From richard.jones at ub.uib.no Wed Jul 13 04:21:51 2005 From: richard.jones at ub.uib.no (Richard Jones) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:21:51 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Committer Meeting Notes 05-07-2005 Message-ID: <1121242911.21519.83.camel@ubbtilv067115> Hi All, Just to let you know that the committer meeting notes from DSUG are now available at: http://wiki.dspace.org/CommitterInfo/Meeting05072005 In addition, there is now a committer info page where this sort of material will be linked at: http://wiki.dspace.org/CommitterInfo Cheers, -- Richard ------- Richard Jones | Overingeni?r | Senior Engineer Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen | University of Bergen Library e: richard.jones at ub.uib.no t: +47 55 58 25 37 BORA: http://bora.uib.no/ From patrick at caret.cam.ac.uk Wed Jul 13 17:02:36 2005 From: patrick at caret.cam.ac.uk (patrick) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:02:36 Subject: [Dspace-general] automated response Message-ID: <10507131702.AA70779328@agrimony.caret.cam.ac.uk> I am on holiday until 18th July. In the event of any queries about the AERS or TLRP Virtual Research Environments, please contact Richard Procter (richardp at caret.cam.ac.uk). Patrick Carmichael From robert.tansley at hp.com Wed Jul 13 13:50:32 2005 From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:50:32 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Initial Wiki page for user group meeting outcomes Message-ID: <19ADCC0B9D4CAD4582BB9900BBCE3574019457AF@tayexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net> Hi all, It was great to be able to meet many of you and finally be able to put faces to names at the DSpace user group meeting in Cambridge last week. I think the meeting was a huge success -- we had some fantastic discussions and presentations, demonstrating the energy and diversity of our community and highlighting the progress we've made in the transition to a real open source project in the last year. To try to capture some of the valuable discussions at the meeting, both for future reference and for those who were unable to attend, I've started up a page on the Wiki to document the event: http://wiki.dspace.org/UserGroupMeetingSummary2005 I've 'seeded' the page with some of my notes, but the intention is very much for this to become a general record of the event, rather than my own personal perspective. So please, dive in and add omissions, correct any errors, and add your own perspectives! The Wiki is very easy to sign up for and use, and has become an invaluable tool for the DSpace community. Thank you to everyone who took the time, effort and expense to attend the DSpace event -- I hope it was as useful and enjoyable for you as it was for me! Robert TANSLEY / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/ From smuir1 at emich.edu Wed Jul 13 17:01:43 2005 From: smuir1 at emich.edu (Scott P. Muir) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:01:43 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] ETDs and Communities in DSpace Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20050713164627.01cf2e90@mail.emich.edu> We are in the early stages of creating a repository of Theses and Dissertations. I am trying to develop an analysis of our options for organizing materials, especially with an end-user approach. My reference librarians advise that most students come in and ask to see all the (print) thesis written by students in a particular discipline, e.g. Biology, History, etc. If we chose a "communities" structure model that is based on our Colleges and Departments structure that would readily address that issue. However, it could also create a situation where in the initial stages of this work, one might find only one thesis in the History repository, which might not look so good. On the other hand, if we collected all the thesis into a single "thesis" community, then it becomes harder for the History or Biology department to claim those publications as part of their community. As we weigh the pros and cons of the possible approaches, and there are likely others, I thought perhaps many of you had already addressed these questions. Would anyone out there be willing to share their thoughts, the options you considered and why you chose one particular model over another? I do realize that this is a question for which there is not a right or wrong answer, but I would be interested in what your processes were. My thinking has even led me to ask who is the end user? Is it a community or is it what we librarians consider our typical library patron, Designing for these two different communities could have different outcomes too. Anyway thank you for any assistance you can offer. Scott P Muir Associate University Librarian Bruce T. Halle Library, Room 200F Eastern Michigan University 955 West Circle Drive Ypsilanti, MI 48197-2207 734.487.0020 x2222 (voice) 734.484.1151 (fax) http://www.emich.edu/halle/ mailto:scott.muir at emich.edu From margretb at MIT.EDU Wed Jul 13 17:42:40 2005 From: margretb at MIT.EDU (Margret Branschofsky) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:42:40 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] ETDs and Communities in DSpace In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20050713164627.01cf2e90@mail.emich.edu> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050713173708.030824f8@po10.mit.edu> Hi Scott, The nice thing about DSpace is that you can have a thesis (or any item) appear in more than one community and collection. At MIT we have all the theses together under the MIT Libraries community (in the thesis sub-community), since that is the "owning" community (we are the curators of the theses). But we also have mapped each thesis to its degree-granting department. Take a look at http://dspace.mit.edu. I don't think anyone will look for them in the Libraries community, but we will be putting a pointer to that sub-community on the home page once we have finished loading the bulk of our thesis collection. Hope this helps, Margret Branschofsky At 05:01 PM 7/13/2005 -0400, Scott P. Muir wrote: >We are in the early stages of creating a repository of Theses and >Dissertations. I am trying to develop an analysis of our options for >organizing materials, especially with an end-user approach. > >My reference librarians advise that most students come in and ask to see >all the (print) thesis written by students in a particular discipline, >e.g. Biology, History, etc. If we chose a "communities" structure model >that is based on our Colleges and Departments structure that would readily >address that issue. However, it could also create a situation where in the >initial stages of this work, one might find only one thesis in the History >repository, which might not look so good. On the other hand, if we >collected all the thesis into