From cdygert at american.edu Tue Mar 1 12:06:51 2005 From: cdygert at american.edu (Claire Dygert) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:06:51 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Claire Dygert/cdygert/Faculty/Library/Provost/AmericanU is out ofthe office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 02/28/2005 and will not return until 03/03/2005. I will be out of the office starting 06/21/2004 and will not return until 07/13/04. From cliveg at gmail.com Thu Mar 3 02:58:55 2005 From: cliveg at gmail.com (clive gould) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 07:58:55 +0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace installation blog Message-ID: <62a72a690503022358340d9511@mail.gmail.com> Hi I've just successfully installed DSpace on a Fedora Core 3 system at Bromley College in the UK. To help others I have posted my installation notes on a blog at: http://www.linuxtraining.org.uk/blogger.html Best wishes Clive From krish at isibang.ac.in Thu Mar 3 04:00:23 2005 From: krish at isibang.ac.in (Krishnamurthy M) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:30:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Dspace-general Digest, Vol 19, Issue 15 In-Reply-To: <200502241702.j1OH28hB016620@pch.mit.edu> Message-ID: We are running DSpace on Fedora. An error was observed while deleting a collection. We get internal error and the collection cannot be deleted. When getting internal server error, the log gets suddenly redirect to TOMCAT. Even restarting the TOMCAT server and JAVA ant does not solve this problem. M.Krishnamurthy -- Dr.M.Krishnamurthy Librarian Indian Statistical Institute 8th Mile Mysore Road R.V.C.E. Post Bangalore 560059 Ph:91-80-8483002/3/4/4 Fax: 91-80-8484265 From cbailey at uh.edu Sat Mar 5 16:55:28 2005 From: cbailey at uh.edu (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:55:28 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Open Access Bibliography Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050305155409.0286a790@mail.uh.edu> The Open Access Bibliography: Liberating Scholarly Literature with E-Prints and Open Access Journals presents over 1,300 selected English-language books, conference papers (including some digital video presentations), debates, editorials, e-prints, journal and magazine articles, news articles, technical reports, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding the open access movement's efforts to provide free access to and unfettered use of scholarly literature. Most sources have been published between 1999 and August 31, 2004; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1999 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are freely available on the Internet (approximately 78 percent of the bibliography's references have such links). http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.pdf This bibliography has been published as a printed book (ISBN 1-59407-670-7) by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). http://www.arl.org/pubscat/pubs/openaccess/ ARL and the author have made the above PDF version of the bibliography freely available. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Key Open Access Concepts 1 General Works 1.1 Overviews 1.2 Analysis and Critiques 1.3 Debates and Dialogs 1.3.1 Nature Web Debate on Future E-Access to the Primary Literature 1.3.2 Nature Web Focus on Access to the Literature: The Debate Continues 1.3.3 Other 1.4 Research Studies 1.5 Other 2 Open Access Statements 2.1 Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities 2.2 Bethesda Statement on Open Access 2.3 Budapest Open Access Initiative 2.4 NEAR 2.5 OECD Final Communique 2.6 Tempe Principles 2.7 Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science 2.8 Wellcome Trust Position Statement and Research Reports 2.9 World Summit on the Information Society Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action 2.10 Other 3 Copyright Arrangements for Self-Archiving and Use 3.1 General Works 3.2 Copyright Ownership and Rights 3.3 Creative Commons 3.4 Permissions Crisis 3.5 Research Studies 4 Open Access Journals 4.1 General Works 4.2 Economic Issues 4.2.1 General Works 4.2.2 BMJ Rapid Responses about "Author Pays" May Be the New Science Publishing Model 4.3 Open Access Journal Change Agents 4.3.1 SPARC 4.4 Open Access Journal Publishers and Distributors 4.4.1 BioMed Central 4.4.2 Public Library of Science 4.4.3 PubMed Central 4.4.3.1 General Works 4.4.3.2 Science Magazine dEbate on "Building a GenBank of the Published Literature" 4.4.3.3 Science Magazine dEbate on "Is a Government Archive the Best Option?" 4.4.3.4 Science Magazine dEbate on "Just a Minute, Please" 4.4.3.5 Other 4.5 Specific Open Access Journals 4.5.1 Journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals 4.5.2 Pioneering Free E-Journals Not in the DOAJ 4.5.3 Other 4.6 Research Studies 5 E-Prints 5.1 General Works 5.2 History 5.3 Research Studies 6 Disciplinary Archives 6.1 General Works 6.2 Specific Archives and Projects 6.2.1 arXiv 6.2.2 NASA Astrophysics Data System 6.2.3 RePEc 6.2.4 Other 7 Institutional Archives and Repositories 7.1 General Works 7.2 E-Print Archives 7.2.1 General Works 7.2.2 Specific Archives and Projects 7.2.2.1 ePrints-UK 7.2.2.2 SHERPA 7.2.2.3 Other 7.3 Repositories with Diverse Materials 7.3.1 General Works 7.3.2 Specific Repositories and Projects 7.3.2.1 DAEDALUS 7.3.2.2 DSpace 7.3.2.3 eScholarship 7.3.2.4 Fedora 7.3.2.5 OSU Knowledge Bank 7.3.2.6 Other 7.4 Electronic Theses and Dissertations 8 Open Archives Initiative and OAI-PMH 8.1 General Works 8.2 Specific Data or Service Providers and Projects 8.2.1 AmericanSouth.org 8.2.2 Arc 8.2.3 Kepler 8.2.4 OAIster 8.2.5 OpCit 8.2.6 Open Archives Forum 8.2.7 Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Project 8.2.8 Other 8.3 Research Studies 9 Conventional Publisher Perspectives 10 Government Inquires and Legislation 10.1 European Commission Study 10.2 Sabo Bill 10.3 U.K. House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry 10.4 U.S. House Appropriations Committee Recommendations 10.5 Other 11 Open Access Arrangements for Developing Countries 11.1 General Works 11.2 Free or Reduced Cost Access 11.2.1 AGORA 11.2.2 HINARI 11.2.3 Other 11.3 SciELO About the Author Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey at uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From gerson.sapac at gawab.com Sun Mar 6 19:51:56 2005 From: gerson.sapac at gawab.com (Gerson Galang) Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 11:21:56 +1030 Subject: [Dspace-general] dspace-tech subscription error In-Reply-To: <200503070026.j270QSbp031141@garfield.services.adelaide.edu.au> References: <200503070026.j270QSbp031141@garfield.services.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: <422BA5AC.8050101@gawab.com> Hi, I've been trying to subscribe to the dspace tech mailing list for a very long time now but I keep on getting this response from the mailer whenever I send in the confirmation to my request. Can the moderators of the dspace-tech list add my email address manually to the list? Thanks, Gerson Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: > The original message was received at Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:56:20 +1030 > from melaleuca.services.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.41.31] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > > (reason: 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking ) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to mail.sourceforge.net.: > >>>>DATA > > <<< 550-Postmaster verification failed while checking > <<< 550-Called: 208.21.175.136 > <<< 550-Sent: RCPT TO: > <<< 550-Response: 550 5.1.1 Account Over Quota.(#5.7.1) > <<< 550-Several RFCs state that you are required to have a postmaster > <<< 550-mailbox for each mail domain. This host does not accept mail > <<< 550-from domains whose servers reject the postmaster address. > <<< 550 Sender verify failed > 550 5.1.1 ... 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To confirm the >> request, please send a message to >> dspace-tech-request at lists.sourceforge.net, and either: >> >> - maintain the subject line as is (the reply's additional "Re:" is >> ok), >> >> - or include the following line - and only the following line - in the >> message body: >> confirm 354360 >> >> (Simply sending a 'reply' to this message should work from most email >> interfaces, since that usually leaves the subject line in the right >> form.) >> >> If you do not wish to subscribe to this list, please simply disregard >> this message. Send questions to >> dspace-tech-admin at lists.sourceforge.net. >> From dirk.debeukelaer at agfa.com Tue Mar 8 01:03:08 2005 From: dirk.debeukelaer at agfa.com (dirk.debeukelaer@agfa.com) Date: 08-Mar-2005 01:03:08 CET Subject: [Dspace-general] Dirk De_Beukelaer/AMAFA/MOR/Agfa-NV/BE/BAYER is out of the office. Message-ID: <200503080003.j2803EX05313@smtp1.agfa.be> I will be out of the office starting 03/07/2005 and will not return until 03/11/2005. Please send your information requests and library orders to Bibliotheek at agfa.com For urgent matters, please contact Ann Louis 03 444 3099 From pbm2 at cam.ac.uk Thu Mar 10 12:00:08 2005 From: pbm2 at cam.ac.uk (Peter Morgan) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:00:08 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Forthcoming digital repository meetings, 6-8 July 2005, Cambridge , UK Message-ID: <2A70D44ECF6F1A4390DD1D98E8BEDEF2E8373A@mius2.medlan.cam.ac.uk> With apologies for cross-posting --------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Dates for your diary: 6/7/8 July 2005 at the University of Cambridge This is an initial announcement to let you know of two related meetings that you might wish to attend. The Digital Curation Centre is planning to hold a DCC workshop in the UK at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 6 July 2005. Immediately following this, a second DSpace Federation