From mr41 at cornell.edu Tue May 2 13:58:57 2006
From: mr41 at cornell.edu (Marcy Rosenkrantz)
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 13:58:57 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] announcing iPRES 2006
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060502135828.0360ab60@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu>
Subject: Registration and Call for Participation at
iPRES 2006
Apologies for Cross-Posting
The International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects
(iPRES 2006) will be held October 8-10, 2006 at Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY U.S.A.
The theme of this year's iPRES is Words to Deeds: Collaboration in
the Realm of Digital Preservation. Following on the successful iPRES
2005 held September 14-16 in Goettingen, Germany, iPRES 2006 Plenary
Sessions will explore topics in Preserving Multimedia Objects,
e-Journal Preservation, Certification, and National Efforts in
Digital Preservation. Concurrent sessions on Tools of the Trade;
Selection, Workflow, and Accession; eScience and Digital
Preservation; Metadata; Business and organizational issues; and
Repositories are tentatively planned. We invite contributions in
these areas by sending a brief abstract to ipres2006 at cornell.edu.
Deadline for contributed papers is August 15, 2006. The deadline for
early registration is September 1, 2006.
For details about the iPRES 2006 agenda and to register, please visit
our web site:
http://ipres.library.cornell.edu/ .
Know Your Publisher,
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Manage Your
Copyright,http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/copyright
Save Your Stuff ... in the OAR, http://dspace.library.cornell.edu
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From sergtrejo at gmail.com Wed May 3 09:26:09 2006
From: sergtrejo at gmail.com (Sergio Trejo)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 03:26:09 -1000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Simple use case of DSpace -- can this work?
Message-ID: <7c3d69360605030626g3f22be92ne22cdf87b8414cf@mail.gmail.com>
Hello All,
I am about to install DSpace 1.4 alpha. I will gladly test it out and be
happy to provide feedback to the maintainers. I had started to look at
DSpace last year but was called to do work on a different project. Now I am
returning to DSpace and I am looking forward to it!.
I have a simple use case:
* I have, on the file system of the server which I plan to install DSpace
(Mac OS X Server), a top-level directory. This top-level directory contains
files, sub-directories, and a few symbolic links (the links are to other
directories within the top-level directory). The files contained in this
directory structure on the file system are comprised mostly of web-related
content (images in JPG and PNG), text, CSS, XHTML, etc. I also have one and
only one RDF file for the entire top-level directory which contains Simple
Dublin Core (15 elements maximum) that describe the entire directory of the
content I just mentioned (DC: author, date, identifier, publisher, etc.).
* I want to turn the above-described directory (and all of its content and
RDF metdata file and sub-directories) as a DSpace "item" (a DSpace archival
atom) as per the gorgeous diagram found at
http://www.dspace.org/introduction/dspace-diagram.pdf
* I would like to write a shell script that may be run on the Mac OS X
Server machine that is also hosting the DSpace 1.4 alpha system, which
script would be run by a designated Collection Curator and used to
importthe above-mentioned DSpace item. I would thus like to avoid or
highly
minimize the requirement for a person (curator) to use the DSpace Web
Interface and to avoid the need to fill out web forms for manually entering
metadata about the "item". The motto I must take in my small and lean
organization is borrowed from the Ruby on Rails community which espouses
simplicity and agile approaches: DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) <
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/DRY >
Looking at the DSpace documentation, it is my understanding that in order to
import an "item" into a DSpace repository, I will need to somehow create a
SIP (Submission Information Package) file. A SIP apparently is "an XML
metadata document with some content files" but I am having a hard time
finding detailed documentation on how to create a SIP and just what goes
into this "XML metadata document" as well as what "content files" are
required.
Could my proposed shell shell script, for example, parse the Simple Dublin
Core contained in the RDF document that both describes the and is a part of
the item, to generate a machine-meaningful SIP? How complex of a process
might this be, to create a SIP? Will I need more than Simple Dublin Core to
achieve all of this? Has anyone done something similar? My goal is to try
and keep things as easy on people as possible. It is my job to make other
people's lives as easy as possible ... I am fluent in scripting languages
(python works great as does ruby) and am looking forward to creating SIPs
for items.
Thank you for any suggestions.
-Sergio
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From gourley at wrlc.org Wed May 3 10:20:54 2006
From: gourley at wrlc.org (Don Gourley)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 10:20:54 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Dspace-general] Simple use case of DSpace -- can this work?
In-Reply-To: <7c3d69360605030626g3f22be92ne22cdf87b8414cf@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7c3d69360605030626g3f22be92ne22cdf87b8414cf@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <52076.192.245.136.76.1146666054.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org>
Sergio,
I don't quite understand what kind of item you want to import into
DSpace...and if it is just one big item I'm not sure what value
DSpace would offer to managing it. But in general for importing
items you would use the ItemImport program:
http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/application.html#itemimporter
This program reads the DSpace "simple archive format" which is a
directory structure with folders for each item which contain a
very simple XML encoding of Dublin Core, the content files and
a file listing the content files. I have written Perl scripts
to create this directory structure and it is pretty easy.
