[Dspace-general] New DSpace listservs on the way
MacKenzie Smith
kenzie at MIT.EDU
Wed Jul 28 18:05:39 EDT 2004
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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