From tonegawa at sorun.co.jp Fri Feb 1 04:57:20 2008 From: tonegawa at sorun.co.jp (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCTXg6LEBuNS44dxsoQg==?=) Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 18:57:20 +0900 Subject: [Dspace-general] EAD(Encoded Archival Description) user? Message-ID: <20080201095722.51DFB1DD5A2@cdcsl01099.sorun.co.jp> Hi all, Is there any DSpace users who use EAD(Encoded Archival Description)? I know the metadata is used for archives but not for libraries so it's hard to find out who's using it or testing it. One of archives in Japan is investigating archive softwares to preserve their document now. If anyone know the DSpace site in which you see EAD or any projects in process please let me know. Big thanks in advance Takamitsu Tonegawa From rcastro at alerta.cl Fri Feb 1 12:17:28 2008 From: rcastro at alerta.cl (rcastro@alerta.cl) Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:17:28 -0300 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 1 Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From LAHULBERT at stthomas.edu Mon Feb 4 09:04:38 2008 From: LAHULBERT at stthomas.edu (Hulbert, Linda A.) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:04:38 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Software to support crosswalk from MARC to Dublin Core Message-ID: <06892F6F0783B44C88CB3656C0C1940008DE4B31@UST-EXCHBE1.stthomas.edu> We have taken the baby steps to get started with dspace and are working out the details of the metadata. We believe that it will be best to move from MARC to Dublin Core (rather than DC to MARC) and wondered if there is software already out there to support that work. Thanks. Linda Linda Hulbert, Associate Director Collection Management and Services O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library #5004 University of Saint Thomas 2115 Summit Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 Phone: (651) 962-5016 Fax: (651) 962-5486 email: lahulbert at stthomas.edu But I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use... -Gallileo Galilei (1615) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080204/1aceff5d/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 862 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080204/1aceff5d/attachment.gif From swarna.bandara at uwimona.edu.jm Mon Feb 4 09:59:21 2008 From: swarna.bandara at uwimona.edu.jm (Swarna Bandara) Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:59:21 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Software to support crosswalk from MARC to Dublin Core In-Reply-To: <06892F6F0783B44C88CB3656C0C1940008DE4B31@UST-EXCHBE1.stthomas.edu> Message-ID: <007401c8673e$8609c680$58003ac6@uwimona.edu.jm> Linda, Check this site. http://search.cpan.org/dist/MARC-Crosswalk-DublinCore/ Swarna Bandara, Head, Medical Library ETD/Dspace Coordinator University of the West Indies Mona Campus, Kingston 7 Jamaica (W.I.) _____ From: dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Hulbert, Linda A. Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 9:05 AM To: 'dspace-tech at lists.sourceforge.net'; 'dspace-general at mit.edu' Subject: [Dspace-general] Software to support crosswalk from MARC to Dublin Core We have taken the baby steps to get started with dspace and are working out the details of the metadata. We believe that it will be best to move from MARC to Dublin Core (rather than DC to MARC) and wondered if there is software already out there to support that work. Thanks. Linda Linda Hulbert, Associate Director Collection Management and Services O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library #5004 University of Saint Thomas 2115 Summit Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 Phone: (651) 962-5016 Fax: (651) 962-5486 email: lahulbert at stthomas.edu But I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use. -Gallileo Galilei (1615) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080204/75583c5e/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 862 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080204/75583c5e/attachment.gif From Sofia.Arvidsson at hb.se Mon Feb 4 10:33:33 2008 From: Sofia.Arvidsson at hb.se (Sofia Arvidsson) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:33:33 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Metadata for artistic research results in open archives Message-ID: <47A73E5B.BE77.0089.0@hb.se> Library & Learning Resources at University College of Bor?s has just started a pilot study funded by the National Library of Sweden. The background is the requirements of methods for publishing and accessibility of artistic research and research results, which often wholly or partially, are visually expressed. Part of the study will consist of a survey of existing initiatives in developing metadata for visual artistic objects in open archives. Focus will be on the often complex contents of these objects - artistic expression, form and colour, manufacturing process, use of different material etc. If members of this list knows about initiatives of this kind we would be grateful to take part of that information. We are primarily focusing on research and research results but are also interested in other kind of publications like project work and student work within the academic field of art and design. regards, Sofia Arvidsson :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Sofia Arvidsson Bibliotekarie/Librarian H?gskolan i Bor?s/University College of Bor?s Bibliotek och l?randeresurser/Library and Learning Resources 501 90 Bor?s Sweden Tel. +46(0)33 435 4294 Fax. +46(0)33 435 4004 E-mail: Sofia.Arvidsson at hb.se From cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com Mon Feb 4 11:48:59 2008 From: cwbailey at digital-scholarship.com (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:48:59 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Software to support crosswalk from MARC to Dublin Core Message-ID: <47A741FB.7080707@digital-scholarship.com> MarcEdit has an optional MARC to RDF Dublin Core crosswalk: MarcEdit Download page: http://oregonstate.edu/~reeset/marcedit/html/downloads.html How to Harvest OAI-PMH Records with the Freeware MarcEdit Program: http://digital-scholarship.org/digitalkoans/2008/01/28/how-to-harvest-oai-pmh-records-with-the-freeware-marcedit-program/ -- Best Regards, Charles Charles W. Bailey, Jr. Publisher, Digital Scholarship http://www.digital-scholarship.org/ DigitalKoans Open Access Bibliography Open Access Webliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog From eloy at sdum.uminho.pt Thu Feb 7 08:55:44 2008 From: eloy at sdum.uminho.pt (Eloy Rodrigues) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:55:44 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] New Version (2.0) of the DSpace Statistics Add-on Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting I?m glad to announce that the Reposit?riUM team at Minho University has finished the documentation and packaging off a new version of the DSpace Statistics Add-on, which we already use in our Repository for 2 months. This Add-on (see description below) is available at: http://wiki.dspace.org/StatisticsAddOn The original purpose of the Statistics Add-on was to promote Reposit?riUM and author self(or mediated)-archiving, by demonstrating the worldwide accessibility and usage (access/downloads) of archived documents. We also wanted to provide usage, content and administrative statistics to IR and community/collection administrators or coordinators. The Statistics System is an add-on to the DSpace platform that allows gathering, processing and presenting usage, content and administrative statistics. Despite the fact that its development was done to meet the specific needs of Reposit?riUM, the system is completely adjustable to other environments as its components can easily be configured, changed or extended, to respond to different information needs. With the release of the version 2.0 of the Stats System the main focus was solving some problems and limitations of version 1.1, primarily the: * Increasing degradation of performance/response time as the usage and the period of the log information grew; * Rigidity of the statistics definition and structure of the Web interface; * Poor layout and data presentation (e.g. Inexistence of charts; reduced navigation and limited data presentation). Important features of the version 2.0 of the Statistics add-on are: * Customizable statistics * Customizable web interface * Customizable access policies * Data stored in database * Access origin detection and processing * Crawler exclusion * Real time/Batch statistics * Temporal data aggregations * Dimensional aggregations (e.g. Country, Document type, etc.) * Charts * Multilanguage support You can see the implementation of the Add-on in Reposit?riUM (https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt ) where the general (IR level) access/download statistics (https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/stats?level=general &type=access&page=downviews-series) and