[Dspace-tech] PARTICIPATE: DuraSpace Board-Member-at-Large Elections
Apologies for the cross-posting March 24, 2015 Read it online: http://duraspace.org/node/2508 http://duraspace.org/node/2508 Contact: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Dear DSpace Community, As a part of the new governance model, DuraSpace is officially launching the nominations phase of our Board-Member-at-Large elections. The DuraSpace Board of Directors plays a key role in setting the strategic direction and priorities of the DuraSpace non-profit organization. Up to this point all new board members have been nominated and elected by the sitting board members. Along with the transition to a membership-based organization, there will be one (1) community elected DuraSpace board member, called the Board-Member-at-Large, who will be nominated by the community and elected by DuraSpace Members. DuraSpace Organization Board of Directors Role The Board of Directors works with the DuraSpace CEO, Debra Hanken Kurtz, helping to set the strategic direction and priorities of the DuraSpace non-profit organization. The responsibilities include: Determining the organization's mission and purposes Hiring and on-going support of the Chief Executive Officer Building strategic relationships, including making connections to potential supporters, funders, customers, stakeholders; enable the building of alliances, partnerships, and business relationships Fiscal oversight and risk management, including review and approval of corporate financial reports and high-level decision making to ensure the fiscal health of the organization Review and approval business strategies, revenue-generating, and fund raising strategies Monitoring the organization's programs and services Enhancing the organization's public image Board members serve for a term of 2 years. The next term begins July 1, 2015 and ends June 30, 2017. There are 4 meetings a year, 2 in-person meetings (can call in) and 2 conference call meetings. Board-Member-at-Large Nomination Beginning today, we invite anyone in the community, DuraSpace members or non-member, to nominate an individual who you believe would be a good representative of the community. All nominees must be from DuraSpace member organizations (see full list here: http://bit.ly/duraspace_members http://bit.ly/duraspace_members). Board-Member-at-Large candidates should be at the senior management level at their organizations, and have fiscal and staffing responsibility. And of course, they will, in your judgment, be able to bring the commitment, creativity, and dedication that the role calls for. Self-nominations are welcome and you may submit more than one nomination. Please submit your nomination/s using this form http://bit.ly/bod_nominate http://bit.ly/bod_nominate by April 3, 2015. Next Steps At the end of the nomination process individuals nominated will be asked to confirm their interest in serving and to submit a brief personal statement. The election will take place in April, with each Member organization’s Community Liaison casting a vote based on the direction of their management. We will send additional instructions at the start of the election period. If you have any questions about the Board-Member-at-Large nomination and election process please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Membership and Finance DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] ANNOUNCEMENT: Debra Hanken Kurtz Appointed DuraSpace CEO
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 20, 2015 Read it online: http://bit.ly/1CLmF4P Dear DSpace Community, It brings us great pleasure to announce that the DuraSpace Board of Directors has chosen Debra Hanken Kurtz to serve as the new CEO for the Organization. Kurtz is currently the Executive Director of the Texas Digital Library. She will begin in her new role on February 16, 2015 and establish an office in Austin, Texas to manage DuraSpace business operations. Kurtz brings key relevant experience and skills to DuraSpace. As Executive Director of the Texas Digital Library, she managed and grew membership, operations, and services. She participates in working and planning groups for DPN and SHARE. At both Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill Libraries, Kurtz provided leadership and direction for digital collections, public websites, and early planning efforts for both libraries’ institutional repositories. She was an active partner within the Triangle Research Libraries Network and has been a voice for Kuali OLE, an open-source integrated library system built by and for academic and research libraries. Kurtz’s complete background can be found on linkedin. The DuraSpace team and Board of Directors is enthusiastic about working with Kurtz and establishing the strategic direction for DuraSpace over the coming years in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital research and scholarship. Leveraging open source technology development to advance our communities’ goals and objectives will continue to be a focus for the DuraSpace organization. All member organizations will have an opportunity to meet and talk with Kurtz at the upcoming DuraSpace Membership Summit in Washington DC on March 11-12. Meeting invitations and details will be sent out later this week to all member organizations. The search was conducted by a committee of the Board, augmented by MacKenzie Smith, University Librarian at UC Davis, and Julia Trimmer, Manager Faculty Data Systems, Duke University. We are grateful to everyone for their continued support throughout this process. As a result of your ongoing interest, engagement and participation DuraSpace is well-positioned to continue to serve our communities by providing leadership and innovation in the development and deployment of open source technologies and managed services that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. Sincerely, Michele Kimpton, Chief Executive Officer, DuraSpace Paul N. Courant, Chair, DuraSpace Board of Directors, University of Michigan On behalf of the DuraSpace Board of Directors: Dan Cohen, Executive Director, Digital Public Library of America Mike Conlon, Co-Director, University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and Director of Biomedical Informatics, UF College of Medicine Paul N. Courant, Harold T. Shapiro Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Information, the University of Michigan Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist and Associate Director of Digital Library Systems Services, Stanford University Charles J. Henry, President, Council on Library and Information Resources Anne Jarvis, University Librarian, University of Cambridge Heather Joseph, Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Tyler Walters, Dean of University Libraries, Virginia Tech University Laura C. Wood, Director of Tisch Library, Tufts University-- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service with a new server in Ashburn. Choose from 2 high performing configs, both with 100TB of bandwidth. Higher redundancy.Lower latency.Increased capacity.Completely compliant. http://p.sf.net/sfu/gigenet___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] REGISTER: Advanced DSpace Training Feb 17-19
Apologies for the cross-posting To read on-line visit: http://duraspace.org/node/2414# Winchester, MA We are happy to announce the re-scheduled dates for the in-person, 3-day Advanced DSpace Course in Austin February 17-19, 2015. The total cost of the course is being underwritten with generous support from the Texas Digital Library and DuraSpace. As a result, the registration fee for the course for DuraSpace Members is only $250 and $500 for Non-Members (meals and lodging not included). Seating will be limited to 15 participants. Course Overview The three-day Advanced DSpace course provides instruction on advanced features and customizations in DSpace 4.2 and will also include a preview of 5.0 features. Topics covered will include: Configuration Themes and Aspects Emails Internationalization Authentication Media Filters Curation Tasks Submission Workflows Controlled Vocabularies Discovery, Search, and Browse Statistics Server Configuration Content Transmission OAI protocols and harvesting RESTSubmission/Dissemination Packages AIP backup and restore SWORD servers and clients Batch Imports XMLUI Theming Creating a new theme Colors, Fonts, and Layouts with CSS Presentation and Interaction For more information or to register visit here (http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07eadaxjdp3c05fe73llr=5iy95gcab). If you have any questions please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org.-- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming! The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] NEWS RELEASE: The Fedora 4 Production Release is Now Available—Not Your Dad’s Fedora
