From susan.thomas at bodley.ox.ac.uk Tue May 3 06:02:55 2005 From: susan.thomas at bodley.ox.ac.uk (Susan Thomas) Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:02:55 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Paradigm project - Software Engineer vacancy Message-ID: <1346.129.67.116.64.1115114575.squirrel@129.67.116.64> Paradigm project Software Engineer Academic Related Grade 2 ?22,507 - ?29,128 p.a. including 38 days annual leave (13 fixed) Fixed term contract until December 2006 Web oriented developer needed to provide assistance to the PARADIGM project of the Bodleian Library and the John Rylands University Library, Manchester. The project is to develop best practices and solutions for the collection and preservation of private papers in digital form. It is expected that the project will make use of the Dspace and Fedora digital repositories and the successful applicant will be comfortable with their core technologies of Java and SQL. A grounding in web services and XML will also be required. In addition to installing, configuring and developing the above repositories and related software, the Software Engineer will be expected to investigate other software packages as needed. Good communication skills are essential. The postholder must be able to liaise effectively with non-technical colleagues, and will be required to participate in the dissemination of the project's findings by producing technical and end-user documentation, contributing to a Workbook on Digital Private Papers, and giving presentations on technical aspects of the project. Further particulars and application forms may be obtained from ; or from Sarah Connor, Systems and Electronic Resources Service, SERS Building, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES (Tel: 01865 280040; E-mail: sarah.connor at sers.ox.ac.uk). The closing date for completed application forms is 30th may 2005. Please quote our ref: LNS15178. From robert.tansley at hp.com Tue May 3 16:13:27 2005 From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert) Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 16:13:27 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] A test and apology... Message-ID: <19ADCC0B9D4CAD4582BB9900BBCE357401944BF7@tayexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net> For unknown reasons it seems I haven't been receiving posts to dspace-general since ***April 2004*** !!! However, I receive many messages cross-posted to this and other lists, and since these are naturally flagged as dspace-general posts by my mail client, I've been blissfully unaware. So if many of you have been wondering why the technical architect of DSpace has been apparently ignoring a great deal of interesting and important discussion, this is why. This is *very* frustrating for me, as it means I've been out of touch with a great deal of DSpace-related activity and discussion. So this mail is partly a test, and partly an apology for not having replied to many of the interesting posts I now see in the archive that I never received. I now have quite a backlog of posts to read! Robert Tansley / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/ From lmaccork at miami.edu Wed May 4 11:19:58 2005 From: lmaccork at miami.edu (MacCorkle, Gwendolyn B.) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:19:58 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] creating web presentations using dspace content Message-ID: Is anyone on this list aware of multimedia or more basic web presentations that have retrieved and manipulated content from Dspace? I know of one experimental site that used Cocoon. It is very primitive. I am particularly interested in pagination. Lyn MacCorkle Web Development Librarian for Digital Projects University of Miami Libraries Coral Gables, Florida -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050504/9c7d6cd6/attachment.htm From gourley at wrlc.org Wed May 4 11:51:28 2005 From: gourley at wrlc.org (Don Gourley) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:51:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] creating web presentations using dspace content In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4146.192.245.136.76.1115221888.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org> Several years ago I developed a (very) primitive viewer for multi-page images in our Greenstone collections. It depends on file naming conventions to determine hierarchy and order. I am currently designing a replacement that will get the images out of DSpace instead of directly off a web server. It doesn't look to me like there is a straightforward and natural place in DSpace to encode the necessary structural metadata. My current plan is to generate a DIDL description of the structure and ingest that as a bitstream, then pass that bitstream to the image viewer. But I would be very interested if I have overlooked anything already in DSpace that I could use for this...maybe some combination of bitstream metadata and bundle assignment? -Don Gourley On Wed, May 4, 2005 11:19 am, MacCorkle, Gwendolyn B. said: > Is anyone on this list aware of multimedia or more basic web presentations > that have retrieved and manipulated content from Dspace? > > I know of one experimental site that used Cocoon. It is very primitive. I