User Group meeting will be held, also at the University of Cambridge, on Thursday-Friday, 7-8 July 2005. The DCC workshop will be a training event on the long-term curation and preservation of institutional repositories (regardless of software platform). The DSpace meeting will focus on issues specific to the use of the DSpace repository platform. As some participants will want to attend both events, the organisers of the two meetings will co-ordinate registration and other arrangements as far as possible. Some preliminary information on the two events follows below. ******************************************************* Digital Curation Centre workshop The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was launched in November 2004 following a recommendation in the JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy (October 2002). The current partners of the DCC are the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UKOLN and the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC). The DCC is not itself a data repository, nor do we attempt to impose policies and practices of one branch of scholarship upon another. Rather, based on insight from a vibrant research programme that addresses wider issues of data curation and long-term preservation, we will develop and offer programmes of outreach and practical services to assist those who must curate data. Rather than duplicate effort, we seek to complement and contribute to the endeavours of related organisations. Curation and preservation issues are integral to all digital repositories - regardless of platform. As such, the DCC are cooperating with DSpace to convene a one-day workshop to examine some of the major issues involved with the long-term access to and re-use of data held within digital repositories from a range of perspectives - including the HE/FE and e-science communities. Themes for this event may include: ? workflow and business models for the long-term curation and sustainability of digital repositories ? certification of digital repositories ? roles and responsibilities ? interoperability ? metadata ? policies These issues will be explored through a mixture of panel discussions, presentations, case studies and breakout sessions. The DCC is committed to nurturing strong community relationships and a major aim for this event is to create a forum for the sharing of experiences and ideas between a wide range of stakeholders. ******************************************************* 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting The 1st DSpace Federation User Group meeting was held in Boston, USA, in March 2004. Organised by the DSpace team at MIT Libraries, it was a very successful open 2-day meeting and was attended by approximately 120 delegates drawn from ten different countries. It included several plenary sessions and two parallel tracks, one focussing on technical issues and the other on organisational policy. (For presentations and a summary report, see http://dspace.org/conference/conference.html) In the post-meeting evaluation it was concluded that many of the policy issues were essentially platform-independent and not specific to DSpace users, and that future discussion of such topics would be more appropriate in a broader forum of those interested in digital repositories. It followed that future meetings of the DSpace Federation - the international community of DSpace code contributors and users - should focus on issues that were more specific to the architecture and functionality of the DSpace platform. The 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting is now being planned with this in mind. MIT Libraries have passed organisational responsibility for the meeting to colleagues at Cambridge University working on the DSpace at Cambridge project, a joint Cambridge-MIT initiative funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI). The July 2005 meeting, which will be partly sponsored by CMI, will reflect both the need for a DSpace-specific agenda and the international character of the DSpace Federation. The formal Call For Papers and invitation to register will be issued shortly. -- Peter Morgan Project Director, DSpace at Cambridge Cambridge University Library West Road Cambridge CB3 9DR UK email: pbm2 at cam.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1223 333130 fax: +44 (0)1223 339973 Joy Davidson DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Service House, 11 University Gardens, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QJ Scotland Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592 Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788 email: british.editor at erpanet.org http://www.dcc.ac.uk http://www.erpanet.org From Mary.Piorun at umassmed.edu Fri Mar 11 08:14:43 2005 From: Mary.Piorun at umassmed.edu (Piorun, Mary) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:14:43 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] PDF permissions Message-ID: <5B238BE7511C7D4FB736CF0451643D53028F7C05@edunivmail03.ad.umassmed.edu> Who should I contact to request permission to us the dspace diagram in a library display on IR's? The PDF in question can be found at: http://dspace.org/introduction/dspace-diagram.pdf Mary Piorun Associate Director, Library Systems Lamar Soutter Library P) 508/856-2206 E) mary.piorun at umassmed.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050311/17343735/attachment.htm From jim.ottaviani at umich.edu Fri Mar 11 10:57:01 2005 From: jim.ottaviani at umich.edu (Jim Ottaviani) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:57:01 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Depositor requests for open-ended or ambiguous access restrictions? Message-ID: Hello all, As we try to create some guidelines and policies for our pilot project here at the University of Michigan, we'd like to know what types of requests other institutions get for access restrictions on deposited items. Specifically, do people ever request limited access to their bitstreams for either open-ended periods (e.g. "Until I notify you.") or ambiguous periods (e.g. "Until everyone in the study has given their consent.")? And if that happens, a) is it a frequent request, and b) how do you handle it? Thanks in advance for your help! Jim ______________________________ Jim Ottaviani +1 734-763-4835 University of Michigan Library Quis custodiet ipsos custodes --Juvenal, Satires VI, 347 From robert.tansley at hp.com Fri Mar 11 11:06:22 2005 From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:06:22 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace-tech gets 500th subscriber! Message-ID: <19ADCC0B9D4CAD4582BB9900BBCE35742A4ED2@tayexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net> Another milestone: The DSpace-tech list now has 500 subscribers! Robert Tansley / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/ From sbell at library.rochester.edu Fri Mar 11 11:34:12 2005 From: sbell at library.rochester.edu (Suzanne Bell) Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:34:12 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Suggestions for recording physical size? Message-ID: Hi all - Here's an interesting one: our History of Medicine Librarian wants to scan and load to DSpace a collection of Patent Medicine Tradecards (like baseball cards for patent medicines?! I guess-). An excellent cataloger, he's wondering which, if any, of the Dublin Core fields on offer in DSpace should be used for recording the dimensions of the physical originals. We were pondering "format.extent", but this seems to be system supplied information, and refer to the digital size (bytes). Any thoughts, suggestions? many thanks! cheers, Suzanne ******************************************* Suzanne Bell, Economics/Data Librarian DSpace Projects Coordinator University of Rochester 585/275-9317 sbell at library.rochester.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050311/28e15882/attachment.htm From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Mon Mar 14 04:26:45 2005 From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:26:45 +1100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Suggestions for recording physical size? Message-ID: <423558D5.1040800@anu.edu.au> Hi Suzanne, We still use format.extent even though it's used as well for the digital file size. You could always make a new format.??? metadata item if you really need to. We're also looking at supporting EXIF metadata fields (e.g. exif.verticalresolution, exif.horizontalresolution) so that we can populate technical metadata fields direct from the image metadata. The thing to remember with DSpace is that the metadata is not stored in Dublin Core markup, it's just a database table, so you can create your own metadata fields if you need to, with the caveat that you may need to create your own Crosswalk to expose non-DC metadata. Scott. Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:34:12 -0500 From: "Suzanne Bell" To: Subject: [Dspace-general] Suggestions for recording physical size? Message-ID: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=__Part47643994.0__=" MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 5 This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=__Part47643994.