I think the content files can be structured in sub-folders but
I've never tried that and don't know how (or if) that structure
would be translated into DSpace's item structure. The way I've
dealt with structural relationships between files in an item is
by including another file in each item which includes structural
metadata. Another option in your case might be to use DSpace's
community/sub-community/collection/item hierarchy to map your
directories and files to multiple items instead of a single one.
In 1.4 you have another option which is to create a packager
plugin to ingest your item into DSpace. However, the plugin
must be written in Java...I don't think there is any easy way
to use a scripting language.
-Don
On Wed, May 3, 2006 9:26 am, Sergio Trejo wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am about to install DSpace 1.4 alpha. I will gladly test it out and be
> happy to provide feedback to the maintainers. I had started to look at
> DSpace last year but was called to do work on a different project. Now I am
> returning to DSpace and I am looking forward to it!.
>
> I have a simple use case:
>
> * I have, on the file system of the server which I plan to install DSpace
> (Mac OS X Server), a top-level directory. This top-level directory contains
> files, sub-directories, and a few symbolic links (the links are to other
> directories within the top-level directory). The files contained in this
> directory structure on the file system are comprised mostly of web-related
> content (images in JPG and PNG), text, CSS, XHTML, etc. I also have one and
> only one RDF file for the entire top-level directory which contains Simple
> Dublin Core (15 elements maximum) that describe the entire directory of the
> content I just mentioned (DC: author, date, identifier, publisher, etc.).
>
> * I want to turn the above-described directory (and all of its content and
> RDF metdata file and sub-directories) as a DSpace "item" (a DSpace archival
> atom) as per the gorgeous diagram found at
> http://www.dspace.org/introduction/dspace-diagram.pdf
>
> * I would like to write a shell script that may be run on the Mac OS X
> Server machine that is also hosting the DSpace 1.4 alpha system, which
> script would be run by a designated Collection Curator and used to
> importthe above-mentioned DSpace item. I would thus like to avoid or
> highly
> minimize the requirement for a person (curator) to use the DSpace Web
> Interface and to avoid the need to fill out web forms for manually entering
> metadata about the "item". The motto I must take in my small and lean
> organization is borrowed from the Ruby on Rails community which espouses
> simplicity and agile approaches: DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) <
> http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/DRY >
>
> Looking at the DSpace documentation, it is my understanding that in order to
> import an "item" into a DSpace repository, I will need to somehow create a
> SIP (Submission Information Package) file. A SIP apparently is "an XML
> metadata document with some content files" but I am having a hard time
> finding detailed documentation on how to create a SIP and just what goes
> into this "XML metadata document" as well as what "content files" are
> required.
>
> Could my proposed shell shell script, for example, parse the Simple Dublin
> Core contained in the RDF document that both describes the and is a part of
> the item, to generate a machine-meaningful SIP? How complex of a process
> might this be, to create a SIP? Will I need more than Simple Dublin Core to
> achieve all of this? Has anyone done something similar? My goal is to try
> and keep things as easy on people as possible. It is my job to make other
> people's lives as easy as possible ... I am fluent in scripting languages
> (python works great as does ruby) and am looking forward to creating SIPs
> for items.
>
> Thank you for any suggestions.
>
> -Sergio
> _______________________________________________
> Dspace-general mailing list
> Dspace-general at mit.edu
> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
>
From sergtrejo at gmail.com Wed May 3 12:04:12 2006
From: sergtrejo at gmail.com (Sergio Trejo)
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 06:04:12 -1000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Simple use case of DSpace -- can this work?
In-Reply-To: <52076.192.245.136.76.1146666054.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org>
References: <7c3d69360605030626g3f22be92ne22cdf87b8414cf@mail.gmail.com>
<52076.192.245.136.76.1146666054.squirrel@mail.wrlc.org>
Message-ID: <7c3d69360605030904y33ea9bb1x178cebbc506997d6@mail.gmail.com>
Dear Don,
Thank you very very much. I hadn't picked up on the Item Importer when
perusing through the documentation previously and after a quick scan of it
along with your helpful email, I think that will get me started on the right
track.
As for the kind of item that I want to import, it doesn't have a name yet
but for now let's call it a "bundle of web page resources" or a "bundle" for
short. The files comprising this "bundle" are a logically related collection
of files (images such as in PNG format, unstructured UTF-8 encoded text
files, XHTML files and CSS style sheet files, etc.). When I looked at that
very nice diagram (the PDF depicting the DSpace system), the diagram said
verbatim:
An item is an "archival atom" consisting of grouped, related content and
associated descriptions (metadata).
Unless I have misinterpreted, the DSpace definition of an item seems
appropriate to my "bundle" situation. It does look as if, however, that
Dublin Core will be required for each file in this "bundle" item. I was
hoping that I could use one DC metadata file to describe the "bundle" as a
whole and not necessarily worry about the metadata description of each file
or part of the "bundle" but I can see how that would be too limiting and the
option needs to exist to describe each and every file in an item if need be.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction. Most likely the
Importer will be fine to start with and I'll have to do some additional
investigating per your suggestions such as with regard to handling the item
structure.
