be migrated over to SourceForge, where they can be accessed alongside the archives of all our other mailing lists.
If I wasn't signed up for the old list, how can I join the new list?
You can sign up for the new mailing list here: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general.
If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to contact Tim Donohue at
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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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2.0 Update
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The DSpace 2.0 funded project has closed and the resulting service framework and services code are being considered for inclusion in forthcoming DSpace releases. Because of the significant architectural changes proposed by the DSpace 2.0 project, the DSpace developers feel it is best to bring this technology into future releases incrementally. In fact, the 1.5.x releases included the Spring Framework and Apache Cocoon upgrades (XMLUI only) from this 2.0 work. The upcoming DSpace 1.6 release will also include the 2.0 service framework."
The data model and code partitioning work in 2.0 was targeted at increasing integration opportunities, and exploration in these areas continues. We are currently investigating the export/import of DSpace Communities/Collections/Items in standard formats. In addition, there is ongoing investigation on using DSpace in concert with separate underlying systems, including DuraCloud.
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DSpace Ambassadors
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The DSpace Ambassador Program announced late last fall has been gaining momentum. We now have 28 Ambassadors in 21 different countries! The volunteers are enthusiastic about helping new and potential DSpace users as well as building user network in their region/country. To learn more about the program or to see the list of current Ambassadors, visit the wiki. If you would like to volunteer to be an Ambassador, please contact Valorie Hollister at
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Using SWORD and SWAP to Implement the MIT Open Access Mandate
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 In March of 2009 the faculty at MIT voted on a policy that would make their scholarly articles openly available on the Web. It states, "The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible." The DSpace repository at MIT (http://dspace.mit.edu/) is being used to house those articles and to make them openly available to the world. In order to ensure that efficient workflows were in place to receive the articles, the MIT Libraries undertook to customize their ingest workflows, leveraging functionality recently made available to the DSpace community, as well as, looking at efforts by others in the broader repository community. To read the full article, click here.
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| Conferences and Events |
January 28-29: Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context in London, United Kingdom
February 22-25: Code4Lib in Asheville, North Carolina
Februrary 23: Repositories in the Cloud in London, United Kingdom
February 23-26: International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) in New Delhi, India
February 24-27: Dev8D in London, United Kingdom
March 8-10: JASIG 10th Anniversary Conference in San Diego, California
April 9-10: ASIS&T Summit - Research Data Access and Preservation in Phoenix, AZ
April 12-13: Coalition for Networked Information Conference 2009 Spring Task Force Meeting in Baltimore, MD
June 21-25, 2010: Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, California
July 1-2: The JISC/CNI Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland
July 6-9, 2010: Fifth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2010) in Madrid, Spain
November 9-10: SPARC Meeting
December 6-8: 6th International Digital Curation Conference in Chicago, IL
December 13-14: Coalition for Networked Information Conference 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting in Washington, DC
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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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NewSpace - Volume 2, Issue 17 |
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dspace.org stats: 30,151 visits, 155 countries / territories, 68% new visitors - for October 2009
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Volume 2, Issue 17
November 2009
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Argentina
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Org - Australia
University of Liège - Belgium
Universidade de São Paulo, Brasiliana Digital- Brazil
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics - Bulgaria
University of Ottawa - Canada
Copenhagen Business School - Denmark
Universidad Técnica de Manabí - Ecuador
International Livesock Research Institute - Ethiopia
Universities of Applied Sciences - Finland
Deutschen Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Econstor - Germany
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen - Germany
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Hong Kong
BMS Informatikai Kft, Digital Repository - Hungary
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, National Library - Hungary
University of Debrecen, DEA - Hungary
Rajya Sabha-Parliament of India, Official Debate - India
National University of Ireland, ARAN - Ireland
Akita University - Japan
International Livestock Research - Kenya
Open Universiteit Nederland - Netherlands
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência - Portugal
Universidade da Beira Interior - Portugal
Universidade de Évora
- Portugal
Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro - Portugal
Qatar University - Qatar
Erdelyi Múzeum-Egyesület - Romania
University of Brasov - Romania
Durban University of Technology -
South Africa
Materials Docents En Xarxa, CBUC & CESCA - Spain
Patronato de la Alhambra y el Generalife - Spain
Universidad de Granada - Spain
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Spain
Swansea Metropolitan University - United Kingdom
Trinity University College Carmarthen - United Kingdom
University of Cambridge, Electronic Theses - United Kingdom
Bowling Green State University Libraries - United States
Indiana State University - United States
Rhodes College, DLynx - United States
University of Cincinnati Libraries - United States
University of Hawaii at Manoa, eVols - United States
University of North Carolina Charlotte, E-Scholar Project - United States
Wake Forest University, ForsythDigital - United States
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (not public) - Uruguay
National University of Ho Chi Minh - Vietnam
University of Dalat (not public) - Vietnam
VBETA Buddhist - Vietnam
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DuraSpace: The DSpace Team
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DuraSpace is pleased to announce Tim Donohue officially joined the DuraSpace organization as Technical Lead for the DSpace Project this month. Tim's focus is to provide guidance and leadership to the DSpace Committers and code contributors as they plan, develop, test and release future versions of DSpace. As a part of the DuraSpace team, he will also provide technical guidance and help lead strategic DuraSpace initiatives within the DSpace user community. Tim will also work with the Fedora developers to find collaborative opportunities between the repository platforms. For more about Tim's biography and background click here.
