From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk Tue Apr 12 10:21:40 2005 From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:21:40 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.3 Alpha released Message-ID: <508407BF97D36847BA46669CCFC09D8C1878EF@quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk> Dear All, The DSpace Community is proud to announce the release of DSpace 1.3 alpha. This version contains significant updates such as a log file analyser and a translatable user interface (not quite complete); full details of the changes can be found listed in the documentation. *** NOTE: this is an alpha release due to the quantity of brand new features which may need some time to stabilise. With your help in testing we can fix any problems quickly to bring this up to a beta release and subsequently final release standard This release requires some database schema updates, so be sure to save any database contents you want to preserve, using the PostgreSQL dump facility. In addition, although there have been major updates to the JSPs, locally modified ones should still be compatible. *** This alpha release can be downloaded from the files area at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ or from CVS using the tags dspace-1_3alpha and dspace-docs-1_3alpha 2 for the source code (dspace) and documentation (docs) modules respectively. Please use the mailing lists available at https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19984 to provide feedback on this to help us make it into a stable release. Best Wishes, Richard ------- Richard Jones Information Systems Developer + A crash reduces Edinburgh University Library + your expensive computer Information Systems + to a simple stone e: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk t: 0131 651 3811 Edinburgh Research Archive: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Tapir on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul Theses Alive! homepage: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ From crinaldo at oeb.harvard.edu Tue Apr 12 16:12:41 2005 From: crinaldo at oeb.harvard.edu (Connie Rinaldo) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:12:41 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] handle system Message-ID: <83f5f4c924b9847bfc9b0f1c10fabad9@oeb.harvard.edu> Is anyone using any other persistent URL system other than the handle system? 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The objective of the User Group meeting is to bring together the DSpace open source community to share experiences and discuss the future developments of the DSpace platform and Federation of adopters. Preliminary information about registration is now available on the meeting website: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/registration.htm. Submissions are invited for the following categories: Long presentations (20 - 30 minutes): organizations which are leading large DSpace-related research projects or significant DSpace initiatives. Short presentations (10 - 15 minutes): organizations/individuals who have contributed new features, tools, or plug-ins or are addressing specific technical issues. DSpace Around the World: short presentations (10 - 15 minutes) from organizations worldwide who are using DSpace. Submissions should highlight innovative uses of DSpace or DSpace policy, implementation or other activities that are influenced by or derived from local, regional or national issues or culture. Posters: forum for sharing project plans or results. Presentation/poster proposals: - must be sent via email to jhwalker at mit.edu; - should specify whether the submission is for the long, short, Around the World, or poster category; - should take the form of a brief (1 page) description of the topic for presentation or poster; - should include 50 word biographical sketch of the primary author; and - should include mailing address, phone, fax, email for the primary author. Submissions are requested by 29 April 2005 and will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee (http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/organisers.htm) for acceptance notification by 20 May 2005. If the presentation is accepted, final versions of the presentation must be submitted electronically by 1 July 2005. We will not be seeking text for publication, but will ask all authors to post their presentations on the DSpace Federation website after the meeting. Further information can be obtained from the programme committee chair: Julie Walker (jhwalker at mit.edu) Many thanks, The DSpace Federation User Group Meeting Programme Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050413/fb5212ae/attachment.htm From mvagianoslib at gmail.com Wed Apr 13 14:29:28 2005 From: mvagianoslib at gmail.com (Maria Vagianos) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:29:28 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Repository software Message-ID: At our library, we are trying to find a software that can be used as one centralized digital database to