From icsd at drtc.isibang.ac.in Fri Feb 2 03:07:03 2007 From: icsd at drtc.isibang.ac.in (Dr. A.R.D. Prasad) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:37:03 +0530 Subject: [Dspace-general] Tutorial on EPrints at ICSD-2007 Message-ID: <200702020815.l128Fmk3011659@drtc.isibang.ac.in> Dear Professionals, We are glad to inform that there will be a tutorial on EPrints at the International Conference on Semantic Web & Digital Libraries (ICSD-2007) by Dr. Leslie Carr, Researcher at Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Unviersity of Southampton, UK . Please check updates of ICSD-2007 at (http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd) Date: February 21, 2007 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm Conference venue: NIMHANS Convention Centre, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Hosur Road, Bangalore From kenzie at MIT.EDU Fri Feb 2 15:09:57 2007 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:09:57 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Value-Add Features request In-Reply-To: <45BFCEE4.3090701@ucalgary.ca> References: <45BFCEE4.3090701@ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: <45C39A95.9010505@mit.edu> Hi Shawna, > It was lovely meeting some of you at the conference in San Antonio, TX > last week. My Dspace spirits have been rejuvenated and I would like to > propose three features for future development, as requested by my local > faculty. > > 1. Statistics which are open, similar to E-Prints > 2. Citation Export to bibliographic software such as EndNote and RefWorks > 3. Embargoes for files > Thanks for this input -- these are all features that get mentioned often and it's good to know that real users are asking for them. Let me just a couple of points to your request for the benefit of the list readers: -- there is a "feature request" list for DSpace in SourceForge where it's best to put these ideas when you are inspired to share them... go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ and under the "Tracker" tab there's a "Feature Request" option. You'll see a list of about 91 features that have been asked for... some duplicates, some already done, most just waiting for someone to adopt them and take them home... -- putting ideas on this list is way to bring them to the attention of the developers in our community, but does not *insure* that they will ever be done. All DSpace development is *voluntary* and institutions try to help out when and where they can, usually in support of things that their own institution really want. So for everyone out there with good ideas, if there's some feature or change that you particularly want to have, the best way to make it happen is to find someone in your own organization to do the development work and contribute it back to the community for everyone's benefit! Thanks, MacKenzie -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries From icsd at drtc.isibang.ac.in Sat Feb 3 05:35:41 2007 From: icsd at drtc.isibang.ac.in (Dr. A.R.D. Prasad) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 16:05:41 +0530 Subject: [Dspace-general] ICSD-2007 - Announcement of Concessional Registration to Academic Community. Message-ID: <200702031044.l13AiWBb005081@drtc.isibang.ac.in> Announcement of Concessional Registration to Academic Community. Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore hosts the International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries (ICSD 2007), February 21-23, 2007, Bangalore. http://drtc.isibang.ac.in/icsd We have an overwhelming request from academic community who expressed constraints on the part of academic institutions/universities/technical and degree colleges/LIS faculty to pay full registration of Rs.6000/- for ICSD 2007. Hence, we are pleased to offer 50% concession registration of Rs.3000/- For full-time students, the registration fee is Rs. 1500/- . The student's registration form should be certified by a faculty member. NOTE: Completed registration forms with registration fees should reach the undersigned by 17th February, 2007. We have very eminent speakers from all over the world including, W3C, JISC, EASTWeb, DINI, National Manuscripts Mission, as tutorial and thematic speakers. We especially felt technical colleges and university professionals and LIS faculty, should benefit from the expertise at the conference. Hence this concession is extended to encourage participation from all academic institutions. Please find the registration form attached. Best Regards ARD Prasad Convener, ICSD -2007 icsd at drtc.isibang.ac.in -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: icsd_registration_form_concession.rtf Type: application/octet-stream Size: 138624 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070203/b1e011d9/attachment.obj -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To ease the transition of existing collections to DSpace, we recommend multiple collection mapping capability at import time, the automatic import of e-persons and community/collection taxonomies, as well as the manipulation of existing communities. We were wondering whether someone on the DSpace team could perhaps provide a quick read through and feedback, for the paper is due on Monday Feb. 5th 2007. I apologize for the short notice, any review assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Will Cameron --------------------------------- We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070203/eab7090f/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CITIDELtoDSpacePortReport.doc Type: application/msword Size: 60416 bytes Desc: 3644593607-CITIDELtoDSpacePortReport.doc Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070203/eab7090f/attachment.doc From eloy at sdum.uminho.pt Tue Feb 6 12:57:10 2007 From: eloy at sdum.uminho.pt (Eloy Rodrigues) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 17:57:10 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] New versions of the Statistics and Request-Copy Add-ons Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting I?m glad to announce that the Reposit?riUM (https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/) team at Minho University has finished the development and packaging of new versions of the Statistics and Request-Copy Add-ons. This new versions (1.1) of the Add-ons are mainly an upgrade for DSpace 1.4.x, but there are also new features in both Add-ons: Statistics Add-on: - Detection, processing and distinction of access/downloads from the repository institution - New 3:4 country flags (Courtesy from Arthur Sale) Request Copy Add-on: - Change access to Open Access option at the end of the replying process. The new versions of the Add-ons are available on the DSpace Wiki: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/StatisticsAddOn http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/RequestCopy We are planning to work on a 2.0 version of the Statistics during 2007, with improved interface, new statistics, graphic representations of data, etc. If you?re using, or plan to use the statistics add-on, and want to discuss and/or contribute to the development of the DSpace statistics, please contact us using the following email address: repositorium at sdum.uminho.pt. A description of both add-ons is included below. Statistics Add-on The Stats system is an add-on to the DSpace platform. This system 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 * Detection, processing and distinction of own institution access * 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 Request Copy Add-on It was suggested by Stevan Harnad that we develop a "request eprint by email" feature for DSpace, similar to one that has recently been implemented in GNU Eprints for deposits whose full-text access privileges are set to Restricted Access (RA) rather than Open Access (OA), in order to tide over any RA period with facilitated email access. The Request Copy Add-on is this feature developed initially for DSpace 1.3.2 and now also available for DSpace 1.4. The purpose of this feature is to increase both the content deposited in Institutional Repositories (IRs) and its immediate usability by providing a way to accommodate the (frequently unfounded) worries of authors and their institutions about copyright infringement during any publisher embargo periods on public self-archiving, by creating a semi-automated mechanism whereby would-be users can request and authors can email an individual copy of a full-text deposited with access set as RA. This feature will be very important for advancing OA if universities and other research institutions adopt the Generic Model for an Open-Access Self-Archiving Mandate ( http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html). In this model, depositing immediately (upon acceptance for publication) is mandatory whereas setting deposit immediately to OA is merely encourages, leaving the decision up to the author. This is how the ?Request Copy? feature works: 1- In all non-OA items (we consider non-OA all DSpace items/files that have access different from Anonymous) there is a link to a ?Request a Copy to the author? Form, activated in the View/Open link and also on the ?Restricted Access/Request-a-copy? logo that we added at the side. 2- The requester must enter his/her email address and name, and may add a comment, and press a ?Request-a-copy? button. 3 ? An email is sent to the depositor (either one of the authors, or their designee). The text of the mail is configurable (in our case we made an express statement to forward the mail to the author(s) if the depositor is not author). The email message contains a token. 4 ? Using that token, the author may reply, by just clicking in one of the two buttons available: ?Send Copy?, ?Don?t send copy?. 5 ? After choosing the Send/Don?t send reply, the author is presented with one of the two message models (also configurable and editable) for the reply. Finally, the author must hit the Send button, and the message (including the file(s) if the author chose the Send option) is sent to the requester. 6 ? At the end of the process the author is presented with the option to change the access to Open Access. The author must enter his/her name and email address and hitting a button ?Change to Open Access?. If the author chose to change the access to Open Access, a message is sent to the repository administrator(s) that must manually change the access level. 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Does anyone have a shining star that they use to illustrate that this is a great (and simple) means of highlighting their works within their personal webpages? Are there academics around the place that have taken this opportunity up? The only example I could find that vaguely fits this category is the Otago Eprints repository, with a single link from the School of Business' website to their eprints repository: http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/com/research/index.html There are examples of collections of academic's works within repositories, does anyone have a few shining stars in this manner too? Examples (and insights) welcomed. Cheers, Ingrid Ingrid Mason Digital Research Repository Coordinator New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, University Library Victoria University of Wellington P O Box 600, Wellington 6140 New Zealand = Aotearoa ph: 64-4-463 6844 fx: 64-4-04 463 6059 em: ingrid.mason at vuw.ac.nz ws: www.vuw.ac.nz Location: Kelburn Campus, Rankin Brown, 501A The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents. If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45CB2FDD.5040005@library.gatech.edu> Ingrid, We have a professor here at Georgia Tech who is an enthusiastic self-submitter (one of the few we have) who links from his bio at the College of Management http://mgt.gatech.edu/directory/ferguson.html to our DSpace installation, SMARTech. If you go to the link above and chose "Access and view Dr. Ferguson's recent publications and working papers" under Related Links, you will be taken to his work in SMARTech. Catherine Ingrid Mason wrote: >Hi there, > > > >I have been trawling the 'net to find an example of an academic, who has >deposited research outputs in an institutional repository and then >linked to these records in the repository (using the handles or even the >URL for the fulltext file) from their personal webpage. I have been >somewhat surprised to find that academics, that are also enthusiastic >depositors of their research outputs, still seem to be pointing to >locally stored fulltext files, rather than linking to and using the >handles (or URL for the fulltext file) in a repository that they have >deposited their papers in. Is this because they simply don't have time >to rewrite their webpages? > > > >Does anyone have a shining star that they use to illustrate that this is >a great (and simple) means of highlighting their works within their >personal webpages? Are there academics around the place that have taken >this opportunity up? > > > >The only example I could find that vaguely fits this category is the >Otago Eprints repository, with a single link from the School of >Business' website to their eprints repository: >http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/com/research/index.html > > > >There are examples of collections of academic's works within >repositories, does anyone have a few shining stars in this manner too? > > > >Examples (and insights) welcomed. > > > >Cheers, Ingrid > > > > > > > >Ingrid Mason > >Digital Research Repository Coordinator > >New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, University Library > >Victoria University of Wellington > >P O Box 600, Wellington 6140 > >New Zealand = Aotearoa > > > >ph: 64-4-463 6844 > >fx: 64-4-04 463 6059 > >em: ingrid.mason at vuw.ac.nz > >ws: www.vuw.ac.nz > > > >Location: Kelburn Campus, Rankin Brown, 501A > > > >The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential >and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended >recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not >disclose, copy or make use of its contents. If received in error you are >asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your >assistance is appreciated. > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > -- Catherine M. Jannik Digital Initiatives Manager Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center Atlanta, GA 30332-0900 P 404.385.4514 C 678.464.2141 F 404.894.6084 catherine.jannik at library.gatech.edu http://www.library.gatech.edu/research_help/librarians/jannik.html Georgia Tech's Institutional Repository http://SMARTech.gatech.edu Electronic Press At Georgia Tech http://EPAGE.gatech.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070208/2676fed1/attachment.htm From stephane.tellier at cgi.com Thu Feb 8 09:46:12 2007 From: stephane.tellier at cgi.com (Tellier, Stephane) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 09:46:12 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace hardware specs Message-ID: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D10242@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> I everyone. I have to write a hardware specs document for implementing a DSpace solution in a library. We intend to manage at least hundred of thousands of digital documents and the solution is for the general public. Is there some documentation in the DSpace community/forums/web sites that can help me to produce a document about hardware specs? Thanks a lot. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070208/a88983ca/attachment.htm From galloway at ischool.utexas.edu Thu Feb 8 10:16:05 2007 From: galloway at ischool.utexas.edu (Pat Galloway) Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:16:05 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] shining stars anyone? References: Message-ID: <45CB3EB5.3000007@ischool.utexas.edu> Ingrid's query is interesting and I hope she will cumulate any responses received offline and write up findings. We have found that in the citation (and especially link) wars, our faculty are interested in having as many links as possible to their work, so they want BOTH a link to fulltext on the web server AND to the archived version in our departmental repository (which will be the same or augmented). This may be because our profs understand how search engines work, they are super-aware of these issues. Or it may just be an atavistic belt-and-suspenders reaction to the new... Pat Galloway School of Information University of Texas at Austin From John.Murtagh at brunel.ac.uk Thu Feb 8 11:11:26 2007 From: John.Murtagh at brunel.ac.uk (John Murtagh) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 16:11:26 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] shining stars anyone? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <106FFBC2989C2944A87980CD7D8CBE7A9C313D@UXEXMBU116.academic.windsor> Hi Ingrid, I was talking about this with academics just this week as it seems that they don't use the URL from the repository in either their CV or their web pages. What I'm hoping to do in response is to mention in the email message they receive when they submit an item onto our repository that they can use the link in their CVs and personal websites. I'm already using it to remind them to check the download statistics of their papers. See below: # Item Archived email message # # {0} Title of submission # {1} Name of collection # {2} handle # Subject: BURA: Submission Approved and Archived You submitted: {0} To collection: {1} Your submission has been accepted and archived in BURA, and it has been assigned the following identifier: {2} Please use this URL identifier when citing your submission. You can also find out the download statistics of your submission by visiting the statistics section of BURA at http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/sdum/stats Many thanks! The BURA Team I'm aware of providing an overlaod of information to the user of BURA - I like the brief emails that are created. John ________________________________________________ Website: John Murtagh Project Manager - Brunel University Research Archive Brunel Library Kingston Road Uxbridge UB8 3PH Tel: 0189 526 5417 Fax: 01895269741 E-mail: john.murtagh at brunel.ac.uk ________________________________ From: Ingrid Mason [mailto:Ingrid.Mason at vuw.ac.nz] Sent: 08 February 2007 02:28 To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] shining stars anyone? Hi there, I have been trawling the 'net to find an example of an academic, who has deposited research outputs in an institutional repository and then linked to these records in the repository (using the handles or even the URL for the fulltext file) from their personal webpage. I have been somewhat surprised to find that academics, that are also enthusiastic depositors of their research outputs, still seem to be pointing to locally stored fulltext files, rather than linking to and using the handles (or URL for the fulltext file) in a repository that they have deposited their papers in. Is this because they simply don't have time to rewrite their webpages? Does anyone have a shining star that they use to illustrate that this is a great (and simple) means of highlighting their works within their personal webpages? Are there academics around the place that have taken this opportunity up? The only example I could find that vaguely fits this category is the Otago Eprints repository, with a single link from the School of Business' website to their eprints repository: http://www.business.otago.ac.nz/com/research/index.html There are examples of collections of academic's works within repositories, does anyone have a few shining stars in this manner too? Examples (and insights) welcomed. Cheers, Ingrid Ingrid Mason Digital Research Repository Coordinator New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, University Library Victoria University of Wellington P O Box 600, Wellington 6140 New Zealand = Aotearoa ph: 64-4-463 6844 fx: 64-4-04 463 6059 em: ingrid.mason at vuw.ac.nz ws: www.vuw.ac.nz Location: Kelburn Campus, Rankin Brown, 501A The information contained in this email is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are asked to respect that confidentiality and not disclose, copy or make use of its contents. If received in error you are asked to destroy this email and contact the sender immediately. Your assistance is appreciated. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070208/5a4f0b6a/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 4333 bytes Desc: BURA logo small document size_small.gif Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070208/5a4f0b6a/attachment.gif From bram at mire.be Thu Feb 8 11:41:03 2007 From: bram at mire.be (Bram Luyten) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 17:41:03 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace hardware specs In-Reply-To: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D10242@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> References: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D10242@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> Message-ID: Hello Stephane, some information is available on the dspace website: http://dspace.org/what/dspace-hp-hw.html As these systems mean rather high investments, it might be interesting to make an estimation on the required diskspace, processing power and bandwidth from the future estimated usage. During the rollout of DSpace at university, we experience 13% processorload on a Intel dualcore Xeon hyperthread processor during peak hours, when the system is answering 500 page requests per hour (mainly edit & submit actions). Although this is a repository with currently little full text and many item descriptions. Does anyone have experience with intensive performance testing, for instance with tools like JMeter ? Would be interesting to find out more. with best regards, Bram Luyten @mire - http://www.atmire.com On 2/8/07, Tellier, Stephane wrote: > > I everyone. > > I have to write a hardware specs document for implementing a DSpace > solution in a library. We intend to manage at least hundred of thousands of > digital documents and the solution is for the general public. > Is there some documentation in the DSpace community/forums/web sites that > can help me to produce a document about hardware specs? > > Thanks a lot. > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 8 12:04:14 2007 From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:04:14 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace hardware specs In-Reply-To: References: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D10242@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> Message-ID: As well, I'd be very interested in any stress tests that have been done with JMeter or HttpUnit. I've been using JMeter to verify that the system is correctly returning responses. I can't say that I've been using load test stats (yet). -Mark On Feb 8, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Bram Luyten wrote: > Hello Stephane, > > some information is available on the dspace website: http:// > dspace.org/what/dspace-hp-hw.html > > As these systems mean rather high investments, it might be > interesting to make an estimation on the required diskspace, > processing power and bandwidth from the future estimated usage. > > During the rollout of DSpace at university, we experience 13% > processorload on a Intel dualcore Xeon hyperthread processor during > peak hours, when the system is answering 500 page requests per hour > (mainly edit & submit actions). Although this is a repository with > currently little full text and many item descriptions. > > Does anyone have experience with intensive performance testing, for > instance with tools like JMeter ? Would be interesting to find out > more. > > with best regards, > > Bram Luyten > @mire - http://www.atmire.com > > > On 2/8/07, Tellier, Stephane wrote: > I everyone. > > I have to write a hardware specs document for implementing a DSpace > solution in a library. We intend to manage at least hundred of > thousands of digital documents and the solution is for the general > public. > Is there some documentation in the DSpace community/forums/web > sites that can help me to produce a document about hardware specs? > > Thanks a lot. > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general Mark R. Diggory ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DSpace Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070208/17e3ff7a/attachment.htm From stephane.tellier at cgi.com Thu Feb 8 12:15:02 2007 From: stephane.tellier at cgi.com (Tellier, Stephane) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:15:02 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace hardware specs References: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D10242@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> <45CB57F4.4080000@hp.com> Message-ID: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D10244@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> I hope that it will be updated. This kind of specs can be very useful... ________________________________ From: James Rutherford [mailto:james.rutherford at hp.com] Sent: Thu 08/02/2007 12:03 PM To: Bram Luyten Cc: Tellier, Stephane; dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace hardware specs Bram Luyten wrote: > some information is available on the dspace website: > http://dspace.org/what/dspace-hp-hw.html This information is more than three years out of date, and probably ought to be updated or removed (it should certainly be disregarded). Jim. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070208/be226c49/attachment.htm From stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au Thu Feb 8 23:03:42 2007 From: stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au (Steve Thomas) Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:33:42 +1030 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace hardware specs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <5f9sbo$17qqsm@tosh-private.services.adelaide.edu.au> Whoa! That information is way over the top. (And as others have observed, out of date.) We're just now upgrading our hardware to a dual processor HP box with 1TB of disk (expandable), for under AUS$15k. (We get edu discounts.) The important thing is, how quickly are you likely to grow? You say hundreds of thousands of docs, but in what time frame. Bear in mind your hardware will need replacing in three years anyway. So unless you are going to reach 200,000+ docs within three years, you need not buy hardware that will meet that need today. Also, with a small investment in hardware now, you can more easily bear the pain of early replacement if it turns out not to be enough. Whereas if you spend big bucks now and never use its potential before you need to replace, you've wasted money. My advice, buy small, upgrade when you need to, and meanwhile spend the bucks on staff to make it all happen. Regards, Stephen Thomas, Senior Systems Analyst, University of Adelaide Library UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 8 830 35190 Fax: +61 8 830 34369 Email: stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au URL: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/stephen.thomas CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply email and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. Virus scanning is recommended and is the responsibility of the recipient. _____ From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Bram Luyten Sent: Friday, 9 February 2007 3:11 am To: Tellier, Stephane; dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace hardware specs Hello Stephane, some information is available on the dspace website: http://dspace.org/what/dspace-hp-hw.html As these systems mean rather high investments, it might be interesting to make an estimation on the required diskspace, processing power and bandwidth from the future estimated usage. During the rollout of DSpace at university, we experience 13% processorload on a Intel dualcore Xeon hyperthread processor during peak hours, when the system is answering 500 page requests per hour (mainly edit & submit actions). Although this is a repository with currently little full text and many item descriptions. Does anyone have experience with intensive performance testing, for instance with tools like JMeter ? Would be interesting to find out more. with best regards, Bram Luyten @mire - http://www.atmire.com On 2/8/07, Tellier, Stephane wrote: I everyone. I have to write a hardware specs document for implementing a DSpace solution in a library. We intend to manage at least hundred of thousands of digital documents and the solution is for the general public. Is there some documentation in the DSpace community/forums/web sites that can help me to produce a document about hardware specs? Thanks a lot. _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In a sentence I learned two things: 1) institutional repository software such as Fedora, DSpace, and EPrints are increasingly being used for more than open access publishing efforts, and 2) the Web Services API of Fedora makes it relatively easy for developers using any programming language to interface with the underlying core. http://infomotions.com/musings/open-repositories-2007/ Corrections, clarifications, etc. are welcome. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From mbanach at library.umass.edu Tue Feb 13 08:30:19 2007 From: mbanach at library.umass.edu (mbanach@library.umass.edu) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:30:19 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question about department name changes and community structure Message-ID: <1171373419.45d1bd6b49cde@mail-www.oit.umass.edu> Hi everyone, I have a question about the community structure in DSpace. If you structure it based on University departments, what do you do when a department name changes or departments combine? For example, we already have a community set up in our IR for Excercise Science, but the department is now calling themselves the Department of Kinesiology. Also, the Plant Soil and Insect Science departments recently combined to form one department. So, I'm wondering do we keep putting in content under the old community or do we create a new one? What do all of you do when this happens? Thanks in advance for your help with this! Meghan Banach Metadata Catalog Librarian W.E.B. Du Bois Library University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 mbanach at library.umass.edu (413) 545-6846 From swarna.bandara at uwimona.edu.jm Tue Feb 13 10:56:57 2007 From: swarna.bandara at uwimona.edu.jm (Swarna Bandara) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:56:57 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Final reminder: DSpace user group meeting coming up! In-Reply-To: <45A2A684.9080803@mit.edu> Message-ID: <000301c74f87$a00a7e50$1e003ac6@uwimona.edu.jm> I had seen a link to a list of dspace tools that are needed or desirable to work on. However, now I am unable to locate this e-mail. Can you please help. Swarna Bandara Head Medical Library ETD Coordinator University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7 Jamaica (W.I.) ---------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of MacKenzie Smith Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 3:16 PM To: dspace-general at MIT.EDU Subject: [Dspace-general] Final reminder: DSpace user group meeting coming up! To anyone who may have missed this conference announcement, here is one final reminder! The Open Repositories 2007 conference will be taking place in San Antonio in a couple of weeks (Jan 23-26th), and will include a DSpace user group meeting -- the first one in North America since 2003! It's not too late to register, the conference organizers have extended the early registration and hotel rates through to January 19th. http://openrepositories.org/ Hope to see you there, MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From kenzie at MIT.EDU Tue Feb 13 12:36:10 2007 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:36:10 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Final reminder: DSpace user group meeting coming up! In-Reply-To: <000301c74f87$a00a7e50$1e003ac6@uwimona.edu.jm> References: <000301c74f87$a00a7e50$1e003ac6@uwimona.edu.jm> Message-ID: <45D1F70A.7060903@mit.edu> Hi Swarna, Maybe you're thinking of the list of work-in-progress on the wiki http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DevelopmentAreas or possibly the list of open feature requests on the SourceForge DSpace page here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=369984&group_id=19984&func=browse MacKenzie > I had seen a link to a list of dspace tools that are needed or desirable to > work on. However, now I am unable to locate this e-mail. > > Can you please help. > > Swarna Bandara > Head Medical Library > ETD Coordinator > University of the West Indies, > Mona Campus, Kingston 7 > Jamaica (W.I.) > > -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries From ssadler at ucalgary.ca Tue Feb 13 17:11:40 2007 From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca (Shawna Sadler) Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:11:40 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question about department name changes and community Message-ID: <45D2379C.3070509@ucalgary.ca> Hi Meghan, We have had the same experience at the University of Calgary. One of the nice features of Dspace is that the urls to the collection do not change when you have to edit the name of the collection, so technically it's no problem. Let me know if you don't know how to change the name of the community, I can safely take that off-line. As for combining collections, the import and export tools with Dspace make this