Cheers,
-Sergio
On 5/3/06, Don Gourley wrote:
>
> Sergio,
>
> I don't quite understand what kind of item you want to import into
> DSpace...and if it is just one big item I'm not sure what value
> DSpace would offer to managing it. But in general for importing
> items you would use the ItemImport program:
>
> http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/application.html#itemimporter
>
> This program reads the DSpace "simple archive format" which is a
> directory structure with folders for each item which contain a
> very simple XML encoding of Dublin Core, the content files and
> a file listing the content files. I have written Perl scripts
> to create this directory structure and it is pretty easy.
>
> I think the content files can be structured in sub-folders but
> I've never tried that and don't know how (or if) that structure
> would be translated into DSpace's item structure. The way I've
> dealt with structural relationships between files in an item is
> by including another file in each item which includes structural
> metadata. Another option in your case might be to use DSpace's
> community/sub-community/collection/item hierarchy to map your
> directories and files to multiple items instead of a single one.
>
> In 1.4 you have another option which is to create a packager
> plugin to ingest your item into DSpace. However, the plugin
> must be written in Java...I don't think there is any easy way
> to use a scripting language.
>
> -Don
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2006 9:26 am, Sergio Trejo wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I am about to install DSpace 1.4 alpha. I will gladly test it out and be
> > happy to provide feedback to the maintainers. I had started to look at
> > DSpace last year but was called to do work on a different project. Now I
> am
> > returning to DSpace and I am looking forward to it!.
> >
> > I have a simple use case:
> >
> > * I have, on the file system of the server which I plan to install
> DSpace
> > (Mac OS X Server), a top-level directory. This top-level directory
> contains
> > files, sub-directories, and a few symbolic links (the links are to other
> > directories within the top-level directory). The files contained in this
> > directory structure on the file system are comprised mostly of
> web-related
> > content (images in JPG and PNG), text, CSS, XHTML, etc. I also have one
> and
> > only one RDF file for the entire top-level directory which contains
> Simple
> > Dublin Core (15 elements maximum) that describe the entire directory of
> the
> > content I just mentioned (DC: author, date, identifier, publisher,
> etc.).
> >
> > * I want to turn the above-described directory (and all of its content
> and
> > RDF metdata file and sub-directories) as a DSpace "item" (a DSpace
> archival
> > atom) as per the gorgeous diagram found at
> > http://www.dspace.org/introduction/dspace-diagram.pdf
> >
> > * I would like to write a shell script that may be run on the Mac OS X
> > Server machine that is also hosting the DSpace 1.4 alpha system, which
> > script would be run by a designated Collection Curator and used to
> > importthe above-mentioned DSpace item. I would thus like to avoid or
> > highly
> > minimize the requirement for a person (curator) to use the DSpace Web
> > Interface and to avoid the need to fill out web forms for manually
> entering
> > metadata about the "item". The motto I must take in my small and lean
> > organization is borrowed from the Ruby on Rails community which espouses
> > simplicity and agile approaches: DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) <
> > http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/DRY >
> >
> > Looking at the DSpace documentation, it is my understanding that in
> order to
> > import an "item" into a DSpace repository, I will need to somehow create
> a
> > SIP (Submission Information Package) file. A SIP apparently is "an XML
> > metadata document with some content files" but I am having a hard time
> > finding detailed documentation on how to create a SIP and just what goes
> > into this "XML metadata document" as well as what "content files" are
> > required.
> >
> > Could my proposed shell shell script, for example, parse the Simple
> Dublin
> > Core contained in the RDF document that both describes the and is a part
> of
> > the item, to generate a machine-meaningful SIP? How complex of a process
> > might this be, to create a SIP? Will I need more than Simple Dublin Core
> to
> > achieve all of this? Has anyone done something similar? My goal is to
> try
> > and keep things as easy on people as possible. It is my job to make
> other
> > people's lives as easy as possible ... I am fluent in scripting
> languages
> > (python works great as does ruby) and am looking forward to creating
> SIPs
> > for items.
> >
> > Thank you for any suggestions.
> >
> > -Sergio
> > _______________________________________________
> > Dspace-general mailing list
> > Dspace-general at mit.edu
> > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
> >
>
>
>
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From mr41 at cornell.edu Wed May 3 13:19:33 2006
From: mr41 at cornell.edu (Marcy Rosenkrantz)
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 13:19:33 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] announcing iPRES 2006
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20060503131921.02ea3ae8@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu>
Subject: Registration and Call for Participation at
iPRES 2006
Apologies for Cross-Posting
The International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects
(iPRES 2006) will be held October 8-10, 2006 at Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY U.S.A.