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all - Here's an interesting one: our History of Medicine Librarian wants to scan and load to DSpace a collection of Patent Medicine Tradecards (like baseball cards for patent medicines?! I guess-). An excellent cataloger, he's wondering which, if any, of the Dublin Core fields on offer in DSpace should be used for recording the dimensions of the physical originals. We were pondering "format.extent", but this seems to be system supplied information, and refer to the digital size (bytes). Any thoughts, suggestions? many thanks! cheers, Suzanne ******************************************* Suzanne Bell, Economics/Data Librarian DSpace Projects Coordinator University of Rochester 585/275-9317 sbell at library.rochester.edu From kenzie at MIT.EDU Thu Mar 17 19:09:30 2005 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:09:30 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] PDF permissions In-Reply-To: <5B238BE7511C7D4FB736CF0451643D53028F7C05@edunivmail03.ad.u massmed.edu> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050317190815.0261b528@hesiod> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050317/bd15c4f3/attachment.htm From lcourtney at mvista.com Mon Mar 21 13:49:02 2005 From: lcourtney at mvista.com (Lee Courtney) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:49:02 -0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] Forthcoming digital repository meetings, 6-8 July 2005, Cambridge, UK In-Reply-To: <2A70D44ECF6F1A4390DD1D98E8BEDEF2E836F6@mius2.medlan.cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: Peter et al, > Immediately following this, a second DSpace Federation User Group meeting > will be held, also at the University of Cambridge, on Thursday-Friday, 7-8 > July 2005. Will the results of this meeting be posted to dspace.org? Cheers, Lee Courtney > -----Original Message----- > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu > [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu]On Behalf Of Peter Morgan > Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 8:59 AM > To: 'dspace-devel at lists.sourceforge.net'; > 'dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net'; 'dspace-datasets at mit.edu'; > 'dspace-erm at mit.edu'; 'dspace-general at mit.edu'; 'dspace-ir at mit.edu'; > 'dspace-lor at mit.edu'; 'dspace-preservation at mit.edu'; > 'dspace-publishing at mit.edu'; 'dspace-theses at mit.edu' > Cc: 'Anna Massiou'; 'Joy Davidson '; 'Patricia' > Subject: [Dspace-general] Forthcoming digital repository meetings, 6-8 > July 2005, Cambridge, UK > > > With apologies for cross-posting > --------------------------------- > > Dear Colleagues, > > Dates for your diary: 6/7/8 July 2005 at the University of Cambridge > > This is an initial announcement to let you know of two related > meetings that > you might wish to attend. > > The Digital Curation Centre is planning to hold a DCC workshop in > the UK at > the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 6 July 2005. > > Immediately following this, a second DSpace Federation User Group meeting > will be held, also at the University of Cambridge, on Thursday-Friday, 7-8 > July 2005. > > The DCC workshop will be a training event on the long-term curation and > preservation of institutional > repositories (regardless of software platform). The DSpace meeting will > focus on issues specific to the use of the DSpace repository > platform. As > some participants will want to attend both events, the organisers > of the two > meetings will co-ordinate registration and other arrangements as far as > possible. > > Some preliminary information on the two events follows below. > > ******************************************************* > > Digital Curation Centre workshop > > The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was launched in November 2004 > following a > recommendation in the JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation > Strategy (October 2002). The current partners of the DCC are the > University > of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UKOLN and the Council for the Central > Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC). The DCC is not itself a data > repository, nor do we attempt to impose policies and practices of > one branch > of scholarship upon another. Rather, based on insight from a vibrant > research programme that addresses wider issues of data curation and > long-term preservation, we will develop and offer programmes of > outreach and > practical services to assist those who must curate data. Rather than > duplicate effort, we seek to complement and contribute to the > endeavours of > related organisations. > > Curation and preservation issues are integral to all digital > repositories - > regardless of platform. As such, the DCC are cooperating with DSpace to > convene a one-day workshop to examine some of the major issues > involved with > the long-term access to and re-use of data held within digital > repositories > from a range of perspectives - including the HE/FE and e-science > communities. Themes for this event may include: > > ? workflow and business models for the long-term curation and > sustainability of digital repositories > ? certification of digital repositories > ? roles and responsibilities > ? interoperability > ? metadata > ? policies > > These issues will be explored through a mixture of panel discussions, > presentations, case studies and breakout sessions. The DCC is committed to > nurturing strong community relationships and a major aim for this event is > to create a forum for the sharing of experiences and ideas between a wide > range of stakeholders. > > ******************************************************* > > 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting > > The 1st DSpace Federation User Group meeting was held in Boston, USA, in > March 2004. Organised by the DSpace team at MIT Libraries, it was a very > successful open 2-day meeting and was attended by approximately 120 > delegates drawn from ten different countries. It included > several plenary > sessions and two parallel tracks, one focussing on technical > issues and the > other on organisational policy. (For presentations and a summary report, > see http://dspace.org/conference/conference.html) > > In the post-meeting evaluation it was concluded that many of the policy > issues were essentially platform-independent and not specific to DSpace > users, and that future discussion of such topics would be more appropriate > in a broader forum of those interested in digital repositories. > It followed > that future meetings of the DSpace Federation - the international > community > of DSpace code contributors and users - should focus on issues that were > more specific to the architecture and functionality of the DSpace > platform. > > The 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting is now being planned > with this > in mind. MIT Libraries have passed organisational responsibility for the > meeting to colleagues at Cambridge University working on the > DSpace at Cambridge project, a joint Cambridge-MIT initiative funded by the > Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI). The July 2005 meeting, which will > be partly > sponsored by CMI, will reflect both the need for a DSpace-specific agenda > and the international character of the DSpace Federation. > > The formal Call For Papers and invitation to register will be issued > shortly. > > -- > Peter Morgan > Project Director, DSpace at Cambridge > Cambridge University Library > West Road > Cambridge > CB3 9DR > UK > email: pbm2 at cam.ac.uk > tel: +44 (0)1223 333130 > fax: +44 (0)1223 339973 > > > Joy Davidson > DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor > Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) > George Service House, 11 University Gardens, > University of Glasgow > Glasgow G12 8QJ > Scotland > Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592 > Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788 > email: british.editor at erpanet.org > http://www.dcc.ac.uk > http://www.erpanet.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From chixson at darkwing.uoregon.edu Mon Mar 21 14:27:18 2005 From: chixson at darkwing.uoregon.edu (Carol Hixson) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:27:18 -0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] survey responses on IRs Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.1.20050321110306.038cbc80@pop.uoregon.edu> Attached please find a document which summarizes survey responses I received to a query I put out to this list on January 4, 2005. The responses are from six libraries, with the UO being identified explicitly and the others being identified only as Libraries A-E (although some can easily be identified from their responses.) In case anyone has difficulty opening the attached pdf, I have also made it available on our web site at: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/catdept/irg/Survey_Responses.pdf If anyone else would like to have their information added to this informal survey, either send me a private email or respond directly to the list. Carol Hixson Head, Metadata and Digital Library Services University of Oregon Libraries chixson at darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346- 3064 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Carol Hixson Head, Metadata and Digital Library Services University of Oregon Libraries chixson at darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-3064 From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Wed Mar 23 16:37:31 2005 From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:37:31 +1100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Dspace-general Digest, Vol 20, Issue 11 In-Reply-To: <200503231701.j2NH1MhB013802@pch.mit.edu> References: <200503231701.j2NH1MhB013802@pch.mit.edu> Message-ID: <4241E19B.1050502@anu.edu.au> Hi Carol, We have our ePrints stored in DSpace if that's of any use. See http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/39729 Scott. dspace-general-request at mit.edu wrote: >Send Dspace-general mailing list submissions to > dspace-general at mit.edu > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dspace-general-request at mit.edu > >You can reach the person managing the list at > dspace-general-owner at mit.edu > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Dspace-general digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. theses and dissertations (Carol Hixson) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:03:24 -0800 >From: Carol Hixson >To: dspace-general at MIT.EDU >Subject: [Dspace-general] theses and dissertations >Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.1.20050322100012.01d856d0 at pop.uoregon.edu> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Precedence: list >Message: 1 > >If you have set up collections for theses and dissertations >in your local IR using DSpace software, I would very >much appreciate hearing from you off-list so I could ask you >a couple of questions. Or, if you don't have time to >answer any questions, I'd appreciate having the handle to >your site. > >Thanks in advance. > >Carol Hixson >Head, Metadata and Digital Library Services >University of Oregon Libraries >chixson at darkwing.uoregon.edu >(541) 346-3064 > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > >End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 20, Issue 11 >********************************************** > > From sunilgoria at yahoo.com Thu Mar 24 11:49:30 2005 From: sunilgoria at yahoo.com (Sunil Goria) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:49:30 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Duplicate submission Check Message-ID: <20050324164931.41272.qmail@web53407.