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 4, 2014 Contact: David Wilcox dwil...@duraspace.org Read it online: http://bit.ly/12vIgCu NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora 4 Production Release—Not Your Dad’s Fedora Groundbreaking new capabilities make Fedora 4 the repository platform of choice for right now and into the future. Winchester, MA The international Fedora repository community and DuraSpace are very pleased to announce the production release of Fedora 4. This significant release signals the effectiveness of an international and complex community source project in delivering a modern repository platform with features that meet or exceed current use cases in the management of institutional digital assets. Fedora 4 features include vast improvements in scalability, linked data capabilities, research data support, modularity, ease of use and more. Fedora 4 features were collaboratively chosen and developed by a virtual team of developers and stakeholders from around the globe. With DuraSpace support this committed team has ensured that Fedora Repository software will meet the emerging needs of the academic research community now and for the next decade. • DOWNLOAD Fedora 4: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads • RELEASE NOTES: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Fedora+4.0.0+Release+Notes • DOCUMENTATION: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA40/Fedora+4.0+Documentation • VIDEO: http://youtu.be/Mg_QFDAspoE Community Kudos Robin Ruggaber, Chair of the Fedora Steering Group and Library Chief Technology Officer at the University of Virginia commented on Fedora’s achievements: “The success of the Fedora community today is rooted in the way it operates. The community members govern, fund, shape and produce the solution to meet global repositories’ needs and performance requirements. The development is based on what product owners need and is managed so that everyone in the community can contribute without individually exhausting human or financial resources. We are maximizing the power of distributed development and ownership and are rewarded with a sustainable, low risk, moderate cost solution.” Stefano Cossu, Director of Application Services, Collections at The Art Institute of Chicago offered his reasons for adopting Fedora 4: “We have searched far and wide for a system that could store our large and diverse collection of art objects and their related assets, integrate in a complex architecture of legacy applications and data sources, and make our digital resources available in a wide variety of ways. We have adopted Fedora 4 very early for its scalability and flexibility in all its aspects, its adhesion to solid standards, the project's long-sighted goals and the extremely talented and motivated community around it.” Fedora 4 support for linked data—what it means for you The broad concept of linked data is the idea that the semantic web can connect everything. Fedora 4 makes that concept real. With built-in linked data support Fedora 4 offers the ability to develop discovery tools in compliance with the W3C Linked Data Platform specification. The long-held linked data promise of broad and deeply faceted discovery on the open web is based on the concept that information can be exchanged using the resource description framework (RDF) as a standard model. The ability to share data openly and take advantage of the semantic web means that content is not “inside a silo” that can only be discovered and re-used if repository software adheres to standardization and interoperability. With Fedora 4 the “Web is a repository” providing new kinds of digital collections and data sources for services and applications. Scalability—how big is big As larger data sets, larger files, research data and multimedia use cases have emerged in the community Fedora 4 is set to meet the challenge of improved scalability. Fedora 4 repositories can manage millions and millions of digital files along with extremely large files of any type running on top of back-end storage systems. This means that petabytes of storage are available to you because Fedora can potentially operate on top of any storage system via a pluggable, expandable connector framework. Flexibility and extensibility—plugging into what works The strength of Fedora repository software lies in it’s native flexibility and extensibility. Fedora 4 architecture builds on a lightweight core model with multiple, pluggable components and a standard set of robust APIs. Security Fedora 4 provides a pluggable, extensible security framework capable of supporting a variety of authorization systems. Two initial systems have been implemented—role-based authorization and XACML. A third, based on the emerging W3C Web Access Control standard, is currently being planned. By decoupling security from the repository core, Fedora 4 supports existing authorization standards rather than maintaining a custom security framework.
[Dspace-tech] REGISTER: Advanced DSpace Training Rescheduled
Apologies for the cross-posting To read on-line visit: http://duraspace.org/node/2382 Winchester, MA We are happy to announce the re-scheduled dates for the in-person, 3-day Advanced DSpace Course in Austin March 17-19, 2015. The total cost of the course is being underwritten with generous support from the Texas Digital Library and DuraSpace. As a result, the registration fee for the course for DuraSpace Members is only $250 and $500 for Non-Members (meals and lodging not included). Seating will be limited to 20 participants. Course Overview The three-day Advanced DSpace course provides instruction on advanced features and customizations in DSpace 4.2 and will also include a preview of 5.0 features. Topics covered will include: Configuration Themes and Aspects Emails Internationalization Authentication Media Filters Curation Tasks Submission Workflows Controlled Vocabularies Discovery, Search, and Browse Statistics Server Configuration Content Transmission OAI protocols and harvesting RESTSubmission/Dissemination Packages AIP backup and restore SWORD servers and clients Batch Imports XMLUI Theming Creating a new theme Colors, Fonts, and Layouts with CSS Presentation and Interaction For more information or to register visit here. If you have any questions please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org.-- Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DEADLINE EXTENDED: Let your voice be heard!
The deadline for DSpace Leadership Group nominations has been extended to November 14th. Visit http://bit.ly/LGnomination to make your nominations. See below for additional information. Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Let your voice be heard! Date: October 31, 2014 11:16:51 AM EDT To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com, dspace-steer...@googlegroups.com dspace-steer...@googlegroups.com Bcc: jjmar...@duraspace.org Sent on behalf of Jonathan Markow - Apologies for the cross posting Dear Colleague, DuraSpace’s open source projects -- DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO -- are officially launching the nominations phase of our Leadership Group elections. New Project Governance As you may be aware, each DuraSpace project is transitioning to a new governance model. This representative, community-based model includes several governing groups with various levels of responsibility (identifying project strategic direction, setting project roadmap, establishing project budget, etc.). Eligibility to serve in project governance is determined by participation in the DuraSpace Membership Program, incrementally enabling member organizations who have made the greatest commitments (financial or in-kind staff commitments) to the project. It is NOT TOO LATE to become a Member and participate in DSpace project governance! For more information on how to become a Member visit http://duraspace.org/about_membership. And for more information about the new governing groups, please visit http://dspace.org/governance. Leadership Group Individuals sitting on the Leadership Group play a key role in setting the strategic direction and priorities of the project through: Approval of the annual budget allocation Approval of the project roadmap Establishment of the community direction The Leadership Group will be partly comprised of individuals from organizations that have contributed $10,000 or more annually to the project and representatives from institutions contributing in-kind resources at approved levels. Institutions that contribute at lower membership levels will also be given an opportunity to serve on a Leadership Group, through annual elections based on policies that are customized by each project. This election process is where everyone in the community (both from member organizations and non-member organizations) can have a voice -- by nominating candidates for the Leadership Group from the pool of eligible member organizations. Leadership Group Nominations Beginning today, we invite anyone in the DSpace community, member or non-member, to nominate an individual who you believe would be a good representative of the community. All nominees must be from DSpace member organizations that qualify for elections (see full list here: http://bit.ly/dspace_members). Typically, Leadership Group candidates have fiscal or staffing responsibility within their organization and are able to allocate resources. And of course, they will, in your judgment, be able to bring the commitment, creativity, and dedication that the role calls for. Self-nominations are welcome and you may submit more than one nomination. Please submit your nomination/s using this form http://bit.ly/LGnomination by November 7. Next Steps At the end of the nomination process anyone nominated will be asked for a brief personal statement, which can either be emailed to vhollis...@duraspace.org or posted directly to the DuraSpace wiki. Voting will be based on membership levels and will take place before the end of November, with each member organization’s Community Liaison casting a vote for candidates based on the direction of their management. We will send additional instructions at the start of the election period later in November. If you have any questions about the new DSpace project governance or the nomination and election process please contact me. Thank you, Jonathan Markow Chief Strategy Officer DuraSpace jjmar...@duraspace.org -- ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] Let your voice be heard!