Partnered with Tim on the DSpace Team is Valorie Hollister, the Director of Community Development and newly appointed Director of the DSpace Project. Valorie will continue her work with the community, providing guidance and leadership to the broader DSpace community in order to promote and facilitate collaboration of all types. Valorie's role now also includes DSpace project lead. As the primary point of contact on the DSpace project, she will coordinate closely with Tim to advance the needs of DSpace users.
Together, Valorie, Tim and the rest of the DuraSpace organization aim to be the catalyst for the continued success of open source software, including the DSpace application, by providing a framework for the long term durability of digital information.
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Enabling Collaboration Through Solution Communities
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DuraSpace Reaches Out to Decision-Makers Through Open Source Development Process with Launch of Solution Communities
At the heart of any open source project are the people who come together to create innovative software. Last week, DuraSpace, the non-profit organization that combines Fedora Commons and DSpace technologies, announced a launch of the Solution Community program to extend participation in open source software development to strategic decision makers.
With over 1000 repository implementations worldwide, DuraSpace Solution Communities seek to increase resources, connections, skills and ideas by engaging people at all organizational levels in order to improve open technologies and strengthen the communities that use them. By providing leadership, tools and coordination DuraSpace Solution Communities bring tech savvy decision-makers together around critical community issues to establish the conditions in which collaboration can flourish to provide durable access to our digital heritage.
Solution Communities provide an opportunity to get involved in grassroots efforts to meet the challenges of rapidly changing information environments faced by knowledge organizations everywhere. The groups have been designed from a bottom-up organizational approach based on the theory that higher levels of order will emerge from complex systems under the right conditions. Solution Communities in Data Curation, Preservation and Archiving, Scholars Workbench, and Small Archives have begun investigations into how to leverage collective interests and priorities. To support Solution Community efforts, DuraSpace has developed a suite of tools and offers free access to anyone with an interest in participating. Individuals will find several ways to engage with Solution Communities including wikis that contain a growing knowledge base, and mailing lists for specific communication around Solution Community topics. In addition, the new DuraSpace social network pilot in Crowdvine features informal groupings for each Solution Community so individuals can connect around their particular interest.
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1.6 Testathon - The Big Bug Hunt
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DSpace 1.6 is in the final weeks of development. There are a just a few items to wrap up before we enter the community testing and bug hunt phase starting on Monday, December 7. This is when we will need YOUR help! Several members of the DSpace community will host public instances of 1.6 for you to sign onto and put 1.6 through it's paces. If you would prefer, you are welcome to download the beta of 1.6 to install, or to test an upgrade of your version 1.5.x test or development system.
If you've never considered participating in a testathon before, please jump in now on the "Big Bug Hunt", get a preview of all the great new 1.6 features (batch metadata editing, embargo, improved statistics and much more) and do your part to help us to root out as many problems as possible before the official release. We need everyone to join in and push 1.6 to its limits, as there are so many new features that require user exploration and lots of old features that have been improved which will also require testing.
The DSpace 1.6 documentation has also been through a major revision. We ask everyone to join in the documentation review to make sure that it not only supports the new features in 1.6, but also improves the guidance on DSpace overall.
There will be more details to come about the testathon - and we'll make sure it is really easy to get admin access to a DSpace 1.6 instance and to report bugs or issues. Please do join the rest of the community in the "Big Bug Hunt" starting on December 7 and help to make this the best release ever!
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Open Access Week Update
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Last month, DuraSpace joined 200 organizations worldwide in celebrating Open Access Week. The concept of Open Access is based on the simple idea that all research should be freely accessible online, immediately after publication. As a part of the Open Access Week celebration DuraSpace released a package of tools and resources to help information managers everywhere learn more about how to make their information available, accessible and durable that includes:
To read more about Open Access Week activities, click here.