The theme of this year's iPRES is Words to Deeds: Collaboration in
the Realm of Digital Preservation. Following on the successful iPRES
2005 held September 14-16 in Goettingen, Germany, iPRES 2006 Plenary
Sessions will explore topics in Preserving Multimedia Objects,
e-Journal Preservation, Certification, and National Efforts in
Digital Preservation. Concurrent sessions on Tools of the Trade;
Selection, Workflow, and Accession; eScience and Digital
Preservation; Metadata; Business and organizational issues; and
Repositories are tentatively planned. We invite contributions in
these areas by sending a brief abstract to ipres2006 at cornell.edu.
Deadline for contributed papers is August 15, 2006. The deadline for
early registration is September 1, 2006.
For details about the iPRES 2006 agenda and to register, please visit
our web site:
http://ipres.library.cornell.edu/ .
Know Your Publisher,
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php
Manage Your
Copyright,http://www.library.cornell.edu/scholarlycomm/copyright
Save Your Stuff ... in the OAR, http://dspace.library.cornell.edu
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From cdygert at american.edu Thu May 4 12:01:30 2006
From: cdygert at american.edu (Claire Dygert)
Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 12:01:30 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Claire Dygert is out of the office.
Message-ID:
I will be out of the office starting 05/03/2006 and will not return until
05/09/2006.
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.
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From robert.tansley at hp.com Fri May 5 07:04:51 2006
From: robert.tansley at hp.com (Tansley, Robert)
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 07:04:51 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Moving on
Message-ID: <6B003D25ADBDE347B5542AFE6A55B42E072FA2A0@tayexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net>
Dear all,
Well, today is my last day working at HP on DSpace, the last remaining
member of the original team that started it all in 2000. It's been a
fun five and a half years, and I think it's fair to say that DSpace is a
success.
However I did find myself in a rather unusual position, perceived as the
DSpace chief architect, but with no one I could direct. This meant that
some people perhaps felt it wasn't appropriate or they needed permission
to come up with substantial ideas and proposals to move DSpace forward.
So, painful though it is, there is a time for the parent to let the
offspring free. The test of a good open source project (and of course a
key intention of DSpace) has always been that it outlasts its
originators. Now the community has a fresh sheet of paper to decide how
best to move forward. There are so many good people working on DSpace
now that I feel it is positioned for great things.
Although I'm not sure if and how I'll be involved in DSpace with my new
employer Google, I'll definitely be cheering from the sidelines. DSpace
has already achieved so much and has fantastic potential to do more.
Thanks all, and stay in touch.
Rob
From jcs at lib-mail.humboldt.edu Mon May 8 18:41:25 2006
From: jcs at lib-mail.humboldt.edu (Shellhase, Jeremy)
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:41:25 -0700
Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF
Message-ID: <5962A745B310D411B610009027DCF40E025BE9C1@lib-mail.humboldt.edu>
Hello All,
I had a few quick questions for anyone running a Dspace repository.
1) Have you decided to declare Adobe PDF a "supported" format?
1.a.) If you have, has anyone undertaken any "functional preservation" on
this or actually any other format?
1.b.) What was or will be the signal(s) that "functional preservation" is
indicated for a particular format, like Adobe PDF.
Thanks in advance. Feel free to respond off-list or on.
Regards,
Jeremy
Jeremy C. Shellhase
Systems Librarian
Humboldt State University Library
Arcata, [Northern]California USA
jcs7001 at humboldt.edu
From scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au Tue May 9 19:03:09 2006
From: scott.yeadon at anu.edu.au (Scott Yeadon)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:03:09 +1000
Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <44611FAD.3070107@anu.edu.au>
Hi Jeremy,
>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:41:25 -0700
>From: "Shellhase, Jeremy"
>Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF
>To: Dspace-general at mit.edu
>Message-ID:
> <5962A745B310D411B610009027DCF40E025BE9C1 at lib-mail.humboldt.edu>
>Content-Type: text/plain
>
>Hello All,
>
>I had a few quick questions for anyone running a Dspace repository.
>1) Have you decided to declare Adobe PDF a "supported" format?
>
>
Yes, but all that means in our current policy is that the repository
managers will undertake (in consultation with collection owners)
migration of bitstreams of this format to a new format should it become
obsolete or there is a risk it may become obsolete.
>1.a.) If you have, has anyone undertaken any "functional preservation" on
>this or actually any other format?
>
>
No. We are developing ways of assisting authors/content generators to
create their materials in such a way that popular and archive-quality
formats are used (for example, use of template sets so that documents
can be archived in XML rather than a native/proprietary word processing
package, acceptable formats for images, etc). This work is only in its
infancy here at the moment. We haven't really looked at funtional
preservation/emulation in any detail, to what extent functional
preservation can be supported long-term is something that could be
debated and discussed ad infinitum...a neat example has been developed
by the National Library of Australia which converts databases to XML and
attempts to emulate some basic functionality. This though requires
negotiation with the db owner and requires some work per database. See
http://www.nla.gov.au/xinq/ for more details.
>1.b.) What was or will be the signal(s) that "functional preservation" is
>indicated for a particular format, like Adobe PDF.