Sent on behalf of Jonathan Markow - Apologies for the cross posting Dear Colleague, DuraSpace’s open source projects -- DSpace, Fedora, and VIVO -- are officially launching the nominations phase of our Leadership Group elections. New Project Governance As you may be aware, each DuraSpace project is transitioning to a new governance model. This representative, community-based model includes several governing groups with various levels of responsibility (identifying project strategic direction, setting project roadmap, establishing project budget, etc.). Eligibility to serve in project governance is determined by participation in the DuraSpace Membership Program, incrementally enabling member organizations who have made the greatest commitments (financial or in-kind staff commitments) to the project. It is NOT TOO LATE to become a Member and participate in DSpace project governance! For more information on how to become a Member visit http://duraspace.org/about_membership. And for more information about the new governing groups, please visit http://dspace.org/governance. Leadership Group Individuals sitting on the Leadership Group play a key role in setting the strategic direction and priorities of the project through: Approval of the annual budget allocation Approval of the project roadmap Establishment of the community direction The Leadership Group will be partly comprised of individuals from organizations that have contributed $10,000 or more annually to the project and representatives from institutions contributing in-kind resources at approved levels. Institutions that contribute at lower membership levels will also be given an opportunity to serve on a Leadership Group, through annual elections based on policies that are customized by each project. This election process is where everyone in the community (both from member organizations and non-member organizations) can have a voice -- by nominating candidates for the Leadership Group from the pool of eligible member organizations. Leadership Group Nominations Beginning today, we invite anyone in the DSpace community, member or non-member, to nominate an individual who you believe would be a good representative of the community. All nominees must be from DSpace member organizations that qualify for elections (see full list here: http://bit.ly/dspace_members). Typically, Leadership Group candidates have fiscal or staffing responsibility within their organization and are able to allocate resources. And of course, they will, in your judgment, be able to bring the commitment, creativity, and dedication that the role calls for. Self-nominations are welcome and you may submit more than one nomination. Please submit your nomination/s using this form http://bit.ly/LGnomination by November 7. Next Steps At the end of the nomination process anyone nominated will be asked for a brief personal statement, which can either be emailed to vhollis...@duraspace.org or posted directly to the DuraSpace wiki. Voting will be based on membership levels and will take place before the end of November, with each member organization’s Community Liaison casting a vote for candidates based on the direction of their management. We will send additional instructions at the start of the election period later in November. If you have any questions about the new DSpace project governance or the nomination and election process please contact me. Thank you, Jonathan Markow Chief Strategy Officer DuraSpace jjmar...@duraspace.org -- ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DCAT: Amplifying Your Voice
Apologies for the cross-posting: Sept. 30, 2014 Read it online: http://duraspace.org/node/2305 Winchester, MA Over the past few months, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) has been engaged in outreach for increased global participation in the developing and funding of the DSpace project. DCAT’s role in the community has been formalized in the project governance structure and the goals and strategies of the group have been broadened. DCAT Seeking Use Case Requirements In order to ensure that the community's needs are reflected in the software, DCAT has recently undertaken the task of gathering requirements for future versions of DSpace. This input is critical to continued success of DSpace. Through monthly conference calls and the wiki, DCAT is documenting community use case needs for end users, administrative users, statistics/metrics, integrations and structural changes. To view use case requirements gathered so far visit here. Everyone from the DSpace community is encouraged to attend the monthly DCAT meetings and/or to add use cases directly to the wiki. Community input is also welcomed on any use cases found on the wiki, either by commenting or ‘liking’ a specific use case. The next DCAT meeting will be on statistics/metrics use cases on October 14 and 15. For information on participating, please visit here. New DCAT Charge DCAT represents the interests of repository managers and administrators across the globe and, indirectly, DSpace end users. DCAT is a permanent Working Group which advises other DSpace project governance and leadership groups (e.g., DSpace Steering Group). The Team solicits feedback through community-wide discussions, surveys, etc. to help ensure future software releases address the needs of the community. DCAT submits an annual report to the DSpace Steering group that makes the report public after review. A specific area of focus for DCAT is defined annually by DCAT and the Steering Group. For second half of 2014, DCAT’s area of focus is gathering use case requirements from the community. More about the DCAT charge and 2014 focus can be found here. New Chairpersons DCAT has two new co-chairs from the community; Maureen Walsh from The Ohio State University and Bram Luyten from @mire. As chairs, Maureen and Bram facilitate the team meetings, build consensus about the team’s priorities and serve as ex-officio member of the DSpace Steering Group to ensure effective communication between the governance groups. New Discussion Participation or DCAT Membership You do not need to be a DCAT member to express your needs and opinions! Anyone from the DSpace user community is welcome to participate in either the DCAT monthly meetings (which include satellite calls to accommodate various time zones), or in the online wiki discussions of use cases. You are also welcome to become a DCAT member. DCAT members are primarily individuals who function as DSpace repository managers at their institution. Members have an interest in advancing the development of the DSpace software and expanding the DSpace user community. DCAT aims to have global representation in order to provide broad support to the DSpace user community. DCAT members generally devote approximately 5-10 hours per month to the Team. For more information about DCAT activities visit here. If you have questions about DCAT, please contact Maureen Walsh walsh@osu.edu or Bram Luyten b...@atmire.com. -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] REMINDER: SPARC/DSpace User Group Mtg on March 5
Apologies for the cross-posting. Just a reminder that there is still time to register for the DSpace User Group Meeting on March 5. The session will be held following the SPARC Open Access Meeting in Kansas City. Please register here http://bit.ly/1fvE8Hs by March 1. Below is an outline of 2 presentations that have been added since the last announcement: Secrets of the Submission Form, Presented by Bram Luyten, @mire Learn how your DSpace repository submissions can be easier for you and your content contributors. By modifying your submission configuration you can use these not-so-obvious hints to improve the quality of information in your repository as well as minimizing the time it takes to complete a submission. Topics to include: Collection templates: pre-filling certain metadata fields on a per collection basis. Reviewer only fields: option to qualify fields in input forms to have them only visible for reviewers in the workflow Type based submission: inclusion of certain metadata fields in the form, based on a selected submission type Modifying your lists of dropdown values (the lists that are included at the bottom of input-forms.xml) Working with hierarchical controlled vocabularies (the XML based subject categories) Enabling LC Name authority control for author values Collection based Input forms: duplicating an input-forms configuration showing the match between an input-forms config and a collection Simple embargo private item state Breaking down barriers: This is your community, here's how to participate!, Presented by Hardy Pottinger, University of Missouri If you are new to community-driven open source software development, you may experience barriers to participation. This spirited and opinionated talk will provide an overview of how community-driven open source software projects work. You will be challenged to participate in the community in ways you may have thought were not available to you. Traditional development tools and practices will be faced off against more modern approaches. For more info please visit the meeting wiki page here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SPARC+DSpace+User+Group+Meeting+2014. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org wrote: Apologies for the cross-posting. Plans are in the works for a half day DSpace User Group Meeting from 8:30am to 12:30pm on March 5, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri, immediately following the SPARC Open Access Meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/oa12/) on March 2-4. We are in the process of developing the agenda and recruiting presenters. This has traditionally been a fairly informal meeting with lots of opportunity for networking with other DSpace users. In fact, we highly recommend that if possible you plan to allow time after the session to go to lunch and continue small group conversations around specific areas of interest. Plans are still developing, but the meeting will likely include: - Update on 4.0 and beyond - DSpace tutorial (specific topic TBD)* - Community Show Tell - Structured networking session (potential topics for discussion - upgrading to 4.0, repository bibliometrics, identifiers, APIs, DSpace and CC licenses, JSPUI vs XMLUI) If you have specific suggestions for other content (presentations, tutorials, discussions, etc.) to include in the meeting please feel free to email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Meeting Registration The meeting is being sponsored by the DuraSpace organization and @mire, a Registered DSpace Service Provider. The event It is free for anyone who wishes to participate. For planning purposes, please complete this registration form by March 1: http://bit.ly/1fvE8Hs. Community Show and Tell Attendees are invited to talk between 5 and 10 minutes about their own current projects. The use of a few key slides is encouraged but not required. This can include but should not be limited to work on the DSpace repository, best practices and lessons learned on: Budget: how you are managing your repository budget and responding to user needs Strategic planning: developing a strategy and costing for future development of the repository Fundraising: sourcing funding opportunities for repository projects Personnel: coordinating and managing activities of repository personnel and coordinating repository development with associated departments Other ideas?. For updated information, please visit the meeting wiki page here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SPARC+DSpace+User+Group+Meeting+2014 I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in March! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Managing the Performance
