[Dspace-general] New DSpace listservs on the way

[Louise Ratliff]

Dear MacKenzie,
  I'm very interested in the use of DSpace for digital learning objects 
and courseware, so I would like to volunteer to help "moderate" the 
dspace-courseware list.  I haven't yet had the chance to actually use 
our DSpace yet, but I'm hoping to do so before summer ends.  Sigh, 
things always take longer than one expects!
  By the way, I believe you know Anne Gilliland-Swetland?  I see her in 
passing here at UCLA, and I hope to contact her in the fall to talk 
more about metadata and learning objects.
  Thanks,
Louise

--On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 6:05 PM -0400 MacKenzie Smith 
<kenzie at mit.edu> wrote:

> Greetings from Cambridge, MA.
>
> As an outcome of the DSpace user group meeting in March, MIT was
> asked to set up some new DSpace listservs to provide fora for people
> with common interests around specific uses of DSpace to congregate
> and collaborate, rather than using dspace-general for everything...
> not that it's all that busy, but people feel more comfortable knowing
> that their questions and comments are going out to a group who their
> interests. The proposed set of lists is:
>
> dspace-courseware (or maybe dspace-LOR)
> dspace-datasets
> dspace-ERM (for Electronic Records Management)
> dspace-IR
> dspace-preservation
> dspace-publishing
> dspace-theses
>
> The idea is that you would continue to subscribe to dspace-general
> for announcements and to ask general questions, and you would
> additionally subscribe to any special-purpose list of interest. Each
> list will have one or two people who "shepherd" it (i.e. not
> officially moderate, but try to keep the conversation going). So far
> I have volunteers for the dspace-ERM and dspace-datasets lists, so I
> still need volunteers to help shepherd the lists on Learning Object
> Repositories (dspace-courseware), Institutional Repositories
> (dspace-IR), preservation and publishing, and theses. That last one
> has some overlap with a new NDLTD-DSpace interest group, but that's a
> closed list so I think we need this one as well.
>
> Someone from MIT will subscribe to each list too, and will have
> access to the local DSpace developers when that's handy. If you'd
> like to volunteer just let me know (it really shouldn't be much work,
> just a commitment to read the list traffic and keep the ball rolling).
>
> Please reply if you have a better suggestion for one of the list
> names, or if you think of one I've missed, or if you think this whole
> thing is silly... this is an experiment to see if these are useful to
> people. If in six months they're all dormant, I'll kill them again
> and wait until there's a demand.
>
> Thanks,
>
> MacKenzie
>
>
> MacKenzie Smith
> Associate Director for Technology
> MIT Libraries
> Building 14S-308
> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
> Cambridge, MA  02139
> (617)253-8184
> kenzie at mit.edu
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Louise Ratliff
Social Sciences Cataloger
UCLA Library Cataloging Center
(310) 825-8642