From gomez at insa-lyon.fr Mon Aug 25 05:29:01 2003 From: gomez at insa-lyon.fr (Rosa =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mar=EDa?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_G=F3mez?= de Regil) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:29:01 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Metadata Question Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20030825112749.009f65e0@insa.insa-lyon.fr> Hello, I'm working in metadata standards choices that experts made for educational digital repositories. I would like to know which are some reasons that motivated Dspace creators to choose Dublin Core Metadata instead of Learning Object Metadata for Dspace. Thanks Rosa Mar?a G?mez de Regil Rosa Mar?a G?mez de Regil Doc'INSA T?l. 04 72 43 87 60 E-Mail. gomez at insa-lyon.fr From kenzie at MIT.EDU Mon Aug 25 14:51:42 2003 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:51:42 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Metadata Question In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20030825112749.009f65e0@insa.insa-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20030825144533.037f3540@hesiod> Hi Rosa, I would say the main reason for this is that DSpace is not limited to being a learning object repository. In fact, here at MIT, and at most of the other institutions using it now, none of the content is teaching material so the LOM metadata would be completely inappropriate. Dublin Core was an obvious choice because it handles a wide range of content types, including documents (most of our current content), images, multimedia material, datasets, etc. *and* learning objects. The LOM metadata specification is what I would call a "domain specific" standard, much like MARC for library material, VRA Core for visual images, or FGDC for geospatial datasets. There is a research project here at MIT called SIMILE which is investigating the use of new technologies to support these domain specific schemas in DSpace (see http://web.mit.edu/simile/www/) but in the meantime we had to select *one* schema, and it had to be very all-purpose. I hope this helps, MacKenzie/ At 11:29 AM 8/25/2003 +0200, Rosa Mar?a G?mez de Regil wrote: >Hello, > >I'm working in metadata standards choices that experts made for >educational digital repositories. > >I would like to know which are some reasons that motivated Dspace creators >to choose Dublin Core Metadata instead of Learning Object Metadata for Dspace. > >Thanks > >Rosa Mar?a G?mez de Regil > >Rosa Mar?a G?mez de Regil >Doc'INSA >T?l. 04 72 43 87 60 >E-Mail. >gomez at insa-lyon.fr > > >_______________________________________________ >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 14S-208 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie at mit.edu From jhwalker at MIT.EDU Tue Aug 26 16:42:11 2003 From: jhwalker at MIT.EDU (Julie Harford Walker) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:42:11 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace website update Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030826104559.01e24050@hesiod> Greetings, We would like to announce the launch of the DSpace Federation website and a new address for MIT's DSpace website: * www.dspace.org houses the DSpace Federation site with general information about DSpace and content and tools for sites running DSpace. * dspace.mit.edu/about is the new location for the informational site for MIT's DSpace service. Visit dspace.mit.edu to see the live MIT DSpace site. Reminder: There are three DSpace mailing lists to which you can subscribe: * DSpace General Discussion List - the DSpace Federation's new mailing list for discussion about building and running a DSpace service. It is open to all DSpace users to ask questions, share news, and spark discussion about DSpace with people managing other DSpace sites. * DSpace Announcement List - Subscribe to the DSpace Announcements list to hear about new releases of the software, and to stay informed about DSpace. This is a one-way list for announcements from DSpace project staff only, so it is a very low-traffic list. Other postings are not permitted. * DSpace Technology List - DSpace developers and system managers help answer installation questions, share information and help each other solve technical problems through the DSpace-Tech mailing list. Developers and system managers are encouraged to post questions and contribute their expertise to others working with the system. See www.dspace.org/feedback/mailing.html for subscription instructions. Thanks for your interest in DSpace, Margret Branschofsky DSpace User Support Manager, MIT Libraries Julie Walker Senior Business Strategist, MIT Libraries ==================================================== You have received this email because you have subscribed to one of the three DSpace email lists: DSpace General, DSpace Announcement or DSpace Technology. ==================================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20030826/6d18974d/attachment.htm From andrew.hankinson at acadiau.ca Wed Aug 27 13:35:43 2003 From: andrew.hankinson at acadiau.ca (Andrew Hankinson) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:35:43 -0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace 1.1 download? Message-ID: Hello all, We were wondering if the Dspace 1.1 source will be available for download on the sourceforge site sometime soon. It currently only lists the dspace 1.1.1 beta version, although the website says the new version is available. Thanks, Andrew Hankinson Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology Acadia University From david.stuve at hp.com Wed Aug 27 13:40:14 2003 From: david.stuve at hp.com (STUVE,DAVID (HP-Corvallis,ex1)) Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:40:14 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace 1.1 download? Message-ID: <5755325D04C5834187459E1E17D81F6F0834EFFD@xcor01.cv.hp.com> Hi Andrew, DSpace 1.1.1 beta is the latest version available, and will be the same as our next release, probably renamed to 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 - so if you want the latest release you can install 1.1.1 now. I'm writing the release notes for it at the moment. Dave David Stuve / HP Labs Cambridge / David.Stuve at hp.com / 617-551-7632 -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hankinson [mailto:andrew.hankinson at acadiau.ca] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:36 PM To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace 1.1 download? Hello all, We were wondering if the Dspace 1.1 source will be available for download on the sourceforge site sometime soon. It currently only lists the dspace 1.1.1 beta version, although the website says the new version is available. Thanks, Andrew Hankinson Acadia Institute for Teaching and Technology Acadia University _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From margretb at MIT.EDU Mon Aug 25 10:42:41 2003 From: margretb at MIT.EDU (Margret Branschofsky) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 10:42:41 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Metadata Question In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20030825112749.009f65e0@insa.insa-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20030825103843.0212abb8@po10.mit.edu> Hi Rosa, It just so happens that we wrote a short paper on this subject last year which has not yet been published. I've attached it to this message. Feel free to ask more questions after reading it. Margret Branschofsky At 11:29 AM 8/25/2003 +0200, Rosa Mar?a G?mez de Regil wrote: >Hello, > >I'm working in metadata standards choices that experts made for >educational digital repositories. > >I would like to know which are some reasons that motivated Dspace creators >to choose Dublin Core Metadata instead of Learning Object Metadata for Dspace. > >Thanks > >Rosa Mar?a G?mez de Regil > >Rosa Mar?a G?mez de Regil >Doc'INSA >T?l. 04 72 43 87 60 >E-Mail. >gomez at insa-lyon.fr > > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general Margret Branschofsky DSpace User Support Manager Digital Library Research Group Bldg. 14S-M24 (617)253-1293 margretb at mit.edu http://dspace.mit.edu -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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