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Dspace users/experts, I want to know that how to prevent the duplicate submission of documents in digital archive of Dspace. Dr. Sunil Goria, Asstt Librarian, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, Pantnagar-263145 India --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050324/19574440/attachment.htm From kenzie at MIT.EDU Thu Mar 24 15:28:39 2005 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:28:39 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Depositor requests for open-ended or ambiguous access restrictions? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050324152255.041e5ea8@hesiod> Hi Jim, Sorry this is so late. We get asked all the time to accept collections which require access restrictions. By policy we accept only collections that can be made available in *some format* to *at least the MIT community*, so, for example, we would take a collection of images which were off-limits as long as there were thumbnails available to the MIT community, or a collection of off-limit PDF documents as long as there were unprintable versions made available to all of MIT. Of course, the vast majority of collections are deposited as world-readable, but we don't require it. We don't really have a way in DSpace of dealing with blackout periods (e.g. your "until I notify you" example). Right now, you have to keep track of that off-line and change the access permissions in DSpace when the conditions are met. It has come up, especially with regard to thesis holds for patents or other legal restraints. I wish there were a nicer way of dealing with that, but it wasn't our top priority to figure out here. MacKenzie At 10:57 AM 3/11/2005 -0500, Jim Ottaviani wrote: >Hello all, > >As we try to create some guidelines and policies for our pilot project >here at the University of Michigan, we'd like to know what types of >requests other institutions get for access restrictions on deposited >items. > >Specifically, do people ever request limited access to their bitstreams >for either open-ended periods (e.g. "Until I notify you.") or ambiguous >periods (e.g. "Until everyone in the study has given their consent.")? > >And if that happens, a) is it a frequent request, and b) how do you >handle it? > >Thanks in advance for your help! > >Jim >______________________________ >Jim Ottaviani >+1 734-763-4835 >University of Michigan Library > >Quis custodiet ipsos custodes > --Juvenal, Satires VI, 347 >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building E25-131d 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie at mit.edu From dprovost at sloan.mit.edu Fri Mar 25 09:01:09 2005 From: dprovost at sloan.mit.edu (David Provost) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:01:09 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions, Relevance Message-ID: <000701c53143$192f5770$6400a8c0@TINK> For those on this list familiar with both DSpace and Simile (http://simile.mit.edu/): It's beginning to seem as though the Simile suite will either transcend the capabilities of DSpace or simply render its functionality as limited and unnecessary. I'm arriving at this conclusion after reading Chris Bizer's meeting notes sent Thu 3/24/05 (pasted below), reading messages from the Simile list, listening to others, and just trying to think this through in general. Am I perceiving the evolution of these technologies correctly? Here's how I've been looking at DSpace and Simile: DSpace is an abstraction layer above a data store(s). Tools from Simile can then be applied to this abstraction layer to annotate/tag, create views, and ultimately weave together electronic artifacts no matter their type or location. I also include programs in this notion of weaving (eventually, if not now) that will allow individuals (in a corporate setting, authorized users) to create and/or tailor the functionality they want or need. Thanks, David ____________________ David Provost 978-549-5356 www.davidprovost.com ================================ Chris Bizer's meeting notes, sent Thu Mar 24 '05, to the general at simile.mit.edu mail list: Hi Stefano and Emmanuel, we had an interesting meeting with David Karger today, focusing mostly on the intermediate format a Fresnel engine could produce. Because Haystack supports editing data, they need the URIs of instances to be passed to their widgets so that they can update the underlying RDF repository if necessary. This wasn't included in the intermediate format I proposed 2 days ago, but is no problem to add. This thought lead us into the direction, that it might be a good idea to implement one Fresnel rendering engine that would provide all Fresnel functionality and output an intermediate tree. This tree could then be used by Longwell, Haystack, IsaViz and Cocoon to render whatever they like. Meaning that the tools would share as much code as possible. I'm not implementing, so it is not my business, but looks like an interesting idea. Seen on an abstract level (not XML), the tree would be a tree of RDF nodes, where each node has a set of CSS styling instructions attached to it. Pretty general and the kind of input all four tool need. I will update the documentation and the RDFS vocabularies now and freeze the stuff afterwards. I will be in New Jersey over Easter and will be back on Wednesday afternoon. I guess that I'm online only occasionally till then. David Karger will read the manual in detail until next Thursday and we will meet with him then again to see if he found stuff that would make it impossible for Haystack to use Fresnel. He and I don't think so, but we will see. I will fly back to Berlin next Saturday, so I will basically be at MIT only two more days (next Thursday and Friday). Maybe I will spend some time on defining such an intermediate language then, so just see how the Fresnel issue list looks next week ;-) Cheers Chris From sergtrejo at gmail.com Fri Mar 25 10:10:56 2005 From: sergtrejo at gmail.com (Sergio Trejo) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:10:56 -1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions, Relevance In-Reply-To: <000701c53143$192f5770$6400a8c0@TINK> References: <000701c53143$192f5770$6400a8c0@TINK> Message-ID: <7c3d6936050325071027a0b4fb@mail.gmail.com> Some perspective from the world of non-academia using DSpace ... wasn't it just middle of last year that Google and DSpace announced a joint endeavor? I highly doubt that Similie is going to anytime soon deprecate DSpace and render it to the bit bucket with Google being one of (if not the) first commercial ventures utilizing DSpace: http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20040719GoogleCrawlsIntoAcademia.html How many semantic web specialists are there in existence today who can hop right into Similie? There may be a handful of Ph.D's that have the capacity and resarch grants to delve into the deep blue depths of semantic-everything, but let's first give DSpace some time to grow, evolve and spread some open source wings before we write it off! :-) Serg On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:01:09 -0500, David Provost wrote: > For those on this list familiar with both DSpace and Simile > (http://simile.mit.edu/): > > It's beginning to seem as though the Simile suite will either transcend the > capabilities of DSpace or simply render its functionality as limited and > unnecessary. I'm arriving at this conclusion after reading Chris Bizer's > meeting notes sent Thu 3/24/05 (pasted below), reading messages from the > Simile list, listening to others, and just trying to think this through in > general. > > Am I perceiving the evolution of these technologies correctly? > > Here's how I've been looking at DSpace and Simile: > > DSpace is an abstraction layer above a data store(s). Tools from Simile can > then be applied to this abstraction layer to annotate/tag, create views, and > ultimately weave together electronic artifacts no matter their type or > location. I also include programs in this notion of weaving (eventually, if > not now) that will allow individuals (in a corporate setting, authorized > users) to create and/or tailor the functionality they want or need. > > Thanks, > > David > > ____________________ > David Provost > 978-549-5356 > www.davidprovost.com > > ================================ > > Chris Bizer's meeting notes, sent Thu Mar 24 '05, to the > general at simile.mit.edu mail list: > > Hi Stefano and Emmanuel, > > we had an interesting meeting with David Karger today, focusing mostly on > the intermediate format a Fresnel engine could produce. > > Because Haystack supports editing data, they need the URIs of instances to > be passed to their widgets so that they can update the underlying RDF > repository if necessary. > > This wasn't included in the intermediate format I proposed 2 days ago, but > is no problem to add. > > This thought lead us into the direction, that it might be a good