From cdean at facstaff.wisc.edu Mon Feb 9 14:07:00 2004 From: cdean at facstaff.wisc.edu (Charles Dean) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:07:00 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace User Support Manager position // UW-Madison Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040209124947.02aa4178@wiscmail.wisc.edu> The General Library System, University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking an Institutional Repository (DSpace) User Support Manager. The application deadline is February 20, 2004. The position vacancy announcement #46775 follows here, and can also be seen at http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_046775.html ### begin PVL 46775 ### UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON Position Vacancy Listing PVL# 46775 Working title: INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY USER SUPPORT MANAGER Official title: ASSOC ACAD LIBRARIAN(R04FN) Degree and area of specialization: ALA Accredited Masters degree in Library Science Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience: Required: Experience training faculty and/or staff in the use of web-based publishing tools, preferably in an academic setting; working knowledge of web-based publishing tools and practices (e.g., markup languages); strong familiarity with metadata schemes such as Dublin Core or USMARC; excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. Desired: Experience working within complex library systems; knowledge of trends in institutional repositories and their strategic importance to academic libraries and research communities; extensive knowledge of library and archival practices and goals, especially with regard to technology. Principal duties: Reporting to the Head of the Digital Content Group, the Institutional Repository User Support Manager has primary responsibility for managing the communication with and support of Institutional Repository users. The Institutional Repository is designed as a tool for the capture, storage, dissemination, and preservation of digital content developed for teaching and research purposes. The repository serves as a library archive, providing functionality for collection building, cataloging, searching and preserving the content stored within. The position will require a knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and self-motivated individual. Responsibilities include: *Primary responsibility for all aspects of the Institutional Repository system's user management. *Write and maintain user documentation for the system, including system help pages. *Perform user training for library staff and Institutional Repository community users. *Provide expertise and assistance to public services staff in their support of Institutional Repository end-users. *Coordinate and manage the definition and setup of new Institutional Repository communities. *Coordinate and communicate with library subject specialists as needed in support of Insitutional Repository communities. *Perform outreach to UW community, including faculty site visits and general training to articulate the vision, goals, and objectives of the Institutional Repository service. *Plan and implement usability tests of the user interface and recommend user interface changes based upon test results. *Make recommendations on new functionality for Instutional Repository based on feedback from faculty, submitters, and the UW Libraries. Serve as liaison with the Institutional Repository advisory group to develop policies and prioritize enhancements. *Work with campus public relations organizations (e.g. Libraries Communication Coordinator, University News) to publicize and promote the Institutional Repository. *Coordinate and participte in collection assessment, metadata consulting, conversion referral, and developing metadata crosswalks as needed. *Provide consultation on policies, copyright, and regulatory issues related to intellectual property and sponsored research in the context of the Institutional Repository. *Work on projects and teams with library and other groups at UW who are closely aligned with services provided by Institutional Repository. *Monitor trends in the evolving field of digital repositories and share information with interested staff and project participants. *Chair the Institutional Repository Advisory Group for duration of pilot project. A period of evaluation will be required. ************************* Appointment type: Academic Staff Department(s): LIBR / LIBR TECH GROUP Full time salary rate: Minimum $36,475 ANNUAL (12 months). Depending on Qualifications Term: This is a renewable appointment. Appointment percent: 100% Anticipated begin date: MARCH 01, 2004 Number of positions: 1 TO INSURE CONSIDERATION: Application must be received by: FEBRUARY 20, 2004 HOW TO APPLY: Resume should include contact information for three references. Send resume and cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing #46775 to: SANDRA GUTHRIE 365 MEMORIAL LIBRARY 728 STATE ST. MADISON WI 53706-1418 Email: sguthrie at library.wisc.edu Phone: 608-262-8190 NOTE: Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. UW-Madison is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We promote excellence through diversity and encourage all qualified individuals to apply. For more academic job opportunities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison please click on PVL Home For more information on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Human Resources please click on http://www.ohr.wisc.edu For more information on the University of Wisconsin-Madison see our home page at http://www.wisc.edu For UW Madison Campus Safety Information see http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/Employment/Safetyinformation.htm ### end PVL 46775 ### Charles W. Dean Technology Librarian Library Technology Group/ University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center 312F