a single "thesis" community, then it becomes >harder for the History or Biology department to claim those publications >as part of their community. > >As we weigh the pros and cons of the possible approaches, and there are >likely others, I thought perhaps many of you had already addressed these >questions. Would anyone out there be willing to share their thoughts, the >options you considered and why you chose one particular model over >another? I do realize that this is a question for which there is not a >right or wrong answer, but I would be interested in what your processes were. > >My thinking has even led me to ask who is the end user? Is it a community >or is it what we librarians consider our typical library patron, Designing >for these two different communities could have different outcomes too. > >Anyway thank you for any assistance you can offer. > >Scott P Muir >Associate University Librarian >Bruce T. Halle Library, Room 200F >Eastern Michigan University >955 West Circle Drive >Ypsilanti, MI 48197-2207 > >734.487.0020 x2222 (voice) >734.484.1151 (fax) >http://www.emich.edu/halle/ > >mailto:scott.muir at emich.edu >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050713/ba29dc47/attachment.htm From dirk.debeukelaer at agfa.com Wed Jul 13 19:01:11 2005 From: dirk.debeukelaer at agfa.com (dirk.debeukelaer@agfa.com) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:01:11 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dirk De_Beukelaer/AMAFA/MOR/Agfa-NV/BE/BAYER is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/08/2005 and will not return until 08/08/2005. Please send your information requests and library orders to Bibliotheek at agfa.com For urgent matters, please contact Ann Louis +32 3 444 3099 ann.louis at agfa.com From richard.jones at ub.uib.no Thu Jul 14 02:38:06 2005 From: richard.jones at ub.uib.no (Richard Jones) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:38:06 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] ETDs and Communities in DSpace In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20050713164627.01cf2e90@mail.emich.edu> References: <6.2.3.4.0.20050713164627.01cf2e90@mail.emich.edu> Message-ID: <1121323087.1085.13.camel@ubbtilv067115> Hi Scott, At Edinburgh we went for a shallow, school/working group hierarcy and have separate tree structures for ETDs and other research materials. The idea was to make it easy to see where the student should submit and keep logical divisions between what some researchers saw as research training and actual research. You can see the hierarcy at: http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/community-list Cheers, Richard On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:01 -0400, Scott P. Muir wrote: > We are in the early stages of creating a repository of Theses and > Dissertations. I am trying to develop an analysis of our options for > organizing materials, especially with an end-user approach. > > My reference librarians advise that most students come in and ask to > see all the (print) thesis written by students in a particular > discipline, e.g. Biology, History, etc. If we chose a "communities" > structure model that is based on our Colleges and Departments > structure that would readily address that issue. However, it could > also create a situation where in the initial stages of this work, one > might find only one thesis in the History repository, which might not > look so good. On the other hand, if we collected all the thesis into > a single "thesis" community, then it becomes harder for the History > or Biology department to claim those publications as part of their community. > > As we weigh the pros and cons of the possible approaches, and there > are likely others, I thought perhaps many of you had already > addressed these questions. Would anyone out there be willing to > share their thoughts, the options you considered and why you chose > one particular model over another? I do realize that this is a > question for which there is not a right or wrong answer, but I would > be interested in what your processes were. > > My thinking has even led me to ask who is the end user? Is it a > community or is it what we librarians consider our typical library > patron, Designing for these two different communities could have > different outcomes too. > > Anyway thank you for any assistance you can offer. > > Scott P Muir > Associate University Librarian > Bruce T. Halle Library, Room 200F > Eastern Michigan University > 955 West Circle Drive > Ypsilanti, MI 48197-2207 > > 734.487.0020 x2222 (voice) > 734.484.1151 (fax) > http://www.emich.edu/halle/ > > mailto:scott.muir at emich.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -- Richard ------- Richard Jones | Overingeni?r | Senior Engineer Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen | University of Bergen Library e: richard.jones at ub.uib.no t: +47 55 58 25 37 BORA: http://bora.uib.no/ From dalal at bnl.gov Thu Jul 14 10:41:33 2005 From: dalal at bnl.gov (Dalal, Dhaval) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:41:33 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Customisable Submission Process Message-ID: <8DA1FDF1F462F44B9BC15BE52B7EE81B0E982A@exchange2000-04.b459.bnl.gov> Hi all I had posted this on dspace-tech but did not receive any suggestions , so sorry for reposting.. I wanted to make a minor change in the last step of the submission workflow. Esentially, after the user fills out the metadata about his item and comes to the last page "complete.jsp"- over here there is a link titled "Go to My DSpace"which takes you back to your Dspace Submission Page. What I want here is to branch to another link(webpage) for only one particular collection only while for other collections i want to follow the same link ("Go to My DSpace"). I added the follwoing code <% // this is the submission information SubmissionInfo si = (SubmissionInfo) request.getAttribute("submission.info"); //this is the collection you are submitting to (at least I believe this is the case). Collection collection = si.submission.getCollection(); %> But it shows me a null pointer error for collection.. Strangely collection object is not being passed to the last step of the submisson workflow. is it possible to skip the step only for one particular collection while for other collections continue as normal. like in show-license.jsp , i get the collection name and if it matches then branch off to that url(submission_complete) else continue.. i am using dspace 1.2.2. i saw that DSpace 1.3 beta 1 has a customisable submission process? What does that mean. can i change the upload process? Does all this make sense.. waiting for a quick reply. Thanks Dhaval From courtois at ksu.edu Thu Jul 14 15:00:40 2005 From: courtois at ksu.edu (courtois@ksu.edu) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:00:40 