individual access/download statistics (eg, http://hdl.handle.net/1822/4803) are publicly available. Best Regards, Eloy Rodrigues Universidade do Minho - Servi?os de Documenta??o Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057 Braga Tel: +351 253 60 41 50; Fax - 253 60 41 59 Campus de Azur?m, 4800-058 Guimar?es Tel: +351 253 51 01 19; Fax - 253 51 01 17 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080207/3758ac46/attachment.htm From Christina.Richison at nitle.org Thu Feb 7 15:44:17 2008 From: Christina.Richison at nitle.org (Christina Richison) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:44:17 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Podcasts and DSpace Message-ID: <08119B28F4B3FF46A5747921C9FAA6785D0D28@AA1EXCH06.office.share.org> Does anyone know if an MP3 player can connect directly to the DSpace RSS feeds to access podcasts? If not, is this something that Manakin could make this possible? Thanks, Christina Richison Christina Richison NIS Technical Services Specialist Managed Technology Services NITLE | National Institute for Technology & Liberal Education p. 734.661.1012 christina.richison at nitle.org Southwestern University P.O. Box 7385 | 1001 East University Avenue Georgetown, Texas 78626 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080207/0accb56a/attachment.htm From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 7 18:01:45 2008 From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:01:45 -0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] Podcasts and DSpace In-Reply-To: <08119B28F4B3FF46A5747921C9FAA6785D0D28@AA1EXCH06.office.share.org> References: <08119B28F4B3FF46A5747921C9FAA6785D0D28@AA1EXCH06.office.share.org> Message-ID: <61240B97-AC12-477D-8948-AE271860C271@mit.edu> The generated RSS would need to be adjusted to reference the bitstream as the target for the podcast audio. Which would require some java development work in the FeedServlet / FeedGenerator. Right now the feeds only contain a url for the Item itself, not any of its associated bitstream files. Ideally, one would like to implement something like this in a way that would allow the application to detect if the item had a podcast in it before introducing the content into the RSS feed. To give you an idea what is missing heres an item from a DSpace rss feed > > Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized > Policy Experiment in India > http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39126 > This data set uses political reservations for > women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy > decisions... > Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:20:05 GMT > and one with a podcast included: > > Todays Radio Show - Monday > Here is my Monday podcast. Hope you like it. description> > Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:56:00 GMT* > length="4834743" type="audio/mpeg"/> > -Mark On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Christina Richison wrote: > Does anyone know if an MP3 player can connect directly to the > DSpace RSS feeds to access podcasts? If not, is this something that > Manakin could make this possible? > > > > Thanks, > > Christina Richison > > > > Christina Richison > > NIS Technical Services Specialist > > Managed Technology Services > > NITLE | National Institute for Technology & Liberal Education > > p. 734.661.1012 > > christina.richison at nitle.org > > Southwestern University > > P.O. Box 7385 | 1001 East University Avenue > > Georgetown, Texas 78626 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080207/a2aba6b4/attachment.htm From mdiggory at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 7 18:05:08 2008 From: mdiggory at MIT.EDU (Mark Diggory) Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:05:08 -0800 Subject: [Dspace-general] Podcasts and DSpace In-Reply-To: <61240B97-AC12-477D-8948-AE271860C271@mit.edu> References: <08119B28F4B3FF46A5747921C9FAA6785D0D28@AA1EXCH06.office.share.org> <61240B97-AC12-477D-8948-AE271860C271@mit.edu> Message-ID: <81770F15-C3F1-45E2-82B5-175603CBAF72@mit.edu> I'll also add a little more design detail. If the podcast were set as the primary bitstream of Item, that along with the format of the bitstream could be used to conditionally decide in The FeedServlet if it should be included as an "enclosure" in the RSS feed. -Mark On Feb 7, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Mark Diggory wrote: > The generated RSS would need to be adjusted to reference the > bitstream as the target for the podcast audio. Which would require > some java development work in the FeedServlet / FeedGenerator. > Right now the feeds only contain a url for the Item itself, not > any of its associated bitstream files. > > Ideally, one would like to implement something like this in a way > that would allow the application to detect if the item had a > podcast in it before introducing the content into the RSS feed. To > give you an idea what is missing heres an item from a DSpace rss feed > >> >> Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized >> Policy Experiment in India >> http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39126 >> This data set uses political reservations for >> women in India to study the impact of women's leadership on policy >> decisions... >> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:20:05 GMT >> > > and one with a podcast included: > >> >> Todays Radio Show - Monday >> Here is my Monday podcast. Hope you like it.> description> >> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:56:00 GMT* >> > length="4834743" type="audio/mpeg"/> >> > > -Mark > > On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Christina Richison wrote: > >> Does anyone know if an MP3 player can connect directly to the >> DSpace RSS feeds to access podcasts? If not, is this something >> that Manakin could make this possible? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Christina Richison >> >> >> >> Christina Richison >> >> NIS Technical Services Specialist >> >> Managed Technology Services >> >> NITLE | National Institute for Technology & Liberal Education >> >> p. 734.661.1012 >> >> christina.richison at nitle.org >> >> Southwestern University >> >> P.O. Box 7385 | 1001 East University Avenue >> >> Georgetown, Texas 78626 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080207/f591a406/attachment.htm From black.367 at osu.edu Fri Feb 8 06:47:56 2008 From: black.367 at osu.edu (Beth Black) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:47:56 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] PDF/A Message-ID: <59c3956eaf.56eaf59c39@osu.edu> Hello! We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what others are doing. Do you recommend or require PDF/A? If you require, do you convert for submitters in some way? Any other thoughts on PDF/A? Thanks! Beth Beth Black Systems Librarian and Assistant Professor University Libraries 610 Ackerman Road, Room 5855 Columbus, Ohio 43202 614-688-5428 phone 614-292-7859 fax black.367 at osu.edu From sbeers at gmu.edu Fri Feb 8 09:27:59 2008 From: sbeers at gmu.edu (Shane Beers) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:27:59 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] PDF/A In-Reply-To: <59c3956eaf.56eaf59c39@osu.edu> References: <59c3956eaf.56eaf59c39@osu.edu> Message-ID: Beth: When I first arrived here, I was interested in attempting to standardize the use of PDF/A, especially for our ETD collections where the submissions were far more controllable. The major hurdle is that all content of the PDF/A must be embedded into the document itself - this can become an impossibility if the person creating the PDF is someone who does not know how to correctly embed everything. You would be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't...) how fairly simple technology can confuse even PhD students. That also creates a limitation of the content of the PDF/A's - as of now they can not contain things like multimedia objects. This may not be a real concern of yours, but it's of note. Additionally, the conversion from regular PDFs to PDF/A is often impossible, as the information in the PDF was not embedded in the first place, and you no longer have things like the original font and so on. Know that this is only my cursory findings, and not gleaned from a deep investigation on my part. You may wish to investigate it yourself. Essentially what I'm saying is - it will probably work quite well in an extremely structured workflow. Outside of that, you may have many issues to overcome! Shane Beers Digital Repository Services Librarian George Mason University sbeers at gmu.edu http://mars.gmu.edu 703-993-3742 On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Beth Black wrote: > Hello! > > We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what > others are doing. Do you recommend or require PDF/A? If you > require, do you convert for submitters in some way? > Any other thoughts on PDF/A? > > Thanks! > Beth > > Beth Black > Systems Librarian and Assistant Professor > University Libraries > 610 Ackerman Road, Room 5855 > Columbus, Ohio 43202 > 614-688-5428 phone > 614-292-7859 fax > black.367 at osu.