Memorial Library University of Wisconsin-Madison 608.265.2844 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20040209/91dc45d7/attachment.htm From harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk Tue Feb 10 11:04:34 2004 From: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stevan Harnad) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:04:34 +0000 (GMT) Subject: [Dspace-general] Setting up an institutional archive: some experiences (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 15:39:27 +0000 From: Eriksson J?rgen Reply-To: American Scientist Open Access Forum To: AMERICAN-SCIENTIST-OPEN-ACCESS-FORUM at LISTSERVER.SIGMAXI.ORG Subject: Setting up an institutional archive: some experiences Resent-Subject: Setting up an institutional archive: some experiences Dear all, There has been some discussion earlier about the estimated cost for institutional archives. We will give a summary of how we have approched the task of setting up an institutional archive, some of our experiences and costs related to that work.We also hope this might stimulate others working with institutional archives to share their experiences with us. We have a long way to go to get self-archiving as a natural part of a researchers publishing behaviour. At the moment we have about one hundred plus full text documents in our repository [http://lu-research.lub.lu.se/]. It also serves as a bibliographic database for research papers, reports, articles etc. written by researchers affiliated to Lund University, and so far most of our records are just bibliographic. The way we have approched this task gives us a rather slow start in terms of resources in the archive in the short term, but we hope that it will be rewarding in the long run. We started working by setting up a demonstrator that showed a unified university perspective. We made a survey of what was available already at departmental web sites etc. and added samples from those to have some content to show as examples. We "launched" the demonstrator at a half-day seminar on electronic publishing/scientific communication in May 2002. We held five seminars on self-archiving and oa-issues in general during 2002 and 2003, all which have been fairly well attended (20-40 researchers). We plan to hold at least one seminar per semester on different aspects of open access/institutional repositories. This semester we have also managed to be part of a range of courses which the Learning and Teaching Development Centre at Lund University [http://www.uclu.lu.se/english/default.asp] offers researchers. We also held a seminar in late 2003 for department and faculty librarians with the aim to enable them to promote LU:research and to work as first-line support to their researchers when questions on using LU:research arise. The ignorance among the researchers on the broader developments in scientific communication is widespread, but there is an awakening interest that we find important to support by arranging these seminars and courses. An introduction to copyright issues which are part of our seminars is very appreciated and we have extended that work to include the creation of a standard licensce agreement that includes the right to self-archiving and re-use of papers in electronic versions of dissertations. This work is done together with the faculty of Law and the university's legal department. We have a finalised document now [http://www.lu.se/jurenh/INTERN/ModellFF.pdf] and we have also been discussing the creation of a web-site run by the legal department where researchers can find copyright-related information and personal support. Conclusions from our work. Different perspectives. * the university perspective only does not get the departments/researchers interested enough to participate. We have identified 3 different perspectives that the repository will try to satisfy: 1. The University: The single, unified, entry point is the University perspective [http://lu-research.lub.lu.se ]. It was also the University that already from the beginning wanted the adding of bibliographic records to the repository, not just full text. In the longer term the University sees LU:research as a marketing tool, and when the researchers/departments really start to use it, as a tool to help assessing research activities at different departments. There are no central, formal decisions on the use of the repository at the moment in this decentralised university. Our library director is raising awareness on different university management levels about these issues and a proposal for a policy will be on the agenda this spring. 2.The faculty/department: One of the results of the first seminar was that we were approached by the information committee of the medical faculty. They wanted to show the output from their research but where not interested in just showing it in the university context. Together with them and their faculty librarian we created an independent user interface to their sub-set of our institutional repository, Lund Virtual Medical Journal [http://lvmj.medfak.lu.se/]. There are mainly bibliographic records so far, but now that we have gained their confidence and given them something that they feel belong to just them we have started to talk about self-archiving and through the support of their library they have begun adding full text to the bibliographic records. Here we would like to point out what a great help the RoMEO site is to that work. We have also talked to a LU researcher who is the editor of a medical journal and he has just recently obtained permission from the publisher (Taylor & Francis) to self-archive all articles by authors from Lund in LU:research. T&F does not accept self-archiving in general according to the RoMEO list. 3. The Individual researcher: We are working with a software engineering research centre in our second "pilot project". They will use the same method as the medical faculty to generate a view of their own publications on departmental