idea to > implement one Fresnel rendering engine that would provide all Fresnel > functionality and output an intermediate tree. > > This tree could then be used by Longwell, Haystack, IsaViz and Cocoon to > render whatever they like. Meaning that the tools would share as much code > as possible. I'm not implementing, so it is not my business, but looks like > an interesting idea. > > Seen on an abstract level (not XML), the tree would be a tree of RDF nodes, > where each node has a set of CSS styling instructions attached to it. Pretty > general and the kind of input all four tool need. > > I will update the documentation and the RDFS vocabularies now and freeze the > stuff afterwards. I will be in New Jersey over Easter and will be back on > Wednesday afternoon. I guess that I'm online only occasionally till then. > > David Karger will read the manual in detail until next Thursday and we will > meet with him then again to see if he found stuff that would make it > impossible for Haystack to use Fresnel. He and I don't think so, but we will > see. > > I will fly back to Berlin next Saturday, so I will basically be at MIT only > two more days (next Thursday and Friday). Maybe I will spend some time on > defining such an intermediate language then, so just see how the Fresnel > issue list looks next week ;-) > > Cheers > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From kenzie at MIT.EDU Fri Mar 25 11:18:50 2005 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:18:50 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions, Relevance In-Reply-To: <000701c53143$192f5770$6400a8c0@TINK> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050325111337.024d6010@hesiod> David, Not many people from the DSpace community are familiar with SIMILE, given it's status as an active research project. This list is usually used for non-technical discussions, and the dspace-devel list is probably the better venue for your question. That said, in case there are SIMILE fans on this list, I should probably respond (but note that my answer is the same one I sent to the SIMILE list). DSpace is an application that allows organizations to *capture, manage, distribute, and preserve* their digital research material. Where I see the synergy with SIMILE (and the reason that the MIT Libraries is involved in both projects) is in the aspects of DSpace that deal with metadata -- that is, finding stuff in DSpace no matter how it was described, and managing that metadata over time. SIMILE, of course, has a larger agenda than that, but that is the piece of it that should help the DSpace project. Here's the rough picture: SIMILE DSPACE COCOON (for example) ------------------------- ------------------------ ------------------------------- D2D CM PI ------------------------- ------------------------ -------------------------------- Where the digital library business requirements are: D2D = discovery to delivery (of content), or finding stuff and getting stuff CM = collection management, i.e., what libraries and archives do, including long-term preservation PI = publishing interfaces (of content), also called behaviors or disseminators On the CM side, you are correct that asset stores (or what you're calling data stores) will probably be further separated out to take advantage of new storage APIs, the data grid, and other new technologies that improve storage. That still leaves the collection management and long-term preservation requirements, which are neither trivial nor completely solved by throwing RDF at them. So that's my take on it, and since this is all pretty new territory I'll be very interested to hear other opinions. MacKenzie At 09:01 AM 3/25/2005 -0500, David Provost wrote: >For those on this list familiar with both DSpace and Simile >(http://simile.mit.edu/): > >It's beginning to seem as though the Simile suite will either transcend the >capabilities of DSpace or simply render its functionality as limited and >unnecessary. I'm arriving at this conclusion after reading Chris Bizer's >meeting notes sent Thu 3/24/05 (pasted below), reading messages from the >Simile list, listening to others, and just trying to think this through in >general. > >Am I perceiving the evolution of these technologies correctly? > >Here's how I've been looking at DSpace and Simile: > >DSpace is an abstraction layer above a data store(s). Tools from Simile can >then be applied to this abstraction layer to annotate/tag, create views, and >ultimately weave together electronic artifacts no matter their type or >location. I also include programs in this notion of weaving (eventually, if >not now) that will allow individuals (in a corporate setting, authorized >users) to create and/or tailor the functionality they want or need. > >Thanks, > >David > >____________________ >David Provost >978-549-5356 >www.davidprovost.com > >================================ > >Chris Bizer's meeting notes, sent Thu Mar 24 '05, to the >general at simile.mit.edu mail list: > >Hi Stefano and Emmanuel, > >we had an interesting meeting with David Karger today, focusing mostly on >the intermediate format a Fresnel engine could produce. > >Because Haystack supports editing data, they need the URIs of instances to >be passed to their widgets so that they can update the underlying RDF >repository if necessary. > >This wasn't included in the intermediate format I proposed 2 days ago, but >is no problem to add. > >This thought lead us into the direction, that it might be a good idea to >implement one Fresnel rendering engine that would provide all Fresnel >functionality and output an intermediate tree. > >This tree could then be used by Longwell, Haystack, IsaViz and Cocoon to >render whatever they like. Meaning that the tools would share as much code >as possible. I'm not implementing, so it is not my business, but looks like >an interesting idea. > >Seen on an abstract level (not XML), the tree would be a tree of RDF nodes, >where each node has a set of CSS styling instructions attached to it. Pretty >general and the kind of input all four tool need. > >I will update the documentation and the RDFS vocabularies now and freeze the >stuff afterwards. I will be in New Jersey over Easter and will be back on >Wednesday afternoon. I guess that I'm online only occasionally till then. > >David Karger will read the manual in detail until next Thursday and we will >meet with him then again to see if he found stuff that would make it >impossible for Haystack to use Fresnel. He and I don't think so, but we will >see. > >I will fly back to Berlin next Saturday, so I will basically be at MIT only >two more days (next Thursday and Friday). Maybe I will spend some time on >defining such an intermediate language then, so just see how the Fresnel >issue list looks next week ;-) > >Cheers > >Chris > > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building E25-131d 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie at mit.edu From kenzie at MIT.EDU Fri Mar 25 11:27:47 2005 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:27:47 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions, Relevance In-Reply-To: <7c3d6936050325071027a0b4fb@mail.gmail.com> References: <000701c53143$192f5770$6400a8c0@TINK> <000701c53143$192f5770$6400a8c0@TINK> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050325111904.024d7c10@hesiod> You make a good point, but a bit of clarification: The Google/DSpace partnership has been subsumed under Google Scholar, and it involves them harvesting all the openly available content and metadata (in good old HTML-encoded Dublin Core) from all the DSpace repositories. That's one of the primary ways that people are finding content in DSpace repositories now. But SIMILE tools should help improve how people can find stuff in DSpace directly, through its own UI. And who knows, if we exposed DSpace metadata in RDF to Google-like harvesters, no doubt Google is thinking about how to leverage RDF and the Semantic Web too... None of this changes the fact that you have to have manage *content* too, and that the SIMILE project isn't addressing that (until that content is also expressed in RDF, at least). MacKenzie At 05:10 AM 3/25/2005 -1000, Sergio Trejo wrote: >Some perspective from the world of non-academia using DSpace ... >wasn't it just middle of last year that Google and DSpace announced a >joint endeavor? I highly doubt that Similie is going to anytime soon >deprecate DSpace and render it to the bit bucket with Google being one >of (if not the) first commercial ventures utilizing DSpace: > >http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20040719GoogleCrawlsIntoAcademia.html > >How many semantic web specialists are there in existence today who can >hop right into Similie? There may be a handful of Ph.D's that have the >capacity and resarch grants to delve into the deep blue depths of >semantic-everything, but let's first give DSpace some time to grow, >evolve and spread some open source wings before we write it off! :-) > >Serg > > >On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:01:09 -0500, David Provost > wrote: > > For those on this list familiar with both DSpace and Simile > > (http://simile.mit.edu/): > > > > It's beginning to seem as though the Simile suite will either transcend the > > capabilities of DSpace or simply render its functionality as limited and > > unnecessary. I'm arriving at this conclusion after reading Chris Bizer's > > meeting notes sent Thu 3/24/05 (pasted below), reading messages from the > > Simile list, listening to others, and just trying to think this through in > > general. > > > > Am I perceiving the evolution of these technologies correctly? > > > > Here's how I've been looking at DSpace and Simile: > > > > DSpace is an abstraction layer above a data store(s). Tools from Simile can > > then be applied to this abstraction layer to annotate/tag, create > views, and > > ultimately weave together electronic artifacts no matter their type or > > location. I also include programs in this notion