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From ssadler at ucalgary.ca Sat Feb 9 10:31:51 2008 From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca (ssadler@ucalgary.ca) Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 08:31:51 -0700 (MST) Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1168.24.39.88.219.1202571111.squirrel@24.39.88.219> Hi Beth, We are using PDF/A and these features for our theses and other PDF work in our repository. http://digitization.ucalgary.ca/index.php/PDF_Standards Hope this helps, feel free to e-mail follow-up questions. Shawna Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiaves University of Calgary (403) 229-2477 ssadler at ucalgary.ca > 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. PDF/A (Beth Black) > 2. Re: PDF/A (Shane Beers) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:47:56 -0500 > From: Beth Black > Subject: [Dspace-general] PDF/A > To: "dspace-general at mit.edu" > Message-ID: <59c3956eaf.56eaf59c39 at osu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello! > > We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what others > are doing. Do you recommend or require PDF/A? If you require, do you > convert for submitters in some way? > Any other thoughts on PDF/A? > > Thanks! > Beth > > Beth Black > Systems Librarian and Assistant Professor > University Libraries > 610 Ackerman Road, Room 5855 > Columbus, Ohio 43202 > 614-688-5428 phone > 614-292-7859 fax > black.367 at osu.edu > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:27:59 -0500 > From: Shane Beers > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] PDF/A > To: Beth Black > Cc: "dspace-general at mit.edu" > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Beth: > > When I first arrived here, I was interested in attempting to > standardize the use of PDF/A, especially for our ETD collections where > the submissions were far more controllable. > > The major hurdle is that all content of the PDF/A must be embedded > into the document itself - this can become an impossibility if the > person creating the PDF is someone who does not know how to correctly > embed everything. You would be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't...) > how fairly simple technology can confuse even PhD students. > > That also creates a limitation of the content of the PDF/A's - as of > now they can not contain things like multimedia objects. This may not > be a real concern of yours, but it's of note. > > Additionally, the conversion from regular PDFs to PDF/A is often > impossible, as the information in the PDF was not embedded in the > first place, and you no longer have things like the original font and > so on. > > Know that this is only my cursory findings, and not gleaned from a > deep investigation on my part. You may wish to investigate it > yourself. Essentially what I'm saying is - it will probably work quite > well in an extremely structured workflow. Outside of that, you may > have many issues to overcome! > > Shane Beers > Digital Repository Services Librarian > George Mason University > sbeers at gmu.edu > http://mars.gmu.edu > 703-993-3742 > > > > On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Beth Black wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what >> others are doing. Do you recommend or require PDF/A? If you >> require, do you convert for submitters in some way? >> Any other thoughts on PDF/A? >> >> Thanks! >> Beth >> >> Beth Black >> Systems Librarian and Assistant Professor >> University Libraries >> 610 Ackerman Road, Room 5855 >> Columbus, Ohio 43202 >> 614-688-5428 phone >> 614-292-7859 fax >> black.367 at osu.edu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8 > ********************************************* > > > From John.Murtagh at brunel.ac.uk Mon Feb 11 04:25:42 2008 From: John.Murtagh at brunel.ac.uk (John Murtagh) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:25:42 -0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8 In-Reply-To: <1168.24.39.88.219.1202571111.squirrel@24.39.88.219> References: <1168.24.39.88.219.1202571111.squirrel@24.39.88.219> Message-ID: <106FFBC2989C2944A87980CD7D8CBE7A0101A52B@UXEXMBU116.academic.windsor> Hi Beth Here at Brunel University we get our submitters to use Open Office, an open source application that converts Word to PDF. Due to expensive licencing Adobe Professional is only used by myself for Word conversion, but I've not seen much difference in the quality of the PDF produced. In fact I have only ever seen the Adobe converter get bogged down with large files. John Murtagh (on behalf of) BURA-manager at brunel.ac.uk _________________________________________________ Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) Brunel Library Kingston Road Uxbridge UB8 3PH Tel: 0189 526 5417 Fax: 01895269741 E-mail: BURA-manager at brunel.ac.uk Website: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca [mailto:ssadler at ucalgary.ca] Sent: 09 February 2008 15:32 To: dspace-general at mit.edu Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8 Hi Beth, We are using PDF/A and these features for our theses and other PDF work in our repository. http://digitization.ucalgary.ca/index.php/PDF_Standards Hope this helps, feel free to e-mail follow-up questions. Shawna Shawna Sadler Coordinator, Digital Initiaves University of Calgary (403) 229-2477 ssadler at ucalgary.ca > 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. PDF/A (Beth Black) > 2. Re: PDF/A (Shane Beers) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:47:56 -0500 > From: Beth Black > Subject: [Dspace-general] PDF/A > To: "dspace-general at mit.edu" > Message-ID: <59c3956eaf.56eaf59c39 at osu.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello! > > We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what > others are doing. Do you recommend or require PDF/A? If you require, > do you convert for submitters in some way? > Any other thoughts on PDF/A? > > Thanks! > Beth > > Beth Black > Systems Librarian and Assistant Professor University Libraries 610 > Ackerman Road, Room 5855 Columbus, Ohio 43202 > 614-688-5428 phone > 614-292-7859 fax > black.367 at osu.edu > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:27:59 -0500 > From: Shane Beers > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] PDF/A > To: Beth Black > Cc: "dspace-general at mit.edu" > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > Beth: > > When I first arrived here, I was interested in attempting to > standardize the use of PDF/A, especially for our ETD collections where > the submissions were far more controllable. > > The major hurdle is that all content of the PDF/A must be embedded > into the document itself - this can become an impossibility if the > person creating the PDF is someone who does not know how to correctly > embed everything. You would be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't...) > how fairly simple technology can confuse even PhD students. > > That also creates a limitation of the content of the PDF/A's - as of > now they can not contain things like multimedia objects. This may not > be a real concern of yours, but it's of note. > > Additionally, the conversion from regular PDFs to PDF/A is often > impossible, as the information in the PDF was not embedded in the > first place, and you no longer have things like the original font and > so on. > > Know that this is only my cursory findings, and not gleaned from a > deep investigation on my part. You may wish to investigate it > yourself. Essentially what I'm saying is - it will probably work quite > well in an extremely structured workflow. Outside of that, you may > have many issues to overcome! > > Shane Beers > Digital Repository Services Librarian > George Mason University > sbeers at gmu.edu > http://mars.gmu.edu > 703-993-3742 > > > > On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Beth Black wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what >> others are doing. Do you recommend or require PDF/A? If you >> require, do you convert for submitters in some way? >> Any other thoughts on PDF/A? >> >> Thanks! >> Beth >> >> Beth Black >> Systems Librarian and Assistant Professor University Libraries 610 >> Ackerman Road, Room 5855 Columbus, Ohio 43202 >> 614-688-5428 phone >> 614-292-7859 fax >> black.367 at osu.edu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8 > ********************************************* > > > From michele at dspace.org Mon Feb 11 14:23:34 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:23:34 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] 1.5 release plan References: <20080211131323.6or0l6rp34404wo8@www.dspace.org> Message-ID: <744F05FD-D730-44E1-A268-80BE0B69033C@dspace.org> I apologize if this was posted to the general list already- a message from Scott Phillips, 1.5 release manager. Michele Kimpton DSpace Community, We have seen lots of progress lately to move us