index and access files on different drives, our new digitized collection, our audiovisual collection, and information rich sources (such as url links) contained in email. Pretty much anything we can throw at it! Having a tough time finding a good repository software to use. Right now, we are using ISYS, MSAccess, and other methods by which to access this information. I researched Swish-e, for example, but it is much less comprehensive than ISYS. Any suggestions? Also, as a novice, I'm unclear under what category in digital preservation we are. It's all very confusing to me. :-) If you need further information, let me know. Thanks for your help! From carlj at MIT.EDU Fri Apr 15 13:44:30 2005 From: carlj at MIT.EDU (Carl Jones) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:44:30 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace and image Content Delivery Query Message-ID: Hi, Is anyone thinking about doing more work with the DSpace presentation layer to make it more user friendly for image content delivery, in particular for art images? I've found a couple of DSpace sites with images, for example, the Australian National University, but there are probably more. At present, by design, compared with tools such as CONTENTdm or ARTstor, DSpace lacks such features as support for metadata beyond Dublin Core, no "My Favorites" type virtual collections, side-by-side image comparisons, JPEG2000 support, etc.). I understand DSpace 2.* will be more modular and may more easily allow working towards integrating these kinds of functionality. Or are sites mostly contemplating using it as a back-end to some other system for handling images? On a side-note, is anyone thinking about using it as a back-end repository for the Greenstone digital library software (www.greenstone.org) which now has Dspace import/export functionality? I apologize if this has been discussed already (I did do a quick search through the archives). Thanks. Carl Carl Jones Sr. Systems Analyst Massachusetts Institute of Technology Library Systems and Technology Services Bldg. E25-131 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 Voice: 617.253.1618 From gourley at wrlc.org Fri Apr 15 17:38:51 2005 From: gourley at wrlc.org (Don Gourley) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:38:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace and image Content Delivery Query In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3951.192.245.136.76.1113601131.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org> On Fri, April 15, 2005 1:44 pm, Carl Jones said: ... > On a side-note, is anyone thinking about using it as a back-end > repository for the Greenstone digital library software > (www.greenstone.org) which now has Dspace import/export functionality? Hi Carl, I am thinking about doing something like that. But we have never stored the actual content (eg. image files) in Greenstone. We have a custom plugin we use to import the metadata into Greenstone, including links to the content files. I haven't looked at the new DSpace plugin but I was presuming it would be easier to adapt our existing plugin and use handle-based bitstream URIs for the content links. This way the content is managed in DSpace and Greenstone is a delivery mechanism...and not the only one as it is now. I would be interested in any experience others have had with DSpace feeding into Greenstone. -Don From Yiqun.Lin at NAU.EDU Fri Apr 15 18:34:48 2005 From: Yiqun.Lin at NAU.EDU (esperi) Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:34:48 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] user registration problem Message-ID: <6.1.1.1.2.20050415152843.019744f8@mailbox.nau.edu> Hello, We've been having some problems when a user is trying to register with our DSpace (1.2) system. The user would get an Internal System Error message after entering his/her email address followed by clicking on Register button. Only the first user can be registered after restarting the system. Any help or suggestion would be appreciated, Thanks, Yiqun From jhwalker at MIT.EDU Wed Apr 13 08:24:49 2005 From: jhwalker at MIT.EDU (Julie Harford Walker) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:24:49 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Call for Presentations Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050412214209.03249d70@hesiod> Apologies for cross-posting... CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS =============================================================== 2nd DSpace Federation User Group Meeting University of Cambridge, UK 7-8 July 2005 www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/ =============================================================== Submissions are invited from organizations using DSpace who wish to present at the upcoming DSpace Federation User Group meeting. The objective of the User Group meeting is to bring together the DSpace open source community to share experiences and discuss the future developments of the DSpace platform and Federation of adopters. Preliminary