of weaving (eventually, if > > not now) that will allow individuals (in a corporate setting, authorized > > users) to create and/or tailor the functionality they want or need. > > > > Thanks, > > > > David > > > > ____________________ > > David Provost > > 978-549-5356 > > www.davidprovost.com > > > > ================================ > > > > Chris Bizer's meeting notes, sent Thu Mar 24 '05, to the > > general at simile.mit.edu mail list: > > > > Hi Stefano and Emmanuel, > > > > we had an interesting meeting with David Karger today, focusing mostly on > > the intermediate format a Fresnel engine could produce. > > > > Because Haystack supports editing data, they need the URIs of instances to > > be passed to their widgets so that they can update the underlying RDF > > repository if necessary. > > > > This wasn't included in the intermediate format I proposed 2 days ago, but > > is no problem to add. > > > > This thought lead us into the direction, that it might be a good idea to > > implement one Fresnel rendering engine that would provide all Fresnel > > functionality and output an intermediate tree. > > > > This tree could then be used by Longwell, Haystack, IsaViz and Cocoon to > > render whatever they like. Meaning that the tools would share as much code > > as possible. I'm not implementing, so it is not my business, but looks like > > an interesting idea. > > > > Seen on an abstract level (not XML), the tree would be a tree of RDF nodes, > > where each node has a set of CSS styling instructions attached to it. > Pretty > > general and the kind of input all four tool need. > > > > I will update the documentation and the RDFS vocabularies now and > freeze the > > stuff afterwards. I will be in New Jersey over Easter and will be back on > > Wednesday afternoon. I guess that I'm online only occasionally till then. > > > > David Karger will read the manual in detail until next Thursday and we will > > meet with him then again to see if he found stuff that would make it > > impossible for Haystack to use Fresnel. He and I don't think so, but we > will > > see. > > > > I will fly back to Berlin next Saturday, so I will basically be at MIT only > > two more days (next Thursday and Friday). Maybe I will spend some time on > > defining such an intermediate language then, so just see how the Fresnel > > issue list looks next week ;-) > > > > Cheers > > > > Chris > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dspace-general mailing list > > Dspace-general at mit.edu > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building E25-131d 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie at mit.edu From courtois at ksu.edu Fri Mar 25 11:41:08 2005 From: courtois at ksu.edu (courtois@ksu.edu) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 10:41:08 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Depositor requests for open-ended or ambiguous access restrictions? In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20050324152255.041e5ea8@hesiod> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20050324152255.041e5ea8@hesiod> Message-ID: <1111768868.42443f248a10d@webmail.ksu.edu> What's the best way to handle thesis holds in Dspace if our goal is to make available absolutely no information about the item? When I set all Policies for the item to "Administrator," the title is displayed in search and browse results. If I Withdraw the item, no information about the item is seen in search or browse results. I need to have the Handle or internal item ID in order to reinstate the item. Is any metadata exposed to harvesters with either of these approaches? The goal of our Grad School is to make sure no info is available on a sequestered thesis. We've looked into the option of not submitting the item at the time of graduation, holding all materials offline until the hold is removed, then submitting on behalf of the student (who by now is long gone from campus). This option, however, doesn't give the student exposure to the online "publishing" process, and it's makes us responsible for remembering "where did I put that guys thesis from 3 years ago..." Marty Martin Courtois Information Technology Assistance Center 509 Hale Library Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66502 Phone: 785 532-4428 Fax: 785 532-3199 E-mail: courtois at ksu.edu Quoting MacKenzie Smith : > Hi Jim, > > Sorry this is so late. > > We get asked all the time to accept collections which require access > restrictions. > By policy we accept only collections that can be made available in > *some > format* to *at least the MIT community*, > so, for example, we would take a collection of images which were > off-limits > as long as there were thumbnails > available to the MIT community, or a collection of off-limit PDF > documents > as long as there were unprintable > versions made available to all of MIT. Of course, the vast majority > of > collections are deposited as world-readable, > but we don't require it. > > We don't really have a way in DSpace of dealing with blackout periods > (e.g. > your "until I notify you" example). > Right now, you have to keep track of that off-line and change the > access > permissions in DSpace when the > conditions are met. It has come up, especially with regard to thesis > holds > for patents or other legal restraints. > I wish there were a nicer way of dealing with that, but it wasn't our > top > priority to figure out here. > > MacKenzie > > At 10:57 AM 3/11/2005 -0500, Jim Ottaviani wrote: > > >Hello all, > > > >As we try to create some guidelines and policies for our pilot > project > >here at the University of Michigan, we'd like to know what types of > >requests other institutions get for access restrictions on deposited > >items. > > > >Specifically, do people ever request limited access to their > bitstreams > >for either open-ended periods (e.g. "Until I notify you.") or > ambiguous > >periods (e.g. "Until everyone in the study has given their > consent.")? > > > >And if that happens, a) is it a frequent request, and b) how do you > >handle it? > > > >Thanks in advance for your help! > > > >Jim > >______________________________ > >Jim Ottaviani > >+1 734-763-4835 > >University of Michigan Library > > > >Quis custodiet ipsos custodes > > --Juvenal, Satires VI, 347 > >_______________________________________________ > >Dspace-general mailing list > >Dspace-general at mit.edu > >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > MacKenzie Smith > Associate Director for Technology > MIT Libraries > Building E25-131d > 77 Massachusetts Avenue > Cambridge, MA 02139 > (617)253-8184 > kenzie at mit.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > From cdygert at american.edu Fri Mar 25 11:43:24 2005 From: cdygert at american.edu (Claire Dygert) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:43:24 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Claire Dygert/cdygert/Faculty/Library/Provost/AmericanU is out ofthe office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 03/25/2005 and will not return until 04/06/2005. From dprovost at sloan.mit.edu Fri Mar 25 12:51:19 2005 From: dprovost at sloan.mit.edu (David Provost) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 12:51:19 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions, Relevance In-Reply-To: <7c3d6936050325071027a0b4fb@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <001b01c53163$408ca690$6400a8c0@TINK> Sergio - Thanks for the reply. Addressing your points in order: 1. I am generally skeptical of vendor announcements (even though I'm in the process of becoming one) due to the unpredictable schedules between announcements and delivery, disinformation efforts to deflect or dissuade competitors from entering, and the general magnitude of the event. In my opinion, Googling DSpace seems like a natural event which in the overall scheme of things doesn't seem like a big deal. Alternatively, my impression is that A9 (http://a9.com) is engaged in work that is much more relevant to the Semantic Web. An A9/DSpace announcement would be of far greater interest, at least to me. 2. To clarify, I wasn't suggesting that Simile is on a collision course to displace DSpace. My question is, in light of how Simile is evolving and the relationship I perceive between Simile and DSpace, is it reasonable to envision Simile evolving into a cohesive platform that might come to be known as DSpace, for lack of any other name? Additionally, others might feel it's worthwhile to anticipate how their computing environments might evolve. 