more towards the DSpace 1.5 release but there is still more to do. The major road blocks that have been a challenge to over come with this release is the documentation. Looking over the state of things today, there is still work to be done. Although the basic documentation is present -- a system administrator can follow the directions and install a fresh copy of DSpace -- there is still some work to do documenting the upgrade process.However I do not feel that should prevent us from moving forward at this time. Our road map for the next release of DSpace is: 2/13 -- Release Beta 1 2/18 through 2/22 -- DSpace 1.5 test-a-thon 3/10 -- Release Beta 2 3/24 -- Release DSpace 1.5 4/1 -- Open Repositories 2008 I very much hope that as many people as possible are able to find some time during the the week of the 18th to give the beta release a test. During this period please help out by testing out the new - and old - features of dspace plus contribute to the available documentation both in the manual and on the wiki. Scott-- ----------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080211/548269da/attachment.htm From stuart.macdonald at ed.ac.uk Tue Feb 12 08:51:21 2008 From: stuart.macdonald at ed.ac.uk (Stuart Macdonald) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:51:21 +0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] Controlled Vocabulary Message-ID: <47B1A459.50803@ed.ac.uk> We're in the process of setting up a pilot digital repository of cross-disciplinary research datasets produced at the University of Edinburgh (see URL: http://datashare.edina.ac.uk/dspace/) - one of the issues we're grappling with at the moment is the idea of a controlled vocabulary. There appears to be 2 'default' controlled vocabulary schemes in xml supported by DSpace (namely the Norwegian Science Index and the Swedish Research Subject Categories) which can be utilised by the keyword entry box. Does anyone have any advice or information regarding the implementation of other schemes such as UDC, DDC, LCC? For example , are we correct in thinking that we'd have to 'purchase' the classification scheme (in the case of UDC it's about ?2000 p.a.) or are there DSpace instances that are freely available? Any clarity and/or assistance in this matter would be appreciated. regards Stuart Macdonald From peterwalgemoed at carelliance.com Tue Feb 12 09:52:58 2008 From: peterwalgemoed at carelliance.com (Peter Walgemoed) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:52:58 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8 References: <1168.24.39.88.219.1202571111.squirrel@24.39.88.219> <106FFBC2989C2944A87980CD7D8CBE7A0101A52B@UXEXMBU116.academic.windsor> Message-ID: <006301c86d86$f5900200$0502a8c0@HAIERPWMBV> Hi Beth, Shane and John, I think your discussion is a very interesting repository policy one. My view on this is to regard PDF(A) as a production container format. E.g.use it as a consumable just like flash, wmf, MP3 etc. Don't use it as your standard archive format unless it's (by policy) defined as the archive format. This is happening with pdf for some public governments here in the Netherlands. It is fine if your retention policy is 5 years and you don't need to re-use the content in another context. If you however need to preserve data for a long time/forever best is to store them in the original (uncompressed) single bitstream formats (which are preferably captured at the source they were created). These are your master bistreams that can always be used to recreate containers anyway you like in the future. Depending on the importance of the presentation format you need to add (XML) metadata. If the image quality is important you need to think about resolution, raw vs. processed and standards like TIFF. For video it gets even more complex. Most important for this is being able to use converters for future presentation, without big quality losses. I would definitely advice to work together with broadcast experts on this. Let them help you with the preservation and migration/conversions. The actual storage and management of bitstreams (E.g. asset store design) is very important for DSpace. There is a general storage abstraction/virtualization in the IT industry taking place at this moment. As a result we don't need to worry about file or directory structures anymore. We assign Unique Identifiers to objects and describe their metadata. The question is whether this object should be a single bitstream or a container Archival Information Package.(Based on which standard?) I suspect that the AIP discussion might end up with the same problems described by Shane about PDF/A's. My feeling is that the most important thing is to not carve things in stone and be very flexible and open to changes. This probably means managing relations and metadata like DSpace does at a higher collection and item levels and make sure that the persistence at the more technical bitstream level is guaranteed by storage management systems. These systems need to be regularly checked for integrity! I wonder if these more policy related issues are something to put into a DSpace Wiki part? Thanks, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Murtagh" To: ; Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:25 AM Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8 > Hi Beth > > Here at Brunel University we get our submitters to use Open Office, an > open source application that converts Word to PDF. > > Due to expensive licencing Adobe Professional is only used by myself for > Word conversion, but I've not seen much difference in the quality of the > PDF produced. In fact I have only ever seen the Adobe converter get > bogged down with large files. > > John Murtagh (on behalf of) BURA-manager at brunel.ac.uk > > _________________________________________________ > > Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) > Brunel Library > Kingston Road > Uxbridge > UB8 3PH > > Tel: 0189 526 5417 > Fax: 01895269741 > E-mail: BURA-manager at brunel.ac.uk > Website: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ssadler at ucalgary.ca [mailto:ssadler at ucalgary.ca] > Sent: 09 February 2008 15:32 > To: dspace-general at mit.edu > Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8 > > Hi Beth, > We are using PDF/A and these features for our theses and other PDF work > in our repository. > http://digitization.ucalgary.ca/index.php/PDF_Standards > > Hope this helps, feel free to e-mail follow-up questions. > Shawna > > Shawna Sadler > Coordinator, Digital Initiaves > University of Calgary > (403) 229-2477 > ssadler at ucalgary.ca > >> 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. PDF/A (Beth Black) >> 2. Re: PDF/A (Shane Beers) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:47:56 -0500 >> From: Beth Black >> Subject: [Dspace-general] PDF/A >> To: "dspace-general at mit.edu" >> Message-ID: <59c3956eaf.56eaf59c39 at osu.edu> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> Hello! >> >> We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what >> others are doing. Do you recommend or require PDF/A? If you require, > >> do you convert for submitters in some way? >> Any other thoughts on PDF/A? >> >> Thanks! >> Beth >> >> Beth Black >> Systems Librarian and Assistant Professor University Libraries 610 >> Ackerman Road, Room 5855 Columbus, Ohio 43202 >> 614-688-5428 phone >> 614-292-7859 fax >> black.367 at osu.edu >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:27:59 -0500 >> From: Shane Beers >> Subject: Re: [Dspace-general] PDF/A >> To: Beth Black >> Cc: "dspace-general at mit.edu" >> Message-ID: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes >> >> Beth: >> >> When I first arrived here, I was interested in attempting to >> standardize the use of PDF/A, especially for our ETD collections where > >> the submissions were far more controllable. >> >> The major hurdle is that all content of the PDF/A must be embedded >> into the document itself - this can become an impossibility if the >> person creating the PDF is someone who does not know how to correctly >> embed everything. You would be surprised (or maybe you wouldn't...) >> how fairly simple technology can confuse even PhD students. >> >> That also creates a limitation of the content of the PDF/A's - as of >> now they can not contain things like multimedia objects. This may not >> be a real concern of yours, but it's of note. >> >> Additionally, the conversion from regular PDFs to PDF/A is often >> impossible, as the information in the PDF was not embedded in the >> first place, and you no longer have things like the original font and >> so on. >> >> Know that this is only my cursory findings, and not gleaned from a >> deep investigation on my part. You may wish to investigate it >> yourself. Essentially what I'm saying is - it will probably work quite > >> well in an extremely structured workflow. Outside of that, you may >> have many issues to overcome! >> >> Shane Beers >> Digital Repository Services Librarian >> George Mason University >> sbeers at gmu.edu >> http://mars.gmu.edu >> 703-993-3742 >> >> >> >> On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Beth Black wrote: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> We are investigating using PDF/A in our repository and wonder what >>> others are doing. Do you recommend or require PDF/A? If you >>> require, do you convert for submitters in some way? >>> Any other thoughts on PDF/A? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Beth >>> >>> Beth Black >>> Systems Librarian and Assistant Professor University Libraries 610 >>> Ackerman Road, Room 5855 Columbus, Ohio 43202 >>> 614-688-5428 phone >>> 614-292-7859 fax >>> black.367 at osu.edu >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> >> >> End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 8 >> ********************************************* >> >> >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > From scott.a.phillips at gmail.com Tue Feb 12 23:07:04 2008 From: scott.a.phillips at gmail.com (Scott Phillips) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:07:04 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 release roadmap In-Reply-To: <94AB3D0F-AC95-40FB-9F71-A815661990B2@gmail.com> References: <94AB3D0F-AC95-40FB-9F71-A815661990B2@gmail.com> Message-ID: Everyone, Good news, we're on track for the phase in the beta1 release scheduled for tomorrow. There is one more patch waiting to be applied, the documentation has seen lots of improvements - although there is still more needed. We have had both successful fresh installs and more importantly upgrades from 1.4.2 -> 1.5 -- and the process has been documented. All the major features have been tested so there are no show-stopper bugs for the test-a-thon next week. I wanted to remind everyone about our beta1 test-a-thon scheduled for next week. I hope as many people as possible will be able to find some time to find a few bugs in the new release. This is a huge release, so there are sure to be plenty to find. If you are planning on hosting a test instance so that others can test the DSpace interface could you please send out details on where it will be hosted? Since there are multiple interfaces with this release jspui, and several manakin themes, it would be nice to have a few options. Even if you are not in a position to let others login as administrators just a publicly viewable repository is helpful. Thank you, Scott-- On Feb 7, 2008, at 12:58 AM, Scott Phillips wrote: > > DSpace Community, > > We have seen lots of progress lately to move us more towards the > DSpace 1.5 release but there is still more to do. The major road > blocks that have been a challenge to over come with this release is > the documentation. Looking over the state of things today, there is > still work to be done. Although the basic documentation is present > -- a system administrator can follow the directions and install a > fresh copy of DSpace -- there is still some work to do documenting > the upgrade process.However I do not feel that should prevent us > from moving forward at this time. > > Our road map for the next release of DSpace is: > 2/13 -- Release Beta 1 > 2/18 through 2/22 -- DSpace 1.5 test-a-thon > 3/10 -- Release Beta 2 > 3/24 -- Release DSpace 1.5 > 4/1 -- Open Repositories 2008 > > I very much hope that as many people as possible are able to find > some time during the the week of the 18th to give the beta release a > test. During this period please help out by testing out the new - > and old - features of dspace plus contribute to the available > documentation both in the manual and on the wiki. > > Scott-- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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My feeling is that the most important > thing is to not carve things in stone and be very flexible and open to > changes. This probably means managing relations and metadata like DSpace > does at a higher collection and item levels and make sure that the > persistence at the more technical bitstream level is guaranteed by storage > management systems. These systems need to be regularly checked for > integrity! Note that the files in the DSpace assetstore have no metadata stored with them, nor in the inherent structure of the filesystem or filenames (this has made it possible to adopt various virtualized storage architectures like the SRB). Since all of the metadata, even Bitstream-level metadata, is stored in the RDBMS, the assetstore would become a random pile of files without it or if it gets out of sync. Fortunately, that has never happened that I've heard of. This was addressed by a prototype project that implements true AIPs in the assetstore and allows a whole archive to be reconstructed from just the files in the assetstore. Briefly, it stores a description of each Item (or Collection, Community) as a METS document in another Bitstream. The METS structure refers to its member Bitstreams by resolvable assetstore-URIs so it can find them again. To rebuild the archive from files, you just crawl over all Bitstreams looking for AIPs, and "re-import" each AIP. For details see http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/AipPrototype > I wonder if these more policy related issues are something to put into a > DSpace Wiki part? See http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/PledgePolicyPrototype I believe there has been some more progress since that project ended, especially on the policy-aware storage grid iRODS (see http://irods.sdsc.edu/ ). -- Larry From scott.a.phillips at gmail.com Wed Feb 13 09:48:17 2008 From: scott.a.phillips at gmail.com (Scott Phillips) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:48:17 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.5 & Maven Message-ID: <62F04BB6-851A-44C2-BB21-2CC46FA28075@gmail.com> DSpace Community, One of the major upgrades that is forthcoming with the 1.5 release of DSpace is a new Maven-based build system. I wanted to take some time to explain why we have made this choice and what it means for the community. Maven is a software tool from the Apache Foundation that allows developers to compile and distribute software projects. One of the key features of the Maven system is that it is network aware; it is able to dynamically resolve dependencies and download needed components from remote locations. We are able to take advantage of this build system in DSpace to provide several benefits over our previous build system. 1) Modularity - The DSpace project is not a monolithic application, but instead is broken down into several sub-components: a core API, several network interfaces such as OAI or Sword, and two web-based user interfaces (the new Manakin interface and the traditional JSP- based interface). The Maven build system allows these multiple sub- projects to be built and packaged separately but work together to provide the complete DSpace service. 2) Customization - The ability for individual universities to customize their repository to meet the needs of local users has been a driving influence of DSpace since its inception as an open source project. Traditionally, it has been difficult for local developers to sustain these local customizations from one DSpace version to the next. While nothing can completely eliminate this problem, the new Maven-based build system provides developers a basic set of tools to to ease this process. 3) Maintenance - As DSpace continues to grow at an accelerating rate, the task of managing these new components increases. Maven gives us the ability to easily add new projects and features into the repository and provides the modularity to maintain those projects through their life-cycle. In the 1.5 release of DSpace, three major components are being added: Manakin (a new user interface), Sword (a package ingesting tool), and the Light Network Interface (a programmatic interface for remote deposit and management). Each of these major projects was able to be incorporated into DSpace through the modularity provided by Maven, and in the future we will be able to expand support for many other new and exciting projects. Without the maven-based build system it would have been harder to develop and integrate these new features. What does this mean for the community? The change to a maven-based build system has several implications for the community. Those most affected by this change are developers, who will need to learn and work with a new build system. For the most part, all the developers working on the DSpace 1.5 release have already accomplished this task. Next are the system administrators who install and maintain a DSpace repository. For these administrators, the process of installing DSpace has changed. Finally, for content curators and end-users this change has no effect. Thanks to Mark Diggory @ MIT for taking the lead on the Maven transition. For more information about the new installation procedures see the DSpace manual and for more information on Maven see their website: http://maven.apache.org/. Scott-- From michele at dspace.org Wed Feb 13 10:07:14 