>
>Thanks in advance. Feel free to respond off-list or on.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jeremy
>
>Jeremy C. Shellhase
>Systems Librarian
>Humboldt State University Library
>Arcata, [Northern]California USA
>jcs7001 at humboldt.edu
>
>
>
>------------------------------
>
>_______________________________________________
>Dspace-general mailing list
>Dspace-general at mit.edu
>http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
>
>
>End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 34, Issue 4
>*********************************************
>
>
>
From tyler.walters at library.gatech.edu Tue May 9 20:25:42 2006
From: tyler.walters at library.gatech.edu (Tyler Walters)
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 20:25:42 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF
In-Reply-To: <44611FAD.3070107@anu.edu.au>
References:
<44611FAD.3070107@anu.edu.au>
Message-ID: <4639.WlhBCwBQDFA=.1147220742.squirrel@mail.library.gatech.edu>
Hi Jeremy,
Here's a few links about the relatively new PDF/A (archival)
specification. To my knowledge, there is no batch way to convert
existing PDF files to PDF/A. You can do so in the current version
of Adobe Acrobat, one file at a time. Hopefully, there will be an
application developed soon to "batch" convert verious strains of
past PDF formats into the PDF/A standard, but I'm not aware of any
specific work at this point (other than Adobe being aware of this
need).
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/pdfs/pdfarchiving.pdf
http://www.aiim.org/article-pr.asp?ID=30413
http://www.educause.edu/E05/Program/5085?PRODUCT_CODE=E05/CORP07
Hope this helps some,
Tyler
--
Tyler O. Walters
Associate Director, Technology & Resource Services
Library and Information Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0900
404-385-4489 voice
404-894-6084 fax
tyler.walters at library.gatech.edu
http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/walters.html
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an
unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
On Tue, May 9, 2006 7:03 pm, Scott Yeadon wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,
>
>>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:41:25 -0700
>>From: "Shellhase, Jeremy"
>>Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF
>>To: Dspace-general at mit.edu
>>Message-ID:
>> <5962A745B310D411B610009027DCF40E025BE9C1 at lib-mail.humboldt.edu>
>>Content-Type: text/plain
>>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>I had a few quick questions for anyone running a Dspace
>> repository.
>>1) Have you decided to declare Adobe PDF a "supported" format?
>>
>>
> Yes, but all that means in our current policy is that the
> repository
> managers will undertake (in consultation with collection owners)
> migration of bitstreams of this format to a new format should it
> become
> obsolete or there is a risk it may become obsolete.
>
>>1.a.) If you have, has anyone undertaken any "functional
>> preservation" on
>>this or actually any other format?
>>
>>
> No. We are developing ways of assisting authors/content generators
> to
> create their materials in such a way that popular and
> archive-quality
> formats are used (for example, use of template sets so that
> documents
> can be archived in XML rather than a native/proprietary word
> processing
> package, acceptable formats for images, etc). This work is only in
> its
> infancy here at the moment. We haven't really looked at funtional
> preservation/emulation in any detail, to what extent functional
> preservation can be supported long-term is something that could be
> debated and discussed ad infinitum...a neat example has been
> developed
> by the National Library of Australia which converts databases to
> XML and
> attempts to emulate some basic functionality. This though requires
> negotiation with the db owner and requires some work per database.
> See
> http://www.nla.gov.au/xinq/ for more details.
>
>>1.b.) What was or will be the signal(s) that "functional
>> preservation" is
>>indicated for a particular format, like Adobe PDF.
>>
>>Thanks in advance. Feel free to respond off-list or on.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Jeremy
>>
>>Jeremy C. Shellhase
>>Systems Librarian
>>Humboldt State University Library
>>Arcata, [Northern]California USA
>>jcs7001 at humboldt.edu
>>
>>
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From lcs at MIT.EDU Tue May 9 21:28:49 2006
From: lcs at MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 21:28:49 EDT
Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 9 May 2006 20:25:42 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID:
> specification. To my knowledge, there is no batch way to convert
> existing PDF files to PDF/A.
The latest version of AFPL Ghostscript seems like it might be able
to output PDF/A, and it runs quite well in batch-mode (or under a
web server). Here's the relevant doc:
http://www.ghostscript.com/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm#PDFA
Note that the ps2pdf application just runs Ghostscript, and it ought to
be able to accept a PDF file as input as well.
Also see the main site http://www.ghostscript.com/ for news.
I haven't tried Ghostscript 8.53 but have found previous versions
about as reliable as Adobe's reader, although they don't usually
fail on the same documents. I think it's worth a look, anyway.
-- Larry
From kenzie at MIT.EDU Tue May 9 22:32:15 2006
From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith)
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 22:32:15 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Supported Formats, PDF
In-Reply-To: <5962A745B310D411B610009027DCF40E025BE9C1@lib-mail.humboldt .edu>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20060509221100.02543638@hesiod>
Hi Jeremy,
MIT's format support policies are documented here
http://libraries.mit.edu/dspace-mit/build/policies/format.html
We did decide to "support" PDF since it's a publicly documented, if
proprietary, specification, but I gather
that might have been a bit optimistic... the spec is so flexible that
writing a PDF reader based on it doesn't
really guarantee that you can write a PDF reader that will render a given
PDF successfully... so let's hope
that PDF/A catches on or that the automatic conversion tools do the trick.