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Fall DSUG Meeting Recap and Survey
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Thank you to Jonas Gilbert, the DSUG Fall 2009 Program Committee Chairperson, the rest of the Program Committee, the local organizing team, the University of Gothenburg, the City of Gothenburg, the sponsors and the presenters for an informative and enjoyable event!
Over 90 participants from 20 different countries attend the fall DSUG 2009 meeting. In addition to the European community, there was DSpace users from the United States, Brazil, New Zealand and Singapore. Copies of the presentations and video recordings are now available for most of the sessions.
Here are some of the highlights:
For copies of all the presentations and video recordings, click here.
If you attended the conference, your feedback is important! Please complete the brief survey so we may continue to improve our meetings.
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New DSpace.org Resources - Issue Tracker Tutorial and DSpace Use Cases
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There are a couple new resources for the DSpace community now available on dspace.org. First is a use case example grid, which provides new or potential DSpace users with an idea of how DSpace is used by other organizations. It describes the eight of the most common use cases and several specific examples of each. Click here to see the grid.
There is also a new short tutorial video that shows DSpace users how to use JIRA, the issue/feature tracking tool used by the DSpace community. The video, produced by @mire, a DSpace service provider, takes users through searching/querying the JIRA issue list, how to add a new issue/bug to the list as well as how to get notifications about activity on a specific issue. Click here to watch the video.
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Georgia Tech's Federated Repository Project
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The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) recently awarded a grant to Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center to build a statewide institutional repository using the DSpace platform called the GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR). The GKR grant project is a partnership between the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Georgia State University, the Medical College of Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Valdosta State University, Albany State University, North Georgia College and State University, and the College of Coastal Georgia.
Tyler Walters from Georgia Tech's Library and Toby Graham from the University of Georgia Libraries are the co-principal investigators on the grant. According to Walters there are three layers to the project. First, the project will create individual repositories for each partner institution that does not currently have one. Secondly, the records from each repository will be harvested and migrated to a single site so "a user can then go to one single site and search all member repositories at one time," says Walters. The intent is that the content on the federated site will showcase the collaboration within the USG system. Walter says "we're hoping that if users are looking for research, they will see the similarities and partnerships throughout the campuses," and that "this will help make research increasingly available to the public." The last layer of the project will offer repository services, scanning/converting materials to digital formats, checking on publishing rights and assisting in content submission. In addition there is also an opportunity to store research materials in the MetaArchive Cooperative, a collaborative effort between Emory University, Georgia Tech and 13 other research institutions. The Cooperative is a member-driven organization that has been funded by the Library of Congress and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
In addition to building a federated repository, the GKR partners also plan to host a national symposium on statewide and consortial repositories, create instructional materials, conduct consortial IR training, and offer consulting services. "By the project's end, the GKR will become a comprehensive statewide repository program and has as one of its major goals to increase the number of consortially managed digital repositories in the U.S. through training and instruction." For more information, see the press release here.
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| Conferences and Events |
Dec 2-4: 5th International Digital Curation Conference 2009 (DCC 2009) in London, United Kingdom
December 3-4: Digital Repository Federation International Conference 2009 (DRFIC) in Tokoyo Japan
December 9-10: Digital Strategies for Heritage Conference (DISH) in Rotterdam, Netherlands
December 10: New England PASIG Seminar and Networking in Boston, MA
December 14-15: Coalition for Networked Information Conference 2009 Fall Task Force Meeting in Washington, DC
January 8, 2010: DigCCurr Public Symposium: Engaging Communities for the Curation of Digital Products of Scholarly Endeavors in Chapel Hill, NC
January 28-29, 2010: Subject Repositories: European Collaboration in the International Context in London, United Kingdom
February 23-26, 2010: International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) in New Delhi, India
March 8-10, 2010: JASIG 10th Anniversary Conference in San Diego, California
June 21-25, 2010: Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, California
July 6-9, 2010: Fifth Annual International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2010) in Madrid, Spain
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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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NewSpace - Volume 2, Issue 16 |
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dspace.org stats: 23,275 visits, 152 countries / territories, 64% new visitors - for September 2009
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Volume 2, Issue 16
October 2009
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To view previous editions of NewSpace, click here
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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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2.0 Update
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DSpace Services for 1.6/2.0
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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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Documentation Update
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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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Google Summer of Code
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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.
We thank the all the individuals mentioned above as well as all those from the development community who helped advise the students. Congratulations to this year's students! top
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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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about onsite registration.
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
Posters:
Proposals for the poster session can still be submitted. Send an email including title, author and affiliation to
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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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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.