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:07:14 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] 1.5 release status References: Message-ID: > > Everyone, > > Good news, we're on track for the phase in the beta1 release scheduled > for tomorrow. There is one more patch waiting to be applied, the > documentation has seen lots of improvements - although there is still > more needed. We have had both successful fresh installs and more > importantly upgrades from 1.4.2 -> 1.5 -- and the process has been > documented. All the major features have been tested so there are no > show-stopper bugs for the test-a-thon next week. > > I wanted to remind everyone about our beta1 test-a-thon scheduled for > next week. I hope as many people as possible will be able to find some > time to find a few bugs in the new release. This is a huge release, so > there are sure to be plenty to find. > > If you are planning on hosting a test instance so that others can test > the DSpace interface could you please send out details on where it > will be hosted? Since there are multiple interfaces with this release > jspui, and several manakin themes, it would be nice to have a few > options. Even if you are not in a position to let others login as > administrators just a publicly viewable repository is helpful. > > Thank you, > Scott-- From michele at dspace.org Wed Feb 13 13:41:45 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:41:45 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Registration is Open: "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! Message-ID: <36B996C9-42FB-4985-B86C-7EA6E9D0213A@dspace.org> Please join us at JA-SIG, particularly if you can not make OR2008. We will kick off the week on Sunday April 27th with comprehensive developer training on DSpace- "upgrading to 1.5" and "Designing your site using Manakin". Also-we are still in need of proposals from the DSpace community at the conference itself- please consider presenting to share your experiences developing, managing, integration of your digital repository! This conference will be a great opportunity to hear how other open source community projects are working and learn about the world of open source in higher education. thanks, Michele Kimpton E.D. DSpace Foundation Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way! April 27 -30, 2008 The Crowne Plaza Hotel St. Paul, Minnesota, USA Registration for the JA-SIG Spring Conference in St. Paul is now open! This year, CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Kuali, Internet2, Sakai, and uPortal are planning a joint program. Conference events run Sunday, April 27th through Wednesday, April 30th. Supplementary seminars are scheduled before and after the conference. A BarCamp and a UCamp are scheduled on Wednesday afternoon (See site descriptions for these unique events) Visit the main conference site at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html for details. Early registration discounts end March 23, 2008. Register now at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/registration.html . We invite you to submit a presentation proposal. The Call for Proposals final deadline is Friday, February 22, 2008. Submit your proposal at http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html. Developers, designers, content providers, administrators, faculty, planners, strategists, decision makers... If you'd like to find out more about community source, learn from the experts, and collaborate with your peers...Come to "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" 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URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080218/597defb3/attachment.htm From stb28 at cam.ac.uk Mon Feb 18 13:00:37 2008 From: stb28 at cam.ac.uk (Simon Brown) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:00:37 +0000 Subject: [Dspace-general] History system Message-ID: Folks, I've noticed that the history manager writes a lot of files on our disks and takes up a lot of space (and inodes)... ...what's it for? -- Simon Brown - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 34714 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH From michele at dspace.org Mon Feb 18 20:32:35 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:32:35 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] data model In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0A48FDD5-AB98-4A50-BF8D-6A1307F9665F@dspace.org> Hi Takamitsu, 1.5 does not change the data model. A more complex data model that will accommodate hierarchal data is in the plan for 2.0. 1.5 features are incorporation of: Manakin, SWORD, Maven and a few other things you can find on the wiki and website. Please help us in testing 1.5. Go to http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Testathon thanks, Michele Kimpton On Feb 18, 2008, at 12:06 PM, dspace-general-request at mit.edu wrote: > 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. Data model on DSpace v1.5 (?????) > 2. JSR-168 Integration (Stephan Raemy) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:04:16 +0900 > From: ????? > Subject: [Dspace-general] Data model on DSpace v1.5 > To: > Message-ID: <20080218060414.85DE41DD31F at cdcsl01100.sorun.co.jp> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" > > Hi all, > I'm glad to know the release of "DSpace V1.5 Beta". > > I'd like to know if v1.5 has a revised data madel in order for us to > use > more complex metadata. > Seemingly the revision of data model to use complex meata data has > been > discussed on v2.0 mainly so that I wonder if v1.5 has same factor or > not. > Since theDSpace usage range of metadata is getting wider these days, > some > sites need to show the metadata hierarchically. > > Thanks. > Takamitsu Tonegawa > ************************ > SORUN Corp > Takamitsu Tonegawa > phone:+81-3-5427-5502 > URL:http://www.sorun.co.jp/ > ************************ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:43:23 +0100 > From: "Stephan Raemy" > Subject: [Dspace-general] JSR-168 Integration > To: > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi everybody, > > I'm currently involved in a project where we would like to use DSpace > within a Liferay portal. Is there a JSR-168 portlet based DSpace > client > planned or maybe already available? > > Regards, > > Stephan > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080218/597defb3/attachment-0001.htm > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dspace-general mailing list > Dspace-general at mit.edu > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general > > > End of Dspace-general Digest, Vol 55, Issue 14 > ********************************************** From michele at dspace.org Tue Feb 19 07:48:29 2008 From: michele at dspace.org (Michele Kimpton) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:48:29 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Test-a-Thon is on this week,please help Message-ID: <15020663-0BCE-49CC-B1F3-ECCC1DB5BACD@dspace.org> Dear members of the community, The test-a-thon for the 1.5 beta release of the DSpace platform is now in progress and we would like your help. If you are a developer please download the code, test and report issues. DSpace 1.5 can be download at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19984&package_id=143548&release_id=576338 . There is a 'src' version that requires building with Maven, and a pre-compiled binary version. If you are a USER you can test the site at several test instances that have been set up. Try to upload docs, browse and search docs, ect. There are a list of test sites at: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Testathon If you find bugs you can login to the IRC chat and report them to the team of developers waiting to triage these bugs at: http://dspace.testathon.net/ Or you can list the bugs on the wiki at: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Testathon Or you can enter in the source forge bug tracker system at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=119984&group_id=19984&func=browse The foundation will be giving away a few small prizes to the most active testers in the community. Thank-you for your participation, with your help we hope to have a stable release by OR2008! sincerely, Michele Kimpton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080219/ccdc70de/attachment.htm From lcs at MIT.EDU Tue Feb 19 22:41:36 2008 From: lcs at MIT.EDU (Larry Stone) Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:41:36 EST Subject: [Dspace-general] History system In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:00:37 +0000 Message-ID: > I've noticed that the history manager writes a lot of files on our > disks and takes up a lot of space (and inodes)... > > ...what's it for? The original History system was intended to record every modification to the DSpace data model (i.e. Bitstreams, Items, Collections, etc) so the provenance of every object can be established. For example, if someone submits a work, and later on somebody else changes the