[Dspace-tech] SPARC/DSpace User Group Mtg on March 5
Apologies for the cross-posting. Plans are in the works for a half day DSpace User Group Meeting from 8:30am to 12:30pm on March 5, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri, immediately following the SPARC Open Access Meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/oa12/) on March 2-4. We are in the process of developing the agenda and recruiting presenters. This has traditionally been a fairly informal meeting with lots of opportunity for networking with other DSpace users. In fact, we highly recommend that if possible you plan to allow time after the session to go to lunch and continue small group conversations around specific areas of interest. Plans are still developing, but the meeting will likely include: - Update on 4.0 and beyond - DSpace tutorial (specific topic TBD)* - Community Show Tell - Structured networking session (potential topics for discussion - upgrading to 4.0, repository bibliometrics, identifiers, APIs, DSpace and CC licenses, JSPUI vs XMLUI) If you have specific suggestions for other content (presentations, tutorials, discussions, etc.) to include in the meeting please feel free to email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Meeting Registration The meeting is being sponsored by the DuraSpace organization and @mire, a Registered DSpace Service Provider. The event It is free for anyone who wishes to participate. For planning purposes, please complete this registration form by March 1: http://bit.ly/1fvE8Hs. Community Show and Tell Attendees are invited to talk between 5 and 10 minutes about their own current projects. The use of a few key slides is encouraged but not required. This can include but should not be limited to work on the DSpace repository, best practices and lessons learned on: Budget: how you are managing your repository budget and responding to user needs Strategic planning: developing a strategy and costing for future development of the repository Fundraising: sourcing funding opportunities for repository projects Personnel: coordinating and managing activities of repository personnel and coordinating repository development with associated departments Other ideas?. For updated information, please visit the meeting wiki page here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SPARC+DSpace+User+Group+Meeting+2014 I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in March! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] Registration for E-Science Institute is now open
Apologies for the cross posting. The next offering of the E-Science will run December 2013 through April 2014. Registration is available at http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute. The E-Science Institute is designed to help academic and research libraries develop a strategic agenda for e-research support, with a particular focus on the sciences. The Institute consists of a series of interactive modules that take small teams of individuals from your institution through a dynamic learning process to strengthen and advance their strategy for supporting computational scientific research. The coursework begins with a series of exercises for teams to complete at their institutions, and culminates with an in-person workshop. Local institution assignments help staff establish a high level understanding of research support background needs and issues. Originally funded and developed by the sponsors and supporting institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) / Digital Library Federation (DLF) and it was previously only available to their members. Going forward the E-Science Institute will be managed by the DuraSpace organization in partnership with ARL and CLIR/DLF, and will be open to all institutions. The current offering of the Institute includes improvements based on participant and faculty feedback as well as content updates as e-research services continue to mature individually and collectively. The E-Science Institute is limited to 25 institutions. Visit http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute for more details and to register. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs vhollis...@duraspace.org-- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg tomorrow June 11
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the DCAT meeting agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+June+11%2C+2013 Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Dial in instructions can be found on the agenda (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+June+11%2C+2013). Toll free international numbers are available. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group works with the committers on projects of interest to the community and helps review some JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). The goal of the DCAT review is to help move JIRA issues along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). DCAT has also been very involved in the DSpace Futures projects and in particular the proposal for improving metadata support in DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Updating+the+Qualified+Dublin+Core+registry+in+DSpace+to+the+latest+standards+of+the+DCMI). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg agenda for May 14
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the DCAT meeting agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+February+12%2C+2013+-+draft Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Dial in instructions can be found on the agenda (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+May+14%2C+2013). Toll free international numbers are available. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group works with the committers on projects of interest to the community and helps review some JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). The goal of the DCAT review is to help move JIRA issues along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). DCAT has also been very involved in the DSpace Futures projects and in particular the proposal for improving metadata support in DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Updating+the+Qualified+Dublin+Core+registry+in+DSpace+to+the+latest+standards+of+the+DCMI). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book Graph Databases is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Futures Metadata Improvements
Dear DSpace Community - As you may already be aware, DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) has been working on a proposal to improve the metadata support in DSpace. The initial direction of this project was based on the results of a community-wide survey. The recent DSpace Futures discussions also highlighted the need for metadata enhancements. As the starting point for enhanced metadata support, DCAT has finished drafting a proposal that would lay the foundation for future improvements by updating the existing Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) schema to the current Qualified Dublin Core (QDC) standard and ultimately implementing a fully functional DCTERMS metadata schema. The proposal also includes some suggestions for improving the protection of the schema standards as well as laying the groundwork for some added flexibility to add other standards and enabling a metadata infrastructure that supports other hierarchical and relational data structures. In folding this work into the DSpace Futures initiative, DCAT is hopeful everyone with an interest in improving metadata support in DSpace will get involved with the effort. The draft proposal can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposal+to+Update+QDC+Registry+and+Add+DCTERMS+Registry. Everyone from the community should feel free to add feedback in the Comments section at the bottom of the page (or any of the subpages). There will be a call to discuss the proposal on Wednesday, March 20 at 4:00pm EDT (20:00 UTC). DSpace committers, developers and members of the community are encouraged to participate. To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. - DSpace Community Advisory Team -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Futures mtg notes next steps
Thanks to those in the community who participated in the recent calls on the potential DSpace Futures initiatives on the REST API and DSpace and Hydra. Here is the link to the notes from the calls: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Futures We invite everyone in the community to add their feedback in the comments section at the bottom of the either of the notes pages -- and if you have other use cases for a REST API feel free to add them to the use case grid (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Futures+REST+API+Use+Cases). The meetings affirmed there is a lot of interest in the community in pursuing both a REST API and DSpace and Hydra. The next step is to have the individuals or institutions formally identify their willingness to be a part of the initiatives. To do so you may either let us know via email or on the wiki page (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Futures). Each initiative also needs a person from the community to take the lead. To clarify how this will work, we have outlined below the various roles. ROLES Lead / Co-Leads The initiative lead would help to convene regular meetings amongst all interested participants and developers. Would help to build consensus around use cases and requirements Would strive to keep the initiative moving forward. The role is an initiative management role. The individual(s) need not be technical. Steering Committee (optional) Ideally, a committee would be formed to help support the lead in the goals of building consensus and ensuring the initiative stays on track. Again, committee members need not be technical, but should have a good grasp of the problem at hand. Developer Team Would help to develop, test and release the actual code Would communicate directly with the Lead and/or Steering Committee around use cases and requirements Ideally, each developer would have approval from their workplace to spend a percentage of their time on the initiative Ideally, at least one existing DSpace Committer would be on this team. DuraSpace Would attend regular meetings and contribute to consensus building Would offer perspective from other initiatives and projects, and help ensure cross-communication between initiatives and with the DSpace Committer Team Would provide necessary infrastructure: conference line, wiki space, JIRA, GitHub, etc. Provide administrative support for any fund raising required Provide and contribute to communication channels for project awareness, status, etc. We look forward to helping the community move these initiatives forward! Michele Kimpton Chief Executive Officer mkimp...@duraspace.org Jonathan Markow Chief Strategy Officer jjmar...@duraspace.org Tim Donohue DSpace Technical Lead tdono...@duraspace.org Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and remains a good choice in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] OAI8 Pre-Conference DSpace User Group Meeting