am > particularly interested in pagination. From lcs at MIT.EDU Wed May 4 16:43:13 2005 From: lcs at MIT.EDU (Larry Stone) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 16:43:13 EDT Subject: [Dspace-general] creating web presentations using dspace content In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 4 May 2005 11:51:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: > I am currently designing a replacement that will get the > images out of DSpace instead of directly off a web server. > It doesn't look to me like there is a straightforward and > natural place in DSpace to encode the necessary structural > metadata. My current plan is to generate a DIDL description > of the structure and ingest that as a bitstream, then pass > that bitstream to the image viewer. Is this a case where getting a "package" (a Dissemination Information Package, or DIP, from the OAIS model) out of DSpace would be helpful? See the pluggable packager proposal http://wiki.dspace.org/PackagerPlugins on the wiki for details. Sorry there isn't anything immediately available, but I'm curious if it would be helpful here. If the images are ingested into an Item with the DIDL metadata (acting as a package manifest) in a particular place, e.g. a named bitstream, then the package exporter would know where to find it and could generate an appropriate package for the viewer application. Is the item likely to be small enough that packaging wouldn't insert too long a delay, or would you need to package fragments of the item? -- Larry From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Wed May 4 22:36:15 2005 From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 12:36:15 +1000 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.2.2 released Message-ID: <4279869F.2090800@anu.edu.au> Dear All, The DSpace community is pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.2.2. This stable release introduces serveral new features developed by members of the DSpace community: - Customisable submission forms added - Configurable number of index terms in Lucene for full-text indexing - Improved scalability in media filter - Submit button on collection pages only appears if user has authorisationPostgreSQL 8.0 compatibility - Search scope retention to improve browsing - Community and collection strengths displayed - Upgraded OAICat software - Numerous bug fixes The documentation for this release is bundled within the package. DSpace 1.2.2 can be downloaded from the files area at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ or from CVS using the tags dspace-1_2_2 and dspace-docs-1_2_2-1 for the source code and documentation modules respectively. Please use the mailing lists available at http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19984 to provide feedback on this release. Those wishing to do development work with DSpace are strongly encouraged to obtain the source code using CVS. This is very straightforward and a guide to doing this is available here: http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceDeveloping We would also like to take this opportunity to invite you all to participate in the DSpace development process. Extra developer hands are always welcome, but there are other ways you can help: - Test the system and report bugs - Provide documentation (for end users and institutions, as well as technical) - Share your deployment experiences - Donate content and metadata for testing and research - Share your technical experience and ideas Please visit the DSpace Wiki to see the various resources and collaboration tools available to the DSpace community: http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceResources Regards, The DSpace Committers From paul.needham11 at btinternet.com Thu May 5 04:26:01 2005 From: paul.needham11 at btinternet.com (Paul Needham) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:26:01 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] creating web presentations using dspace content In-Reply-To: <4146.192.245.136.76.1115221888.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org> Message-ID: <001a01c5514c$12639e50$56ad9d51@PASN1> Hi Don There's a DSpace DIDL OAI plug-in available from http://didl-plug-in.sourceforge.net/ which may be of interest to you... Cheers Paul A S Needham ---------------------------------- Electronic Information Specialist Kings Norton Library Cranfield University ---------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general- > bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Don Gourley > Sent: 04 May 2005 16:51 > To: dspace-general at mit.edu > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] creating web presentations using dspace > content > > Several years ago I developed a (very) primitive viewer > for multi-page images in our Greenstone collections. It > depends on file naming conventions to determine hierarchy > and order. > > I am currently designing a replacement that will get the > images out of DSpace instead of directly off a web server. > It doesn't look to me like there is a straightforward and > natural place in DSpace to encode the necessary structural > metadata. My current plan is to generate a DIDL description > of the structure and ingest that as a bitstream, then pass > that bitstream to the image