pretty easy as well. You'll have to be comfortable using line-entry commands with your UNIX system, if not get your IT to help you out. Here you go: Import script: ./dsrun org.dspace.app.itemimport.ItemImport --add --eperson=ssadler at ucalgary.ca --COLLECTION=123456789/2 --source=////home/dspace/backup/filename// --mapfile=mapfile Export Script: ./dsrun org.dspace.app.itemexport.ItemExport --type=ITEM --id=123456789/1446 --dest=////home/dspace/filename// --number=1 Let me know if you have any further questions. Shawna -- Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Libraries & Cultural Resources University of Calgary Phone: (403) 220-3739 Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Working with those involved in the Peel's Prairie Provinces initiative, the Lois Hole Campus Alberta Digital Library (LHCADL) and other digital initiatives, you will provide coordination and leadership (system level and externally) and management of production activities. As the Digital Initiatives Co-ordinator, you will work with other librarians and technical staff in the Digital Resources Group and will participate in all phases of digital library development including: coordination of teams/individuals; user analysis, materials preparation; copyright clearance; digitization/OCR production; metadata application; costing/budget analysis; outsource vendor selection and communication; public user interface development/access point determination; quality control; marketing; personnel recruitment; contract administration; negotiation with external bodies/agencies. You may also develop and maintain the Library's collection in an assigned subject area. The University of Alberta Library is Canada's second largest research library, with an active program of electronic information products, Web development supporting collections and services, and digital library initiatives in areas such as document delivery, graphic image and data collections, and Internet resource cataloguing. For more information, visit our web site at _www.library.ualberta.ca _. */Qualifications, Preferred Skills and Experience:/* Master of Library Science from an ALA accredited institution. Experience in project management; familiarity with preparation of technical and functional specifications (image capture, database design, search and presentation features); software evaluation; system configuration and management; staff training and technical support Knowledge of information technology trends and their application to emerging digital library issues such as image display, metadata standards, authentication, integration/reference linking technologies, search standards and protocols Skills in relational database design (e.g. MySQL, Oracle), a working knowledge of presentation mechanisms/languages (e.g. CSS, JavaScript, XML/XSL), programming languages (e.g. Cold Fusion, PERL, PHP, Java), and of web server OS environments (e.g. UNIX/Solaris, Linux and Apache) would be strong assets. Strong communication and interpersonal skills and successful participation in collaborative work environments and team relationships. Facilitative and collaborative skills are required. Front line experience in library public services and collection development an asset. Enthusiasm, resourcefulness, organizational skills, and a sense of humour are essential. Applicants are encouraged to provide with their applications examples of their work, either as URL's or files on disk. */Salary and Rank: /* This tenure-track position is classified at the Librarian 2 level with a current salary range of $65,571 to $104,291. Librarians at the University of Alberta have academic status and participate in a generous benefits program. Closing date for the position is March 23rd , 2007. */To Apply:/* Please mail, fax or e-mail your resume and the names of three references to: Karen Adams Director of Library Services and Information Resources Cameron Library University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J8 Fax: (780) 492-8302 E-mail: karen.adams at ualberta.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070214/7e06ec42/attachment.htm From ssadler at ucalgary.ca Wed Feb 14 18:15:35 2007 From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca (Shawna Sadler) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:15:35 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] Digital Repository Services Librarian, University of Alberta Libraries Message-ID: <45D39817.3010101@ucalgary.ca> On behalf of Peter Binkley *Digital** **Repository** **Services** Librarian* *University** of **Alberta** Libraries* The University of Alberta Libraries is looking for a dynamic librarian with marketing and technology skills to take primary responsibility for the Library's digital repository and its services, including its geographically-based data repository and services. You will administer the digital repository and its services and provide leadership to those serving in the liaison role in developing strategies to recruit content for the repository. You will also take responsibility for communication with and support for users of the digital and spatial data repositories, the Open Journal System and the Open Conference System Hosting Service and will coordinate metadata activities with respect to the digital and spatial data repositories. As the Digital Depository Services Librarian, you will collaborate with the staff of the Information Technology Resources and Services Unit, the Data Library and the Maps Library to ensure the successful implementation of the repositories. You will liaise with on-campus users of the repositories, including the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research to ensure the deposit of e-theses. Your external involvement will include participation in local, regional and national bodies related to digital repositories in order to maximize service available to campus users. The University of Alberta Library is Canada's second largest research library, with an active program of electronic information products, Web development supporting collections and services, and digital library initiatives in areas such as document delivery, graphic image and data collections, and Internet resource cataloguing. For more information, visit our web site at _www.library.ualberta.ca _. */Qualifications, Preferred Skills and Experience:/* Master of Library Science from an ALA accredited institution. Knowledge of marketing strategies appropriate to libraries and to expanding voluntary participation in repository services Knowledge of information technology trends and their application to emerging digital library issues such as image display, metadata standards, authentication, integration/reference linking technologies, search standards and protocols Knowledge of GIS applications and services; skills in ArcGIS or other GIS software would be an asset. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and successful participation in collaborative work environments. Experience in the liaison role highly desirable. Front line experience in library public services and collection development an asset. Enthusiasm, resourcefulness, organizational skills, and a sense of humour are essential. Ability to work independently and meet deadlines. */Salary and Rank: /* This tenure-track position is classified at the Librarian 2 level with a current salary range of $65,571 to $104,291. Librarians at the University of Alberta have academic status and participate in a generous benefits program. Closing date for the position is March 23rd, 2007. */To Apply:/* Please mail, fax or e-mail your resume and the names of three references to: Karen Adams Director of Library Services and Information Resources Cameron Library University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2J8 Fax: (780) 492-8302 E-mail: karen.adams at ualberta.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070214/74fadd23/attachment.htm From cdygert at american.edu Thu Feb 15 12:04:08 2007 From: cdygert at american.edu (Claire Dygert) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:04:08 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Claire Dygert is out of the office. Message-ID: I will be out of the office starting 02/15/2007 and will not return until 02/19/2007. 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070215/693d320d/attachment.htm From kenzie at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 15 16:31:09 2007 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:31:09 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Posted on behalf of Roberta Winjum Message-ID: <45D4D11D.1040601@mit.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:42:09 -0600 From: Roberta Winjum To: dspace general-owner at mit.edu Hi all, Our library is adding some podcasts to our DSpace repository. I think an important metadata element for a user to see is the duration of the podcast, i.e. minutes and seconds. Dublin Core puts this info into a field called "format.exent" but a format.extent field already exists that says how many bytes are in the file. And so, to display the duration in the DSpace Simple display, we end up displaying the number of bytes as well. This isn't especially essential info to the user, and I feel doesn't belong in the Simple display. Have any DSpace communities out there dealt with this problem, and if so, how? Or does anyone have ideas for how to handle it? Thanks, Roberta --------------------------------------- Roberta J. Winjum Assistant University Librarian Technical Services Vanderbilt University Library 419 21st Ave. South Nashville, TN 37240 615-343-3826 From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 15 16:57:34 2007 From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:57:34 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Fwd: Open Forum for Metadata Registries 2007 - Call for Participants References: Message-ID: <4158039C-E450-4083-9594-E92E5067E3FE@mit.edu> For anyone interested Begin forwarded message: > From: "Gillman, Daniel - BLS" > Date: February 15, 2007 4:06:17 PM EST > To: > Subject: Open Forum for Metadata Registries 2007 - Call for > Participants > Reply-To: iasst-l at columbia.edu > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > ------_=_NextPart_001_01C75145.223E20EB > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Dear IASSIST'ers, > =20 > Attached below is the call for participation for a metadata conference > in New York this summer. I hope to see you there. > =20 > Regards, > Dan > =20 > Dan Gillman > OFMR 2007 Conference Chair > =20 > Bureau of Labor Statistics > Office of Survey Methods Research > 2 Massachusetts Ave, NE > Washington, DC 20212 USA > Tel +1.202.691.7523 > FAX +1.202.691.7426 > Email Gillman_D at BLS.Gov > =20 > ------------------------ > =20 > > This announcement is being distributed to numerous lists. Apologies > for > duplication. Please feel free to distribute this to others who > might be > interested. > > =20 > > CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > > =20 > > INTEGRATING STANDARDS IN PRACTICE:=20 > > 10th Open Forum on Metadata Registries > > New York City, NY USA > > 9 - 11 July 2007 > > =20 > > =20 > > This Open Forum is the tenth annual forum in a series of international > conferences about topics related to metadata, registries, > interoperability, and semantics. It will focus on a series of core > standards as well as on the selection, integration and use of multiple > standards in actual systems. The central goal of the Open Forum is to > share and advance knowledge and experience about standards, the > technologies that build upon them, and implementation experiences. =20 > > > The following standards will be discussed: > > =20 > > Data Semantics: ISO/IEC 11179 (Metadata Registries) > > Terminology: ISO 704 (Principles of Terminology) > > ISO 1087-1 (Vocabulary for > terminology work) > > ISO/TC 37/SC 4 (Language > Resources > Management) > > Interoperability: ISO/IEC 19763 (Framework for Metamodel > Interoperability) > > ISO/IEC 20944 > (Interoperability and > bindings) > > =20 > > We will also discuss other standards from ISO such as Data Categories > (12620), Geographic Metadata (19115), and Topic Maps (13250), and > standards from other standards development organizations such as RDF, > OWL, and SKOS from W3C; CWM, SBVR, and ODM from OMG; and ebXML from > OASIS.=20 > > =20 > > Who Should Attend > > The conference will gather together standards developers, software > developers, academics, and practitioners from the public and private > sectors to demonstrate accomplishments and to discuss current and > future > efforts. Attendees will have interests in metadata management and the > use of international standards relating to data and terminology, with > some having specialties in areas such as data search/retrieval, web > search, and corporate data management. > > =20 > > Conference Web Site > > Information about the Open Forum, directions, information about the > venue, and the program will be available on the conference web site: > http://metadataopenforum.org . > Registration will be opening soon, so please consult the web site > periodically for registration options and pricing. > > =20 > > Contact > Conference Chair: > > Daniel Gillman Gillman.Daniel at bls.gov > =20 > > Bureau of Labor Statistics > > +1-202-691-7523=20 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology From S.Nieminen at Bradford.ac.uk Fri Feb 16 05:06:20 2007 From: S.Nieminen at Bradford.ac.uk (S Nieminen) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:06:20 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] How to swap a file when item already submitted to Dspace Message-ID: <002d01c751b2$1bb31c20$1601358f@SNiemine> Hello, Can anyone tell me how to swap a file to another if it has already been submitted to DSpace? I have a dissertation record in our installation of DSpace and now need to change the file attached to another. Any help? Satu Ms Satu Nieminen Electronic Resources Librarian University of Bradford JB Priestley Library Richmond Road Bradford BD7 1DP Tel 01274 233400 Fax 01274 233398 Email s.nieminen at bradford.ac.uk From tdonohue at uiuc.edu Fri Feb 16 12:17:27 2007 From: tdonohue at uiuc.edu (Tim Donohue) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:17:27 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] How to swap a file when item already submitted to Dspace In-Reply-To: <002d01c751b2$1bb31c20$1601358f@SNiemine> References: <002d01c751b2$1bb31c20$1601358f@SNiemine> Message-ID: <45D5E727.5020806@uiuc.edu> Satu, Probably the easiest way to swap a file (although it's admittedly *not* that easy, yet) is to login as your local DSpace Administrator, and click on the "Edit" button when you are viewing the item in DSpace. That button will bring you to a page to edit any information about the item. Unfortunately, this page is currently not very pretty, and only a librarian familiar with Dublin Core would have a chance at understanding it. :) In any case, if you scroll down to the "Bitstreams" section at the very bottom, you will see the ability to "Remove" existing bitstreams/files and "Add" new bitstreams/files. Please note that this doesn't update the qualified dublin core "format.extent" and "format.mimetype" fields automatically. So, you may wish to manually update those as well. In the future, you may also want to join the "dspace-tech" mailing list (I've copied it to this message), since oftentimes that can be a better place to post any specific questions about using DSpace software (or issues encountered). However, since there are a lot of questions asked there (both technical and non-technical) it sometimes does get a little busy at times. Good luck! - Tim -- ======================================== Tim Donohue Research Programmer, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) 135 Grainger Engineering Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email: tdonohue at uiuc.edu web: http://ideals.uiuc.edu phone: (217) 333-4648 fax: (217) 244-7764 ======================================== S Nieminen wrote: > Hello, > > Can anyone tell me how to swap a file to another if it has already been > submitted to DSpace? I have a dissertation record in our installation of > DSpace and now need to change the file attached to another. Any help? > > Satu > > Ms Satu Nieminen > Electronic Resources Librarian > University of Bradford > JB Priestley Library > Richmond Road > Bradford > BD7 1DP > Tel 01274 233400 > Fax 01274 233398 > Email s.nieminen at bradford.ac.uk > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From roberttansley at google.com Fri Feb 16 14:44:41 2007 From: roberttansley at google.com (Robert Tansley) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:44:41 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] Google Summer of Code --- and DSpace? In-Reply-To: <45D5C417.7080002@hp.com> References: <45D5C417.7080002@hp.com> Message-ID: <38d44e00702161144y57eaf6bau3eaae17a2b2bfb26@mail.gmail.com> DSpace can be a mentoring organisation -- we just need an organisation administrator as the main point of contact (I can do this if it makes sense to people), and mentors to work with the students. If some committers or active community members are willing to step up to this we should definitely put in an application. (Committers? ;-) I seeded an ideas page on the Wiki -- please add your ideas! http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Summer_of_Code_Ideas Rob On 16/02/07, John Erickson wrote: > Hi Folks! > > I'm sure many of you saw the announcement that there will be a Google > Summer of Code for 2007: > > * http://code.google.com/ > * http://code.google.com/soc/ > > FAQ at: http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442 > > "...Google Summer of Code(TM) 2007 is on! Last year, Google funded over > 600 students in 93 countries to work with 100 open source groups. We're > extremely happy to announce that we'll be holding Google Summer of Code > again this year. We look forward to helping new contributors join the > community and write more code...We won't start accepting applications > until March, so in the interim check out the FAQs for more information. > Our program administrators will also be hanging out in the Google Summer > of Code discussion group and in #summer-discuss on Slashnet. We'd love > to hear from you!.." > > SO, my question is: is there any in the DSpace Federation and/or > individual DSpace adopting organizations becoming "Mentoring Organizations?" > > Perhaps Rob could speak to this; I know very little about it (other than > trying to get my Python-wielding daughter to enter...) > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > From Leif.Longva at ub.uit.no Mon Feb 19 08:57:55 2007 From: Leif.Longva at ub.uit.no (Leif Longva) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:57:55 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSUG 2007 - Europe? Message-ID: I am trying to plan the 2007 travel budget for our IR project. Thus I wonder if there will be a DSpace User Group Meeting in Europe this year? There is no announcement on the wiki: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceEvents. ***** Yours, Leif Longva Munin (http://uit.no/munin) Univ of Troms?, Norway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070219/a213ce6a/attachment.htm From Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de Mon Feb 19 10:25:23 2007 From: Claudia.Juergen at ub.uni-dortmund.de (Claudia Juergen) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:25:23 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Dspace-general] DSUG 2007 - Europe? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3329.83.135.78.91.1171898723.squirrel@mail.ub.uni-dortmund.de> Hi Leif, at the moment there is no European User Group Meeting planned. The next upcoming event is a Instutitional Repositories and DSpace Workshop on the 14/15 March in Kassel (Germany) see http://www.oa-rep.de/index.php?id=89. But the language of this workshop is German. Nonetheless a European User Group Meeting would be a good idea after the 1.5 release. sunny greetings Claudia > I am trying to plan the 2007 travel budget for our IR project. Thus I > wonder if there will be a DSpace User Group Meeting in Europe this year? > There is no announcement on the wiki: > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceEvents. > > ***** > Yours, > Leif Longva > Munin (http://uit.no/munin) > Univ of Troms?, Norway > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From mengel at allegheny.edu Mon Feb 19 11:35:41 2007 From: mengel at allegheny.edu (Matthew T. Engel) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:35:41 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace & Versioning Items In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <00eb01c75443$fea49750$18e2c38d@allegheny.edu> I apologize if this has been covered already, but I am new to the list... I recently came upon this post: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/2005-September/000697.html. I was wondering if DSpace support multiple versions of an item. Thanks, Matthew Engel Allegheny College Department of Computer Science From sdl at aber.ac.uk Tue Feb 20 03:41:42 2007 From: sdl at aber.ac.uk (Stuart Lewis [sdl]) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:41:42 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSUG 2007 - Europe? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <10EEADDAD601FA4D83DF79F3281B8CF6181EB3@ISSVEXBE1.staff.aber.ac.uk> Hi Leif, It's not quite what you are asking, but for European conferences, Open Repositories 2008 will be coming to Southampton (UK) next year: April 1st - 4th. http://openrepositories.org/2008/ Part of this is a DSpace user group. Thanks, Stuart _________________________________________________________________ Datblygydd Cymwysiadau'r We Web Applications Developer Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth Information Services Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth University of Wales Aberystwyth E-bost / E-mail: Stuart.Lewis at aber.ac.uk Ffon / Tel: (01970) 622860 _________________________________________________________________ ________________________________ From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Leif Longva Sent: 19 February 2007 13:58 To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] DSUG 2007 - Europe? I am trying to plan the 2007 travel budget for our IR project. Thus I wonder if there will be a DSpace User Group Meeting in Europe this year? There is no announcement on the wiki: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceEvents . ***** Yours, Leif Longva Munin (http://uit.no/munin ) Univ of Troms?, Norway From Imma.Subirats at fao.org Tue Feb 20 03:47:40 2007 From: Imma.Subirats at fao.org (Subirats, Imma (KCEW)) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:47:40 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSUG 2007 - Europe? Message-ID: Dear Leif, A DSpace User Group Meeting should take place in Rome the next October. (18th-19th, and satellite Institutional Repository workshop on 17th) http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceEvents . The official announcement and all the related details should be sent out during the next month. Regards, Imma Subirats FAO of the United Nations On 2/19/07, Leif Longva > wrote: > > > I am trying to plan the 2007 travel budget for our IR project. Thus I wonder > if there will be a DSpace User Group Meeting in Europe this year? There is > no announcement on the wiki: > http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DspaceEvents . > > ***** > Yours, > Leif Longva > Munin (http://uit.no/munin ) > Univ of Troms?, Norway > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Since joining HP Labs, Jim has rapidly got stuck into the DSpace community, becoming very active on the mailing lists and in the DSpace IRC channel, and showing a great deal of energy and enthusiasm for helping DSpace move forward. His work on the China Digital Museum project and PF-DSpace shows a great understanding of DSpace and repositories in general so the committers feel he will be a valuable addition to the group. Please join me in welcoming Jim! Rob From stephane.tellier at cgi.com Wed Feb 21 12:28:31 2007 From: stephane.tellier at cgi.com (Tellier, Stephane) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:28:31 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Dspace-tech] Another committer References: <38d44e00702210852j14b6b27fsf61ea65a011cce2f@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D1027E@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> Hi Jim, Since you seem to have worked on the China Digital Museum project, I was wondering if it could be possible for you to give some informations about the hardware specs and the hardware architecture (SAN server, load balancing, multiple dspace instances, etc.) about that project. If you could send some documentations about it, or refer to a web site or wiki explaining these aspects, that would be very great. Actually in our team, we're trying to implement a DSpace solution for a library and we could expect to have needs for a very large number of digital documents (over a million could be a possibility), and we are asking ourselves what kind of servers and architecture should we used for that range. Thanks a lot. ________________________________ From: dspace-tech-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Robert Tansley Sent: Wed 21/02/2007 11:52 AM To: Dspace-general at mit.edu Cc: DSpace Tech; DSpace Developer List Subject: [Dspace-tech] Another committer Hi all, The committer group is pleased to welcome its newest member, Jim Rutherford from HP Labs. Since joining HP Labs, Jim has rapidly got stuck into the DSpace community, becoming very active on the mailing lists and in the DSpace IRC channel, and showing a great deal of energy and enthusiasm for helping DSpace move forward. His work on the China Digital Museum project and PF-DSpace shows a great understanding of DSpace and repositories in general so the committers feel he will be a valuable addition to the group. Please join me in welcoming Jim! Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070221/ed5201a2/attachment.htm From ssadler at ucalgary.ca Thu Feb 22 10:45:14 2007 From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca (Shawna Sadler) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:45:14 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians Message-ID: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> Hello Librarians and other people who communicate with faculty on campus. Has anyone else received backlash from their faculty about this new push for mandatory deposit of federally funded research? I have one journal editor on campus who is absolutely irate. His journal is with Lippincott Williams which of course has the most conservative of policies when it comes to institutional repositories. I was presenting our IR to the faculty and my presentation turned into an open access debate. Are any of you taking a proactive stance on the matter, or just waiting for the dust to settle and ready to accept research when everyone has calmed down? I haven't decided yet and would like to hear how you are approaching this issue on campus. Thanks, Shawna -- Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Libraries & Cultural Resources University of Calgary Phone: (403) 220-3739 Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca From libsnf at langate.gsu.edu Thu Feb 22 11:42:42 2007 From: libsnf at langate.gsu.edu (Sara Fuchs) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:42:42 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians Message-ID: <45DD81B202000018001EBAEA@mailsrv4.gsu.edu> Hi Shawna, We're still in the pilot phase of our institutional repository, and I've only just begun talking to faculty members about it. I try to steer clear of the "open access" debate, if I can, and instead try to refer to our repository as a "digital archive." I talk more about preservation of digital materials, with access being a nice side benefit, because I think that's a bigger draw, and more and more people are experiencing the problem of not being able to open their digital files. But it's funny - at a University Senate Research Committee meeting, one faculty member tried to accuse me of personally engineering the death of peer review. At another meeting, the very same faculty member asked if he could use the repository as a place to store data sets, if it became a mandate to make that research publicly accessible. So I'm hoping more faculty members will see our IR as a solution to that problem, as opposed to, well, another problem. Hope that helps! I'd be interested to see any other responses you might get. Best regards, Sara Fuchs Digital Technologies Librarian Georgia State University Library sfuchs at gsu.edu 404/651-7270 From kayv at wsu.edu Thu Feb 22 13:16:34 2007 From: kayv at wsu.edu (Vyhnanek, Kay Eileen) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:16:34 -0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians In-Reply-To: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> References: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: <769C55F7AD50C0418085D5BC16CE1546D4E668@EXCHANGEVS-02.ad.wsu.edu> This is an interesting situation. I, too, have noticed that the conversation often moves from the idea of repository to that of open access/peer review and the more controversial side of the issue. From several different meetings/conferences I have attended lately I have come to believe a good way to begin is at the point of author rights and/or copyright. Trying to focus on the benefits to the researcher of maintaining those rights rather than those more controversial areas seems a little less threatening. Of course, you probably will always have some research faculty members want to add a little controversy to the conversation but if you try to focus on the benefits of maintaining copyrights, the preservation of their work over the long haul (all the good things we know can happen when they deposit their research results) it may be a little easier to get through these difficult situations. Kind regards, Kay Kay Vyhnanek Scholarly Communication Librarian Washington State University 459A Holland Library Pullman, WA?? 99164-5610 kayv at wsu.edu 509-335-9514 (v) 509-335-9589 (f) -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Shawna Sadler Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:45 AM To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians Hello Librarians and other people who communicate with faculty on campus. Has anyone else received backlash from their faculty about this new push for mandatory deposit of federally funded research? I have one journal editor on campus who is absolutely irate. His journal is with Lippincott Williams which of course has the most conservative of policies when it comes to institutional repositories. I was presenting our IR to the faculty and my presentation turned into an open access debate. Are any of you taking a proactive stance on the matter, or just waiting for the dust to settle and ready to accept research when everyone has calmed down? I haven't decided yet and would like to hear how you are approaching this issue on campus. Thanks, Shawna -- Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Libraries & Cultural Resources University of Calgary Phone: (403) 220-3739 Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From jim.ottaviani at umich.edu Thu Feb 22 12:54:58 2007 From: jim.ottaviani at umich.edu (Jim Ottaviani) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:54:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Shawna, Like Sara, I don't frame use of institutional repositories as being part of an open access movement, or as a response to a push towards mandatory deposit. Instead, we talk about what faculty want to accomplish with their work, and how best to do so. In other words, we talk about how Deep Blue (the name of our DSpace installation/IR) is a way to help achieve their scholarly communication goals: widest possible access, long-term preservation, and maybe even providing peers the "director's cut" of their research. If those are important, and they almost always are, we have common ground with faculty. Mandatory deposit does come up, especially when the context is medical research and the NIH grant process. So often the discussion ends up talking about the open access...but not by name. Here again, we talk about meeting the goals (getting the grant, for example) and not about reacting to potential legislation or being part of a movement. At the end of the meeting faculty may not be sold on the idea that Deep Blue will give them what they want, but with this approach everybody seems to get the basic idea. And at the very least they know that this isn't a zero-sum game, with us trying to undermine the peer review process, so nobody feels threatened. Jim ____________________________________ Jim Ottaviani +1 734-763-4835 Coordinator, Deep Blue http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu University of Michigan Library Quis custodiet ipsos custodes --Juvenal, Satires VI, 347 From sshreeve at uiuc.edu Thu Feb 22 16:18:56 2007 From: sshreeve at uiuc.edu (Sarah L. Shreeves) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:18:56 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians In-Reply-To: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> References: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: <7.0.0.16.2.20070222151743.0564d8d0@uiuc.edu> Shawna - I'll say that I'm also not necessarily bringing up open access publishing, but I do talk about greater dissemination and higher impact. I think 'open access' sometimes creates a backlash. I'm also heavily concentrating on collecting tech