[Dspace-general] FW: DSpace 1.5 training / online documentation

Tue Apr 15 02:17:41 EDT 2008

Dear Dspace community,

I sincerely have to agree with Dr Kataria.  I am very dis-hearted by the
fact that so much have been going with the new release of Dspace 1.5,
but one thing has been seriously lacking.  There aren't any proper
installation guides available for 1.5, anywhere!!  Even the dspace web
site still points to version 1.4 only.

We would like to get settled in on the new 1.5 version asap, but get
stuck with the maven part of the installation, and that is basically
that....  It simply doesn't want to install - so what do I do now?  IRC
channel is very quiet, possible because of the time zone.  I have
connected directly through ADSL, but still no go.  The release notes
only outlines the steps, but no details on trouble shooting steps are
provided.  The dspace.org website install notes haven't been updated
yet.  I cry out to the mountains....  

Please see this email as an indication that people out there seriously
want to use the system, test it, install it, and try it out.  BUT with
new features and very little in available documentation or online help,
it just makes it very, very hard.  Conferences are great, but only a few
will be able to attend and benefit.  Somebody, please make documentation
available online.

Kind regards,

Laurence

From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu
[mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Sanjay Kataria
Sent: 12 April 2008 07:59
To: Michele Kimpton; dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net;
dspace-general at mit.edu
Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 training

Dear Michele Kimpton,

It is a good initiative but my suggestion is that to prepare a tutorial
sheet and put it on the dsapce.org. All community will be benefited
globally. 

with kind regards

Dr. Sanajy Kataria

Head, Learning Resource Centre

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University

A-10, Sector-62, Noida (UP) India 201307

Ph. 09810503341, 91-120-2400973 Ext. 251

Email: skataria.jiitu at gmail.com, sanjay.kataria at jiit.ac.in 

----- Original Message ----
From: Michele Kimpton <michele at dspace.org>
To: dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-general at mit.edu
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 9:39:19 PM
Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 training

Dear members of the community,

At the upcoming JASIG conference in Minneapolis April 27-April 30,  
Mark Diggory will be giving training for DSpace users (sys admins and  
developers) on how to upgrade your DSpace instance from 1.4 to 1.5 and  
how to develop your site using Manakin.  Mark is a key contributor in  
the DSpace community, a DSpace system manager from MIT and a committer  
in the DSpace community.  He was instrumental in launching 1.5 and  
moving DSpace onto Maven.

The training will take place on Sunday April 27th, prior to the  
conference.  The cost is $150 per seminar if you are not a JASIG  
member.  You can find out more at
http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/seminars.html 
.

If you choose to stay for the conference there are several DSpace  
presentations at JASIG as well as DLF conference ( in Minneapolis the  
same days).  Some interesting presentations at JASIG are:

Monday-
Semantic web activities in higher education- this will include some of  
the work done by the SIMILE team, which has created tools that can be  
used with DSpace
Engaging the user community- I am moderating a panel that will include  
key leaders from 3 open source projects.  they will discuss what  
tools, process and techniques they use to ensure all the community has  
a voice in the open source development process.
NITLE-DSpace initiatives for small colleges- will be talking about the  
development of the DSpace community within the NITLE membership  
organization
Google web toolkit- This may be of interest to DSpace users as we  
( the community) looks at the possibility of integrating the google  
toolkit into DSpace

Tuesday-
If we build it will they come? Part Deux- Cornell University will be  
giving an update on how they have overcome some of the hurdles  
populating their DSpace repository
Personal repository space vs. the personal portal-I hot topic right  
now, will be interesting to hear what Chris Awre from U of Hull has to  
say even if it is a Fedora repository, maybe we can learn
Shibboleth 2.0- an overview for developers- if you are looking at  
shibboleth for your authentication system this could be of interest.

Wednesday-
AT DLF 9-10:30
DSpace Foundation- strategy and roadmap for 08/09 including the new  
architecture work-  if you did not hear my presentation at OR2008- I  
will be giving an abridged version of the talk at DLF
National Library of Medicine- Experiment to investigate the  
scalability of a DSpace based archive.  Apparently NLM has run over  
one million items through the DSpace system with success.

You can find a full list of both programs at:

http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html
http://www.diglib.org/forums/spring2008/index.htm

If you are a DLF member, you can attend JASIG for one day of the  
conference by paying $150 for the day.  You will see this option on  
the online registration, or you can pay the day you show up.

Michele Kimpton
DSpace Executive Director
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