Apologies for the cross posting @mire and the DSpace Community Advisory Team with the support of DuraSpace, invite all DSpace enthusiasts to the DSpace user group meeting on Tuesday, June 18th from 9:00am to 5:00pm in Geneva, Switzerland. Taking place right before the OAI8 conference the meeting will feature sessions on recent DSpace developments, both addressed to repository managers and developers. In addition, @mire representatives will introduce @mire's offering of services and add-on modules, supporting institutions running their own in-house repository. Invited speakers and attendees presenting their own experiences with DSpace will be announced in the coming weeks. To register, visit here. More information and the separate registration for the actual CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI8) can be found on the OAI8 website. The conference provides valuable updates for any repository manager in sessions led by Herbert Van de Sompel, Frank Scholze, Cameron Neylon, David Prosser and Neil Jacobs. Participants are also invited to visit CERN followed by an evening of inter cultural drink sharing in CERN's Globe.-- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Futures Call Today: DSpace Hydra
Just a reminder that the DSpace Futures call on DSpace Hydra is today at 12pm EST/17:00 UTC. Details and dial-in info is below. Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: DSpace Futures Calls Date: February 14, 2013 7:58:01 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Apologies for the cross-posting Dear DSpace Community, Last month DuraSpace shared a report on the current State of DSpace following a series of phone calls with sponsors, committers, DCAT members, and service providers (http://www.duraspace.org/dspace-futures). Among the many themes that emerged from these discussions, we have identified three in particular that generated broad interest. We would like to schedule follow-up conference calls for each of them in the next few weeks. These topics, if they are to evolve into actionable initiatives, will require active community participation and leadership.If your institution would like to become involved, we invite you and your colleagues to participate in the discussions that interest you: REST API / Repository Abstraction Layer. A number of people on the calls felt that DSpace would benefit considerably from the creation of its own full-featured REST API. This API would permit more flexible and agile UI development and would ease integration with third-party tools and applications. A call to discuss the REST API is scheduled for Wednesday, February 27, at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC). Participants may want to review two third-party APIs in advance of the call: Hedtek's DSpace REST API: https://github.com/hedtek/dspace-rest Wijiti's DSpace REST API: https://github.com/wijiti/dspace-rest-api To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. DSpace and Hydra. This discussion ranged from a vision of a DSpace Hydra head--one that would duplicate DSpace functionality using the Hydra framework (Ruby on Rails, Solr, Blacklight, Fedora)--to related variations such as Hydra front-end development on top of the DSpace back-end. Hydra Project partners are invited to attend this call, as well. A call to discuss DSpace and Hydra is scheduled for Friday, March 1, at 12:00pm EST (17:00 UTC). To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. Metadata Improvements. Metadata enhancement was one of the issues frequently raised in our telephone conversations. Coincidentally, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) was already working on a proposal to improve the metadata support based on results of an earlier community-wide survey (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposal+to+Update+QDC+Registry+and+Add+DCTERMS+Registry). As the starting point for enhanced metadata support, DCAT is creating a proposal that would lay the foundation for future improvements by updating the existing Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) schema to the current Qualified Dublin Core (QDC) standard. The proposal also includes some suggestions for improving the protection of the schema standards as well as laying the groundwork for some added flexibility to add other standards. In folding this work into the DSpace Futures initiative, DCAT is hopeful everyone with an interest in improving metadata support in DSpace will get involved with the effort. A call to discuss DSpace metadata improvements is scheduled for Wednesday, March 20 at 4:00pm EDT (20:00 UTC). To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. There is no need to register in advance for these calls. We will publish notes after each meeting for those who are interested but cannot attend. We look forward to speaking with you, Michele Kimpton Chief Executive Officer mkimp...@duraspace.org Jonathan Markow Chief Strategy Officer jjmar...@duraspace.org Tim Donohue DSpace Technical Lead tdono...@duraspace.org Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Futures Call Today: REST API
Just a reminder that the DSpace Futures call on REST API/Repository Abstraction Layer is today at 2pm Eastern. Details and dial-in info is below. Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: DSpace Futures Calls Date: February 14, 2013 7:58:01 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Apologies for the cross-posting Dear DSpace Community, Last month DuraSpace shared a report on the current State of DSpace following a series of phone calls with sponsors, committers, DCAT members, and service providers (http://www.duraspace.org/dspace-futures). Among the many themes that emerged from these discussions, we have identified three in particular that generated broad interest. We would like to schedule follow-up conference calls for each of them in the next few weeks. These topics, if they are to evolve into actionable initiatives, will require active community participation and leadership.If your institution would like to become involved, we invite you and your colleagues to participate in the discussions that interest you: REST API / Repository Abstraction Layer. A number of people on the calls felt that DSpace would benefit considerably from the creation of its own full-featured REST API. This API would permit more flexible and agile UI development and would ease integration with third-party tools and applications. A call to discuss the REST API is scheduled for Wednesday, February 27, at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC). Participants may want to review two third-party APIs in advance of the call: Hedtek's DSpace REST API: https://github.com/hedtek/dspace-rest Wijiti's DSpace REST API: https://github.com/wijiti/dspace-rest-api To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. DSpace and Hydra. This discussion ranged from a vision of a DSpace Hydra head--one that would duplicate DSpace functionality using the Hydra framework (Ruby on Rails, Solr, Blacklight, Fedora)--to related variations such as Hydra front-end development on top of the DSpace back-end. Hydra Project partners are invited to attend this call, as well. A call to discuss DSpace and Hydra is scheduled for Friday, March 1, at 12:00pm EST (17:00 UTC). To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. Metadata Improvements. Metadata enhancement was one of the issues frequently raised in our telephone conversations. Coincidentally, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) was already working on a proposal to improve the metadata support based on results of an earlier community-wide survey (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposal+to+Update+QDC+Registry+and+Add+DCTERMS+Registry). As the starting point for enhanced metadata support, DCAT is creating a proposal that would lay the foundation for future improvements by updating the existing Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) schema to the current Qualified Dublin Core (QDC) standard. The proposal also includes some suggestions for improving the protection of the schema standards as well as laying the groundwork for some added flexibility to add other standards. In folding this work into the DSpace Futures initiative, DCAT is hopeful everyone with an interest in improving metadata support in DSpace will get involved with the effort. A call to discuss DSpace metadata improvements is scheduled for Wednesday, March 20 at 4:00pm EDT (20:00 UTC). To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. There is no need to register in advance for these calls. We will publish notes after each meeting for those who are interested but cannot attend. We look forward to speaking with you, Michele Kimpton Chief Executive Officer mkimp...@duraspace.org Jonathan Markow Chief Strategy Officer jjmar...@duraspace.org Tim Donohue DSpace Technical Lead tdono...@duraspace.org Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Futures Calls
Apologies for the cross-posting Dear DSpace Community, Last month DuraSpace shared a report on the current State of DSpace following a series of phone calls with sponsors, committers, DCAT members, and service providers (http://www.duraspace.org/dspace-futures). Among the many themes that emerged from these discussions, we have identified three in particular that generated broad interest. We would like to schedule follow-up conference calls for each of them in the next few weeks. These topics, if they are to evolve into actionable initiatives, will require active community participation and leadership.If your institution would like to become involved, we invite you and your colleagues to participate in the discussions that interest you: REST API / Repository Abstraction Layer. A number of people on the calls felt that DSpace would benefit considerably from the creation of its own full-featured REST API. This API would permit more flexible and agile UI development and would ease integration with third-party tools and applications. A call to discuss the REST API is scheduled for Wednesday, February 27, at 2:00pm EST (19:00 UTC). Participants may want to review two third-party APIs in advance of the call: Hedtek's DSpace REST API: https://github.com/hedtek/dspace-rest Wijiti's DSpace REST API: https://github.com/wijiti/dspace-rest-api To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. DSpace and Hydra. This discussion ranged from a vision of a DSpace Hydra head--one that would duplicate DSpace functionality using the Hydra framework (Ruby on Rails, Solr, Blacklight, Fedora)--to related variations such as Hydra front-end development on top of the DSpace back-end. Hydra Project partners are invited to attend this call, as well. A call to discuss DSpace and Hydra is scheduled for Friday, March 1, at 12:00pm EST (17:00 UTC). To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. Metadata Improvements. Metadata enhancement was one of the issues frequently raised in our telephone conversations. Coincidentally, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) was already working on a proposal to improve the metadata support based on results of an earlier community-wide survey (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposal+to+Update+QDC+Registry+and+Add+DCTERMS+Registry). As the starting point for enhanced metadata support, DCAT is creating a proposal that would lay the foundation for future improvements by updating the existing Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) schema to the current Qualified Dublin Core (QDC) standard. The proposal also includes some suggestions for improving the protection of the schema standards as well as laying the groundwork for some added flexibility to add other standards. In folding this work into the DSpace Futures initiative, DCAT is hopeful everyone with an interest in improving metadata support in DSpace will get involved with the effort. A call to discuss DSpace metadata improvements is scheduled for Wednesday, March 20 at 4:00pm EDT (20:00 UTC). To join this call, dial +1 209.647.1600, participant code 117433#. There is no need to register in advance for these calls. We will publish notes after each meeting for those who are interested but cannot attend. We look forward to speaking with you, Michele Kimpton Chief Executive Officer mkimp...@duraspace.org Jonathan Markow Chief Strategy Officer jjmar...@duraspace.org Tim Donohue DSpace Technical Lead tdono...@duraspace.org Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg agenda for tomorrow