reports, working paper and occasional paper series, etc. So I talk about publications but in the same breath as some of these other categories, so it diffuses the 'open access' debate a little. I have to say that while I've found faculty who want to provide open access to their materials, getting them to provide copies of their final manuscripts is hard, hard work. We have a blog on scholarly communication issues (http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/) and a scholarly communication librarian to whom I can refer people to get more information about open access. It helps to come with statistics and numbers about the impact of open access - that mitigates some of the backlash. Sarah At 09:45 AM 2/22/2007, Shawna Sadler wrote: >Hello Librarians and other people who communicate with faculty on campus. > >Has anyone else received backlash from their faculty about this new push >for mandatory deposit of federally funded research? > >I have one journal editor on campus who is absolutely irate. His journal >is with Lippincott Williams which of course has the most conservative of >policies when it comes to institutional repositories. I was presenting >our IR to the faculty and my presentation turned into an open access debate. > >Are any of you taking a proactive stance on the matter, or just waiting >for the dust to settle and ready to accept research when everyone has >calmed down? I haven't decided yet and would like to hear how you are >approaching this issue on campus. > >Thanks, >Shawna > >-- >Shawna Sadler >Coordinator, Digital Initiatives >Libraries & Cultural Resources >University of Calgary >Phone: (403) 220-3739 >Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca > >_______________________________________________ >Dspace-general mailing list >Dspace-general at mit.edu >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sarah L. Shreeves Coordinator, Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign Phone: 217-244-3877 or 217-233-4648 Email: sshreeve at uiuc.edu http://ideals.uiuc.edu/ From dtpalmer at hkucc.hku.hk Thu Feb 22 21:01:08 2007 From: dtpalmer at hkucc.hku.hk (David Palmer) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:01:08 +0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians In-Reply-To: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> References: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: <008001c756ee$7efe51f0$31150893@snet.lib.hku.hk> We saw an interesting turn. One of our faculties is now asking that the budget funding the Library be used to pay for OA charges when their authors publish in journals offering OA. Though we have an insitutional repository here, this faculty has shown no interest in it previously. I have seen many cases where the funding body of the research offers to pay these OA charges, but never one in which the Library pays them. Are we the first to be so asked? David Palmer Systems Librarian Technical Services Support Team Leader The University of Hong Kong Libraries Pokfulam Road Hong Kong tel. +852 2859 7004 -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Shawna Sadler Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 11:45 PM To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians Hello Librarians and other people who communicate with faculty on campus. Has anyone else received backlash from their faculty about this new push for mandatory deposit of federally funded research? I have one journal editor on campus who is absolutely irate. His journal is with Lippincott Williams which of course has the most conservative of policies when it comes to institutional repositories. I was presenting our IR to the faculty and my presentation turned into an open access debate. Are any of you taking a proactive stance on the matter, or just waiting for the dust to settle and ready to accept research when everyone has calmed down? I haven't decided yet and would like to hear how you are approaching this issue on campus. Thanks, Shawna -- Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Libraries & Cultural Resources University of Calgary Phone: (403) 220-3739 Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From christophe.dupriez at destin.be Thu Feb 22 21:39:48 2007 From: christophe.dupriez at destin.be (Christophe Dupriez) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:39:48 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians In-Reply-To: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> References: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: <45DE53F4.1030002@destin.be> Hi Shawna, All universities in Belgium (except Mons) just signed the "Berlin declaration" about Open Access: http://www.driver-repository.be/content1.aspx?PageId=162 Universities' Rectors considered the unconstrained growth of scientific journals subscriptions costs and decided it is unsustainable: http://www.driver-repository.be/media/docs/OAI.pdf Background documents: http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/scientific-publication-study_en.pdf http://www.ec-petition.eu/ IMHO, journals are/will become "brand names" over a peer review process. A lot of work remains to be done to make Open Access Repositories as famous than recognized journals. "Peace" will probably arise from a redefinition of the roles of each participants (and the return to normal of subscription costs increases). Hoping this helps, Christophe Dupriez Shawna Sadler a ?crit : > Hello Librarians and other people who communicate with faculty on campus. > > Has anyone else received backlash from their faculty about this new push > for mandatory deposit of federally funded research? > > I have one journal editor on campus who is absolutely irate. His journal > is with Lippincott Williams which of course has the most conservative of > policies when it comes to institutional repositories. I was presenting > our IR to the faculty and my presentation turned into an open access debate. > > Are any of you taking a proactive stance on the matter, or just waiting > for the dust to settle and ready to accept research when everyone has > calmed down? I haven't decided yet and would like to hear how you are > approaching this issue on campus. > > Thanks, > Shawna > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: christophe.dupriez.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 454 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070223/4caad104/attachment.vcf From dtpalmer at hkucc.hku.hk Thu Feb 22 22:20:30 2007 From: dtpalmer at hkucc.hku.hk (David Palmer) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:20:30 +0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace: scaling ? In-Reply-To: <45DE53F4.1030002@destin.be> References: <45DDBA8A.5040805@ucalgary.ca> <45DE53F4.1030002@destin.be> Message-ID: <00c801c756f9$9560c120$31150893@snet.lib.hku.hk> We have one instance of Dspace hosting 200,000 items and find that search & browsing are unacceptable slow. It uses Dspace 1.4, PostreSQL, on a Sun E10K (8 x CPU, 8gb RAM). Are others running large numbers of items in Dspace? How can we get better performance? We have another instance of Dspace 1.3 hosting about 20,000 items which is doing "ok", but could be better. Thanks David Palmer Systems Librarian Technical Services Support Team Leader The University of Hong Kong Libraries Pokfulam Road Hong Kong tel. +852 2859 7004 From JFourie at csir.co.za Fri Feb 23 04:14:47 2007 From: JFourie at csir.co.za (Jaco Fourie) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:14:47 +0200 Subject: [Dspace-general] jfourie@csir.co.za Message-ID: <45DECCA70200003100019652@cs-emo.csir.co.za> Hi all. I have modifying DSpace to use the EMC Centera as a data store. The system works well but I replaced the normal file handling with the Centera stuff. When I have some free time I will change the code so you can configure it to store the files on the Centera or at the usual place. Still need to chat with EMC and ask them if we can release the SDK with DSpace. 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Get a reputation for having good creative solutions to the problems of others and traffic will build. This is especially true if you think that you have some significant opponents on your campus ... don't give them a forum. ************************** Paul Kobulnicky Executive Director, Maag Library Youngstown State Univ. voice: 330-941-3675 Fax: 330-941-3734 ************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070223/f3af7437/attachment.htm From ssadler at ucalgary.ca Fri Feb 23 12:35:59 2007 From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca (Shawna Sadler) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:35:59 -0700 Subject: [Dspace-general] Collections Budget In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <45DF25FF.5030701@ucalgary.ca> Hi David, Oh that is interesting!!! Collections paying for publishers to make an article Open Access... that's terrible. I can't imagine the Collections' budget paying a publisher twice for a single article (once for the normal subscription and then an additional charge for Open Access). We had a similar request, but thank goodness I have good relations with our Collections department and they sent this faculty member to me. I wonder if publishers are encouraging this? Does anyone know? Shawna Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Libraries & Cultural Resources University of Calgary Phone: (403) 220-3739 Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca Message: 4 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:01:08 +0800 From: "David Palmer" Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians To: Message-ID: <008001c756ee$7efe51f0$31150893 at snet.lib.hku.hk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We saw an interesting turn. One of our faculties is now asking that the budget funding the Library be used to pay for OA charges when their authors publish in journals offering OA. Though we have an insitutional repository here, this faculty has shown no interest in it previously. I have seen many cases where the funding body of the research offers to pay these OA charges, but never one in which the Library pays them. Are we the first to be so asked? David Palmer Systems Librarian Technical Services Support Team Leader The University of Hong Kong Libraries Pokfulam Road Hong Kong tel. +852 2859 7004 -----Original Messag From dgoodman at Princeton.EDU Fri Feb 23 19:23:27 2007 From: dgoodman at Princeton.EDU (David Goodman) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:23:27 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Collections Budget In-Reply-To: <45DF25FF.5030701@ucalgary.ca> References: <45DF25FF.5030701@ucalgary.ca> Message-ID: On the contrary, I think it's an excellent idea. True, no library now can afford to spend much money for the purpose. But most libraries have supported OA journals in a small way, by buying memberships that allowed discounted publication charges for the faculty. This is the same principle. While important subscription-access titles continue, the library must buy them. But a small amount of funds can be used to partially support the faculty in OA publishing, and establish that the library will do ,more, as more funding becomes available: In the past, I offered my faculty greatly improved document delivery services supported by some of the subscription money, and I was able to show them the increased level of true service that would result, and was able to set the pattern for such library-funded service more widely with the university. There are always some subscription titles which are least used and most expensive. I think faculty would in general support their cancellation in exchange for money towards publication fees, and the library should suggest and encourage such moves. This will aid OA by positive feedback. Some of these overly expensive and cost-inefficient titles will be the same for many universities, and this faculty-supported action will encourage such journals to change to OA journals, or perhaps to become not worth the publishing. Then there will be even more money to support OA--all forms of OA: existing and new OA journals, library supported OA publishing of small journals together with the faculty, expansion, better publicity, and increased use of the institutional repository--and if there isn't an IR already, the library is well placed to establish one. The alternative is to refuse tangible help. In a few years, as subscription journals become increasingly Open Access or have their articles available in archives, the administration will eventually suggest that there is no reason to fund the library to pay for material which it already has available free. Then is the time the library will wish it had faculty support. Without it, the library will lose the funds altogether, and play a diminishing role within the university. If the library had instead used some of the increasing amounts that become available to support the faculty's OA publications, then it will retain its centrality--and even increase it, as it moves towards being a publisher as well s a collector. David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S. previously: Bibliographer and Research Librarian Princeton University Library dgoodman at princeton.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: Shawna Sadler Date: Friday, February 23, 2007 12:42 pm Subject: [Dspace-general] Collections Budget To: dspace-general at mit.edu, dtpalmer at hkucc.hku.hk > Hi David, > Oh that is interesting!!! Collections paying for publishers to make > an > article Open Access... that's terrible. I can't imagine the > Collections' budget paying a publisher twice for a single article > (once > for the normal subscription and then an additional charge for Open > Access). > We had a similar request, but thank goodness I have good relations > with > our Collections department and they sent this faculty member to me. > I > wonder if publishers are encouraging this? Does anyone know? > > Shawna > > Shawna Sadler > Coordinator, Digital Initiatives > Libraries & Cultural Resources > University of Calgary > Phone: (403) 220-3739 > Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:01:08 +0800 > From: "David Palmer" > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians > To: > Message-ID: <008001c756ee$7efe51f0$31150893 at snet.lib.hku.hk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > We saw an interesting turn. One of our faculties is now asking > that the > budget funding the Library be used to pay for OA charges when their > authorspublish in journals offering OA. Though we have an > insitutional repository > here, this faculty has shown no interest in it previously. I have > seen many > cases where the funding body of the research offers to pay these OA > charges,but never one in which the Library pays them. Are we the > first to be so > asked? > > David Palmer > Systems Librarian > Technical Services Support Team Leader > The University of Hong Kong Libraries > Pokfulam Road > Hong Kong > tel. +852 2859 7004 > > > -----Original Messag > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From pk219 at cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 26 04:37:44 2007 From: pk219 at cam.ac.uk (Patricia Killiard) Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:37:44 +0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace@Cambridge Repository Manager & Support/Liaison posts Message-ID: <45E2AA68.6090904@cam.ac.uk> *DSpace at Cambridge Repository Manager* *Grade:* 8 *Salary Range:* ?29,138 - ?39,160 pa *Limit of tenure:* 5 years from date of appointment. Applications are invited for the post of DSpace at Cambridge Repository Manager to be responsible for the successful operation of DSpace at Cambridge as an institutional repository in support of the university?s research, teaching and administration. Working within a team of four, the successful applicant will manage the day-to-day running of the service, develop policies for the repository and lead an advocacy campaign to ensure maximum awareness of the benefits of DSpace at Cambridge amongst its potential users. Applicants should be enthusiastic and self-motivated, have a post-graduate qualification in library and information science or equivalent, project management abilities, and an excellent understanding of institutional repository, scholarly communication and open access issues. Further particulars and an application form can be downloaded or are available from the Librarian?s Personal Assistant, University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR, telephone (01223) 333045, e-mail: cr267 at cam.ac.uk Applications, including a completed PD18 form , a covering letter and CV, should be returned to the University Librarian. *Closing Date: Wednesday 14 March 2007 * ***DSpace at Cambridge Support and Liaison Officer* *Grade:* 6 *Salary Range:* ?23,002 - ?26,666 pa *Limit of tenure:* 5 years from date of