I doubt if we'll change our policy since PDF is one of the most popular
document formats in the world and it's
hard for me to believe that it might become obsolete without vendors
stepping in to provide conversion tools...
entire governments and industries depend on PDF for their records
compliance... but the conservative
choice would be to make PDF "known" and PDF/A "supported".
Have we had to test this? No, thankfully.
Most DSpace repositories have made their support policies publicly
available via their DSpace websites...
if you look under "Help" "File Formats" in a given DSpace site you'll see
the local decisions. For example,
the ANU policies that Scott provided are at
http://dspace.anu.edu.au/help/formats.jsp#policy and the
University of Cambridge policies are here
http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/help/formats.jsp#policy.
A lot of sites have kept the default settings (i.e. "known" rather than
"supported"), but I hope that more
organizations will set their policies as they have the time...
MacKenzie Smith
MIT Libraries
At 03:41 PM 5/8/2006 -0700, Shellhase, Jeremy wrote:
>I had a few quick questions for anyone running a Dspace repository.
>1) Have you decided to declare Adobe PDF a "supported" format?
>1.a.) If you have, has anyone undertaken any "functional preservation" on
>this or actually any other format?
>1.b.) What was or will be the signal(s) that "functional preservation" is
>indicated for a particular format, like Adobe PDF
From katariasanjay2001 at yahoo.com Wed May 10 02:02:14 2006
From: katariasanjay2001 at yahoo.com (Sanjay Kataria)
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 23:02:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Dspace-general] How to make back up of Dspace
Message-ID: <20060510060214.63260.qmail@web8318.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Dear friends,
We have implemented the Dspace and effectivly using by our students and faculty members. This initially on intranet due to it is under testing.
I am not able to take the backup of data. It is therefore, requested to guide me about the backup procedure.
Best regards
Sanjay Kataria
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From lievend at gmail.com Wed May 10 09:11:29 2006
From: lievend at gmail.com (Lieven Droogmans)
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:11:29 +0200
Subject: [Dspace-general] How to make back up of Dspace
In-Reply-To: <20060510060214.63260.qmail@web8318.mail.in.yahoo.com>
References: <20060510060214.63260.qmail@web8318.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <66dca4de0605100611x64fc5fbaq654b19ee9640ca4e@mail.gmail.com>
You can find more information on backing up DSpace on the wiki
http://wiki.dspace.org/BackupRestore
regards,
Lieven
On 5/10/06, Sanjay Kataria wrote:
>
> Dear friends,
>
> We have implemented the Dspace and effectivly using by our students and
> faculty members. This initially on intranet due to it is under testing.
>
> I am not able to take the backup of data. It is therefore, requested to
> guide me about the backup procedure.
>
> Best regards
>
> Sanjay Kataria
>
> ------------------------------
> Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates
> starting at 1?/min.
>
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From eloy at sdum.uminho.pt Thu May 11 09:52:00 2006
From: eloy at sdum.uminho.pt (Eloy Rodrigues)
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 14:52:00 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Statistics Add-on
Message-ID:
Apologies for cross-posting
I?m glad to announce that the Reposit?riUM team at Minho University has
finished the documentation and packaging off a new Add-on to DSpace, related
with Statistics, that we already use in our Repository for 2 months.
This Add-on (see description below) is available at:
http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn
The purpose of the Statistics Add-on was to promote Reposit?riUM and author
self(or mediated)-archiving, by demonstrating the worldwide accessibility
and usage (access/downloads) of archived documents. We also wanted to
provide usage, content and administrative statistics to IR and
community/collection administrators or coordinators.
The Statistics Add-on to the DSpace platform, is responsible for the
gathering, processing and presentation of access, content and administrative
statistics generated by DSpace usage. It was developed based on the
principles and some of the components of the statistics application created
and released by ANU.
Despite the fact that the development was made to respond to the specific
needs of Reposit?riUM, the system is completely adjustable to other
environments, because their components can easily be configured, changed or
extended, to respond to different information needs.
Important features of the Statistics system:
* Real time processing of event logs
* Database based stored mechanism of statistics
* Real time detection and processing of access country origin
* Semi-real time detection and exclusion of crawlers
* Definition of user Access policies at individual statistic and
data level
* Customizable statistics queries
* Customizable web interface look and feel of each statistic
You can see the implementation of the Add-on in Reposit?riUM
(https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt
) where the general (IR level) access/download statistics
(https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/sdum/stats?level=general
&type=access&group=1&no-form=true&no-menu=true) and individual
access/download statistics (eg, http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803) are
publicly available.