descriptive metadata, the original submitter can look at the history to see who made the changes and when. This is essential if you are concerned about digital preservation, since it effectively gives you an audit trail (aka _provenance_) showing the object's original submission and every change since. The old HistoryManager writes at least one file under [dspace]/history for every "transaction" that changes the data model. Each file is an independent record, in RDF/XML. If you do not need provenance for your archive, it is safe to delete the files under [dspace]/history -- although you'll have to keep deleting them periodically. Some sites modify the code (see class HistoryManager) to disable the writing of history. Note that the old History system was removed for the 1.5 release, as part of the Event System changes. I wrote a prototype of a new implementation based on Events, which records more meaningful (and documented) data and uses a modern RDF database (the OpenRDF triple-store) so it is also a lot more efficient. See the wiki: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/HistorySystemPrototype This is only a prototype, and it's fallen out of date, so it would have to be ported to the current 1.5 release and packaged with maven to become an add-on. It's got a lot of advantages over the old system, most notably that you can get a history report for an object showing all its activity - extracting the provenance. The old system had no queries or reporting. -- Larry From SimFirehawk at gmx.de Thu Feb 21 11:32:20 2008 From: SimFirehawk at gmx.de (Simon Mitschke) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:32:20 +0100 Subject: [Dspace-general] Language switcher Message-ID: <47BDA794.7070903@gmx.de> Hello Community, I tried to figure out how it is possible to set up my DSpace 1.4.2 with a language switcher on the page. I googled a lot, but didn't found a good answer. I downloaded already the messages.properties for german. So I want to have a german and english switch option. When I start my DSpace it shows up in german (because of my german browser) What must I do? Ciao Simon From john at ohiolink.edu Thu Feb 21 12:20:44 2008 From: john at ohiolink.edu (John Davison) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:20:44 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Test-a-thon server available Message-ID: <000001c874ae$175691a0$6c1e99c0@black> Greetings everyone, The OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons team is happy to provide a stock instance of DSpace 1.5 Beta for the Test-a-thon: http://olc4.ohiolink.edu:8080/dspace-xmlui-1.5.0-beta1 Please set aside a few minutes today to register and submit a couple of items to the system. It's easy! Three Easy Steps 1. Register an account: http://olc4.ohiolink.edu:8080/dspace-xmlui-1.5.0-beta1/register You will receive an email message with a confirmation link. Type in your first and last name, and a password. Once registration is finished, click on the Go To DRC Home Link. 2. Submit a File: Click on the DSpace 1.5 Beta collections link, --> the Open Collection link, and --> Submit a new item to this collection. 3. Step through the Item Submission process using the Next button at the bottom of the page. Feel free to skip fields that don't apply. Please try to include at a minimum the Title, Author, and Description of your upload. If you run into any problems, you can login to the IRC chat and report them to the team of developers waiting to triage these bugs at: http://dspace.testathon.net/ Or you can list the bugs on the wiki at: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Testathon Or you can enter in the source forge bug tracker system at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=119984 &group_id=19984&func=browse Thanks for making the test-a-thon a success. Sincerely, John Davison Assistant Director Digital Resource Commons Development OhioLINK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080221/f46ed3df/attachment.htm From gwiersma at MIT.EDU Thu Feb 21 13:41:59 2008 From: gwiersma at MIT.EDU (Grace Wiersma) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:41:59 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Language switcher In-Reply-To: <47BDA794.7070903@gmx.de> References: <47BDA794.7070903@gmx.de> Message-ID: <002f01c874b9$714777a0$77013312@mitlibraries.ms.mit.edu> Hi Simon, Excuse me if I am misunderstanding. Your post sounds as if you are having trouble with locale settings which are set up at your workstation to handle your regular language needs, but which are evoking an unwanted language interface automatically upon startup of DSpace, whereas what you want is a choice of interface language from a default English startup? (Or, was it that you want the option to point at "parallel" or alternate content/metadata in another language, which might be considered providing two simultaneous versions of a "single" resource within your DSpace repository?) I cannot offer any help--sorry--but am interested in both issues. Can you clarify (in case I misunderstood your post) and also summarize the responses to your query, perhaps explaining how you go about resolving this? I have issues with installed East Asian text services/locale settings, which on some of my workstations remain in the background until called (as they should), but on some, cause programs/applications to display an East Asian-language interface upon startup. This may explain my curiosity about your query. Thank you! Grace Wiersma Cataloging & Metadata Services MIT Libraries gwiersma at mit.edu (617) 253-0643 -----Original Message----- From: dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Simon Mitschke Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:32 AM To: DSpace Mailingliste Subject: [Dspace-general] Language switcher Hello Community, I tried to figure out how it is possible to set up my DSpace 1.4.2 with a language switcher on the page. I googled a lot, but didn't found a good answer. I downloaded already the messages.properties for german. So I want to have a german and english switch option. When I start my DSpace it shows up in german (because of my german browser) What must I do? Ciao Simon _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list Dspace-general at mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general From susan.parham at gmail.com Thu Feb 21 15:58:53 2008 From: susan.parham at gmail.com (Susan Parham) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:58:53 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Position Announcement: Georgia Tech, Digital Library Development - Web Developer Message-ID: <5f4ba2340802211258l28fd174bl501a4f97a4b0a5cc@mail.gmail.com> http://www.library.gatech.edu/about/jobs.php#sa2 Position Summary: The Systems Analyst II provides intermediate level web development, testing, documentation, implementation, and maintenance for the Georgia Tech Library's web-based digital programs. These applications are built primarily using open source software and emerging web technologies. Anticipate/investigate new trends in library technology so that we can respond quickly to changing user needs. Provide primary support for new initiatives such as scholarly communication, electronic publishing, and image databases, which includes technical support for digital preservation. Provide support for the Library's institutional repository and the digital collections of the Georgia Tech Archives. The Systems Analyst II will work with our partners on campus and in library consortia to share solutions to mutual challenges. Major Responsibilities: Facilitate access to digital archival and manuscript collections using technologies such as the Archivists' Toolkit, Fedora, DSpace, or other software. Provide support for the Archives' image database. Support the EPAGE publishing initiative, using Open Journal Systems and Open Conference Systems software. Provide enhancements and support for Library resources which use DSpace/Manakin, including SMARTech (Georgia Tech institutional repository), the Archives digital repository, and the Galileo Knowledge Repository. Perform additional related duties/projects as needed, involving web development for various library web sites needs. Experience: Three or more years of job related experience. Required Skill Set: Development experience includes XHTML, CSS, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, and PHP. Prefer experience with Java, Ruby on Rails and SQL. Familiarity with UNIX, LINUX and Apache. Computer experience: Access, Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/NT, UNIX/Linux, Dos, Mac and MS Office applications.The ability to apply collaborative communications technologies, open source tools and emerging web technologies and demonstrated ability to interact professionally with faculty, librarians and technical staff, as well as good customer service and communication skills. University and Library experience preferred. Selection process will include a background screening. Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a closely related field or equivalent combination of education and experience. Hiring Range: $44,330 - $56,500 Application Process: Apply online at: https://ea.ohr.gatech.edu/default.asp Job #: CEW7226 -- Susan Wells Parham Head, Digital Library Development Georgia Institute of Technology Library & Information Center 404-894-4522 susan.parham at gatech.edu From bendegan at yahoo.com Mon Feb 25 03:35:20 2008 From: bendegan at yahoo.com (hakan can) Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:35:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Dspace-general] (no subject) Message-ID: <207967.40974.qm@web50805.mail.re2.yahoo.com> members of Dspace, I do not want your mail. hope you wont sen mail. please, clear my e-mail in your list. thank you ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080225/08a6ac7a/attachment.htm From aridavidow at gmail.com Tue Feb 26 10:05:54 2008 From: aridavidow at gmail.com (Ari Davidow) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:05:54 -0500 Subject: [Dspace-general] Best practices for handling multiple related files Message-ID: <747cfaf50802260705g7766e103kde0899eb6baa4091@mail.gmail.com> We are just starting up a dspace archive for oral histories and I am making my way through the dspace wiki to understand best practices. One question, in particular, needs to be resolved before we can proceed. Each oral history has at least two pieces--an audio file (sometimes more than one) and a transcript relating to that file. In addition, there may be subsets of that master file (clips, podcasts) with related bits of the transcript. What is best practice for putting these items in the archive? If we upload each item as its own element, that's great and enables us to capture all of the file-specific metadata appropriately, but would mean re-entering general metadata (e.g., noting the interviewer and interviewee, where the interview took place, the interviewee's bio, key words related to the interview, etc.) If we upload files together, then how do we capture file-specific info (e.g., "extent" or filetype, checksum, etc.) Am I missing this is an obvious place in the online docs? If not, what practices are people using? Many thanks, Ari Davidow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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However there is 1.5 days dedicated to a DSpace user group meeting -There will also be a meeting April 27-April 30 in Minnesota sponsored by JA-SIG "Open source solutions for higher education" During the Sunday-there will be DSpace training on 1.5 and designing with Manakin ( for the developer community). -There is also another technical and user training planned at JCDL upcoming in Pittsburgh in June 2008. You can also find training materials to get you started on DSpace at our website at: http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=61&Itemid=151 NITLE also offers training on a regular basis geared toward repository managers and administrators. If you are a member of NITLE you can participate and we are working with them to see if they will allow members of the community to join in. Hope that helps as a start! Michele Begin forwarded message: > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:29:46 -0500 > From: "Eric Condic" > Subject: [Dspace-general] User Group Meeting and Training > To: "DSpace General Mailing List" > Message-ID: <008101c8788c$6aedc0e0$0676d28d at opennet.oakland.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > We're new to DSpace, is there a North American User Group for > DSpace? Do > they plan on meeting this year? Also, does anyone know of a site that > offers technical training on DSpace? > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Eric > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/dspace-general/attachments/20080226/5fe77f9c/attachment.htm From courtois at ksu.edu Fri Feb 29 09:36:09 2008 From: courtois at ksu.edu (Martin Courtois) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:36:09 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] External Submission Form Message-ID: <1204295769.47c81859e6548@webmail.ksu.edu> The advent of SWORD will probably change all this, but is anyone using, at this time, a submission form external to DSpace? At Kansas State University, we've used the DSpace submission process for our ETDs, but as we talk with faculty about creating collections of their scholarly output, they like the idea of a very simple submission form, such as this one: http://labs.lib.ksu.edu/repo/uploadForm.shtml We wanted to avoid having users go through the DSpace registration process and to see if a simple, single screen submission form would encourage faculty to submit. Since we expect a low number of submissions, our plan is to have library staff review each submission and create a full metadata record. I'd be interested to hear if others have considered this approach. Thanks for your thoughts, Marty Martin Courtois Information Technology Assistance Center 212 Hale Library Kansas State University Manhattan KS 66506 Phone: 785 532-4428 Fax: 785 532-3199 E-mail: courtois at ksu.edu From hmercer at ku.edu Fri Feb 29 16:48:46 2008 From: hmercer at ku.edu (Mercer, Holly) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:48:46 -0600 Subject: [Dspace-general] Call for papers: Special issue on metadata and institutional repositories: Cataloging and Classification Quarterly Message-ID: <1E3ABD54B1C7AC4692BDD6D7C880533D07721BF8@MAILBOXTHREE.home.ku.edu> Please excuse cross postings. Call for papers: Special issue on metadata and institutional repositories: Cataloging and Classification Quarterly OVERVIEW The general aim of this special issue of Cataloging and Classification Quarterly is to report and assess the current status and trends in describing the contents of institutional repositories, including semantic and syntactic schemes, staffing, work flows, tools, training, and resource issues. The guest co-editors seek to outline major challenges and future perspectives related to the application, harvesting, and interoperability of institutional repository metadata. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly emphasizes full-length research and review articles, descriptions of new programs and technology relevant to cataloging and classification, considered speculative articles on improved methods of bibliographic control for the future. The guest editors seek to represent an international perspective. Submissions by authors outside North America are encouraged. TOPICS Topics of interest include but are not restricted to: * Role of the cataloger/metadata librarian in institutional repositories * Augmenting repository metadata through social tagging and community annotation * Metadata standards and profiles in open access repositories * Authority control and author affiliation in IRs * Metadata issues affecting "findability" of repository content * Integration of institutional repositories and the library catalog * Metadata quality and harvested metadata * Library-created vs. author-produced metadata * Metadata process and workflows in institutional repositories IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract (up to 500 words): 31 March 2008 * Notification of appropriateness: 15 April 2008 * Manuscript submission: 15 July 2008 * Notification of acceptance/rejection: 1 September 2008 * Final revisions due: 1 November 2008 * Tentative publication date: Spring, 2009 SUBMISSION Submission of a manuscript to this journal represents a certification on the part of the author(s) that it is an original work, and that neither this manuscript nor a version of it has been published elsewhere nor is being considered for publication elsewhere. Potential contributors to the special issue are strongly encouraged to submit an extended abstract for feedback as to the suitability of proposed papers until 31 March 2008. Submissions should be sent as e-mail attachments to the following addresses: hmercer[at]ku[dot]edu & m-babinec[at]northwestern[dot]edu GUEST EDITORS * Michael Babinec, Assistant Head Bibliographic Services Department, Northwestern University * Holly Mercer, Interim Coordinator for Scholar Services, University of Kansas "Cataloging & Classification Quarterly is respected as an international forum for discussion in all aspects of bibliographic organization. It presents a balance between theoretical and applied articles in the field of cataloging and classification, and considers the full spectrum of creation, content, management, and use and usability of both bibliographic records and catalogs. This includes the principles, functions, and techniques of descriptive cataloging; the wide range of methods of subject analysis and classification; provision of access for all formats of materials; and policies, planning, and issues connected to the effective use of bibliographic records in modern society." More information about Cataloging and Classification Quarterly can be found online: http://www.catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com