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] ETDs and Communities in DSpace In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20050713164627.01cf2e90@mail.emich.edu> References: <6.2.3.4.0.20050713164627.01cf2e90@mail.emich.edu> Message-ID: <1121367640.42d6b65813474@webmail.ksu.edu> At Kansas State University (http://horizon.ksu.ksu.edu:4001/dspace/), we decided to create a single collection for all ETDs. We plan to have students submit their own ETDs, and we didn't want to have to maintain a separate submit group for each department. Some DSpace sites seem to have found a way around this by integrating DSpace with their LDAP directory, but it's likely to be sometime till we're able to address that. Similar to MIT, we plan to map ETDs to department-based collections. The mapping process is simple, and although it's a manual process, I think it's something that won't be that time consumung to construct. We're still in test phase now with about 30 ETDs online. At present we have just one collection, but I hope to create the mapped collections later this summer. We plan to require electronic submission of dissertations in Fall 2006. Marty Martin Courtois Information Technology Assistance Center 509 Hale Library Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66502 Phone: 785 532-4428 Fax: 785 532-3199 E-mail: courtois at ksu.edu Quoting "Scott P. Muir" : > We are in the early stages of creating a repository of Theses and > Dissertations. I am trying to develop an analysis of our options for > organizing materials, especially with an end-user approach. > > My reference librarians advise that most students come in and ask to > see all the (print) thesis written by students in a particular > discipline, e.g. Biology, History, etc. If we chose a "communities" > structure model that is based on our Colleges and Departments > structure that would readily address that issue. However, it could > also create a situation where in the initial stages of this work, one > might find only one thesis in the History repository, which might not > look so good. On the other hand, if we collected all the thesis into > a single "thesis" community, then it becomes harder for the History > or Biology department to claim those publications as part of their > community. > > As we weigh the pros and cons of the possible approaches, and there > are likely others, I thought perhaps many of you had already > addressed these questions. Would anyone out there be willing to > share their thoughts, the options you considered and why you chose > one particular model over another? I do realize that this is a > question for which there is not a right or wrong answer, but I would > be interested in what your processes were. > > My thinking has even led me to ask who is the end user? Is it a > community or is it what we librarians consider our typical library > patron, Designing for these two different communities could have > different outcomes too. > > Anyway thank you for any assistance you can offer. > > Scott P Muir > Associate University Librarian > Bruce T. Halle Library, Room 200F > Eastern Michigan University > 955 West Circle Drive > Ypsilanti, MI 48197-2207 > > 734.487.0020 x2222 (voice) > 734.484.1151 (fax) > http://www.emich.edu/halle/ > > mailto:scott.muir at emich.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > From susan.parham at library.gatech.edu Fri Jul 15 09:41:18 2005 From: susan.parham at library.gatech.edu (Susan Wells Parham) Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:41:18 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] ETDs and Communities in DSpace In-Reply-To: <1121367640.42d6b65813474@webmail.ksu.edu> References: <6.2.3.4.0.20050713164627.01cf2e90@mail.emich.edu> <1121367640.42d6b65813474@webmail.ksu.edu> Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20050715092351.025eac88@pop.mail.gatech.edu> We place all of our ETDs in one community: Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations. We then map them (easy to do, as Marty says) to each school. A mapped item can be found in either collection, and either collection can be accessed from a particular item. http://smartech.gatech.edu:8282/dspace/handle/1853/4760 In addition, we have modified the contributor element, adding contributor.department. This way, the department will also show up in a browse author list from the original ETD collection. It makes mapping even easier. Here is the browse list: http://smartech.gatech.edu:8282/dspace/handle/1853/4760//browse-author You'll notice Aerospace Engineering as an author, which will take you to all of the Aerospace Engineering ETDs. Susan Wells Parham Digital Initiatives Librarian Georgia Tech Library & Information Center Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0900 404-894-4522 susan.parham at library.gatech.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks, Mary From kenzie at MIT.EDU Sat Jul 16 14:37:17 2005 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:37:17 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] question for the list In-Reply-To: <42D7ED7C.50407@scranton.edu> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050716142642.0125d620@hesiod> Hi Mary, It is technically possible to setup a test DSpace repository on a PC, but it doesn't sound like that's really what you want to do... it would still require a technical system administrator to get you through the procedure. If you want to check out DSpace and you need technical help to see how it works and what it does, why don't you contact Biomed Central's OpenRepository service at http://www.openrepository.com/? They can get you started. Best, MacKenzie At 01:08 PM 7/15/2005 -0400, Mary A. Kovalcin wrote: >Hi, > My library is interested in starting a Digital Collection and we are > not sure what software would suit our needs. >Since I do not have the direct access to a server, I was wondering if it >is possible to set a non permanent test on a PC. >I am new to this so forgive any past listings that may cover this topic. > >Thanks, >Mary > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building E25-131d 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie at mit.edu From jpb at aber.ac.uk Mon Jul 18 04:26:32 2005 From: jpb at aber.ac.uk (Jonathan Bell [jpb]) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:26:32 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] question for the list Message-ID: <0A959ED7013E924390FB254ACF051EA0096586@issvexch1.staff.aber.ac.uk> Mary, As it happens I've just done much the kind of install of Dspace you seem to have in mind. It takes more doing than installing "normal" Windows software - you need Java, PostgreSQL, Ant and Tomcat first, but most of these do have a Windows install wizard. I certainly got mine to work with no great problems, with the help of the instructions at http://wiki.dspace.org/DSpaceOnWindows. These instructions