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the DCAT meeting agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday, February 12, 2012 at 10:00am Eastern/15:00 UTC: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+February+12%2C+2013+-+draft Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. Please note: we are still having connectivity issues with the freeconferencecallhd.2096471600 Skype dial-in. Generally you can get on, but Skype seems to boot you off at regular intervals. To avoid the frustration we recommend dialing in via a Skype phone call -- simply use the Skype dial pad and dial the USA # 209-647-1600 and then the conference code # as prompted. You will need to have a Skype account with money in it in order to place this kind of call. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group works with the committers on projects of interest to the community and helps review some JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). The goal of the DCAT review is to help move JIRA issues along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg notes for Oct 9
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the notes from today's DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) meeting here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes+October+9%2C+2012 Due to the current work on the 3.0 release we will not be holding a Developer/DCAT overlap meeting tomorrow, October 10. Our next DCAT meeting will be on November 13 at 10:00am Eastern/15:00 UTC. The next Developer/DCAT overlap meeting will be on Wednesday, November 14 at 4:00pm Eastern/ 21:00 UTC and last until 4:15 Eastern/21:15 UTC. Anyone from the community is welcome to attended both meetings. Agendas are posted the day before the meetings. If you have questions, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg agenda for tomorrow
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the DCAT meeting agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday October 9 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+October+9%2C+2012 In light of the 3.0 testathon starting this week we will have one of the release team members, Sands Fish, join our mtg to discuss how DCAT and the rest of the DSpace community can help. Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. Please note: we are still having connectivity issues with the freeconferencecallhd.2096471600 Skype dial-in. Generally you can get on, but Skype seems to boot you off at regular intervals. To avoid the frustration we recommend dialing in via a Skype phone call -- simply use the Skype dial pad and dial the USA # 209-647-1600 and then the conference code # as prompted. You will need to have a Skype account with money in it in order to place this kind of call. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group helps review the JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS) classified as new feature requests for DSpace. The goal of the DCAT review is to help move the feature along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg notes from Sept 4
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the notes from Tueday's DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) meeting here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes+September+4%2C+2012 You can see the transcript of the Developer/DCAT overlap meetings from today here: http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2012-09-05. Our next DCAT meeting will be on October 9 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC. The next Developer/DCAT overlap meeting will be on Wednesday, October 10 at 4:00pm Eastern/ 19:00 UTC and last until 4:15 Eastern/20:15 UTC. Anyone from the community is welcome to attended both meetings. Agendas are posted the day before the meetings. If you have questions, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] DCAT meeting tomorrow
Meeting is TODAY, September 4. On Sep 3, 2012, at 10:59 PM, Valorie Hollister wrote: Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the DCAT meeting agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday August 14 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+9.4.12 Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. Please note: we have been having connectivity issues with the freeconferencecallhd.2096471600 Skype dial-in lately. Generally you can get on, but Skype seems to boot you off at regular intervals. To avoid the frustration we recommend dialing in via a Skype phone call -- simply use the Skype dial pad and dial the USA # 209-647-1600 and then the conference code # as prompted. You will need to have a Skype account with money in it in order to place this kind of call. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group helps review the JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS) classified as new feature requests for DSpace. The goal of the DCAT review is to help move the feature along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT meeting tomorrow
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the DCAT meeting agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday August 14 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+9.4.12 Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. Please note: we have been having connectivity issues with the freeconferencecallhd.2096471600 Skype dial-in lately. Generally you can get on, but Skype seems to boot you off at regular intervals. To avoid the frustration we recommend dialing in via a Skype phone call -- simply use the Skype dial pad and dial the USA # 209-647-1600 and then the conference code # as prompted. You will need to have a Skype account with money in it in order to place this kind of call. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group helps review the JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS) classified as new feature requests for DSpace. The goal of the DCAT review is to help move the feature along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] E-Science Institute - last week to register
This is the final week to register for the DuraSpace/ARL/DLF E-Science Institute! There are just a few openings available for the fall 2012 offering, which runs from September 6 through December 13. To register, visit http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute. The E-Science Institute is designed to help academic and research libraries develop a strategic agenda for e-research support, with a particular focus on the sciences. The Institute consists of a series of interactive modules that take small teams of individuals from your institution through a dynamic learning process to strengthen and advance their strategy for supporting computational scientific research. The coursework begins with a series of exercises for teams to complete at their institutions, and culminates with an in-person workshop. Local institution assignments help staff establish a high level understanding of research support background needs and issues. Originally funded and developed by the sponsors and supporting institutions of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) / Digital Library Federation (DLF) and it was previously only available to their members. Going forward the E-Science Institute will be managed by the DuraSpace organization in partnership with ARL and CLIR/DLF, and will be open to all institutions. The current offering of the Institute includes improvements based on participant and faculty feedback as well as content updates as e-research services continue to mature individually and collectively. The registration deadline is September 1 and the launch webinar will be held next Thursday, September 6 at 1pm Eastern. For more information, please visit http://duraspace.org/e-science-institute.-- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg notes from 8/14
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the notes from Tueday's DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) meeting here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes+8.14.12 Our next DCAT meeting will be on September 4 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC. Going forward DCAT members will also attend the first 15 minutes of the Developer's meeting to discuss specific topics. The first Developer/DCAT overlap meeting will be on Wednesday, September 5 at 4:00pm Eastern/ 19:00 UTC and last until 4:15 Eastern/20:15 UTC. Anyone from the community is welcome to attended either mtg. Agenda for both mtgs are posted the day before the meetings. Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. If you have questions, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg tomorrow
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the DCAT meeting agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday August 14 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+8.14.12. Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. Please note: we have been having connectivity issues with the freeconferencecallhd.2096471600 Skype dial-in lately. Generally you can get on, but Skype seems to boot you off at regular intervals. To avoid the frustration we recommend dialing in via a Skype phone call -- simply use the Skype dial pad and dial the USA # 209-647-1600 and then the conference code # as prompted. You will need to have a Skype account with money in it in order to place this kind of call. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group helps review the JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS) classified as new feature requests for DSpace. The goal of the DCAT review is to help move the feature along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards!
