Introduction to DSpace

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Introduction to DSpace

• Richard Rodgers
• MIT Libraries
• NARA Symposium Partnerships in Innovation
• November 15-16, 2004

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DSpace - Definitions

• Software Platform and Tools
• Focus on access and preservation services
• Set of Service Models for Digital Asset
  Management
  
• Institutional Repository is exemplar case
• LOR, Records Management
• Open Source Development Community
• Federation of Content Providers
• Set of Research Initiatives

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DSpace
Open source dynamic digital repository
Visual Explanations by Dynamic Diagrams
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Open Source Development

• Code available to all, free of charge
• Support is community-based
• Developers are custodians of platform
  architecture and evolution
  
• Safety in numbers (e.g. large community of
  adopters with vested interest)
  
• Adherence to open standards

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Standards-based

• Java (hardware and OS platform independent)
• Standards Compliant
• X.509 digital certificates for access control
• OpenURL
• OAI-PMH
• Z39.50 and SRW
• CNRI Handles
• Qualified Dublin Core metadata
• METS packaging

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Adoption

• 15K software downloads since first release
• Over 55 CNRI registrations
• Over 65 live production sites
• Many in pre-production 125 total online soon
• Broad geographic distribution
• A small sample gallery

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Research Initiatives DSpace 2.0

• Focus on modularity plug-in components
• New web user interface framework
• Better preservation support - AIPs
• Scalability considerations
• Expected in 2005, migration from 1.X

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Research Initiatives Cont

• DSRB integrating DSpace with SRB data grid
  (NARA SDSC, UCSD Libraries)
  
• CWSpace archiving OpenCourseWare content
  (iCampus OCW, CSAIL)
  
• DSpace_at_Cambridge - preservation and
  interoperation with LMS systems (Cambridge-MIT
  Institute CUL, CUCS)
  
• SIMILIE semantic web technologies for
  heterogeneous metadata (HP, W3C, CSAIL)