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Moving DSpace Forward

Moving DSpace Forward. Dr Robert Tansley Digital Media Systems Department, HP. Talk Overview. DSpace yesterday and today A view of DSpace moving forward Upcoming in DSpace 1.4 and beyond. DSpace yesterday and today. The Origins of DSpace.

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Moving DSpace Forward

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  1. Moving DSpace Forward Dr Robert Tansley Digital Media Systems Department, HP

  2. Talk Overview • DSpace yesterday and today • A view of DSpace moving forward • Upcoming in DSpace 1.4 and beyond DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  3. DSpace yesterday and today DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  4. The Origins of DSpace • Problem of a long-term home for born-digital material identified by HP Labs and MIT Libraries • Vision: Learn by doing it… • Build a simple functioning system • Start ingesting and managing content • …and build a community to make it better • Open source approach to encourage adoption, enable researchers and developers to enhance • The system and our knowledge continues to improve! DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  5. DSpace Timeline DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  6. DSpace Today • 35,000 downloads since 1.0 • 125 registered deployments • Sizes ranging from a few dozen to 110,000 items • Contains code from nearly 60 developers • ~850 subscribers to general list • ~650 subscribers to main technical list DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  7. Current Uses • Majority “Institutional Repositories” • Documents, “learning objects”, primary data, images, video • Government Organisations • Superior Court of Justice in Brazil • Kansas State Library, Kansas State Historical Society • Los Alamos National Labs • Corporate internal use • HP Labs! • Research Platform DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  8. Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Denmark Finland France Countries with DSpace Deployments • Germany • Greece • Hong Kong • India • Ireland • Italy • Japan • Mexico • Namibia • Netherlands • Norway • Portugal • Russia • Singapore • South Africa • Spain • Sweden • Turkey • Taiwan • UK • USA DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  9. Moving DSpace Forward:The Tasks Ahead DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  10. More help please! Committer group Current community focus Innovate Some work; more needed Some work; more needed Innovate Need more here Best practice Need more here DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  11. Already in the Works DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  12. Upcoming in DSpace 1.4 • User interface improvements • Browse by Subject (Indian Institute of Science) • Controlled vocabulary entry in submission (Universidade do Minho) • Improved internationalisation (University of Cambridge; Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund) • Community-contributed translations: • Bahasa Indonesia • Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) • French • Galician • German • Hungarian • Japanese • Norwegian Bokmål • Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian) • Swedish DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  13. Upcoming in DSpace 1.4 • Improved modularity • Plug-in manager (MIT) • Documented add-on mechanism (University of Bergen and others) • “Stackable” authentication (MIT) • Better Windows support (HP Labs) • Scalability improvements (MIT) DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  14. Upcoming in DSpace 1.4 • Repository improvements • Automated integrity checking (checksums) – (DSpace@Cambridge) • RSS Feeds (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) • Support for multiple metadata schemas (not just DC) (Eduworks) • Configure fields (DC or other) to use for browse, search and display (HP Labs, Beihang University, University of Bergen) • Pluggable SIP ingest/DIP dissemination (MIT) • Pluggable metadata crosswalks (XSLT or Java code) (MIT) • Exposing METS and MPEG-21 DIDL via OAI-PMH (enabling resource harvesting/replication) (HP Labs, Beihang University, LANL) • Use remote Handle Server (HP Labs, Beihang University) • Authorisation improvements (CILEA) DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  15. Future developments (1.5+) • Web Services Interface (WebDAV & SOAP) • Messaging (JMS/ActiveMQ, or WS-notify) • METS AIP manifest generation + storage • Federation (metadata and content) • XML-based UI (Manakin, dev led by Texas A&M) • Researcher Pages • More configurable submission UI • JHOVE integration • Anything else you come up with! DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  16. Ongoing Research • Federation (China Digital Museum Project) • HP Labs; China Ministry of Education; Beihang University • Policy enforcement in data grid environments (Pledge) • MIT, UCSD Libraries, San Diego Supercomputer Center • Semantic Web - SIMILE • Preservation - DSpace@Cambridge DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  17. Other developments • DSpace reaches 3rd birthday • DSpace governance advisory board announced • XML UI (Manakin) Working Group formed • Hopefully to be followed by others • DSpace METS profile draft DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  18. Summary • Great progress building an active community around DSpace • New features coming thick and fast • Need more work on: • Testing/QA • Systems engineering • Repository architecture • Collection management interfaces • Poised to make DSpace a very powerful, sustainable platform DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

  19. Please get involved! • Test • Translate • Deploy • Experiment • Develop • Document • Support • Share experiences DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney

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