Congratulations to Lighton Phiri from the University of Cape Town -- the winner of the June $100 gift card drawing! The July KnowledgeBase drawing is on! Contribute to the DuraSpace KnowledgeBase to get your chance at a $100 Amazon gift card! Don't feel like an expert? You can still contribute content! There are many previously written resources (the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) that you can adapt/re-use (with proper attribution) and put into the KnowledgeBase format. To be eligible for the July drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by July 31, 2012. See below for sample content, links to previously written resources and more details or feel free to email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards! Date: January 31, 2012 9:23:51 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Dear DSpace and Fedora User Communities, Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card! Beginning on February 1, DuraSpace will be holding a monthly drawing to encourage content contributions to the new KnowledgeBase (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase). The KnowledgeBase is an initiative aimed at improving the training and educational resources available to the DSpace and Fedora user communities. Once it is populated with content, this wiki-based resource will help new users get a repository up and running as well as perform various basic administrative tasks using a variety of delivery tools (text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars, etc.). The usefulness of the KnowledgeBase depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. For the next several months if you create content you not only help the community but you could win a chance to help yourself to something on your Amazon wish list! Drawing Details Each month DuraSpace will put out the call for new content contributions to the KnowledgeBase. Contributors can create any type of content the wish -- text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, etc. to address any topic under the existing topic outline for either DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). All entries must be posted to the appropriate wiki page by contributors by the last day of the month. All entries will be validated to ensure submissions meet the minimum entry requirement which is either, 1) a complete text guide for an existing outline topic or for an additional supplemental topic, or 2) a complete screencast for one outline topic/subtopic, approximately 5 minutes in length. Contributors may use adapt/update previously published material (The DSpace Course http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615, Fedora Tutorial https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORACREATE/Tutorial+1+-+Introduction+to+Fedora, etc.), although appropriate attribution should be footnoted. A random drawing will determine a winner of that month's $50 Amazon gift card, which will be awarded within 7 days. Anyone outside of DuraSpace employees/contract employees is eligible to participate. Individuals may enter the contest more than once in the same month to increase their chances of winning and may also win for multiple months. Take a Look The KnowledgeBase was developed in consultation with the community and was designed to allow for as much flexibility and community contributions -- however large or small -- as possible. Content is easy to contribute using the familiar DuraSpace wiki environment. Simply edit or add pages the same way you do anywhere else on the wiki. Any suggestions you may have for making the content more useful, more relevant for the community is always welcomed. Either use the Comment section at the bottom of each page or email Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org. For more information about the KnowledgeBase
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg notes from July 3
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the notes from today's DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) meeting here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes+July+3%2C+2012 Our next DCAT meeting will be on August 14 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC. Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Agenda for the meeting will be published the day before the meeting (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes). Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. If you have questions, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg tomorrow
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the DCAT meeting agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday July 3 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Agenda+July+3%2C+2012 Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group helps review the JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS) classified as new feature requests for DSpace. The goal of the DCAT review is to help move the feature along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Last week for June drawing!
There is one week left for the June KnowledgeBase content drawing! To be eligible for the June drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or simply update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by June 30, 2012. See below for more details or email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: The June KnowledgeBase drawing is on! Contribute to the DuraSpace KnowledgeBase to get your chance at a $100 Amazon gift card! Don't feel like an expert? You can still contribute content! There are many previously written resources (the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) that you can adapt/re-use (with proper attribution) and put into the KnowledgeBase format. To be eligible for the June drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by June 30, 2012. See below for sample content, links to previously written resources and more details or feel free to email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards! Date: January 31, 2012 9:23:51 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Dear DSpace and Fedora User Communities, Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card! Beginning on February 1, DuraSpace will be holding a monthly drawing to encourage content contributions to the new KnowledgeBase (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase). The KnowledgeBase is an initiative aimed at improving the training and educational resources available to the DSpace and Fedora user communities. Once it is populated with content, this wiki-based resource will help new users get a repository up and running as well as perform various basic administrative tasks using a variety of delivery tools (text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars, etc.). The usefulness of the KnowledgeBase depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. For the next several months if you create content you not only help the community but you could win a chance to help yourself to something on your Amazon wish list! Drawing Details Each month DuraSpace will put out the call for new content contributions to the KnowledgeBase. Contributors can create any type of content the wish -- text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, etc. to address any topic under the existing topic outline for either DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). All entries must be posted to the appropriate wiki page by contributors by the last day of the month. All entries will be validated to ensure submissions meet the minimum entry requirement which is either, 1) a complete text guide for an existing outline topic or for an additional supplemental topic, or 2) a complete screencast for one outline topic/subtopic, approximately 5 minutes in length. Contributors may use adapt/update previously published material (The DSpace Course http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615, Fedora Tutorial https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORACREATE/Tutorial+1+-+Introduction+to+Fedora, etc.), although appropriate attribution should be footnoted. A random drawing will determine a winner of that month's $50 Amazon gift card, which will be awarded within 7 days. Anyone outside of DuraSpace employees/contract employees is eligible to participate. Individuals may enter the contest more than once in the same month to increase their chances of winning and may also win
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg notes from June 12
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the notes from today's DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) meeting here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes+June+12%2C+2012 As always, all community members are invited to participate in this week's DCAT discussion forum which takes place in the days after the DCAT meeting. This week's topic is on identifying the top new features/improvements for DSpace. Further explanation and the discussion can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Top+Priorities Our next DCAT meeting will be on July 3 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC. Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Agenda for the meeting will be published the day before the meeting (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes). Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. If you have questions, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT mtg tomorrow
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the DCAT meeting agenda for tomorrow, Tuesday June 12 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Draft+Agenda+June+12%2C+2012 Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group helps review the JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS) classified as new feature requests for DSpace. The goal of the DCAT review is to help move the feature along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards!