appointment. Applications are invited for the post of DSpace at Cambridge Support and Liaison Officer to provide technical support and guidance to all users of the DSpace at Cambridge institutional repository. The post-holder will develop workflows and procedures for the repository and will be responsible on a day-to-day basis for ensuring that contributors are able to deposit files. He or she will oversee metadata standards within DSpace at Cambridge, provide initial advice to users on intellectual property rights, organise and give training in using the system, and draw up documentation. Applicants should be enthusiastic and self-motivated, have a post-graduate qualification in library and information science or equivalent, knowledge of metadata schemes currently in use within the academic community, particularly Dublin Core, and intellectual property rights issues in the context of scholarly publishing. They should have an excellent understanding of institutional repository, scholarly communication and open access issues. Further particulars and an application form can be downloaded or are available from the Librarian?s Personal Assistant University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR, telephone (01223) 333045, e-mail: cr267 at cam.ac.uk Applications, including a completed PD18 form , a covering letter and CV, should be returned to the University Librarian. *Closing Date: Wednesday 14 March 2007* For an informal discussion please contact Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems, on +44 (0)1223 333037. ---------------------------------- Patricia Killiard Head of Electronic Services and Systems Services Cambridge University Library West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR tel. 01223 333 037 fax 01223 333160 e-mail: pk219 at cam.ac.uk http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk ------------------------------------ From stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au Mon Feb 26 23:00:47 2007 From: stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au (Steve Thomas) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:30:47 +1030 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dublin core for patents? Message-ID: <5j3tok$q48k@shaft-private.services.adelaide.edu.au> Hi. I've been asked to add patents to our submissions to DSpace, and this raises a question: where in Dublin core do I put the patent details? Specifically, I have "country", "owner" and "patent number", and I'm not at all sure where I should put them. I could of course create new elements/qualifiers to hold these, but . If anyone else has done anything with patents, I'd like to know what element/qualifiers you used for these fields. Thanks, Steve Stephen Thomas, Senior Systems Analyst, University of Adelaide Library UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 8 830 35190 Fax: +61 8 830 34369 Email: stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au URL: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/stephen.thomas CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. 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In-Reply-To: <5j3tok$q48k@shaft-private.services.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: <209348.87019.qm@web34701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi Steve, Dublin Core does not itself have any element for depicting Patent information, however a workaround is to use the relator terms as depicted in http://www.loc.gov/loc.terms/relators/PTH. complete list of relator terms - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/loc.terms/relators/dc-relators.html more info - http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/relators/ ps- the other elements , which i guess can also be translated as below country can be the dc:coverage spatial patent number can be an dc:identifier regards, Ganesh Steve Thomas wrote: st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } Hi. I?ve been asked to add patents to our submissions to DSpace, and this raises a question: where in Dublin core do I put the patent details? Specifically, I have ?country?, ?owner? and ?patent number?, and I?m not at all sure where I should put them. I could of course create new elements/qualifiers to hold these, but If anyone else has done anything with patents, I?d like to know what element/qualifiers you used for these fields. Thanks, Steve Stephen Thomas, Senior Systems Analyst, University of Adelaide Library UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 8 830 35190 Fax: +61 8 830 34369 Email: stephen.thomas at adelaide.edu.au URL: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/stephen.thomas CRICOS Provider Number 00123M ----------------------------------------------------------- This email message is intended only for the addressee(s) and contains information that may be confidential and/or copyright. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender by reply email and immediately delete this email. Use, disclosure or reproduction of this email by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. No representation is made that this email or any attachments are free of viruses. 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070227/bf09147b/attachment.htm From John.Murtagh at brunel.ac.uk Tue Feb 27 07:08:12 2007 From: John.Murtagh at brunel.ac.uk (John Murtagh) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:12 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Statistics Issues and DSpace In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <106FFBC2989C2944A87980CD7D8CBE7A9C3248@UXEXMBU116.academic.windsor> Hello all, The use of statistics for DSpace is an important part of our strategy to increase deposits and we wish to protect the integrity of that information. A quick question about the statistics element of DSpace, namely the add on provided by Universidade do Minho I wondered if there had been any issues or concerns in the collection and processing of downloads and views for items on DSpace? This could be in the form of retrieval robots, OAI harvesters, Google or the manipulation of statistics. Anyone got any news or info they'd like to share? Thanks in advance John Murtagh ________________________________________________ Website: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk John Murtagh Project Manager - Brunel University Research Archive Brunel Library Kingston Road Uxbridge UB8 3PH Tel: 0189 526 5417 Fax: 01895269741 E-mail: john.murtagh at brunel.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070227/356ca7e6/attachment.htm From stephane.tellier at cgi.com Tue Feb 27 09:11:47 2007 From: stephane.tellier at cgi.com (Tellier, Stephane) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:11:47 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Preserving structured collections - major DSpace change for Collection object Message-ID: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D1028C@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> Hi all, In our project in which we have to implement a DSpace solution, we're actually facing a major problem that might maybe concerns other people working in librairies. We need to submit and preserve periodicals in DSpace in a structuralized form. Example : Times magazine |_____________1990 |__________jan.pdf |__________feb.pdf |__________... |__________dec.pdf |_____________1991 |__________... |_____________... |_____________2006 |__________... In our library, the main database for metadatas is a catalog. An item can contains a "note" in this catalog and this note possess some descriptive metadatas. In the example above, the Times magazine collection, while containing many pdf items, would possess only 1 note in our catalog. That means, after the transfer from the catalog to DSpace, that the DSpace Collection representing the magazine should be ideally the only object that should contains the metadatas, because we don't want to repeat those metadatas for each of the DSpace Items possessing the pdf files in the whole Collection. This is for performance reason because we have some collections possessing thousands of pdfs (like a newspaper of more than 100 years old and having a pdf for each day). For our team, that means we are actually considering the solution of making a big change to DSpace so that : 1) a collection can have sub-collections (same idea here as Communities); 2) a collection can be mapped to the metadatas schema and therefore be considered as an "Item", so that its metadatas would be indexed in the same way. The collection would then be searchable through the dc fields (for example). In that case, if we make a search and it gives one of the item, possessing the pdf, as a result (full-text indexed pdf), we would get the dc metadatas from its "parent" collection, instead having those in the item's record. As any people here have the same needs and has begin some works about it? We consider that this can be a very useful add-on for DSpace, resolving almost any kind of digital collections. However, we know that this will not be a simple modification... -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070227/8b0b1c64/attachment.htm From msioud at gmail.com Tue Feb 27 11:45:35 2007 From: msioud at gmail.com (Mongi Sioud) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:45:35 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Using DSpace to Message-ID: Hi all, I want to use Dspace to archive newsmagazines. A newsmagazine is a collection aggregated by others collections. i.e. I have a collection for a newsmagazine named ABC, this collection contains sub-collections ABC-1820, ABC-1821, ABC-1821,... a sub-collection contains items ABC-1821-01-01, ABC-1821-01-02,... metadata are linked to collections, subcollections and items. Item inherits metadata from its subcollection and collection and subcollection inherits metadata from its collection. Since Dspace model does not accept that a collection is composed by others collection (like Community) and metadata are linked only to items (not collection), please can you give me an idea how I can use DSpace to implement this solution? Thanks for helping. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070227/32536826/attachment.htm From amiranda at reitoria.uminho.pt Tue Feb 27 11:45:33 2007 From: amiranda at reitoria.uminho.pt (Angelo Miranda) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:45:33 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Statistics Issues and DSpace In-Reply-To: <106FFBC2989C2944A87980CD7D8CBE7A9C3248@UXEXMBU116.academic.windsor> Message-ID: <000801c75a8e$b31d82a0$f28213ac@sdum.uminho.pt> Hi, I am from RepositoriUM team at University of Minho. I am not sure if i understood your question. Are you asking if the statistics add-on excludes the views and downloads from crawler/robot and similar devices ? If thats the question the answer is yes. The add-on has a mechanism for ignoring those accesses. Thank You Angelo Miranda -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of John Murtagh Sent: ter?a-feira, 27 de Fevereiro de 2007 12:08 To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] Statistics Issues and DSpace Hello all, The use of statistics for DSpace is an important part of our strategy to increase deposits and we wish to protect the integrity of that information. A quick question about the statistics element of DSpace, namely the add on provided by Universidade do Minho I wondered if there had been any issues or concerns in the collection and processing of downloads and views for items on DSpace? This could be in the form of retrieval robots, OAI harvesters, Google or the manipulation of statistics. Anyone got any news or info they'd like to share? Thanks in advance John Murtagh ________________________________________________ Website: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk John Murtagh Project Manager - Brunel University Research Archive Brunel Library Kingston Road Uxbridge UB8 3PH Tel: 0189 526 5417 Fax: 01895269741 E-mail: john.murtagh at brunel.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070227/bc9d6730/attachment.htm From dogorton at vt.edu Tue Feb 27 12:38:29 2007 From: dogorton at vt.edu (Doug Gorton) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:38:29 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Architecture Diagrams Usage Message-ID: <954927193.20070227123829@vt.edu> Hello all, What sort of guidelines are associated with the reusage of DSpace system diagrams? My Masters thesis work at Virginia Tech involves automatically configuring/generating DSpace instances based on XML specifications that detail out the DL to be created. I'd like to use some of the DSpace architecture diagram in my written thesis, and was wondering if any permission is needed to reuse the diagrams on the DSpace.org site in such a context. Thanks! (And, of course, I will post in the coming months to the Tech list regarding my work :) ) Doug Gorton dogorton at vt.edu From dxmwml at rit.edu Tue Feb 27 12:41:16 2007 From: dxmwml at rit.edu (Damian Marinaccio) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:41:16 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Another Committer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Will Jim Rutherford be working on Oracle? (Crossing fingers) Thanks, Damian Marinaccio RIT Libraries dxmwml at rit.edu 585-475-7741 -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of dspace-general-request at mit.edu Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:04 PM To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Dspace-general Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 Send Dspace-general mailing list submissions to dspace-general at mit.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to dspace-general-request at mit.edu You can reach the person managing the list at dspace-general-owner at mit.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Dspace-general digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Another committer (Robert Tansley) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:52:51 -0500 From: "Robert Tansley" Subject: [Dspace-general] Another committer To: Dspace-general at mit.edu Cc: DSpace Tech , DSpace Developer List Message-ID: <38d44e00702210852j14b6b27fsf61ea65a011cce2f at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi all, The committer group is pleased to welcome its newest member, Jim Rutherford from HP Labs. Since joining HP Labs, Jim has rapidly got stuck into the DSpace community, becoming very active on the mailing lists and in the DSpace IRC channel, and showing a great deal of energy and enthusiasm for helping DSpace move forward. His work on the China Digital Museum project and PF-DSpace shows a great understanding of DSpace and repositories in general so the committers feel he will be a valuable addition to the group. Please join me in welcoming Jim! Rob ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17 ********************************************** From james.rutherford at hp.com Tue Feb 27 13:03:44 2007 From: james.rutherford at hp.com (James Rutherford) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:03:44 +0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Another Committer In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20070227180344.GA10113@pomona.hpl.hp.com> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:41:16PM -0500, Damian Marinaccio wrote: > Will Jim Rutherford be working on Oracle? (Crossing fingers) I'm afraid it's not on my immediate agenda, no. Currently I'm only using Postgres, and Oracle support should really come from someone who runs Oracle (volunteers?). Jim -- James Rutherford Research Engineer HP Labs, Bristol, UK +44 117 312 7066 james.rutherford at hp.com From kenzie at MIT.EDU Tue Feb 27 12:59:11 2007 From: kenzie at MIT.EDU (MacKenzie Smith) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:59:11 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Architecture Diagrams Usage In-Reply-To: <954927193.20070227123829@vt.edu> References: <954927193.20070227123829@vt.edu> Message-ID: <45E4716F.6020707@mit.edu> Hi Doug, Good question. There is copyright attached to all the documentation automatically, but I think everyone's intention is that it be widely used and reused, including derivative works. So probably the best thing would be to assign the whole thing a Creative Commons license to make that clear. For the wiki, where much of the doc and other interesting information is these days, I don't know quite how the whole copyright/licensing regime works... probably we can just assign a CC license to the entire wiki and anything that anyone contributes there will automatically fall under that license. If anyone objects to that idea please speak up. In the meantime you should feel free to use whatever diagrams you want, and good luck with your thesis :) MacKenzie > Hello all, > > What sort of guidelines are associated with the reusage