include (briefly) the installation of the software DSpace depends on. Hope this helps, Jon -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Mary A. Kovalcin Sent: 15 July 2005 18:08 To: Dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] question for the list Hi, My library is interested in starting a Digital Collection and we are not sure what software would suit our needs. Since I do not have the direct access to a server, I was wondering if it is possible to set a non permanent test on a PC. I am new to this so forgive any past listings that may cover this topic. Thanks, Mary _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm Mon Jul 18 21:49:39 2005 From: john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm (John Preston) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:49:39 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Full text searching under 1.2.1 how-to Message-ID: <1121737779.6948.4.camel@jgrass> Hi, I'm using DSpace 1.2.1 and want to get full text searching so I can search the contents of documents that I submit to the collection. Is there some special configuration that I must do. I try and search using both the simple and advanced search pages and I get no matches against text that I know are inside the documents. I have run /dspace/bin/index-all and it said it was creating some full text content but I don't know how to enable it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John -- John Preston Tel: (876) 927-1777 International Centre for Environmental Fax: (876) 977-9768 and Nuclear Sciences University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Mona Road, Kingston 7, JAMAICA. Email: john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm From catherine.jannik at library.gatech.edu Tue Jul 19 16:41:25 2005 From: catherine.jannik at library.gatech.edu (Catherine Jannik) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:41:25 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for epubs and archival materials? Message-ID: <3015.Vl0RVQBWVwQ=.1121805685.squirrel@mail.library.gatech.edu> Our Head of Archives, Jody Thompson, and I are doing a presentation at the Society of American Archivists' meeting in August titled "SMARTech at Georgia Tech: The Role of an Institutional Repository in a University Archives." http://www.archivists.org/conference/neworleans2005/no2005prog-Session.asp?event=1515 I would appreciate any information on DSpace installations (or about other IRs) ingesting campus e-Publications and the involvement of archivists in IRs or other innovative uses archivists have found for DSpace/IRs. Please feel free to contact me off-list. Thank you, Catherine -- Catherine M. Jannik Digital Initiatives Manager Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center Atlanta, GA 30332-0900 P 404.385.4514 F 404.894.6084 catherine.jannik at library.gatech.edu http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/jannik.html http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/cj121/ Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository http://SMARTech.gatech.edu ETDs @ Georgia Tech http://etd.gatech.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This email was composed using the GTEL Webmail client. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or priviledged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. Georgia Tech Library and Information Center http://www.library.gatech.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From kenzie at MIT.EDU Tue Jul 19 16:56:23 2005 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:56:23 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace user group meeting follow-up Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050719122539.026d2a40@hesiod> Dear all, Since many of you were unable to attend the recent DSpace User Group meeting at the University of Cambridge, UK, I am sending a brief summary to this list. And for more detail please see the wiki page that Rob Tansley set up last week (http://wiki.dspace.org/UserGroupMeetingSummary2005). For those who were there, feel free to add anything we've missed! -- I won't replay the many excellent presentations since they will be posted soon to the conference programme page at Cambridge. -- Rob has already summarized the various Birds of a Feather sessions from the first day -- Cliff Lynch's excellent closing keynote talk was informative and inspirational, but not reproducible in summary Some other conclusions -- Communications -- MIT should close down the current set of Special Interest Group listservs (dspace-IR, dspace-theses, dspace-publishing, dspace-LOR, dspace-ERM, dspace-datasets, dspace-preservation) since they are not serving their intended purpose, but we will keep the dspace-general list and the two technical mailing lists on SourceForge (dspace-tech and dspace-devel) [NOTE -- expect this to happen soon if I don't hear strong objections!] -- MIT and other institutions will support specialized, topical mailing lists of specific technical topics for defined periods of time, as needed (for example, to continue a particularly lively BOF discussion from the user group meeting) -- MIT will work on a plan to overhaul the current DSpace Federation website to represent all the stakeholders in the community, with community input and assistance -- we should add some new sections to the wiki, e.g. for DSpace systems administrators and/or other specialized types of developers or users -- The user group meetings are very valuable to the community, so we should plan the user group meetings for 2006 and beyond in different parts of the world so that DSpace developers/users can attend meetings closer to their home at least once in awhile (e.g. alternate between North American venues and European, South American, Asian, and other venues). Ideally there would be two user group meetings per year, but since they are sponsored and organized by volunteers that may not prove practical -- consider starting a DSpace newsletter to be mailed to subscribers or posted on the website with contributions from community members -- Planning -- with the committer group, create a more detailed development Road Map so that the community can volunteer to help with the many parts of it. We can convene a group of technical architects from the community (and possibly beyond) to help with that, and this should lead to detailed specifications that developers can pick up and help with as their time permits -- the community needs to develop a DSpace Services Framework that will help us define a Service Oriented Architecture for future releases of the system. Understanding what Services (in the technical sense of the word) DSpace should support relative to other systems, other community, and other service models (in the non-technical sense) will be critical for our ability to define the role of DSpace in our various local