information about registration is now available on the meeting website: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/registration.htm. Submissions are invited for the following categories: Long presentations (20 - 30 minutes): organizations which are leading large DSpace-related research projects or significant DSpace initiatives. Short presentations (10 - 15 minutes): organizations/individuals who have contributed new features, tools, or plug-ins or are addressing specific technical issues. DSpace Around the World: short presentations (10 - 15 minutes) from organizations worldwide who are using DSpace. Submissions should highlight innovative uses of DSpace or DSpace policy, implementation or other activities that are influenced by or derived from local, regional or national issues or culture. Posters: forum for sharing project plans or results. Presentation/poster proposals: - must be sent via email to jhwalker at mit.edu; - should specify whether the submission is for the long, short, Around the World, or poster category; - should take the form of a brief (1 page) description of the topic for presentation or poster; - should include 50 word biographical sketch of the primary author; and - should include mailing address, phone, fax, email for the primary author. Submissions are requested by 29 April 2005 and will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee (http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/organisers.htm) for acceptance notification by 20 May 2005. If the presentation is accepted, final versions of the presentation must be submitted electronically by 1 July 2005. We will not be seeking text for publication, but will ask all authors to post their presentations on the DSpace Federation website after the meeting. Further information can be obtained from the programme committee chair: Julie Walker (jhwalker at mit.edu) Many thanks, The DSpace Federation User Group Meeting Programme Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050413/53658763/attachment.htm From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk Tue Apr 19 08:41:40 2005 From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:41:40 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] ERA2 Release Message-ID: <508407BF97D36847BA46669CCFC09D8C012EBC9D@quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk> Dear All, Edinburgh University Library has just released ERA2, it's second generation institutional repository based on DSpace. The underlying system is DSpace 1.2.1 with Tapir 0.4 and the new stats system developed here. You can find the new repository system here: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ and see the stats system, which has recently been incorporated into the DSpace code base (1.3 alpha 1), at: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/statistics Best Wishes, Richard ------- Richard Jones Information Systems Developer + A crash reduces Edinburgh University Library + your expensive computer Information Systems + to a simple stone e: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk t: 0131 651 3811 Edinburgh Research Archive: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Tapir on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul Theses Alive! homepage: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ From j.ferguson at abdn.ac.uk Wed Apr 20 04:24:15 2005 From: j.ferguson at abdn.ac.uk (Jon Ferguson) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:24:15 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Dspace-general Digest, Vol 21, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: <200504191604.j3JG3IhB016225@pch.mit.edu> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20050420092252.033898d8@mailms.abdn.ac.uk> This Rocks Richard! At 12:04 19/04/2005 -0400, you wrote: >Send Dspace-general mailing list submissions to > dspace-general at mit.edu > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > dspace-general-request at mit.edu > >You can reach the person managing the list at > dspace-general-owner at mit.edu > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of Dspace-general digest..." > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. ERA2 Release (Richard Jones) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:41:40 +0100 >From: "Richard Jones" >To: >Subject: [Dspace-general] ERA2 Release >Message-ID: ><508407BF97D36847BA46669CCFC09D8C012EBC9D at quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk> >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Precedence: list >Reply-To: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk >Message: 1 > >Dear All, > >Edinburgh University Library has just released ERA2, it's second >generation institutional repository based on DSpace. The underlying >system is DSpace 1.2.1 with Tapir 0.4 and the new stats system developed >here. You can find the new repository system here: > >http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ > >and see the stats system, which has recently been incorporated into the >DSpace code base (1.3 