Best Regards,
Eloy Rodrigues
Universidade do Minho - Servi?os de Documenta??o
Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga
Tel: +351 253 60 41 50; Fax - 253 60 41 59
Campus de Azur?m, 4800-058 Guimar?es
Tel: +351 253 51 01 19; Fax - 253 51 01 17
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From nick.wainwright at hp.com Fri May 12 02:09:24 2006
From: nick.wainwright at hp.com (Wainwright, Nick (HP Labs, Bristol, UK))
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 07:09:24 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] FW: 8-9 June 2006 Workshop on Digital Repositories
and Knowledge e-Infrastructures
Message-ID:
Hi All
Anyone from the DSpace community going to this meeting? Seems like a
good opportunity to put DSpace centre stage in EU Framework 7. I'd go
myself - but already have committed to taking vacation that week.
Nick
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Sent: 11 May 2006 15:45
To: INFSO-RI-NOREPLY at cec.eu.int
Cc: Kyriakos.Baxevanidis at cec.eu.int; Elina.ZICMANE at cec.eu.int;
Wim.Jansen at cec.eu.int; Carlos.Morais-Pires at cec.eu.int;
Enric.MITJANA at cec.eu.int
Subject: 8-9 June 2006 Workshop on Digital Repositories and Knowledge
e-Infrastructures
First Announcement of an Open Workshop held in Brussels 8-9 June 2006
(sorry if you receive multiple messages on this subject)
The European Commission is preparing the seventh framework programme of
the European Community for research, technological development and
demonstration activities (FP7) and is carrying a number of impact
assessment initiatives addressing the area of Digital Repositories and
Knowledge Infrastructures as background of future policy work.
Recognising that in order to build a European base for a Knowledge
Infrastructure People, Information and Technology must be available,
connected and accessible, the objective of the workshop is to discuss
with experts the development of Digital Repositories from the
perspective of e-Infrastructure.
You are kindly invited to actively participate in the workshop that will
be held in Brussels 8-9 June 2006. As we have limitations in terms of
rooms we ask you to register through our webpage
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/rn/ri-cnd/wshop-080606.htm
European Commission
DG INFSO/F3 - J-54 01/24
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From julien.jomier at kitware.com Fri May 12 15:34:32 2006
From: julien.jomier at kitware.com (Julien Jomier)
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:34:32 -0400
Subject: [Dspace-general] Private communities and collections
Message-ID: <4464E348.9060201@kitware.com>
Hello,
I'm using DSpace 1.3.2 and I'd like to make some communities as well as
collections somehow private so they do not show up in the community-list
and other pages if the policies are not set for a particular user.
Is this something already implemented in DSpace?
If not, is there a plan do add this feature in the near future?
Thanks a lot for the help,
Julien
From rchute at lanl.gov Wed May 17 18:03:49 2006
From: rchute at lanl.gov (Ryan Chute)
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:03:49 -0600
Subject: [Dspace-general] LANL Research Library releases Open Source aDORe
Archive 1.0 software
Message-ID: <446B9DC5.9090906@lanl.gov>
Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, May 17, 2006 ? The LANL Digital Library
Research & Prototyping Team is pleased to announce the formal release of
their aDORe Archive software.
The aDORe Archive is a write-once/read-many storage approach for Digital
Objects and their constituent datastreams. The approach combines two
interconnected file-based storage mechanisms that are made accessible in
a protocol-based manner. First, XML-based representations of multiple
Digital Objects are concatenated into a single, valid XML file named an
XMLtape. The creation of indexes for both the identifier and the
creation datetime of the XML-based representation of the Digital
Objects, facilitates OAI-PMH-based access. Second, ARC files, as
introduced by the Internet Archive, are used to contain the constituent
datastreams of the Digital Objects in a concatenated manner. An index
for the identifier of the datastream facilitates OpenURL-based access.
The interconnection between an XMLtape and its associated ARC file(s) is
provided by conveying the identifiers of these ARC files as
administrative information in the XMLtape, and by including OpenURL
references to constituent datastreams of a Digital Object in the
XML-based representation of that Digital Object stored in the XMLtape.
The aDORe Archive allows for the storage of multiple XMLtapes and ARC
files through the introduction of OAI-PMH compliant XMLtape and ARCfile
registries.
This distribution includes a comprehensive tutorial intended to
introduce new developers to the application framework, as well as
provide working knowledge of the API and application configurations.
The aDORe Archive 1.0 software was developed by the LANL Digital Library
Research & Prototyping Team. Development of the software was partly
funded by an NDIIP grant from the Library of Congress.
This software may be used without charge in accord with the terms of the
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Further context for the aDORe Archive software is provided in:
* Liu, X., Balakireva, L., Hochstenbach, P., Van de Sompel, H.
"File-based storage of Digital Objects and constituent datastreams:
XMLTapes and Internet Archive ARC files" (2005, June)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.DL/0503016
More information:
aDORe Archive 1.0 software page
http://purl.lanl.gov/aDORe/projects/adoreArchive/
GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php
Send Feedback and Questions to:
Ryan Chute
Digital Library Research & Prototyping
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
tel. +1 505 665 6955
From galloway at ischool.utexas.edu Fri May 19 16:13:51 2006
From: galloway at ischool.utexas.edu (Pat Galloway)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:13:51 -0500
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSPace data dictionary, schema, whatever
Message-ID: <446E26FF.6010609@ischool.utexas.edu>
In the very olden days (1.1?) there was an attractive schematic that
outlined the structure of PostgreSQL tables that consituted DSpace; it
does not seem to have been complete, but it helped my students
understand what was going on. Is there anything more recent, say for 1.3
or 1.4?