communities and focus our collective efforts to best advantage -- over the past year the DSpace community has developed a solid working model for collective technical development and governance of the code. Now it's time to come up with a governance model for the community as a whole that represents all the stakeholders and their goals for the system. Julie Walker from MIT has developed a brief proposal for a process that will help us do that, starting with an interim steering committee who will advise us on the best course of action for our particular community. That committee will be formed over the summer and will be asked to produce a report on a recommended DSpace governance model which we can then implement over the next year. The DSpace governance process will *not* replace the committers as the Keepers of the Code, but will consider other aspects of community management such as communications, outreach and advocacy, legal and regulatory issues, and sustainability in the business sense (i.e. all the stuff that MIT and HP do now, and which we will continue to help with, but should now be broadened beyond two organizations). This is not an exhaustive or objective summary... it's what I took away from the meeting and what we will focus on for next year aside from technical developments. If you'd like to add anything to this please post to the list or to the wiki -- we'd welcome your comments! Best wishes, MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building E25-131d 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie at mit.edu From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Tue Jul 19 18:44:45 2005 From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 08:44:45 +1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Full text searching under 1.2.1 how-to Message-ID: <42DD825D.1000000@anu.edu.au> John, Have you run the $DSPACE_DIR/bin/filter-media job? It performs thumbnail creation and full-text extraction where possible. see http://dspace.org/technology/system-docs/application.html#mediafilters Scott. Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:49:39 -0500 From: John Preston To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] Full text searching under 1.2.1 how-to Message-ID: <1121737779.6948.4.camel at jgrass> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Message: 1 Hi, I'm using DSpace 1.2.1 and want to get full text searching so I can search the contents of documents that I submit to the collection. Is there some special configuration that I must do. I try and search using both the simple and advanced search pages and I get no matches against text that I know are inside the documents. I have run /dspace/bin/index-all and it said it was creating some full text content but I don't know how to enable it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. John -- John Preston Tel: (876) 927-1777 International Centre for Environmental Fax: (876) 977-9768 and Nuclear Sciences University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Mona Road, Kingston 7, JAMAICA. Email: john.preston at uwimona.edu.jm From FerranteR at si.edu Wed Jul 20 12:20:28 2005 From: FerranteR at si.edu (Riccardo Ferrante) Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 12:20:28 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: DSpace for epubs and archival materials? Message-ID: My unit is investigating DSpace's potential for this same use. Similarly, I will be part of the SAA presentation "Just Doing It! The Smithsonian Institution Archives-Rockefeller Center Archive Joint Electronic Records Project" Saturday morning. It is too early to tell whether DSpace has sufficient capabilities to meet our criteria for the joint project. I expect that the investigation results will indicate whether it should then be included in the joint project or not. I would be happy to find time at the meeting to compare notes. Best regards, Riccardo Ferrante, Information Technology Archivist Smithsonian Institution Archives 900 Jefferson Dr. SW, Room 2135 A&I, MRC 414 Washington, DC 20013 T 202-357-1421 x45 F 202-357-2395 E ferranter at si.edu >>> dspace-general-request at mit.edu 7/20/2005 >>> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:41:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Catherine Jannik" To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace for epubs and archival materials? Message-ID: <3015.Vl0RVQBWVwQ=.1121805685.squirrel at mail.library.gatech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: list Message: 1 Our Head of Archives, Jody Thompson, and I are doing a presentation at the Society of American Archivists' meeting in August titled "SMARTech at Georgia Tech: The Role of an Institutional Repository in a University Archives." http://www.archivists.org/conference/neworleans2005/no2005prog-Session.asp?event=1515 I would appreciate any information on DSpace installations (or about other IRs) ingesting campus e-Publications and the involvement of archivists in IRs or other innovative uses archivists have found for DSpace/IRs. Please feel free to contact me off-list. Thank you, Catherine -- Catherine M. Jannik Digital Initiatives Manager Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center Atlanta, GA 30332-0900 P 404.385.4514 F 404.894.6084 catherine.jannik at library.gatech.edu http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/jannik.html http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/cj121/ Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository http://SMARTech.gatech.edu ETDs @ Georgia Tech http://etd.gatech.edu From kenzie at MIT.EDU Sat Jul 23 11:41:15 2005 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:41:15 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace SIG listservs to be decommissionsed Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050723110911.02013430@hesiod> ********** Apologies for cross posting ***************************** To the DSpace community: At the recent DSpace user group meeting in Cambridge, UK we decided that the following special interest group mailing lists should be decommissioned due to lack of traffic dspace-datasets dspace-ERM dspace-IR dspace-LOR dspace-preservation dspace-publishing dspace-theses The dspace-general at mit.edu mailing list will be the best place for questions and discussions about non-technical aspects of DSpace (e.g. services, policies, legal issues, features and functions, etc.). The dspace-tech and dspace-devel mailing lists on SourceForge will continue to be the place for technical questions and discussions about DSpace, and the wiki is the source of documentation about the system. We also agreed to host new mailing lists for specific topics when the need arises, for a defined amount of time. I hope this will reduce the confusion and complexity about where to ask various types of questions about DSpace. If I don't hear any objects