alpha 1), at: > >http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/statistics > >Best Wishes, > >Richard >------- >Richard Jones >Information Systems Developer + A crash reduces >Edinburgh University Library + your expensive computer >Information Systems + to a simple stone > >e: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk >t: 0131 651 3811 > >Edinburgh Research Archive: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ >Tapir on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul >Theses Alive! homepage: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ > >------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > >End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 21, Issue 5 >********************************************* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Jon Ferguson Senior Health Database Scientist IMMPACT, Dugald Baird Centre for Research on Women's Health University of Aberdeen Foresterhill Lea, Westburn Rd, Aberdeen, UK 'A Symposium on Women's Health: Measurement Matters' Dugald Baird Centre 10th Anniversary Symposium 9th - 10th May 2005 For more details contact dbcconf.enquiries at abdn.ac.uk or go to http://www.abdn.ac.uk/dugaldbairdcentre/ +44 (0)1224 551850 j.ferguson at abdn.ac.uk www.abdn.ac.uk/immpact ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk Wed Apr 20 04:27:14 2005 From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 09:27:14 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] 1.2.2 final release date Message-ID: <508407BF97D36847BA46669CCFC09D8C012EBCA1@quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk> Hi All, Unless anyone has any objections or further feedback we will upgrade the current 1.2.2 beta 2 release to a final release on Friday (22nd April). If you have experienced any problems with this version that you think need to be fixed before this please let the list know. Best Wishes, Richard ------- Richard Jones Information Systems Developer + A crash reduces Edinburgh University Library + your expensive computer Information Systems + to a simple stone e: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk t: 0131 651 3811 Edinburgh Research Archive: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Tapir on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul Theses Alive! homepage: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ From GoadL at wlu.edu Wed Apr 20 12:18:51 2005 From: GoadL at wlu.edu (Lloyd Goad) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:18:51 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Dspace-general Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6 (Out of the Office) Message-ID: I am out of the office from the 20th through the 27th. If you need computing support please call Gabriella @ 8124. If you need classroom support please call Carole Bailey or Flash Floyd. From osanchez at itcr.ac.cr Mon Apr 25 13:01:54 2005 From: osanchez at itcr.ac.cr (Oscar Sanchez Gomez) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:01:54 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Items without bitstreams Message-ID: J?rn Nettingsmeier, Hello J?rn, I am interested to know what solution do you follow to "items without bitstreams". I want to implement something like. Oscar Sanchez Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica osanchez at itcr.ac.cr From mjvenetis at sbcglobal.net Mon Apr 25 19:18:34 2005 From: mjvenetis at sbcglobal.net (Mary Jo Venetis) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:18:34 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Questions about DSpace Message-ID: <001c01c549ed$1ddf56e0$6501a8c0@MJVlaptop> I am writing to inquire whether you, as an institution who uses DSpace for your institutional repository, would be interested in answering some of my questions for a research assignment. I am currently a doctoral student at University of North Texas; I am also a manager of Acquisitions and Interlibrary Loan at Dallas Public Library. My research assignment is to analyze DSpace, and its effectiveness as an open source software program for institutions who use DSpace as an institutional repository. If it is not an imposition on your time, would you mind answering some of my questions regarding DSpace? Please reply privately to me and my email address is listed in the signature line. 1. Since the launch of the DSpace in November 2002, how successful is the project as a digital institutional repository overall, not just for MIT Libraries but for other institutions? 2. According to the DSpace Instances website, there are 79 institutions using DSpace. Is this an accurate figure? What were MIT/HP's expectations of the number of institutions using DSpace when the project was launched? 3. What is the general consenus on the perception of DSpace from the community at large? 4. After reading several articles and some threaded postings, it is my understanding that the Google Scholar has resulted in the cancellation of the project between DSpace and Google. What are your thoughts on this subject? 