Pat Galloway
University of Texas-Austin
From javier.gomez at ua.es Thu May 25 07:28:33 2006
From: javier.gomez at ua.es (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Javier_Gomez_Castano?=)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:28:33 +0200
Subject: [Dspace-general] =?iso-8859-1?q?Resources_in_non_Latin_languages?=
Message-ID: <200605251128.k4PBSX3S023318@aitana.cpd.ua.es>
Hello,
I am elaborating a project for the creation of repositorio (in Spanish) and a
user asks to me if he could deposit documents in other non Latin languages
(Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arab, Chinese, etc.) If this is possible, that system
uses DSpace?
Thanks
From ehant at uom.gr Fri May 26 01:18:31 2006
From: ehant at uom.gr (Elisavet Chantavaridou)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 08:18:31 +0300
Subject: [Dspace-general] Resources in non Latin languages
References:
Message-ID: <001f01c68083$d7b592f0$9ad6fbc3@library.uom.gr>
Hi Javier,
we use DSpace for our repository. We have translated the web interface into
Greek (you can check it at http://dspace.lib.uom.gr/). If you wish to find
out which websites use DSpace, you can check this list:
http://wiki.dspace.org/DspaceInstances. Furthermore, you can check the
language packs at http://dspace.cvs.sourceforge.net/dspace/language-packs/.
The full text of documents can be searched and retrieved in Greek.
Hope this helps,
Elisavet
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From ghzala at correo.ugr.es Mon May 29 08:08:56 2006
From: ghzala at correo.ugr.es (Ghzala Iazza)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 14:08:56 +0200 (MEST)
Subject: [Dspace-general] help in an other language!
Message-ID: <2011.150.214.22.109.1148904536.squirrel@correo3.ugr.es>
Hi everybody,
can you recommend bibliography in French or Spanish on dspace? because all
documentation is in english!!
Thank you.
--
Ghzala Iazza
http://www.ghzala.com
From cmde2006 at mat.ua.pt Mon May 29 13:00:33 2006
From: cmde2006 at mat.ua.pt (CMDE2006)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 18:00:33 +0100
Subject: [Dspace-general] Conference - Call for papers
Message-ID: <00bf01c68341$65fa4050$be5188c1@mat.ua.pt>
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to call your attention to the conference CMDE?2006
(http://www.cmde2006.org ).
I think DSpace Community may be interested, maybe talking about present
features and future direction of DSpace, or about the role of Free Preprint
Servers.
Best regards,
Eug?nio Rocha
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From Kovacev at ceu.hu Wed May 31 11:20:43 2006
From: Kovacev at ceu.hu (Branislav Kovacevic)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:20:43 +0200
Subject: [Dspace-general] Document creation date
Message-ID:
Hi All,
Could anybody enlighten me with the answer to the following question.
At the beginning of the submission process there is a checkbox:
"The item has been published or publicly distributed before"
If I don't check it out, in the following steps I don't see the field
where I could
enter creation date for a document which was not published before.
But I'd like to records it somewhere.
Many thanks in advance.
Branko Kovacevic
Records Coordinator
Open Society Archives
Arany Janos u. 32
1051 Budapest, Hungary
phone: (36-1) 327-3266 or 327-2029
e-mail: kovacev at ceu.hu
website: www.osa.ceu.hu
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From lievend at gmail.com Wed May 31 14:44:14 2006
From: lievend at gmail.com (Lieven Droogmans)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 20:44:14 +0200
Subject: [Dspace-general] Document creation date
In-Reply-To:
References:
Message-ID: <66dca4de0605311144t5a2927d4u44cc9c08fcbaf7ad@mail.gmail.com>
If the box "The item has been published or publicly distributed before" is
checked, you will see a "date:issued" field in the next page and not a
"date:created" field. The difference is in the DublinCore qualifier (see
http://dspace.org/technology/metadata.html for the DSpace standard DC
metadata).
If you want to know how to show a creation date in the submission workflow
(even if the box "The item has been published or publicly distributed
before" is not ticked) you can take a look at
http://www.dspace.org/technology/system-docs/submission.html, which
explains how to customize the forms of the submission workflow
Hope this helps,
Lieven
On 5/31/06, Branislav Kovacevic wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Could anybody enlighten me with the answer to the following question.
>
> At the beginning of the submission process there is a checkbox:
> "The item has been published or publicly distributed before"
> If I don't check it out, in the following steps I don't see the field
> where I could
> enter creation date for a document which was not published before.
> But I'd like to records it somewhere.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Branko Kovacevic
>
>
>
> Records Coordinator
> Open Society Archives
> Arany Janos u. 32
> 1051 Budapest, Hungary
> phone: (36-1) 327-3266 or 327-2029
> e-mail: kovacev at ceu.hu
> website: www.osa.ceu.hu
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
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