viewer. > > But I would be very interested if I have overlooked anything > already in DSpace that I could use for this...maybe some > combination of bitstream metadata and bundle assignment? > > -Don Gourley > > On Wed, May 4, 2005 11:19 am, MacCorkle, Gwendolyn B. said: > > Is anyone on this list aware of multimedia or more basic web > presentations > > that have retrieved and manipulated content from Dspace? > > > > I know of one experimental site that used Cocoon. It is very primitive. > I am > > particularly interested in pagination. > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.3 - Release Date: 03/05/2005 > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.5 - Release Date: 04/05/2005 From gourley at wrlc.org Thu May 5 08:35:44 2005 From: gourley at wrlc.org (Don Gourley) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 08:35:44 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] creating web presentations using dspace content In-Reply-To: References: Your message of Wed, 4 May 2005 11:51:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3454.192.245.136.76.1115296544.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org> Thanks for the pointers to the DIDL plug-in and pluggable package exporter proposal. The concept of the structural metadata as a manifest in a named bitstream is exactly what I'm thinking of, but I don't think my viewer application wants to get a package that contains the metadata with the content bitstreams. It would be simpler and more efficient to include URLs for the bitstreams in the structural metadata so the viewer can create pages using tag that refers to the bitstream that represents the current page. Would that still be considered a DIP? > Is the item likely to be small enough that packaging wouldn't insert > too long a delay, or would you need to package fragments of the item? In my case, an item might be 30 or 40 JPGs, each representing a page of the document. Only one page is needed at a time, and it isn't really needed by the viewer app, but by the user's browser. So it doesn't make sense to me to pass even fragments of content through the viewer app. -Don From gourley at wrlc.org Thu May 5 09:29:46 2005 From: gourley at wrlc.org (Don Gourley) Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 09:29:46 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Dspace-general] Metadata in DSpace (beginner's questions) In-Reply-To: References: Your message of Wed, 4 May 2005 11:51:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3468.192.245.136.76.1115299786.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org> I have a couple of questions about the descriptive metadata in DSpace. Please excuse me if these are obvious, as I am not a librarian or information specialist. 1. What does it mean in the DC registry when it says: "Do not use; only for harvested metadata."? Is that element reserved for things harvested elsewhere or is it automatically generated from other elements for OAI harvesting out of DSpace...or is it something else altogether? 2. For documents or objects not born digital, where does one properly put metadata that describes the non-intellectual aspects of the original (non-digital) object? I'm thinking of qualifying the heck out of the Source element (Source.publisher, Source.extent, etc.) but that somehow doesn't feel quite right. FWIW this is in the context of a repository of digital objects from special collections and archives, not an institutional repository of scholarly articles, etc. thanks, -Don From robert.tansley at hp.com Fri May 6 11:55:25 2005 From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 11:55:25 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] creating web presentations using dspace content Message-ID: <19ADCC0B9D4CAD4582BB9900BBCE357401944CB9@tayexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net> I think the DIDL plug in does just contain references (URLs) for bitstreams below a certain size, so it should help. I believe you can configure (or easily modify the code) so that all bitstreams are included by reference. Hopefully, the DIDL plug-in will be part of the core DSpace code before too long. Another possibility is to use METS -- a project I'm involved in will be exposing METS via OAI-PMH; also intended to be part of the core code base (but optional in both cases, of course). This will include references to bitstreams. Both METS and DIDL contain the structural metadata you need. Your app can just obtain the METS or DIDL, construct whatever page is required, embedding the relevant URLs to DSpace bitstreams which the user's browser can retrieve transparently (assuming public read access). Of course this is just part of the problem. The real problem is that the structural metadata you need has to be in DSpace in the first place! There's currently no place for that 'understood' by DSpace. So you have a few options: - Put METS or DIDL with the relevant information as a bitstream in DSpace alongside the bitstreams in an item. Then your app would need to know which bitstream is the METS/DIDL (as opposed to the content). Plus, you'd need a convenient way of creating that METS/DIDL in the first place. - Use some heuristic method, and modify the METS/DIDL code to react accordingly. E.g. if you named the pages 'page01.tiff', 