of DSpace > system diagrams? My Masters thesis work at Virginia Tech involves > automatically configuring/generating DSpace instances based on XML > specifications that detail out the DL to be created. I'd like > to use some of the DSpace architecture diagram in my written thesis, > and was wondering if any permission is needed to reuse the diagrams > on the DSpace.org site in such a context. > > Thanks! > > (And, of course, I will post in the coming months to the Tech list > regarding my work :) ) > -- MacKenzie Smith MIT Libraries From jb at nyu.edu Tue Feb 27 16:03:32 2007 From: jb at nyu.edu (James Bullen) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:03:32 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Another Committer In-Reply-To: <20070227180344.GA10113@pomona.hpl.hp.com> References: <20070227180344.GA10113@pomona.hpl.hp.com> Message-ID: Jim, Damian, list We have done some work with DSpace and Oracle and plan to pick it up again soon. We hope to have something to share in the next couple of months. In the meantime, Kate Pechekhonova (copied) is happy to discuss what we've learned so far with interested parties. James On Feb 27, 2007, at 1:03 PM, James Rutherford wrote: > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:41:16PM -0500, Damian Marinaccio wrote: >> Will Jim Rutherford be working on Oracle? (Crossing fingers) > > I'm afraid it's not on my immediate agenda, no. Currently I'm only > using > Postgres, and Oracle support should really come from someone who runs > Oracle (volunteers?). > > Jim > > -- > James Rutherford > Research Engineer > HP Labs, Bristol, UK > +44 117 312 7066 > james.rutherford at hp.com > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From Ingrid.Mason at vuw.ac.nz Tue Feb 27 17:16:24 2007 From: Ingrid.Mason at vuw.ac.nz (Ingrid Mason) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:16:24 +1300 Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians Message-ID: Hi Shawna, Mandatory deposit hasn't been implemented here in New Zealand by any tertiary institution with a repository (as far as I know). Experience of my colleague Grant Barrie at Canterbury University and mine here at Victoria University of Wellington is that the appeal to academics seems to lie more heavily with their ability to disseminate to a wider audience. Which is a simple, but HUGE benefit, especially when research ('grey literature') that hasn't reached a wide audience, is now accessible to them. I think putting the issues of open access and mandatory deposit in the background is very wise (having read some other's responses). Interestingly, an exercise up at Auckland University, undertaken by Leonie Hayes and her team, with seeking permission from students for electronic copies of theses has been very positive. Tertiary institutions that offer Masters and PhD courses are all in the process of examining their statutes and regulations to get students to deposit on a mandatory basis. I think as that practice grows it will help move things along (from a campus perspective). So, I suspect there may be issues of attitudes to change, and comfort or ease with operating professionally online, thus culture change here. Whether or not a 'top down' [mandatory], 'creeping ivy' [patchwork mandate], or 'let's see' [voluntary] approach is taken, it is still going to take time and I think that's worth remembering when you have the sort of tension you've witnessed surface. Thanks for raising this issue, this has been valuable thread. Ingrid -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Shawna Sadler Sent: Friday, 23 February 2007 4:45 a.m. To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: [Dspace-general] Question for the Librarians Hello Librarians and other people who communicate with faculty on campus. Has anyone else received backlash from their faculty about this new push for mandatory deposit of federally funded research? I have one journal editor on campus who is absolutely irate. His journal is with Lippincott Williams which of course has the most conservative of policies when it comes to institutional repositories. I was presenting our IR to the faculty and my presentation turned into an open access debate. Are any of you taking a proactive stance on the matter, or just waiting for the dust to settle and ready to accept research when everyone has calmed down? I haven't decided yet and would like to hear how you are approaching this issue on campus. Thanks, Shawna -- Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiatives Libraries & Cultural Resources University of Calgary Phone: (403) 220-3739 Email: ssadler at ucalgary.ca _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From bjorn.skobba at brunel.ac.uk Wed Feb 28 03:53:11 2007 From: bjorn.skobba at brunel.ac.uk (Bjorn Skobba) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:53:11 +0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Possible Spam]::Re: Statistics Issues and DSpace In-Reply-To: <000801c75a8e$b31d82a0$f28213ac@sdum.uminho.pt> References: <000801c75a8e$b31d82a0$f28213ac@sdum.uminho.pt> Message-ID: <1172652791.11631.6.camel@mandvi.brunel.ac.uk> Hi Angelo, Thanks for your reply. Is the mechanism for excluding crawlers, etc the stats-detect-spiders script? Can you tell me a little bit about it - is it supposed to be scheduled from cron(how often), how does it work, what it does, etc? Many thanks for your help. Bjorn Skobba Brunel University On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 16:45 +0000, Angelo Miranda wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am from RepositoriUM team at University of Minho. > > I am not sure if i understood your question. > > Are you asking if the statistics add-on excludes the views and > downloads from crawler/robot and similar devices ? > > If thats the question the answer is yes. The add-on has a mechanism > for ignoring those accesses. > > > > Thank You > > Angelo Miranda > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu > [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of John Murtagh > Sent: ter?a-feira, 27 de Fevereiro de 2007 12:08 > To: dspace-general at mit.edu > Subject: [Dspace-general] Statistics Issues and DSpace > > > > Hello all, > > The use of statistics for DSpace is an important part of our strategy > to increase deposits and we wish to protect the integrity of that > information. > > A quick question about the statistics element of DSpace, namely the > add on provided by Universidade do Minho > > > I wondered if there had been any issues or concerns in the collection > and processing of downloads and views for items on DSpace? This could > be in the form of retrieval robots, OAI harvesters, Google or the > manipulation of statistics. > > Anyone got any news or info they'd like to share? > > Thanks in advance > > > John Murtagh > ________________________________________________ > > > Website: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk > > > > John Murtagh > Project Manager - Brunel University Research Archive > Brunel Library > Kingston Road > Uxbridge > UB8 3PH > > Tel: 0189 526 5417 > Fax: 01895269741 > E-mail: john.murtagh at brunel.ac.uk > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From amiranda at reitoria.uminho.pt Wed Feb 28 06:13:47 2007 From: amiranda at reitoria.uminho.pt (Angelo Miranda) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:13:47 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Possible Spam]::Re: Statistics Issues andDSpace In-Reply-To: <1172652791.11631.6.camel@mandvi.brunel.ac.uk> Message-ID: <00c101c75b29$84646ff0$f28213ac@sdum.uminho.pt> Hi Bjorn, We probably need to document better the mechanism on the documentation of the Statistc add-on. We will try to do that. Meanwhile, here is a brief description of the mechanism. I hope my terrible english doesnt turn this very confusing. The mechanism for excluding crawlers is based on the Apache access web logs and the principle of well behaved web-crawling robots (they firstly get robots.txt). We started by implementing the mechanism as full automatic based on this principles and excluding all IP's that access robots.txt. Later we realize that this full automatic mechanism wasnt very effective, because of mainly 2 reasons. Large crawlers like Google downloads robots.txt from one machine and then the crawling process is made from hundreds of machines. This machines dont need to access robots.txt. On the other hand, if the mechanism was full automatic, because of some individual experiments, accessing robots.txt, we may be excluding user or proxy IP's. Due to this reasons we had to implement a 2 step, semi-automatic mechanism. The stats-detect-spiders script detects downloads on robots.txt file and populate a temporary table with the ip/agent of the machine that made the Access. Each record of this must be analyzed by a person who makes de decision of inserting it as a spider. This can be made with the stats_spider_add(ip,agent). Note that this procedure will store the agent also. So, after that all accesses made by agents registered as spiders (even if they dont access robots.txt) will be considered crawling. For instance, the google example i mentioned: The Googlebot machine getting robots.txt is identified, inserted as spider (ip+agent) by a person, all other machines from googlebot share the same agent name, so they all will be considered crawling. In the first weeks of production of the statistics addon the manual step might be a little time consuming, but after a initial period when all the big crawlers are identified you can schedule the stats_detect_spider once a week for instance and analyse the temporary table in 15 minutes or less. For people who is starting to run statistics add-on we may even share our stats_agents and ip's information that we already identified, so they didnt need to have that initial work. At this moment, we have abot 180 agents identified as crwalers corresponding to about 5000 machines (ip's). I hope i could help. If you have any question or doubt dont hesitate to contact us. Thank you Angelo Miranda -----Original Message----- From: Bjorn Skobba [mailto:bjorn.skobba at brunel.ac.uk] Sent: quarta-feira, 28 de Fevereiro de 2007 8:53 To: Angelo Miranda Cc: 'John Murtagh'; dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Possible Spam]::Re: [Dspace-general] Statistics Issues andDSpace Hi Angelo, Thanks for your reply. Is the mechanism for excluding crawlers, etc the stats-detect-spiders script? Can you tell me a little bit about it - is it supposed to be scheduled from cron(how often), how does it work, what it does, etc? Many thanks for your help. Bjorn Skobba Brunel University On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 16:45 +0000, Angelo Miranda wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am from RepositoriUM team at University of Minho. > > I am not sure if i understood your question. > > Are you asking if the statistics add-on excludes the views and > downloads from crawler/robot and similar devices ? > > If thats the question the answer is yes. The add-on has a mechanism > for ignoring those accesses. > > > > Thank You > > Angelo Miranda > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu > [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of John Murtagh > Sent: ter?a-feira, 27 de Fevereiro de 2007 12:08 > To: dspace-general at mit.edu > Subject: [Dspace-general] Statistics Issues and DSpace > > > > Hello all, > > The use of statistics for DSpace is an important part of our strategy > to increase deposits and we wish to protect the integrity of that > information. > > A quick question about the statistics element of DSpace, namely the > add on provided by Universidade do Minho > > > I wondered if there had been any issues or concerns in the collection > and processing of downloads and views for items on DSpace? This could > be in the form of retrieval robots, OAI harvesters, Google or the > manipulation of statistics. > > Anyone got any news or info they'd like to share? > > Thanks in advance > > > John Murtagh > ________________________________________________ > > > Website: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk > > > > John Murtagh > Project Manager - Brunel University Research Archive > Brunel Library > Kingston Road > Uxbridge > UB8 3PH > > Tel: 0189 526 5417 > Fax: 01895269741 > E-mail: john.murtagh at brunel.ac.uk > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From amiranda at reitoria.uminho.pt Wed Feb 28 06:30:41 2007 From: amiranda at reitoria.uminho.pt (Angelo Miranda) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:30:41 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Possible Spam]::Re: Statistics Issues andDSpace In-Reply-To: <1172652791.11631.6.camel@mandvi.brunel.ac.uk> Message-ID: <00c901c75b2b$e0a01f60$f28213ac@sdum.uminho.pt> Hi, Just some additional info: The stats_detect_spider scans the Apache access_log and stores a pointer (date time). The next time the procedure is run it will start the scanning on that point. As access_log gets bigger, the procedure takes more time to run. When this happen you can start a new apache Access_log and clean the pointer (stats_control). Like this the stats-detect-spider will start the scanning from the beggining of access_log again. Thank you Angelo Miranda -----Original Message----- From: Bjorn Skobba [mailto:bjorn.skobba at brunel.ac.uk] Sent: quarta-feira, 28 de Fevereiro de 2007 8:53 To: Angelo Miranda Cc: 'John Murtagh'; dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Possible Spam]::Re: [Dspace-general] Statistics Issues andDSpace Hi Angelo, Thanks for your reply. Is the mechanism for excluding crawlers, etc the stats-detect-spiders script? Can you tell me a little bit about it - is it supposed to be scheduled from cron(how often), how does it work, what it does, etc? Many thanks for your help. Bjorn Skobba Brunel University On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 16:45 +0000, Angelo Miranda wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am from RepositoriUM team at University of Minho. > > I am not sure if i understood your question. > > Are you asking if the statistics add-on excludes the views and > downloads from crawler/robot and similar devices ? > > If thats the question the answer is yes. The add-on has a mechanism > for ignoring those accesses. > > > > Thank You > > Angelo Miranda > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu > [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of John Murtagh > Sent: ter?a-feira, 27 de Fevereiro de 2007 12:08 > To: dspace-general at mit.edu > Subject: [Dspace-general] Statistics Issues and DSpace > > > > Hello all, > > The use of statistics for DSpace is an important part of our strategy > to increase deposits and we wish to protect the integrity of that > information. > > A quick question about the statistics element of DSpace, namely the > add on provided by Universidade do Minho > > > I wondered if there had been any issues or concerns in the collection > and processing of downloads and views for items on DSpace? This could > be in the form of retrieval robots, OAI harvesters, Google or the > manipulation of statistics. > > Anyone got any news or info they'd like to share? > > Thanks in advance > > > John Murtagh > ________________________________________________ > > > Website: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk > > > > John Murtagh > Project Manager - Brunel University Research Archive > Brunel Library > Kingston Road > Uxbridge > UB8 3PH > > Tel: 0189 526 5417 > Fax: 01895269741 > E-mail: john.murtagh at brunel.ac.uk > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From stephane.tellier at cgi.com Wed Feb 28 09:42:40 2007 From: stephane.tellier at cgi.com (Tellier, Stephane) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:42:40 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Fwd: Preserving structured collections - major DSpace change for Collection object] References: <45E442FD.9000509@ucd.ie> Message-ID: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D10296@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> Hi, we have considered the METS metadata representation, along with its structure features, which is something that I think seems to look like EAD. We think that METS can resolve almost all of our problems, but we didn't find any open source engine like DSpace that is built on METS. One of our possible solutions is to build our own METS engine that will be in "front" of DSpace, beeing the entry for any kind of search request or OAI-PMH request. Since METS is a structured representation of collections using XML files "pointing" to each other, forming a kind of hierarchical tree, the idea here would be to use the "xpath" functionnality to do the search in the XML files and then having some pointers in those files possessing handle URLs linked to items (like PDFs) contained by DSpace. I know this sounds complicated and its not my