5. Could you describe any upcoming projects in relation to DSpace? 6. As you look back, has DSpace met the developer's original expectations? How will DSpace evolve in the next five years? This is a question for MIT and Hewlett Packard: As the colloboration between Hewlett Packard and MIT Libraries is approaching its fifth year, will the partnership continue beyond the five-year project? What are the upcoming goals for the continuing partnership, if any? Thank you for your assistance in this matter. Mary Jo Venetis UNT Doctoral Student Dallas Public Library mjvenetis at sbcglobal.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050425/5b17c3db/attachment.htm From danianne at seas.upenn.edu Tue Apr 26 10:31:59 2005 From: danianne at seas.upenn.edu (Danianne Mizzy) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:31:59 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Time and cost per item in a repository Message-ID: <426E50DF.1060201@seas.upenn.edu> Please excuse cross posting. We are trying to pose this question to the IR community without regard to platform. Does anybody have any statistics they'd be willing to share regarding time or cost per item made available in an institutional repository? Specifically, how long does it take in total to upload a document, including time to: * determine if a work is eligible in the first place (i.e., investigating publisher's copyright policy) * acquire the full-text (postprints from faculty or publisher PDF version) * uploading of metadata and document(s) itself * any review done before making it fully public on the repository * other steps? Then any cost figures associated with this whole process. Any insights appreciated! Danianne Mizzy Asst. Head, Engineering Library University of Pennsylvania 217 Towne Building danianne at seas.upenn.edu (215) 898-5700 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050426/17d94d83/attachment.htm From jhwalker at MIT.EDU Mon Apr 25 19:07:42 2005 From: jhwalker at MIT.EDU (Julie Harford Walker) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:07:42 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] REMINDER: DSpace Call for Presentations - due Apr. 29 Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050425190016.0b601ec8@hesiod> Apologies for cross-posting... CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS =============================================================== 2nd DSpace Federation User Group Meeting University of Cambridge, UK 7-8 July 2005 www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/ =============================================================== Submissions are invited from organizations using DSpace who wish to present at the upcoming DSpace Federation User Group meeting. The objective of the User Group meeting is to bring together the DSpace open source community to share experiences and discuss the future developments of the DSpace platform and Federation of adopters. Preliminary information about registration is now available on the meeting website: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/registration.htm. Submissions are invited for the following categories: Long presentations (20 - 30 minutes): organizations which are leading large DSpace-related research projects or significant DSpace initiatives. Short presentations (10 - 15 minutes): organizations/individuals who have contributed new features, tools, or plug-ins or are addressing specific technical issues. DSpace Around the World: short presentations (10 - 15 minutes) from organizations worldwide who are using DSpace. Submissions should highlight innovative uses of DSpace or DSpace policy, implementation or other activities that are influenced by or derived from local, regional or national issues or culture. Posters: forum for sharing project plans or results. Presentation/poster proposals: - must be sent via email to jhwalker at mit.edu; - should specify whether the submission is for the long, short, Around the World, or poster category; - should take the form of a brief (1 page) description of the topic for presentation or poster; - should include 50 word biographical sketch of the primary author; and - should include mailing address, phone, fax, email for the primary author. Submissions are requested by 29 April 2005 and will be reviewed by members of the Programme Committee (http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/organisers.htm) for acceptance notification by 20 May 2005. If the presentation is accepted, final versions of the presentation must be submitted electronically by 1 July 2005. We will not be seeking text for publication, but will ask all authors to post their presentations on the DSpace Federation website after the meeting. Further information can be obtained from the programme committee chair: Julie Walker (jhwalker at mit.edu) Many thanks, The DSpace Federation User Group Meeting Programme Committee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050425/0c9102fe/attachment.htm From ccrowley at unm.edu Tue Apr 26 15:19:14 2005 From: ccrowley at unm.edu (Christy