'page01.tiff' etc. your customised METS/DIDL code could order the pages appropriately. - Modify the DSpace database/code to have this structural info (e.g. page ordering) and contribute the code back to the DSpace code base! Probably the most work but if you have resources to do it, it would benefit many other people. Hope this helps, Robert Tansley / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/ > -----Original Message----- > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu > [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Don Gourley > Sent: 05 May 2005 08:36 > To: dspace-general at mit.edu > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] creating web presentations > using dspace content > > Thanks for the pointers to the DIDL plug-in and pluggable package > exporter proposal. The concept of the structural metadata as a > manifest in a named bitstream is exactly what I'm thinking of, > but I don't think my viewer application wants to get a package > that contains the metadata with the content bitstreams. It would > be simpler and more efficient to include URLs for the bitstreams > in the structural metadata so the viewer can create pages using > tag that refers to the bitstream that represents the current > page. Would that still be considered a DIP? > > > Is the item likely to be small enough that packaging wouldn't insert > > too long a delay, or would you need to package fragments of > the item? > > In my case, an item might be 30 or 40 JPGs, each representing a > page of the document. Only one page is needed at a time, and it > isn't really needed by the viewer app, but by the user's browser. > So it doesn't make sense to me to pass even fragments of content > through the viewer app. > > -Don > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From robert.tansley at hp.com Fri May 6 12:47:15 2005 From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 12:47:15 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Metadata in DSpace (beginner's questions) Message-ID: <19ADCC0B9D4CAD4582BB9900BBCE357401944CBC@tayexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net> > -----Original Message----- > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu > [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Don Gourley > Sent: 05 May 2005 09:30 > To: dspace-general at mit.edu > Subject: [Dspace-general] Metadata in DSpace (beginner's questions) > > I have a couple of questions about the descriptive metadata in DSpace. > Please excuse me if these are obvious, as I am not a librarian or > information specialist. > > 1. What does it mean in the DC registry when it says: > "Do not use; only for harvested metadata."? > Is that element reserved for things harvested elsewhere or > is it automatically generated from other elements for OAI > harvesting out of DSpace...or is it something else altogether? The "do not use" really only relates to MIT policy, which is derived from an early draft of the Library Application Profile of Dublin Core; it's nothing intrinsic in the system. In fact, those comments should probably be taken out. It's just there so that MIT can import things crosswalked/harvested/imported from external sources. > 2. For documents or objects not born digital, where does one properly > put metadata that describes the non-intellectual aspects of the > original (non-digital) object? I'm thinking of qualifying the > heck out of the Source element (Source.publisher, Source.extent, > etc.) but that somehow doesn't feel quite right. To use Dublin Core "properly", I imagine that your digital version of the object counts as a different resource from the original, non-digital object. So really it would need a separate DC record. Of course this isn't really supported in DSpace. What most people tend to do is use identifier.citation to give a citation for the original. Hope this helps Robert Tansley / Digital Media Systems Programme / HP Labs http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Robert_Tansley/ From lcs at MIT.EDU Fri May 6 16:32:36 2005 From: lcs at MIT.EDU (Larry Stone) Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:32:36 EDT Subject: [Dspace-general] creating web presentations using dspace content In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 6 May 2005 11:55:25 -0400 Message-ID: > Of course this is just part of the problem. The real problem is that > the structural metadata you need has to be in DSpace in the first place! > There's currently no place for that 'understood' by DSpace. So you have We have a similar problewm in the CWSpace project, since we'll want to mark an IMSCP manifest as a metadata bitstream within a DSpace item. I think it would be most helpful to implement the foundation of an AIP model in DSpace 1.3.x, by making a fixed place for the METS metadata bitstream. The METS can identify any other bitstreams which are actually metadata by putting them in "mdRef" references in e.g. mets.amdSec.sourceMD. The license bitstream(s), and any other metadata, could be referenced in the METS as well. > - Put METS or DIDL with the relevant information as a bitstream in > DSpace alongside the bitstreams in an item. Then your app would need to > know which bitstream is the METS/DIDL (as opposed to the content). > Plus, you'd need a convenient way of