3. I think it's an exceedingly interesting question to ponder how many Semantic Web specialists there might be. In the past month I've been to two Semantic Web gatherings. I'd say there are far more than a handful of qualified people capable of engaging in highly sophisticated work in Semantic Web environments. I'm actually delighted that this is the case. 4. Finally, my intention to commercialize Semantic Web technologies is causing me to examine DSpace very closely. To me, DSpace has spread its open source wings and I'm not writing it off - more accurately, I welcome its availability. David -----Original Message----- From: Sergio Trejo [mailto:sergtrejo at gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 10:11 AM To: dprovost at sloan.mit.edu Cc: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Questions, Relevance Some perspective from the world of non-academia using DSpace ... wasn't it just middle of last year that Google and DSpace announced a joint endeavor? I highly doubt that Similie is going to anytime soon deprecate DSpace and render it to the bit bucket with Google being one of (if not the) first commercial ventures utilizing DSpace: http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20040719GoogleCrawlsInto Academia.html How many semantic web specialists are there in existence today who can hop right into Similie? There may be a handful of Ph.D's that have the capacity and resarch grants to delve into the deep blue depths of semantic-everything, but let's first give DSpace some time to grow, evolve and spread some open source wings before we write it off! :-) Serg On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 09:01:09 -0500, David Provost wrote: > For those on this list familiar with both DSpace and Simile > (http://simile.mit.edu/): > > It's beginning to seem as though the Simile suite will either > transcend the capabilities of DSpace or simply render its > functionality as limited and unnecessary. I'm arriving at this > conclusion after reading Chris Bizer's meeting notes sent Thu 3/24/05 > (pasted below), reading messages from the Simile list, listening to > others, and just trying to think this through in general. > > Am I perceiving the evolution of these technologies correctly? > > Here's how I've been looking at DSpace and Simile: > > DSpace is an abstraction layer above a data store(s). Tools from > Simile can then be applied to this abstraction layer to annotate/tag, > create views, and ultimately weave together electronic artifacts no > matter their type or location. I also include programs in this notion > of weaving (eventually, if not now) that will allow individuals (in a > corporate setting, authorized > users) to create and/or tailor the functionality they want or need. > > Thanks, > > David > > ____________________ > David Provost > 978-549-5356 > www.davidprovost.com > > ================================ > > Chris Bizer's meeting notes, sent Thu Mar 24 '05, to the > general at simile.mit.edu mail list: > > Hi Stefano and Emmanuel, > > we had an interesting meeting with David Karger today, focusing mostly > on the intermediate format a Fresnel engine could produce. > > Because Haystack supports editing data, they need the URIs of > instances to be passed to their widgets so that they can update the > underlying RDF repository if necessary. > > This wasn't included in the intermediate format I proposed 2 days ago, > but is no problem to add. > > This thought lead us into the direction, that it might be a good idea > to implement one Fresnel rendering engine that would provide all > Fresnel functionality and output an intermediate tree. > > This tree could then be used by Longwell, Haystack, IsaViz and Cocoon > to render whatever they like. Meaning that the tools would share as > much code as possible. I'm not implementing, so it is not my business, > but looks like an interesting idea. > > Seen on an abstract level (not XML), the tree would be a tree of RDF > nodes, where each node has a set of CSS styling instructions attached > to it. Pretty general and the kind of input all four tool need. > > I will update the documentation and the RDFS vocabularies now and > freeze the stuff afterwards. I will be in New Jersey over Easter and > will be back on Wednesday afternoon. I guess that I'm online only > occasionally till then. > > David Karger will read the manual in detail until next Thursday and we > will meet with him then again to see if he found stuff that would make > it impossible for Haystack to use Fresnel. He and I don't think so, > but we will see. > > I will fly back to Berlin next Saturday, so I will basically be at MIT > only two more days (next Thursday and Friday). Maybe I will spend some > time on defining such an intermediate language then, so just see how > the Fresnel issue list looks next week ;-) > > Cheers > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From sunilgoria at yahoo.com Sat Mar 26 02:23:16 2005 From: sunilgoria at yahoo.com (Sunil Goria) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:23:16 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Duplicate checking Message-ID: <20050326072316.59668.qmail@web53404.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Dspace users, I would like to know that how we can check duplicate submission of digital document in Dspace. by Sunil Goria --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050325/9b95952a/attachment.htm From cbailey at uh.edu Sat Mar 26 18:56:06 2005 From: cbailey at uh.edu (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:56:06 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Call for Papers: Reference and Institutional Repositories Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050326174931.0271f9b0@mail.uh.edu> Reference Services Review (http://ariel.emeraldinsight.com/vl=965583/cl=57/nw=1/rpsv/rsr.htm) is publishing a special issue on the roles that reference librarians play in establishing and supporting institutional repositories. The issue is shaping up well, with contributions primarily from US authors; however, we would be very interested in getting a few more papers that discussed the pioneering developments in this area in Australia, Canada, and the UK. A prior call resulted in one Canadian submission, but, even through time is short due to publication deadlines, we would like to try one more time. If your university has an operational IR and you would be interested in quickly writing a paper (within two to three weeks), please contact RSR Editor, Dr. Ilene Rockman (irockman at calstate.edu), as soon as possible. Below are some topic ideas: 1. Do reference librarians act as change agents promoting IRs to faculty, especially if they are also subject liaisons? 2. How do reference librarians integrate IRs into their information literacy efforts in instructional and one-one-one interactions? 3. What special reference tools do reference librarians construct to assist IR users, or how are IR materials integrated into existing tools on Web sites, portals, or other technologies? 4. Have IRs changed reference librarians' jobs in unexpected ways? Of course, you may well have other ideas about the impact of IRs on reference functions, and they would also be welcome Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Assistant Dean for Digital Library Planning and Development, University of Houston, Library Administration, 114 University Libraries, Houston, TX 77204-2000. E-mail: cbailey at uh.edu. Voice: (713) 743-9804. Fax: (713) 743-9811. Open Access Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/oab.htm Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html Selected Publications: http://info.lib.uh.edu/cwb/bailey.htm From m.schipperheyn at tfe.nl Mon Mar 28 09:23:06 2005 From: m.schipperheyn at tfe.nl (Marc Schipperheyn) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:23:06 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Newbie: Dspace as a basis for style asset management Message-ID: <20050328141946.611BA8F799@mail.tfe.nl> Hi, I'm completely new to DSpace, so I have a few questions about the possibilities of using DSpace for style asset management at a large organization. Basically, I want to see if my understanding of the DSpace concepts relates to what I need and if what I need is available in DSpace. I'm perfectly willing to write additional software to DSpace. In the concept of DAM I use, I have: Role Users have varying rights in the system. There are several roles defined like: * System administrator * End user: able to download assets * Contributor: able to upload assets * Project manager: able to manage users within a Project * Order items: user able to order a print version of an asset (I'm fairly sure this is not available in DSpace) Usergroups Usergroups contain users with group specific roles and access to specific Projects In Dspace: Community? Project A collection of Assets that relate to a single logical grouping of information. Any type of asset can be part of a project and an asset is always part of a project but can be accessed separately through categories. Projects can be restricted to user groups. Per project users can be assigned with project specific roles and access rights. Projects can be made to require authorization to access the information but can also be made publicly viewable to registered users. In Dspace: Collection or does Collection represent types of assets? Categories A hierarchical structure of subjects. This offers a navigatable way to locate assets. Users only see the assets they have access to. Asset A physical file including several types of metadata information. Assets should ideally be selectable through a shopping basket in order to facilitate downloading a batch of items as a ZIP file. In Dspace: Item + DC Record Version An older version a particular asset. Directly related to a single asset In Dspace: Version Sub-asset An asset that is a child of another asset. Usually something the parent assets relies on. E.g. the font needed to display a Quark express document. In Dspace: Bundle? Related asset An asset that has a relation to another asset. Even though metadata can be used to relate assets, sometimes you want to directly link to a particular related asset. Can relations to other assets be stored? Thumbnail A small image of an asset that is, when possible, automatically generated from the original. Notification Users can store their interest to a Project or Asset and receive notification when an asset is changed or added to a Project. I would be thankful if anyone could give me feedback on my understanding of DSpace. On a side note: why is there a reliance on the Unix operating system when the software is written in Java? Thanks, Kind regards, Marc Schipperheyn t: +31 50 57 57 888 f: +3 150 57 57 889 Alliance Partner for Macromedia Business Partner for Mediasurface The future is technological, but it will not be a world of gray steel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050328/870825f6/attachment.htm From courtois at ksu.edu Mon Mar 28 11:42:08 2005 From: courtois at ksu.edu (courtois@ksu.edu) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:42:08 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Unauthorized Users Submitting Items Message-ID: <1112028128.424833e0a55a5@webmail.ksu.edu> We've just installed ver. 1.2.2 beta1 and now unauthorized users are able to open a submission session. When an unauthorized person (an e-person, but not a member of the collection's