R Crowley) Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:19:14 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Time and cost per item in a repository In-Reply-To: <426E50DF.1060201@seas.upenn.edu> References: <426E50DF.1060201@seas.upenn.edu> Message-ID: Basically, this article says it takes about 10 minutes to put archive a paper with metadata. Carr, L. and Harnad, S. (2005) Keystroke Economy: A Study of the Time and Effort Involved in Self-Archiving. http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/10688/ ABSTRACT: A common objection to self-archiving is that it is an extra task that puts an unnecessary burden on each researcher. In particular, the need to enter the extra bibliographic metadata demanded by repositories for accurate searching and identification is presumed to be a particularly onerous task. This paper describes a preliminary study on two months of submissions for a mature repository and concludes that the amount of time spent entering metadata would be as little as 40 minutes per year for a highly active researcher. On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:31:59 -0400 Danianne Mizzy wrote: > Please excuse cross posting. We are trying to pose this >question to the IR community without regard to platform. > > Does anybody have any statistics they'd be willing to >share regarding > time or cost per item made available in an institutional >repository? > > Specifically, how long does it take in total to upload a >document, including time to: > > * determine if a work is eligible in the first place >(i.e., > investigating publisher's copyright policy) > * acquire the full-text (postprints from faculty or >publisher PDF > version) > * uploading of metadata and document(s) itself > * any review done before making it fully public on >the repository > * other steps? > > Then any cost figures associated with this whole >process. > > Any insights appreciated! > > Danianne Mizzy > > Asst. Head, Engineering Library University of >Pennsylvania > 217 Towne Building > danianne at seas.upenn.edu > (215) 898-5700 > *************************************************************************** Christy Crowley 505 277-4740 Centennial Science and Engineering Library University of New Mexico From bialangiano at yahoo.com.br Thu Apr 28 10:45:03 2005 From: bialangiano at yahoo.com.br (Beatriz Langiano) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:45:03 -0300 (ART) Subject: [Dspace-general] Change administrator e-mail and password Message-ID: <20050428144503.56541.qmail@web60907.mail.yahoo.com> Hi, I'd like to change the administrator e-mail and password of my Dspace. I read about something, but I'd like to am sure about this, to avoid problems. What must I do? Thanks, Beatriz Beatriz Langiano Mestrado em Inform?tica Universidade Federal do Paran? - Brasil Yahoo! Acesso Gr?tis - Internet r?pida e gr?tis. Instale o discador agora! http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ From r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk Thu Apr 28 10:57:31 2005 From: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk (Richard Jones) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:57:31 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Change administrator e-mail and password In-Reply-To: <20050428144503.56541.qmail@web60907.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <508407BF97D36847BA46669CCFC09D8C012EBD26@quicksilver.ucs.ed.ac.uk> Just execute the script: [dspace]/bin/create-administrator from the command line. Then you can delete the old administrator account. Cheers, Richard ------- Richard Jones Information Systems Developer + A crash reduces Edinburgh University Library + your expensive computer Information Systems + to a simple stone e: r.d.jones at ed.ac.uk t: 0131 651 3811 Edinburgh Research Archive: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/ Tapir on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tapir-eul Theses Alive! homepage: http://www.thesesalive.ac.uk/ > -----Original Message----- > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu > [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Beatriz Langiano > Sent: 28 April 2005 15:45 > To: Lista Dspace > Subject: [Dspace-general] Change administrator e-mail and password > > > Hi, > > > I'd like to change the administrator e-mail and > password of my Dspace. > I read about something, but I'd like to am sure about > this, to avoid problems. > What must I do? > > Thanks, Beatriz > > Beatriz Langiano > Mestrado em Inform?tica > Universidade Federal do Paran? - Brasil > > > > > > Yahoo! Acesso Gr?tis - Internet r?pida e gr?tis. > Instale o discador agora! http://br.acesso.