[Dspace-general] RE: New DSpace listservs on the way

[Scott Yeadon]

Hi MacKenzie,

ANU would be happy to shepherd the dspace-IR and dspace-preservation lists.

We have an interest in most the areas listed, so if you don't get any volunteers for the publishing and theses lists let me know and we'll take them on as well.

Scott.

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:05:39 -0400
From: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie at MIT.EDU>
To: dspace-general at MIT.EDU
Subject: [Dspace-general] New DSpace listservs on the way
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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