level. The addition here is that we will create a simplistic way for the individual researcher to dynamically add his publication list to his/her personal home page. = this generates extra technical work in creating ways of delivering the records in ways that suits our users and also in setting up their user interfaces when they don't have enough technical support of their own. You could argue that these costs are unnecessary, but as pointed out above, to be visible only in a central university service does not seem to be attractive enough to give an incentive to participate. Need for creating awareness. * researchers in general are indifferent/unaware of "the crisis/new possibilities in scientific communication" but there is an awakening interest and fanning that interest through seminars, lectures etc. generates support for our local repository. = this takes time and will generate a cost although it is not connected to the technical costs * ignorance regarding copyright is wide-spread and information on these issues are much appreciated (we are also lucky to have a member of the faculty of Law who is interested in these matters AND who is also a very good lecturer :-)) = this takes time and will generate a cost although it is not connected to the technical costs Our marketing strategy after finishing the pilot projects is in short: We are approaching every department, mainly through their libraries, and offer to visit and show through our examples/pilots what we can do for them. We already have a couple of departments beside the pilots who have started adding records/full text to the archive. Strengths we will stress: * Impact. Their output will reach more collegues through OAI-sevice providers. We have created a set for "full text available in archive" to make it possible for OAI-harvesters to harvest only those records. The problem here is the lack of good (not experimental) OAI service providers besides OAIster. * The economies of scale in centralised administration and data management/security that still leaves the possibillity to have their own user interfaces at personal and faculty/departmental levels. Practical stuff that is also needed. Helpdesk functions. Although we find the administration module in the GNUeprints software satisfactory , our experience is that not every user find it totally intuitive. Metadata quality. Time is also spent on controlling the metadata in the records added to the archive, something we believe is needed, if the OAI service providers are going to work with some amount of precision. This kind of work will increase with the number of users adding records. It is done either by us centrally or at department/faculty level. As of today Lund University Libraries, Head Office are spending ca 1 FTE on the central administration/maintenance/marketing of LU:research. To this should be added the quality control/support performed at faculty/department level, which will depend on the level of ambition at each unit. We mean that it isn't a correct analysis to say that the cost of archiving is trivial, at least not when looking at the actual situation at Lund University. Hopefully it will be a more self-generating system in the long run, but seminars and courses about publishing issues will probably be needed for quite some time to come. We are very interested in getting in touch with other institutional archives to share experiences on ways of implementing an institutional archive. Please send comments and your experiences either to the list or directly to us. Best regards, Jorgen Eriksson and Sara Kjellberg jorgen.eriksson at lub.lu.se sara.kjellberg at lub.lu.se Lund University Libraries Centre for Electronic Publication From fzanella at ipruniv.cce.unipr.it Wed Feb 11 11:59:25 2004 From: fzanella at ipruniv.cce.unipr.it (Francesca Zanella) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:59:25 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] metadata question Message-ID: <004d01c3f0c0$67ca15b0$204a4ea0@IMMAGINIBIBLIO> We are trying to verify the use of the Dublin Core element set for the description of digital objects as satire and illustration. can somebody help us to know if it is possibile to research on these elements (file attached) personalizing access point? Simple search: on people, events, and iconography (subjects, keywords and abstract), sorting by date (issue and/or creation) Advanced search: on description, abstract -keywords-, relations and subjects elements, sorting by date (issue and/or creation) combining relations and subjects elements, sorting by date (issue and creation). For example: I want to search an image that has relation with an article I want research an iconography with relations with an article, or with variants Francesca Zanella Dipartimento dei beni culturali Universit? di Parma p.le della Pace 7/A 43100 Parma email: fzanella at unipr.it www.unipr.it/~arte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20040211/b203b638/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks in advance for any information. Mike *********************************************************************** Michael Boock Head of Technical Services Oregon State University Libraries 121 The Valley Library Corvallis, OR 97331 541.737.9155 Fax: 541.737.8267 michael.boock at oregonstate.edu *********************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20040216/a1d1d1ec/attachment.htm From lemaire at sia.ucl.ac.be Tue Feb 17 07:42:58 2004 From: lemaire at sia.ucl.ac.be (Antoinette Lemaire) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:42:58 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20040217123556.00b14ef8@mail.sia.ucl.ac.be> Hi, I do not see any Subject searches capabilities in Dspaces. Is it planned ? Do I miss something ? Thanks Antoinette From margretb at MIT.EDU Tue Feb 17 09:47:27 2004 From: margretb at MIT.EDU (Margret Branschofsky) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:47:27 