Submit group) tries to submit an item, they do not see the "Authoriztion Error" message. Instead, the person is taken to the first submission screen and presented with a pull down menu to select a collection. The pull down list, however, is blank. Clicking the "Next" button on the page produces this message: "Invalid Identifier The identifier does not correspond to a valid collection in DSpace. This may be because of one of the following reasons: The URL of the current page is incorrect - if you followed a link from outside of DSpace it may be mistyped or corrupt. You entered an invalid ID into a form - please try again. If you're having problems, or you expected the ID to work, feel free to contact the site administrators." Policies for this group are set so that only members of the Submit Group, Workflow Groups, and administrators can add items to a collection. Any ideas on how to correct this? I posted this to the DSpace tech list, but didn't get any replies. Thanks for your help, Marty Martin Courtois Information Technology Assistance Center 509 Hale Library Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66502 Phone: 785 532-4428 Fax: 785 532-3199 E-mail: courtois at ksu.edu ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ----- End forwarded message ----- From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk Tue Mar 29 03:39:44 2005 From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:39:44 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Depositor requests for open-ended or ambiguousaccess restrictions? In-Reply-To: <1111768868.42443f248a10d@webmail.ksu.edu> Message-ID: <508407BF97D36847BA46669CCFC09D8C0EF019@quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk> Hi Marty, We have a procedure in our submission system code which automatically withdraws theses that need to be protected, and writes a note into a restrictions database table with the release date for each item. Nightly, then, a cron job checks the table for items due for release and automatically re-instates them where appropriate. This code is available as part of the Tapir, which you can get to from the link in my sig file. It shouldn't be too hard to pull out the relevant code and apply it as a patch to your current system. Cheers, Richard ------- Richard Jones Information Systems Developer + A crash reduces Edinburgh University Library + your expensive computer Information Systems + to a simple stone e: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk t: 0131 651 3811 Edinburgh Research Archive: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Tapir on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul Theses Alive! homepage: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ > -----Original Message----- > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu > [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of courtois at ksu.edu > Sent: 25 March 2005 16:41 > To: MacKenzie Smith > Cc: Jim Ottaviani; dspace-general at mit.edu > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Depositor requests for > open-ended or ambiguousaccess restrictions? > > > What's the best way to handle thesis holds in Dspace if our > goal is to make available absolutely no information about the item? > > When I set all Policies for the item to "Administrator," the > title is displayed in search and browse results. If I > Withdraw the item, no information about the item is seen in > search or browse results. I need to have the Handle or > internal item ID in order to reinstate the item. > > Is any metadata exposed to harvesters with either of these approaches? > > The goal of our Grad School is to make sure no info is > available on a sequestered thesis. We've looked into the > option of not submitting the item at the time of graduation, > holding all materials offline until the hold is removed, then > submitting on behalf of the student (who by now is long gone > from campus). This option, however, doesn't give the student > exposure to the online "publishing" process, and it's makes > us responsible for remembering "where did I put that guys > thesis from 3 years ago..." > > Marty > > Martin Courtois > Information Technology Assistance Center > 509 Hale Library > Kansas State University > Manhattan KS 66502 > Phone: 785 532-4428 > Fax: 785 532-3199 > E-mail: courtois at ksu.edu > > > Quoting MacKenzie Smith : > > > Hi Jim, > > > > Sorry this is so late. > > > > We get asked all the time to accept collections which > require access > > restrictions. By policy we accept only collections that can be made > > available in *some > > format* to *at least the MIT community*, > > so, for example, we would take a collection of images which were > > off-limits > > as long as there were thumbnails > > available to the MIT community, or a collection of off-limit PDF > > documents > > as long as there were unprintable > > versions made available to all of MIT. Of course, the vast majority > > of > > collections are deposited as world-readable, > > but we don't require it. > > > > We don't really have a way in DSpace of dealing with > blackout periods > > (e.g. your "until I notify you" example). > > Right now, you have to keep track of that off-line and change the > > access > > permissions in DSpace when the > > conditions are met. It has come up, especially with regard to thesis > > holds > > for patents or other legal restraints. > > I wish there were a nicer way of dealing with that, but it > wasn't our > > top > > priority to figure out here. > > > > MacKenzie > > > > At 10:57 AM 3/11/2005 -0500, Jim Ottaviani wrote: > > > > >Hello all, > > > > > >As we try to create some guidelines and policies for our pilot > > project > > >here at the University of Michigan, we'd like to know what > types of > > >requests other institutions get for access restrictions on > deposited > > >items. > > > > > >Specifically, do people ever request limited access to their > > bitstreams > > >for either open-ended periods (e.g. "Until I notify you.") or > > ambiguous > > >periods (e.g. "Until everyone in the study has given their > > consent.")? > > > > > >And if that happens, a) is it a frequent request, and b) > how do you > > >handle it? > > > > > >Thanks in advance for your help! > > > > > >Jim > > >______________________________ > > >Jim Ottaviani > > >+1 734-763-4835 > > >University of Michigan Library > > > > > >Quis custodiet ipsos custodes > > > --Juvenal, Satires VI, 347 > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Dspace-general mailing list > > >Dspace-general at mit.edu > > >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > > > MacKenzie Smith > > Associate Director for Technology > > MIT Libraries > > Building E25-131d > > 77 Massachusetts Avenue > > Cambridge, MA 02139 > > (617)253-8184 > > kenzie at mit.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Dspace-general mailing list > > Dspace-general at mit.edu > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace> -general > From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk Thu Mar 31 05:27:39 2005 From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:27:39 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.2.2 beta 2 released Message-ID: <508407BF97D36847BA46669CCFC09D8C0EF034@quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk> Dear All, The DSpace community is pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.2.2beta2. This release contains bugfixes and some minor new features from 1.2.2 beta 1. This includes postgres 8.0 compatibility, and community/collection strength displays; see the change log for more details. The documentation for this release is bundled within the package The beta can be downloaded from the files area at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ or from CVS using the tags dspace-1_2_2beta2 and dspace-docs-1_2_2beta2 for the source code and documentation modules respectively. Please use the mailing lists available at https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19984 to provide feedback on this to help us make it into a stable release. Best Wishes, Richard ------- Richard Jones Information Systems Developer + A crash reduces Edinburgh University Library + your expensive computer Information Systems + to a simple stone e: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk t: 0131 651 3811 Edinburgh Research Archive: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Tapir on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul Theses Alive! homepage: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk Thu Mar 31 05:34:52 2005 From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones) Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 11:34:52 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.3 timescale Message-ID: <508407BF97D36847BA46669CCFC09D8C1878CF@quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk> Dear All, Hot on the heels of the 1.2.2 beta 2, we are already looking forward to the 1.3 beta 1 release. We have lots of contributed patches for major functional improvements to incorporate and we are in the process of rolling those into the code base. We hope, therefore, to announce the first beta of the impending 1.3 release on 12 April 2005, when it will be made available on SourceForge. Sneak previews of the state of the work can be seen by checking out the most recent version of the code from the SourceForge CVS, and we are always on the lookout for anyone willing to help testing patches or fixing bugs if you have the time to be involved. Best Wishes, Richard ------- Richard Jones Information Systems Developer + A crash reduces Edinburgh University Library + your expensive computer Information Systems + to a simple stone e: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk t: 0131 651 3811 Edinburgh Research Archive: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Tapir on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul Theses Alive! homepage: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/