from anyone, these SIG lists will be discontinued by the end of next week. Thanks for all your input, MacKenzie MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building E25-131d 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie at mit.edu From purban at kfa-inc.com Mon Jul 25 14:53:36 2005 From: purban at kfa-inc.com (Peter Urban) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:53:36 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question from IEEE Spectrum article Message-ID: <000e01c5914a$2a05ae70$2101a8c0@KFA18> In the July 2005, IEEE Spectrum article, MacKenzie states the following... "...The curator then runs a query in DSpace to find all the PDF files in the archive, acquires or creates a program to automatically convert PDFs into PDGs, and runs the conversion." ... "Both PDF and PDG versions are then stored in the archive in case someone questions the conversion and wants to see the original PDF bits. The PDG version is now the version that appears first in the DSpace Web interface for access purposes, and the researchers looking at the article never need to know that the article has been converted from one format to another-it looks exactly as it used to, thanks to DSpace and its curators." Can you explain how/where both versions are stored in the archive? Are the new PDG files added as new bitstreams to the same items? How does the PDG version appear first in the DSpace Web interface? P.S. Good article! Peter Urban Kristine Fallon Associates, Inc. Digital Archive for Architecture System The Art Institute of Chicago purban at kfa-inc.com From kenzie at MIT.EDU Mon Jul 25 15:52:11 2005 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:52:11 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Question from IEEE Spectrum article In-Reply-To: <000e01c5914a$2a05ae70$2101a8c0@KFA18> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050725154711.026b6a38@hesiod> Hi Peter, That particular scenario in the article was highly speculative... i.e. for the day when such a procedure might really be needed to perform a format migration. I based the scenario on some planning that we did here at MIT awhile back on how we would want to handle multiple versions, either because an author deposited a new version or because a curator created one for preservation purposes. We would add the new version as a new bitstream on the existing DSpace item record, then change the UI to make it clear which version is preferred. This wouldn't be hard to do, but there are no tools in DSpace right now that do exactly this procedure. MacKenzie At 01:53 PM 7/25/2005 -0500, Peter Urban wrote: >In the July 2005, IEEE Spectrum article, MacKenzie states the >following... > >"...The curator then runs a query in DSpace to find all the PDF files in >the archive, acquires or creates a program to automatically convert PDFs >into PDGs, and runs the conversion." ... "Both PDF and PDG versions are >then stored in the archive in case someone questions the conversion and >wants to see the original PDF bits. The PDG version is now the version >that appears first in the DSpace Web interface for access purposes, and >the researchers looking at the article never need to know that the >article has been converted from one format to another-it looks exactly >as it used to, thanks to DSpace and its curators." > >Can you explain how/where both versions are stored in the archive? Are >the new PDG files added as new bitstreams to the same items? How does >the PDG version appear first in the DSpace Web interface? > >P.S. Good article! > > >Peter Urban >Kristine Fallon Associates, Inc. >Digital Archive for Architecture System >The Art Institute of Chicago >purban at kfa-inc.com MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building E25-131d 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie at mit.edu From bollini at cilea.it Tue Jul 26 08:41:45 2005 From: bollini at cilea.it (Andrea Bollini) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:41:45 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] question for the list Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20050726143905.01da9f20@mail.cilea.it> Hi, I would like to add that there is a support service for repositories in Italy as well. The AePIC Team (http://www.aepic.it) at CILEA provides housing, hosting, setup and configuration, consultancy, training for several e-publishing products, including DSpace. We also provide an Italian version of the software interface. Being non-profit, CILEA (http://www.cilea.it), a consortium of Italian universities providing ICT services, can provide these services at very limited costs. I think it would be useful to offer a page on DSpace site, maybe in the Wiki area, that lists information contacts worldwide for this kind of services. It could help to increase the spreading of DSpace, especially for those institutions that do not have enough technical resources or expertise to install and run it in-house. Best regards, Andrea Bollini Software Development AePIC - http://www.aepic.it (Academic e-Publishing Infrastructures) CILEA - Consorzio Interuniversitario per l'ICT Via R. Sanzio 4, I-20090 SEGRATE MI tel. +39 02 2699 5386 At 20.37 16/07/2005, you wrote: >Hi Mary, > >It is technically possible to setup a test DSpace repository on a PC, but >it doesn't sound like that's really what you want to do... >it would still require a technical system administrator to get you through >the procedure. >If you want to check out DSpace and you need technical help to see how it >works and what it does, why don't you contact >Biomed Central's OpenRepository service at http://www.openrepository.com/? >They can get you started. > >Best, > >MacKenzie > >At 01:08 PM 7/15/2005 -0400, Mary A. Kovalcin wrote: >>Hi, >> My library is interested in starting a Digital Collection and we are >> not sure what software would suit our needs. >>Since I do not have the direct access to a server, I was wondering if it >>is possible to set a non permanent test on a PC. >>I am new to this so forgive any past listings that may cover this topic. >> >>Thanks, >>Mary >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Dspace-general mailing list >>Dspace-general at mit.edu >>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > >MacKenzie Smith >Associate Director for Technology >MIT Libraries >Building E25-131d >77 Massachusetts Avenue >Cambridge, MA 02139 >(617)253-8184 >kenzie at mit.edu >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From robert.tansley at hp.com Tue Jul 26 11:43:33 2005 From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:43:33 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Question from IEEE Spectrum article Message-ID: <19ADCC0B9D4CAD4582BB9900BBCE357401945942@tayexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net> > I based the scenario on some planning that we did here at MIT > awhile