favorite solution. Another solution would consists of modifying the Item object in DSpace so that it would be possible to create folders and sub-folders in that Item (unless it's already possible, maybe I didn't saw it yet!). This can be very interesting since the metadatas are related to Items, so it will be possible for us to build a "structure" for our periodicals, although it would certainly need another change so that a search result would be able to display in which of the Item's documents the text was found (including the folders path of the document). We also consider the possibility to insert all of the PDFs in the same Item, but with an additional XML file that would contains the structure information. In the DSpace user interface, that additional file would be treated as a "special link" pointing to an index HTML file displaying the structure of the documents. My first email has discussed about another possible solution about modifying the Collection object in DSpace... That's all for now, but I'm sure that our team will surely come up with other ways. We hope to find someting that will prevent us to do major and complex changes to the DSpace tool, unless its something that can be interesting for other users. ________________________________ From: joseph greene [mailto:joseph.greene at ucd.ie] Sent: Wed 28/02/2007 5:07 AM To: Tellier, Stephane Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Dspace-general] Preserving structured collections - major DSpace change for Collection object] Hello Stephane, Have you considered using EAD as a metadata representation of your collections? It may be a slightly unorthodox use of EAD but it is a metadata structure that seems to fit your sub-collections very nicely. It allows the xlink language in most tags. It may not solve your D-space issues, but could help from a browsing point of view at least. On that note, EAD can also have subject headings embedded in it at any level within the hierarchy, top to bottom. Lucene could do a good job of searching this, along with a parser, which could help you reduce replication of data. Interestingly enough, our project has tentatively decided to include subject headings from each collection and 'sub-collection' (in our case, 'subseries') in every item belonging to that series to do our item level searching -- it sounds alot like your research. I look forward to further discussion on this topic on the list. Joseph Greene Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive http://www.ucd.ie/ivrla ----- Original Message ----- From: John McDonough Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:41 pm Subject: [Fwd: [Dspace-general] Preserving structured collections - major DSpace change for Collection object] To: joseph greene , Adele > FYI! > > J > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [Dspace-general] Preserving structured collections - > major > DSpace change for Collection object > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:11:47 -0500 > From: Tellier, Stephane > To: DSpace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net > CC: dspace-general at mit.edu > > > > Hi all, > > In our project in which we have to implement a DSpace solution, > we're > actually facing a major problem that might maybe concerns other > people > working in librairies. > We need to submit and preserve periodicals in DSpace in a > structuralized > form. Example : > > Times magazine > |_____________1990 > |__________jan.pdf > |__________feb.pdf > |__________... > |__________dec.pdf > |_____________1991 > |__________... > |_____________... > |_____________2006 > |__________... > > In our library, the main database for metadatas is a catalog. An > item > can contains a "note" in this catalog and this note possess some > descriptive metadatas. > In the example above, the Times magazine collection, while > containing > many pdf items, would possess only 1 note in our catalog. That > means, > after the transfer from the catalog to DSpace, that the DSpace > Collection representing the magazine should be ideally the only > object > that should contains the metadatas, because we don't want to repeat > those metadatas for each of the DSpace Items possessing the pdf > files in > the whole Collection. This is for performance reason because we > have > some collections possessing thousands of pdfs (like a newspaper of > more > than 100 years old and having a pdf for each day). > > For our team, that means we are actually considering the solution > of > making a big change to DSpace so that : > 1) a collection can have sub-collections (same idea here as > Communities);2) a collection can be mapped to the metadatas schema > and therefore be > considered as an "Item", so that its metadatas would be indexed in > the > same way. The collection would then be searchable through the dc > fields > (for example). In that case, if we make a search and it gives one > of > the item, possessing the pdf, as a result (full-text indexed pdf), > we > would get the dc metadatas from its "parent" collection, instead > having > those in the item's record. > > As any people here have the same needs and has begin some works > about > it? We consider that this can be a very useful add-on for DSpace, > resolving almost any kind of digital collections. However, we know > that > this will not be a simple modification... > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070228/b1f094b0/attachment.htm From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Wed Feb 28 11:06:22 2007 From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:06:22 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] [Fwd: Preserving structured collections - major DSpace change for Collection object] In-Reply-To: <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D10296@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> References: <45E442FD.9000509@ucd.ie> <74F2DA0DB68F6949AD0CEBE2058A2C41D10296@MTL-MSG-02.cgiclients.com> Message-ID: Stephane, Have you looked at the most recent Manakin development. I think you will find that it advantages to know that it uses as combination of METS and a home-cooked format called DRI to represent the content of any rendered DSpace Object, for instance, on our current "Under the Dome" beta project, there is an example of the content just prior to transformation to HTML: https://dome.mit.edu/handle/123456789/4190?XML and after: https://dome.mit.edu/handle/123456789/4190 While this may give you some traction on the METS side. We've encountered a similar issue with the idea of FRBR style VRACore where there is a hierarchy of Collections/Works/Images. Let me give you some detail on our initial solution and what I think are its benefits/ shortcomings: VRACore basically looks like this Collection |_ Work |_ Image We've only used metadata from the Work and Image, and it can be seen "flattened" into our dc record for an item (like that shown above), so Item = Image+"Duplicate Work" record. This is nice in that it initially shoe-horns the RVC/IRIS VRACore metadata into the DSpace item metadata record. And this allows some search and browse functionality across the Images. But the "flattening" is also a downfall, its difficult to get back to the hierarchical richness of the original metadata and its difficult to get that expressed in the UI in a way that is acceptable for Search and Browse (navigate through the above example a little and you'll soon see that some of the Search/Browse functionality is "unwieldy" because its not "Work" centric, its Image centric. DSpace is not going to give the sort of Browse capability that is required to navigate the VRACore model hierarchy... (So we're working on a solution to that issue...) We are now at a point where we want to actually capture all the metadata and keep it as rich and hierarchical as VRACore is. So We've been considering the following options and you can take them as a "Case study". 1.) It would be wise to keep the Hierarchy expressed in ones Metadata independent as possible from the DSpace Data Model, more specifically, Communities and Collections are not good for expressing complex hierarchical relationships at this time, and they would be a nightmare to manage if that hierarchy grows large. We've experienced this on DSpace at MIT even without that sort of mapping, (and I can only imagine the horror if we did try to do it), In DSpace, the "Communites/Collections" model currently does not scale and will seriously impact the performance of your system if it grows too large. 2.) Our primary question for the RVC collection VRACore metadata was/ is: Do we create "DSpace Items" for "Works" independently from "Images", the initial decision was "no", and now we've flattened the metadata into one DSpace Item, Duplicating the Work metadata in each Item. I now think that wasn't a good idea and it would have been wiser to create Items for VRACore Collections and Works separately from Images. That this would allow for "Types" of DSpace Items and establish an orthogonal and very independent metadata model layered across DSpace Items. So, my recommendations; A.) Keep your metadata hierarchy "orthogonal" to the DSpace Object Models Hierarchy (no matter if we are talking about EAD, METS, VRACore or other Hierarchical/Network metadata standards). It will be much more "transportable" and you will be able to retain it in its entire hierarchical richness. B.) Capture as much as you can in the native XML format, keeping it stored in Bitstreams within the Item. Map/Flatten as much of that metadata as you can up into the Items flat DC style Metadata Record, think of that record only as the first stage in a "two-stage" mapping/ indexing process that creates the Browse and Search indexes in DSpace. C.) Do try to capture the relationships in between your XML Metadata files via its referencing/linking strategy. Try to map those into the dc:related... Qualified DC fields wherever possible. Cheers, Mark Diggory p.s. I need to acknowledge that when I say "We", that the majority of the effort behind this body of work is being accomplished by Carl Jones and Ann Whiteside here at MIT Libraries. On Feb 28, 2007, at 9:42 AM, Tellier, Stephane wrote: > Hi, > > we have considered the METS metadata representation, along with its > structure features, which is something that I think seems to look > like EAD. We think that METS can resolve almost all of our > problems, but we didn't find any open source engine like DSpace > that is built on METS. > > One of our possible solutions is to build our own METS engine that > will be in "front" of DSpace, beeing the entry for any kind of > search request or OAI-PMH request. Since METS is a structured > representation of collections using XML files "pointing" to each > other, forming a kind of hierarchical tree, the idea here would be > to use the "xpath" functionnality to do the search in the XML files > and then having some pointers in those files possessing handle URLs > linked to items (like PDFs) contained by DSpace. I know this sounds > complicated and its not my favorite solution. > > Another solution would consists of modifying the Item object in > DSpace so that it would be possible to create folders and sub- > folders in that Item (unless it's already possible, maybe I didn't > saw it yet!). This can be very interesting since the metadatas are > related to Items, so it will be possible for us to build a > "structure" for our periodicals, although it would certainly need > another change so that a search result would be able to display in > which of the Item's documents the text was found (including the > folders path of the document). > > We also consider the possibility to insert all of the PDFs in the > same Item, but with an additional XML file that would contains the > structure information. In the DSpace user interface, that > additional file would be treated as a "special link" pointing to an > index HTML file displaying the structure of the documents. > > My first email has discussed about another possible solution about > modifying the Collection object in DSpace... > > That's all for now, but I'm sure that our team will surely come up > with other ways. We hope to find someting that will prevent us to > do major and complex changes to the DSpace tool, unless its > something that can be interesting for other users. > > From: joseph greene [mailto:joseph.greene at ucd.ie] > Sent: Wed 28/02/2007 5:07 AM > To: Tellier, Stephane > Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Dspace-general] Preserving structured > collections - major DSpace change for Collection object] > > Hello Stephane, > > Have you considered using EAD as a metadata representation of your > collections? It may be a slightly unorthodox use of EAD but it is a > metadata structure that seems to fit your sub-collections very nicely. > It allows the xlink language in most tags. It may not solve your D- > space > issues, but could help from a browsing point of view at least. > > On that note, EAD can also have subject headings embedded in it at any > level within the hierarchy, top to bottom. Lucene could do a good > job of > searching this, along with a parser, which could help you reduce > replication of data. > > Interestingly enough, our project has tentatively decided to include > subject headings from each collection and 'sub-collection' (in our > case, > 'subseries') in every item belonging to that series to do our item > level > searching -- it sounds alot like your research. > > I look forward to further discussion on this topic on the list. > > Joseph Greene > > Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive > http://www.ucd.ie/ivrla > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John McDonough > Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:41 pm > Subject: [Fwd: [Dspace-general] Preserving structured collections - > major DSpace change for Collection object] > To: joseph greene , Adele > > > > FYI! > > > > J > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: [Dspace-general] Preserving structured collections - > > major > > DSpace change for Collection object > > Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:11:47 -0500 > > From: Tellier, Stephane > > To: DSpace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net > > CC: dspace-general at mit.edu > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > In our project in which we have to implement a DSpace solution, > > we're > > actually facing a major problem that might maybe concerns other > > people > > working in librairies. > > We need to submit and preserve periodicals in DSpace in a > > structuralized > > form. Example : > > > > Times magazine > > |_____________1990 > > |__________jan.pdf > > |__________feb.pdf > > |__________... > > |__________dec.pdf > > |_____________1991 > > |__________... > > |_____________... > > |_____________2006 > > |__________... > > > > In our library, the main database for metadatas is a catalog. An > > item > > can contains a "note" in this catalog and this note possess some > > descriptive metadatas. > > In the example above, the Times magazine collection, while > > containing > > many pdf items, would possess only 1 note in our catalog. That > > means, > > after the transfer from the catalog to DSpace, that the DSpace > > Collection representing the magazine should be ideally the only > > object > > that should contains the metadatas, because we don't want to repeat > > those metadatas for each of the DSpace Items possessing the pdf > > files in > > the whole Collection. This is for performance reason because we > > have > > some collections possessing thousands of pdfs (like a newspaper of > > more > > than 100 years old and having a pdf for each day). > > > > For our team, that means we are actually considering the solution > > of > > making a big change to DSpace so that : > > 1) a collection can have sub-collections (same idea here as > > Communities);2) a collection can be mapped to the metadatas schema > > and therefore be > > considered as an "Item", so that its metadatas would be indexed in > > the > > same way. The collection would then be searchable through the dc > > fields > > (for example). In that case, if we make a search and it gives one > > of > > the item, possessing the pdf, as a result (full-text indexed pdf), > > we > > would get the dc metadatas from its "parent" collection, instead > > having > > those in the item's record. > > > > As any people here have the same needs and has begin some works > > about > > it? We consider that this can be a very useful add-on for DSpace, > > resolving almost any kind of digital collections. However, we know > > that > > this will not be a simple modification... > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark R. Diggory - DSpace Systems Manager MIT Libraries, Systems and Technology Services Massachusetts Institute of Technology -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20070228/5c49e9b6/attachment.htm