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20040217123556.00b14ef8@mail.sia.ucl.ac.be> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20040217094550.01f7b008@po10.mit.edu> Hello Antoinette, If you go to Advanced Search you can do a subject search (use the drop-down menus). Also, subjects are included in the general keyword search. Margret Branschofsky At 01:42 PM 2/17/2004 +0100, Antoinette Lemaire wrote: >Hi, > >I do not see any Subject searches capabilities in Dspaces. >Is it planned ? >Do I miss something ? > >Thanks > >Antoinette > >_______________________________________________ >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 -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20040217/89197717/attachment.htm From Acroute-Dit-Vampouil at etudiant.univ-lille1.fr Wed Feb 18 11:21:03 2004 From: Acroute-Dit-Vampouil at etudiant.univ-lille1.fr (JULIEN ACROUTE-DIT-VAMPOUILLE) Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:21:03 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Internal error on Advanced/Item Wildcard Policy Admin Tool Message-ID: <200402181621.i1IGL6iG025832@reserv6.univ-lille1.fr> Hello, I work for a french university, I have installed DSpace succesfully. I begin to transalate all the jsp with a Strings.java class. I think the error is not linked with my modification. The error : In the admin interface, choose the Authorization menu on the left and then click on the Advanced/Item Wildcard Policy Admin Tool button. Make no selection and click the Add policy button. -> oops Internal error (NullPointerException) the NullPointerException appear in PolicySet.java line 179 : ItemIterator i = collection.getItems(); I think collection == null because I make no selection in the "Advanced/Item Wildcard Policy Admin Tool" page. I known that the request without collection selected have no sense, but user can do it. So I want to known if I'm right and what devellopers think about this error. From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk Tue Feb 24 03:52:05 2004 From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:52:05 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] collaborative research References: <5B7F6F34471D3D42851392808677CA144D832C@mtadams.nws.oregonstate.edu> Message-ID: <006201c3fab3$7ae31be0$5192d781@lib.ed.ac.uk> collaborative researchHi Michael, We are using DSpace to provide an ETD service. The collaborative side of this work is relatively basic but we have written some code to allow for supervision of submissions by a group of advisors/supervisors and have worked out a workflow which suits the Edinburgh (and hopefully therefore the UK's) theses submission process. It would be a small conceptual (as opposed to coding) step to alter the code we have written to be for collaborative as opposed to supervised authoring of documents. A new version of our software will be out very shortly, so you could have a look at that if it interests you. In the mean time, you can have a read about what we've been up to at: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ Cheers Richard ============================== Richard Jones Systems Developer Theses Alive! - www.thesesalive.ac.uk Edinburgh University Library r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk 0131 651 1611 ----- Original Message ----- From: Boock, Michael To: dspace-general at mit.edu Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 5:01 PM Subject: [Dspace-general] collaborative research Hello, I am interested in whether any institutions have used DSpace for collaborative research. Examples might include instances of ETDs allowing submission, review and approval; project management instances allowing submissions and updates from multiple group members; course, lab or project notebooks. We have yet to install the DSpace software but intend to do so soon with a pilot project that we hope can include one of these types of collaborative research efforts. Thanks in advance for any information. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20040224/275416c0/attachment.htm From dgeorgievski at horizonk.com Fri Feb 27 20:16:40 2004 From: dgeorgievski at horizonk.com (Dimitar Georgievski) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 17:16:40 -0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] problem starting dspace Message-ID: <1077930999.5949.43.camel@linux.local> Hi, I've tried to install dspace on a standalone Tomcat 5.0 server following the instructions found on dspace web site. Whenever Tomcat starts it has problem finding some of the dspace classes. FYI dspace.jar is located in /dspace/lib folder. It looks like the class loader has problem finding the WEB-INF/lib folder. Any help is appreciated. thanks, dimitar The error message follows: 2004-02-27 16:46:49 StandardContext[]Exception starting filter registered-only java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.dspace.app.webui.filter.RegisteredOnlyFilter at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1383) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1230) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:258) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:355) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:126) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:3644) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4276) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:866) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:850) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:638) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.addChild(StandardHostDeployer.java:839) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:252) at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:256) at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:276) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1058) at org.apache.catalina.util.CatalinaDigester.endElement(CatalinaDigester.java:123) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source) at