creating that METS/DIDL in the > first place. Yeah, we'd need to resolve a couple of issues first: 1. Formalize some method of assigning persistent identifiers to bitstreams so there is a robust way to refer to them from the METS file. 2. Come up with a consistent way to identify the bitstream with the METS. Giving it a "magic" name like "mets.xml" is too fragile, since bitstream names are weakly bound and can be duplicated. Maybe a DC field (relation.something) with the bitstream ID? I'm interested in implementing this when we can agree on it. We could add methods to the Item class to manage the METS document, the same way it handles DC fields. -- Larry From patrick at caret.cam.ac.uk Mon May 9 08:54:20 2005 From: patrick at caret.cam.ac.uk (Patrick Carmichael) Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 13:54:20 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Job Vacancy: ESRC QUADS Scheme Research Associate Message-ID: <75E9E18A-C089-11D9-8303-000A95888000@caret.cam.ac.uk> RESEARCH ASSOCIATE (PART TIME) Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies Ref No: YM113 Grade: NRAS Salary: ?19,460 - ?25,700 pa pro rata Limit of tenure: Fifteen months The Centre for Applied Research in Education, wishes to appoint a 0.6 FTE Research Associate to work for 15 months from 1 July 2005 (or as soon as possible thereafter) on its project ?Representing Context in a Research Archive of Educational Evaluation Studies? which is part of the ESRC Qualitative Demonstrator Scheme (QUADS) and is directed by Dr. Patrick Carmichael. The primary purpose of this post is to develop a research archive of evaluation studies (text, images, audio and video materials) along with supporting materials collected through interviews with the original researchers. This will be based on the D-Space digital repository platform together with other collaboration tools, and will also involve the development and evaluation of novel web-based interfaces to the research design to support its widest possible application. You should hold a degree in computer science or a related discipline; experience of working in or supporting social science research would be an advantage. You will need to be able to work collaboratively with other members of the project team including another Research Associate who is responsible for data collection and analysis, and demonstrate sensitivity to the aims and methods of social science research. You should have proven ability to write with clarity and accuracy to a high standard and to meet agreed deadlines. For further information and application pack, please contact Stephanie Saunders, Administrator, Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1SB, e-mail: stephanie at caret.cam.ac.uk. For informal discussions contact Dr. Patrick Carmichael e-mail: patrick at caret.cam.ac.uk or tel: (01223) 765381. Closing date: 27 May 2005. From lratliff at library.ucla.edu Mon May 9 10:26:22 2005 From: lratliff at library.ucla.edu (Louise Ratliff) Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 07:26:22 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] Community submission procedures question Message-ID: <227148593.1115623582@yrl-s-cat301.library.ucla.edu> Hello and happy Monday, I have some general questions about the procedures your communities use for submitting objects to DSpace. First, who has the rights to submit papers or other digital objects? Does each community have an "editor" who does the actual submission? How many people have submission rights and who are they? At UCLA we have just submitted our first digital learning object to our eLearning test collection, and we are thinking about how to manage the submission process once objects are created by other librarians. Not that they will be breaking down our doors with lots of objects, but we do want to develop and have in place a simple submission process. Any advice and ideas would be appreciated. -Louise ____________________________ Louise Ratliff Social Sciences Cataloger UCLA Library Cataloging Center (310) 825-8642 From harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk Sat May 14 22:46:40 2005 From: harnad at ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stevan Harnad) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 03:46:40 +0100 (BST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Please register your Dspace repository Message-ID: If you have a running Dspace Repository and it is not among the 73 already registered at the Institutional Archives Registry http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?page=all&version=dspace could you please register it? Don't forget to include the OAI Base URL and if celestial http://celestial.eprints.org/is not picking up the data from you archive, please contact Tim Brody tdb01r at ecs.soton.ac.uk to try to fix it so the Registry can track your archive's growth. Thanks, Stevan Harnad Moderator, American Scientist Open Access Forum http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html From pbm2 at cam.ac.uk Thu May 19 13:37:28 2005 From: pbm2 at cam.ac.uk (Peter Morgan) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 18:37:28 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Federation/DCC meetings (Cambridge, 6-8 July 2005) - Regis tration now open Message-ID: <2A70D44ECF6F1A4390DD1D98E8BEDEF2E83856@mius2.medlan.cam.ac.uk> (With apologies for cross-posting) DSpace/Digital Curation Centre meetings, Cambridge, July 2005 Registration is now open for the 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting, taking place at the University of Cambridge on Thursday-Friday, 7-8 July 2005. See http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/registration.htm Registration is also now open through the same site for the Digital Curation Centre workshop taking place at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday, 6 July 2005. Programme details for the DSpace meeting will be available in the next few days at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/programme.htm Programme details for the DCC workshop will be available within the next few days at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/DCC.htm We regret the unforeseen delay in opening the registration process and look forward to receiving your registrations. Please note that places for both the DCC workshop and the DSpace meeting are limited and so prompt booking is advisable. If you require any further information about registration, please use the contact details at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/dspace/usergroup2005/contact.htm -- Peter Morgan Project Director, DSpace at Cambridge Cambridge University Library West Road Cambridge CB3 9DR UK email: pbm2 at cam.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1223 333130 fax: +44 (0)1223 339973 Joy Davidson DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Service House, 11 University Gardens, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QJ Scotland Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592 Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788 email: british.editor at erpanet.org http://www.dcc.ac.uk http://www.erpanet.org ------------------------------------- (Original announcement) Dear Colleagues, Dates for your diary: 6/7/8 July 2005 at the University of Cambridge This is an initial announcement to let you know of two related meetings that you might wish to attend. The Digital Curation Centre is planning to hold a DCC workshop in the UK at the University of Cambridge on Wednesday 6 July 2005. Immediately following this, a second DSpace Federation User Group meeting will be held, also at the University of Cambridge, on Thursday-Friday, 7-8 July 2005. The DCC workshop will be a training event on the long-term curation and preservation of institutional repositories (regardless of software platform). The DSpace meeting will focus on issues specific to the use of the DSpace repository platform. As some participants will want to attend both events, the organisers of the two meetings will co-ordinate registration and other arrangements as far as possible. Some preliminary information on the two events follows below. ******************************************************* Digital Curation Centre workshop The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) was launched in November 2004 following a recommendation in the JISC Continuing Access and Digital Preservation Strategy (October 2002). The current partners of the DCC are the University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, UKOLN and the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC). The DCC is not itself a data repository, nor do we attempt to impose policies and practices of one branch of scholarship upon another. Rather, based on insight from a vibrant research programme that addresses wider issues of data curation and long-term preservation, we will develop and offer programmes of outreach and practical services to assist those who must curate data. Rather than duplicate effort, we seek to complement and contribute to the endeavours of related organisations. Curation and preservation issues are integral to all digital repositories - regardless of platform. As such, the DCC are cooperating with DSpace to convene a one-day workshop to examine some of the major issues involved with the long-term access to and re-use of data held within digital repositories from a range of perspectives - including the HE/FE and e-science communities. Themes for this event may include: ? workflow and business models for the long-term curation and sustainability of digital repositories ? certification of digital repositories ? roles and responsibilities ? interoperability ? metadata ? policies These issues will be explored through a mixture of panel discussions, presentations, case studies and breakout sessions. The DCC is committed to nurturing strong community relationships and a major aim for this event is to create a forum for the sharing of experiences and ideas between a wide range of stakeholders. ******************************************************* 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting The 1st DSpace Federation User Group meeting was held in Boston, USA, in March 2004. Organised by the DSpace team at MIT Libraries, it was a very successful open 2-day meeting and was attended by approximately 120 delegates drawn from ten different countries. It included several plenary sessions and two parallel tracks, one focussing on technical issues and the other on organisational policy. (For presentations and a summary