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace> -general > From iacj at terra.com.br Fri Apr 29 23:40:52 2005 From: iacj at terra.com.br (instituto A.C.Jobim) Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:40:52 -0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: [Dspace-tech] Structured metadata scheme "pretend" to be Dublin Core? In-Reply-To: <20050429204338.38DD73980A4@pixie.artic.edu> References: <20050429204338.38DD73980A4@pixie.artic.edu> Message-ID: <59780e62132594c0bdf3c68e76f9d2e7@terra.com.br> dear Peter and Robert I have a kind of similar problem in the Institute. I migrated a database with some related tables into dspace. I would like to rebuild the relationship I had (authority records) with the new dublin core schema. there ia a field in the dcvalue table that is never used (source_id?). I feel very tempted to use it to store a foreing key to an authority record. if we had such a column we could hold some data together creating such a structure. Lets say: item_id dc_type_id text_value text_lang place source_id xx contributor joe en 1 1 (joe's id in an authority record) xx contributor.role painter en 1 1 xx contibutor mary en 2 35 xx contributor.role dancer en 2 35 in fact I tried to create a new field just for that but dspace didn't like it and complained. Today we just created dc qualifiers for every kind and we are planing a way to fill the contributors field reading from another table. the example would be just: contributor.painter joe contributor.dancer mary the other form would be more flexible because today if a new role appears I have to create a new dc qualifier, and alter the input forms and views. is there any plans to include this kind of structure? thanks Paulo Jobim Em 2005Apr29, ?s 17:43, Peter Urban escreveu: > I'm bringing this offline conversation to this list so that the > information > is available to anyone else facing similar challenges and to see what > others' thoughts are. See original messages below for context. Sorry > for the > long post. > > Robert asked if there is any structure to the CDWA metadata fields. He > says, > "If the answer is no, CDWA is flat, you can just use and extend the > current > DSpace Dublin Core support to include CDWA elements." Based on his > description, CDWA has structure. For example: > > CREATOR > - IDENTITY (can be linked to an authority record) > - ROLE > DATE > - EARLIEST DATE > - LATEST DATE > > Do I understand correctly that a structured schema (as opposed to a > flat > one) cannot be added to the current metadata registry? If so, can you > explain why? If not, and there is an option of "pretending" that CDWA > is > just an extension of Dublin Core, what are the pros and cons of doing > so? > Would we need to make a distinction between what is DC and what is CDWA > pretending to be DC? Might there be downstream issues related to > OAI-PMH > support? > > Thanks! > > Peter Urban > Kristine Fallon Associates, Inc. > Digital Archive for Architecture System > The Art Institute of Chicago > purban at kfa-inc.com > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tansley, Robert [mailto:robert.tansley at hp.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 2:33 PM >> To: Peter Urban >> Subject: RE: DSpace for Art Institute of Chicago >> >> >> Hello Peter, >> >> I'd recommend you widen this conversation to the dspace-devel >> or -tech list as you'll get faster responses then! The model >> of interaction around the DSpace open source community >> doesn't tend to be people asking specific individuals for >> help, as no one actually has general "DSpace support" as a >> full-time job... >> >>> Option 2. I'm not sure I understand what you mean by >>> "flat schema". >>> CDWA has categories and subcategories. If you'd like to take >>> a look - >>> http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/cd >>> wa/index.html >>> >> dwa/index.html >>>> . Are you saying that if CDWA is like DC, we could extend the DC >>>> schema >>> within DSpace to include all of the additional CDWA fields >>> and make them available via the customized UI in 1.2.2 beta >>> 1? For submission and for search? What are the pros/cons? >> >> 'Categories and sub-categories' are orthogonal to whether a >> schema is 'flat'. Categories are just possible values that a >> metadata field can have. >> What I mean is, is there any structure to the metadata fields >> themselves? >> e.g. >> >> title: Piece of work >> author: John Doe >> author: Jane Smith >> abstract: This piece of work blah blah... >> category: X123 >> >> is flat. The following has structure: >> >> title: Piece of work >> author: >> name: John Doe >> organisation: HP >> author: >> name: Jane Smith >> organisation: MIT >> >> i.e. it's not just a list of name/value pairs. "Author" >> doesn't just have one value, it has a value comprised of two >> 'sub-parts'. My question is does CDWA contain any elements like that? >> >> If the answer is no, CDWA is flat, you can just use and >> extend the current DSpace Dublin Core support to include CDWA >> elements. The categories are more a UI concern (drop-lists >> and the like) and the custom submit form feature (I believe) >> supports this. >> >>> Option 3. I am not aware of there being an XML schema >>> for CDWA. If we were to generate the CDWA metadata as XML, >>> and include that XML as a bitstream in the item, and we had a >>> crosswalk to DC, are you saying that the CDWA metadata could >>> then be