back > on how we would want to handle multiple versions, either > because an author > deposited a new version or because a curator created one for > preservation > purposes. We would add the new version as a new bitstream on > the existing > DSpace item record, then change the UI to make it clear which > version is > preferred. This wouldn't be hard to do, but there are no > tools in DSpace > right now that do exactly this procedure. Actually DSpace's Media Filter tool can already do the bare bones of this -- in general it's used for auto-generating thumbnails and extracting full-text for searching but these are essentially format migrations. It's far from perfect -- for example, there's no way to realistically audit the migrations, and the process has to be managed by a system administrator rather than an archival curator (at the moment, those roles are pretty blurred). Robert TANSLEY / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/ From kenzie at MIT.EDU Tue Jul 26 13:37:06 2005 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:37:06 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] question for the list In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050726143905.01da9f20@mail.cilea.it> Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050726132927.026c3300@hesiod> Salve Andrea, Thanks for this information, I didn't know about your service and it is very interesting. We do intend to make a place on the wiki for service providers like CILEA and BioMed Central to register information about themselves, and possibly also private consultants who work with institutions to help them bring up DSpace. I agree that this would be very valuable for the community, and I promise we'll get to it very soon but there are several other things in the queue to do first! Thanks again, MacKenzie At 02:41 PM 7/26/2005 +0200, Andrea Bollini wrote: >Hi, >I would like to add that there is a support service for repositories in >Italy as well. The AePIC Team (http://www.aepic.it) at CILEA provides >housing, hosting, setup and configuration, consultancy, training for >several e-publishing products, including DSpace. We also provide an >Italian version of the software interface. Being non-profit, CILEA >(http://www.cilea.it), a consortium of Italian universities providing ICT >services, can provide these services at very limited costs. > >I think it would be useful to offer a page on DSpace site, maybe in the >Wiki area, that lists information contacts worldwide for this kind of >services. It could help to increase the spreading of DSpace, especially >for those institutions that do not have enough technical resources or >expertise to install and run it in-house. > >Best regards, >Andrea Bollini > >Software Development AePIC - http://www.aepic.it >(Academic e-Publishing Infrastructures) >CILEA - Consorzio Interuniversitario per l'ICT >Via R. Sanzio 4, I-20090 SEGRATE MI >tel. +39 02 2699 5386 MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building E25-131d 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 kenzie at mit.edu From dsalo at gmu.edu Tue Jul 26 14:34:57 2005 From: dsalo at gmu.edu (Dorothea Salo) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:34:57 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Use of email notification feature Message-ID: <42E68251.6000805@gmu.edu> I'm working on a redesign of our local DSpace install, and I find myself curious about how often the new-item-email-notification feature gets used. Does anybody with a repository that's been running awhile have any insight? (I admit I'm thinking of dropping email notification altogether, partly because it would mean only admins of various stripes would ever need to sign on, which reduces navigation-bar confusion. If it's a well-loved feature, however, I'll certainly keep it.) Thanks! Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo Digital Repository Services Librarian Library Systems Office, Johnson Center Library MSN 1A6 4400 University Dr., Fairfax VA 22030 (703)993-3019 dsalo at gmu.edu From lbspodic at ust.hk Thu Jul 28 22:18:17 2005 From: lbspodic at ust.hk (Edward Spodick) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:18:17 +0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] Seeking pointers to OAI-compliant East Asian scholarly information Message-ID: A couple of us here are planning to play around with an experimental development project involving retrieving data from OAI-compliant repositories and seeing what sort of merging and manipulation of the data we can do. Specifically, we are looking for pointers to OAI-compliant repositories/collections/compilations of East Asian scholarly information, regardless of language. These could be institutional repositories, research collections, etc. We know of some, but would welcome additional suggestions or pointers to ones we might otherwise overlook. Thanks for any help you can provide. This should be fun. :) -- Edward F Spodick, Information Technology Manager Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library lbspodic at ust.hk tel:852-2358-6743 fax:852-2358-1043 From shiv.mail at gmail.com Fri Jul 29 00:12:06 2005 From: shiv.mail at gmail.com (Shivendra Singh) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:42:06 +0530 Subject: [Dspace-general] Internal System Error Message-ID: Dear Members, I have installed DSpace In Windows XP. I have a problem when I try to register a user. First of all I create a Community, a Collection, and submitted an article. When I try to register the user I obtain a Internal System Error. Can someone solve the problem? Regards, -- Shivendra Singh Electronic Information Retrieval System National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education & Research Sector-67, Phase-10, SAS Nagar (Mohali) Punjab-160062 Ph: 0172-2214682-87 Ext: 2017 Voice: 09815526163 http://sshivendra.tripod.