Introduction to DSpace

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Erpanet Workshop Richard Rodgers DSpace
Federation Systems Manager MIT Digital Library
Research Group
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DSpace Next Major Release

• Support for subcommunities
• Items in multiple collections
• Thumbnails in item displays (browse?)
• Improve ease-of-use in Admin UI
• Bitstream permanent identifiers?
• METS packaging in import/export
• Handle HTML page display
• Indexing of full-text of documents

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Contributed Work

• Customizable submission forms
• Web-services based Z39.50 query add-on (SRW)

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OAIS-compliant

• Archival Information Packages
• Export format
• Custom XML schema now
• METS soon
• waiting for technical and rights metadata
  extension schemas
• SCORM/IMS packages too
• OCW-defined CDIF packages

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DSpace Federation

• Who?
• Research libraries, government agencies, cultural
  heritage institutions (museums, archives)
• Inside/outside the US
• Overlapping/complementary research interests

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DSpace Federation

• Why?
• Drive DSpace development
• open source development model
• Build critical mass of content
• support useful interoperation
• Leverage distributed expertise
• metadata
• digital preservation

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Federation Benefits

• Socio-political
• Shared direction, leadership, priorities, goals,
  resources
• Standards development
• Putting weight behind best practices
• e.g. W3C, NISO, IETF, ARL/DLF standards
• Drive commercial developments

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Federation Benefits

• Federated Services, e.g
• Virtual collections
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and
  Dissertations
• New publishing ventures
• Overlay e-journal located at multiple
  institutions
• Cross-institution/cross-collection search
• NCSTRL project
• OAI indexes in any subject
• Distributed services
• Leverage industry services supporting
  preservation, etc.

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Federation Partners

• Cambridge University (UK)
• Columbia University (US)
• Cornell University (US)
• MIT (US)
• Ohio State University (US)
• University of Rochester (US)
• University of Toronto (Canada)
• University of Washington (US)