report, see http://dspace.org/conference/conference.html) In the post-meeting evaluation it was concluded that many of the policy issues were essentially platform-independent and not specific to DSpace users, and that future discussion of such topics would be more appropriate in a broader forum of those interested in digital repositories. It followed that future meetings of the DSpace Federation - the international community of DSpace code contributors and users - should focus on issues that were more specific to the architecture and functionality of the DSpace platform. The 2nd DSpace Federation User Group meeting is now being planned with this in mind. MIT Libraries have passed organisational responsibility for the meeting to colleagues at Cambridge University working on the DSpace at Cambridge project, a joint Cambridge-MIT initiative funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI). The July 2005 meeting, which will be partly sponsored by CMI, will reflect both the need for a DSpace-specific agenda and the international character of the DSpace Federation. The formal Call For Papers and invitation to register will be issued shortly. -- Peter Morgan Project Director, DSpace at Cambridge Cambridge University Library West Road Cambridge CB3 9DR UK email: pbm2 at cam.ac.uk tel: +44 (0)1223 333130 fax: +44 (0)1223 339973 Joy Davidson DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Service House, 11 University Gardens, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QJ Scotland Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592 Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788 email: british.editor at erpanet.org http://www.dcc.ac.uk http://www.erpanet.org From mediaguy.co.uk at gmail.com Fri May 20 05:28:56 2005 From: mediaguy.co.uk at gmail.com (Graham Robinson) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:28:56 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] University of Southampton Message-ID: <4fce3e42050520022824965a5a@mail.gmail.com> Hello everyone, My name is Graham Robinson and I work as technical support in Modern Languages, University of Southampton. One of our projects has just started to use the DSpace system so I'm writing to introduce myself to you and see what the community for feedback is like with this project and hopefully to see what other people have been doing. Thank you for your time Graham Robinson Modern Languages IT University of Southampton, UK From cdygert at american.edu Fri May 20 12:04:29 2005 From: cdygert at american.edu (Claire Dygert) Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 12:04:29 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] Claire Dygert/cdygert/Faculty/Library/Provost/AmericanU is out ofthe office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 05/18/2005 and will not return until 05/23/2005. From erencanfirat at gmail.com Wed May 25 07:09:05 2005 From: erencanfirat at gmail.com (eren can firat) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:09:05 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] documents and knowledge sharing system Message-ID: I am currently working on "documents and knowledge sharing system" provided by KHK (Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen) and I am supposed to write reports concerning these systems. In order to complete my report I need some information about your system. Would you mind answering these questions? 1. How long has your project/service been in use? 2. Who provides you with financial help? How many sponsors are supporting this project? 3. How many people are currently using this system? 4. If someone wants to use this system, how and when is payment made? Thank you for your help. Eren Can FIRAT From lavoie at oclc.org Wed May 25 10:21:40 2005 From: lavoie at oclc.org (Lavoie,Brian) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 10:21:40 -0400 Subject: [Dspace-general] PREMIS working group releases final report Message-ID: OCLC and RLG have announced the release of a comprehensive guide to core metadata for supporting the long-term preservation of digital materials. Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata: Final Report of the PREMIS Working Group is the product of the foremost international consensus-building effort directed at preservation metadata. Ongoing maintenance of the data dictionary and associated XML schemas, along with a forum for implementors, will be provided by the PREMIS maintenance activity. Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata includes in a single document the PREMIS working group's final report, the data dictionary, and a series of examples illustrating use of the data dictionary. The report, data dictionary, and examples can also be downloaded as three separate documents. Resources Overview http://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/2005-05-20.htm Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata and related materials http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/pmwg/ PREMIS maintenance activity http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/ Contacts Brian Lavoie, OCLC Research Scientist lavoie at oclc.org Robin Dale, RLG Program Officer robin.dale at notes.rlg.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20050525/ba99a575/attachment.htm