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050729/b0a39892/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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Robert TANSLEY / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/ From harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk Fri Jul 29 10:32:38 2005 From: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stevan Harnad) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:32:38 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Seeking pointers to OAI-compliant East Asian scholarly information In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > A couple of us here are planning to play around with an experimental > development project involving retrieving data from OAI-compliant > repositories and seeing what sort of merging and manipulation of the data > we can do. > > Specifically, we are looking for pointers to OAI-compliant > repositories/collections/compilations of East Asian scholarly information, > regardless of language. These could be institutional repositories, > research collections, etc. > > We know of some, but would welcome additional suggestions or pointers to > ones we might otherwise overlook. See: http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse > Thanks for any help you can provide. This should be fun. :) > > -- > Edward F Spodick, Information Technology Manager > Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library > lbspodic at ust.hk tel:852-2358-6743 fax:852-2358-1043 From thabing at uiuc.edu Fri Jul 29 10:35:35 2005 From: thabing at uiuc.edu (Thomas G. Habing) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:35:35 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Seeking pointers to OAI-compliant East Asian scholarly information In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <42EA3EB7.4080804@uiuc.edu> Hello, At UIUC we have a registry of OAI data providers that might be of assistance in finding East Asian repositories. You can browse a list of repositories by top-level domain (country codes): http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/ListTLDs.asp which could help find repositories originating in East Asia, but there are also other browse and search methods that might be helpful in finding repositories that contain some content relevant to East Asia, such as: http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/search.asp?s=%22east+asia%22 Kind regards, Tom Habing Edward Spodick wrote: > A couple of us here are planning to play around with an experimental > development project involving retrieving data from OAI-compliant > repositories and seeing what sort of merging and manipulation of the > data we can do. > > Specifically, we are looking for pointers to OAI-compliant > repositories/collections/compilations of East Asian scholarly > information, regardless of language. These could be institutional > repositories, research collections, etc. > > We know of some, but would welcome additional suggestions or pointers > to ones we might otherwise overlook. > > Thanks for any help you can provide. This should be fun. :) > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: thabing.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 354 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050729/a5e849f4/attachment.vcf From rose.smith at doit.wisc.edu Fri Jul 29 11:25:38 2005 From: rose.smith at doit.wisc.edu (Rose Smith) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:25:38 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Re: Seeking pointers to OAI-compliant East Asian scholarly information In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20050729101710.074ea490@pogo.doit.wisc.edu> Steve, I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but we have an OAI-enabled database of Asian internet resources. The OAI URL is http://oaidp.library.wisc.edu/oaicat/OAIHandler?verb= and the setSpec for the relevant collection is PAIR. The collection is one of several described at http://oaidp.library.wisc.edu/oaicat/OAIHandler?verb=ListSets. Rose At 09:32 AM 7/29/2005, Stevan Harnad wrote: > > A couple of us here are planning to play around with an experimental > > development project involving retrieving data from OAI-compliant > > repositories and seeing what sort of merging and manipulation of the data > > we can do. > > > > Specifically, we are looking for pointers to OAI-compliant > > repositories/collections/compilations of East Asian scholarly information, > > regardless of language. These could be institutional repositories, > > research collections, etc. > > > > We know of some, but would welcome additional suggestions or pointers to > > ones we might otherwise overlook. > >See: > >http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse > > > Thanks for any help you can provide. This should be fun. :) > > > > -- > > Edward F Spodick, Information Technology Manager > > Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library > > lbspodic at ust.hk tel:852-2358-6743 fax:852-2358-1043 > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general Rose Smith DoIT Academic Technology University of Wisconsin-Madison rose.smith at doit.wisc.edu (608)262-6694 From cdygert at american.edu Fri Jul 29 12:04:29 2005 From: cdygert at american.edu (Claire Dygert) Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:04:29 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Claire Dygert is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 07/27/2005 and will not return until 08/17/2005. If you need immediate help from the Serials/E-Resources Unit, please contact Mark Hemhauser, Serials Supervisor, at (202) 885 -3247 or by email at mbhhbm at american.edu. From lbspodic at ust.hk Sun Jul 31 22:26:25 2005 From: lbspodic at ust.hk (Edward Spodick) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 10:26:25 +0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] Seeking pointers to OAI-compliant East Asian scholarly information In-Reply-To: <42EA3EB7.4080804@uiuc.edu> References: <42EA3EB7.4080804@uiuc.edu> Message-ID: Thanks for the many pointers to the OAI Registry at UIUC. Our own repositories are also listed there. Thanks also for Steve and Rose's pointers to a couple other possibilities. We now have a start for experimentation. If anyone encounters any more isolated or 'lonely' possibilities, please let us know. :) -Edward At 9:35 am -0500 29/7/05, Thomas G. Habing wrote: >Hello, > >At UIUC we have a registry of OAI data providers that might be of assistance in finding East Asian repositories. You can browse a list of repositories by top-level domain (country codes): > > http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/ListTLDs.asp > >which could help find repositories originating in East Asia, but there are also other browse and search methods that might be helpful in finding repositories that contain some content relevant to East Asia, such as: > > http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/registry/search.asp?s=%22east+asia%22 > >Kind regards, > Tom Habing > >Edward Spodick wrote: >>A couple of us here are planning to play around with an experimental >>development project involving retrieving data from OAI-compliant >>repositories and seeing what sort of merging and manipulation of the >>data we can do. >> >>Specifically, we are looking for pointers to OAI-compliant >>repositories/collections/compilations of East Asian scholarly >>information, regardless of language. These could be institutional >>repositories, research collections, etc. >> >>We know of some, but would welcome additional suggestions or pointers >>to ones we might otherwise overlook. >> >>Thanks for any help you can provide. This should be fun. :) -- Edward F Spodick, Information Technology Manager Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library lbspodic at ust.hk tel:852-2358-6743 fax:852-2358-1043