searched using an external interface into DSpace? My >>> previous understanding was that metadata stored as a >>> bitstream could not be searched. If it can be searched (even >>> externally to DSpace), this sounds like it could be worth >>> further investigation. >>> >>> If my understanding of Option 3 is correct, could you >>> provide a high-level description of how this would work? For >>> example, would we have a package of bitstreams that include >>> the CDWA metadata XML, then import (or >>> upload) those bitstreams as an item? How would the DC >>> metadata be pulled from the CDWA metadata XML? How would the >>> CDWA metadata be searched? What would happen if any of the >>> CDWA metadata needed to be updated after the item has been >>> archived? Can the CDWA metadata XML bitstream be modified >>> after the item has been archived? >> >> If metadata is stored in an item as XML in a bitstream, it >> means the core DSpace system itself cannot index that >> metadata. Other systems (search engines, or DSpace add-ons) >> that understood that XML could peer inside those XML >> bitstreams and index the relevant data, and allow it to be searched. >> >> There are different APIs and protocols that those search >> engines or DSpace add-ons can use to do this. This also >> applies to getting the metadata into DSpace in the first >> place, and modifying it further down the line (which is >> possible). Basically, option 3 means that you leave DSpace >> as is, and implement various bolt-ons that do the work with >> CDWA via the DSpace Java APIs or network protocols. The >> advantage of this over option 4 (hacking the >> code) is that your code is separate from the core DSpace >> code, and is easier to maintain; as long as the DSpace >> APIs/protocols are backwards compatible your code will work. >> Robert Tansley / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs >> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/ >> >> >> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Tansley, Robert [mailto:robert.tansley at hp.com] >>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 10:46 AM >>>> To: Peter Urban >>>> Subject: RE: DSpace for Art Institute of Chicago >>>> >>>> >>>> Hello Peter, >>>> >>>> Firstly, apologies for the delayed reply, your mail arrived just as >>>> I >>>> left for a 2-week business trip which meant it got snowed under. >>>> >>>> I'm glad to see you hope you can do this in a way that can be >>>> contributed back to open source DSpace! This will benefit you and >>>> the > >>>> Art Institute, in that you won't have to maintain the code by >>>> yourself, the rest of the open source community will help you. >>>> >>>> I'm not familiar with the CDWA standard, so I'm not 100% sure how >>>> extensive the modifications would have to be. In general, you have >>>> a >>>> number of options: >>>> >>>> * Wait for another project to implement support >>>> for different >>>> metadata schemas, for example the SIMILE project (simile.mit.edu). >>>> I >>>> suspect this won't be a good option for you, as there's no >>>> real time >>>> frame for when this might happen. The SIMILE project hasn't engaged >>>> the DSpace community with any concrete plans yet, so we've no way of >>>> knowing when this might happen. You could offer to support such an >>>> effort. >>>> * If the metadata standard looks somewhat like Dublin Core >>>> (i.e. a flat schema), you can "pretend" the metadata is Dublin Core. >>>> As of DSpace 1.2.2 beta 1, most use of Dublin Core is configurable >>>> (e.g. which fields appear in the submission UI, advanced search >>>> etc). >>>> * Another option is to store the CDWA in XML >>>> (does CDWA have >>>> an XML Schema)? as another bitstream in each DSpace item, and have a >>>> crosswalk that creates Dublin Core for DSpace. Other systems >>>> interfacing with DSpace (via Java API, OAI-PMH, Web Services etc) >>>> will > >>>> be able to use this metadata, though the DSpace search/retrieval >>>> functions will use the Dublin Core. This could be treated as an >>>> interim measure, until DSpace properly supports different schemas. >>>> * You could just do the code gruntwork to support >>>> CDWA in an >>>> expedient way. This would make it difficult to fold your changes >>>> into > >>>> open source DSpace though, so you'd probably end up with a "fork" >>>> of the code >>>> you'd have to maintain yourself. >>>> >>>> You certainly aren't the only project interested in alternative >>>> metadata schemas, though, so I do hope it won't be long before a >>>> concerted effort starts up to support this, and I hope you'd become >>>> involved in such an effort as it would help you with your >>>> objectives! >>>> >>>> Does this help? >>>> Robert Tansley / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs >>>> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. > Get your fingers limbered up and give it your best shot. 4 great > events, 4 > opportunities to win big! Highest score wins.NEC IT Guy Games. Play to > win an NEC 61 plasma display. 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