The June KnowledgeBase drawing is on! Contribute to the DuraSpace KnowledgeBase to get your chance at a $100 Amazon gift card! Don't feel like an expert? You can still contribute content! There are many previously written resources (the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) that you can adapt/re-use (with proper attribution) and put into the KnowledgeBase format. To be eligible for the June drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by June 30, 2012. See below for sample content, links to previously written resources and more details or feel free to email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards! Date: January 31, 2012 9:23:51 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Dear DSpace and Fedora User Communities, Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card! Beginning on February 1, DuraSpace will be holding a monthly drawing to encourage content contributions to the new KnowledgeBase (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase). The KnowledgeBase is an initiative aimed at improving the training and educational resources available to the DSpace and Fedora user communities. Once it is populated with content, this wiki-based resource will help new users get a repository up and running as well as perform various basic administrative tasks using a variety of delivery tools (text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars, etc.). The usefulness of the KnowledgeBase depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. For the next several months if you create content you not only help the community but you could win a chance to help yourself to something on your Amazon wish list! Drawing Details Each month DuraSpace will put out the call for new content contributions to the KnowledgeBase. Contributors can create any type of content the wish -- text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, etc. to address any topic under the existing topic outline for either DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). All entries must be posted to the appropriate wiki page by contributors by the last day of the month. All entries will be validated to ensure submissions meet the minimum entry requirement which is either, 1) a complete text guide for an existing outline topic or for an additional supplemental topic, or 2) a complete screencast for one outline topic/subtopic, approximately 5 minutes in length. Contributors may use adapt/update previously published material (The DSpace Course http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615, Fedora Tutorial https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORACREATE/Tutorial+1+-+Introduction+to+Fedora, etc.), although appropriate attribution should be footnoted. A random drawing will determine a winner of that month's $50 Amazon gift card, which will be awarded within 7 days. Anyone outside of DuraSpace employees/contract employees is eligible to participate. Individuals may enter the contest more than once in the same month to increase their chances of winning and may also win for multiple months. Take a Look The KnowledgeBase was developed in consultation with the community and was designed to allow for as much flexibility and community contributions -- however large or small -- as possible. Content is easy to contribute using the familiar DuraSpace wiki environment. Simply edit or add pages the same way you do anywhere else on the wiki. Any suggestions you may have for making the content more useful, more relevant for the community is always welcomed. Either use the Comment section at the bottom of each page or email Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org. For more information about the KnowledgeBase: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase For information on content contribution and guidelines
[Dspace-tech] metadata projects
Apologies for the cross-posting - The metadata projects below were identified by the community survey on improving metadata support (https://wiki.duraspace.org/download/attachments/30217377/Metadata+Support+Survey+Final.pdf?version=1modificationDate=1328709175068) which was authored by the DSpace Community Advisory Team (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team) at the request of the DSpace Committers/Developers. Working with a few committers, DCAT has summarized and interpreted the information gathered from the survey, establishing the project priority as well as estimating the level of effort required (see wiki links below for more detail). To move forward each project needs to have interested volunteers to define requirements and work on writing the code. Project teams would benefit greatly by having metadata experts or repository managers clearly identifying what needs to be changed/updated/describe how it should work. If any of the projects are of interest to you, please identify yourself as a volunteer for the project in the Comment section on the appropriate wiki project page. In addition, any DSpace community members should feel free to add more detailed explanation/examples to further flesh out the changes/requirements they would like to see on any of the project pages. METADATA PROJECTS (under Development Proposal wiki page https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Development+Proposals) 1) Updating the Qualified Dublin Core registry in DSpace to the latest standards of the DCMI https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Updating+the+Qualified+Dublin+Core+registry+in+DSpace+to+the+latest+standards+of+the+DCMI 2) Standardizing the default namespaces https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Standardizing+the+default+namespaces 3) Adding metadata authority controls/vocabularies to the data model https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Adding+metadata+authority+controls+and+vocabularies+to+the+data+model 4) Moving metadata related configurations from dspace.cfg to the database https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Moving+metadata+related+configurations+from+dspace.cfg+to+the+database 5) Develop support for additional metadata standards (use the Other field to specify which standards) https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Develop+support+for+additional+metadata+standards 6) Improved (or more transparent) flexibility https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Improved+or+more+transparent+metadata+flexibility 7) Enhancing the metadata available for Communities, Collections and Files (bitstreams) https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Enhancing+the+metadata+available+for+Communities%2C+Collections+and+Files Sent on behalf of DCAT Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT Meeting Notes
Apologies for the cross posting - Please find the notes from yesterday's DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) meeting: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+May+8%2C+2012 Our next DCAT meeting will be on June 12 at 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC. Anyone from the community is welcome to attended. Agenda for the meeting will be published the day before the meeting (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes). Dial in instructions can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in. For anyone not familiar with the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team), the group helps review the JIRA issues (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS) classified as new feature requests for DSpace. The goal of the DCAT review is to help move the feature along by fleshing out requirements or ideas for implementation, as well as recruiting developers and other community members to work on the request. DCAT generally selects the new feature requests which appear to be of broad interest in the community. DCAT discussions are documented and are always open to the entire community for comment/feedback (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DCAT+Discussion+Forum) or in JIRA directly (https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS). Additionally, there is a DCAT Google Group mailing list for members (http://groups.google.com/group/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam), but it is mainly used for logistics. All material DCAT discussions are conducted either on the DCAT Discussion Forum or in JIRA. That said, DCAT Google Group is also open for anyone in the community to join. If you have questions or are interested in becoming a DCAT member, please contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Last week for the April drawing!
There are 7 days left for the April KnowledgeBase content drawing! To be eligible for the April drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or simply update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by April 30, 2012. See below for more details or email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the new KnowledgeBase and win an Amazon gift card! Date: April 9, 2012 11:03:22 AM EDT To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Congratulations to Catalina Oyler from Oberlin College -- the winner of the March $100 gift card drawing! The April KnowledgeBase drawing is on! Contribute to the DuraSpace KnowledgeBase to get your chance at a $100 Amazon gift card! Don't feel like an expert? You can still contribute content! There are many previously written resources (the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) that you can adapt/re-use (with proper attribution) and put into the KnowledgeBase format. To be eligible for the April drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by April 30, 2012. See below for sample content, links to previously written resources and more details or feel free to email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards! Date: January 31, 2012 9:23:51 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Dear DSpace and Fedora User Communities, Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card! Beginning on February 1, DuraSpace will be holding a monthly drawing to encourage content contributions to the new KnowledgeBase (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase). The KnowledgeBase is an initiative aimed at improving the training and educational resources available to the DSpace and Fedora user communities. Once it is populated with content, this wiki-based resource will help new users get a repository up and running as well as perform various basic administrative tasks using a variety of delivery tools (text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars, etc.). The usefulness of the KnowledgeBase depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. For the next several months if you create content you not only help the community but you could win a chance to help yourself to something on your Amazon wish list! Drawing Details Each month DuraSpace will put out the call for new content contributions to the KnowledgeBase. Contributors can create any type of content the wish -- text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, etc. to address any topic under the existing topic outline for either DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). All entries must be posted to the appropriate wiki page by contributors by the last day of the month. All entries will be validated to ensure submissions meet the minimum entry requirement which is either, 1) a complete text guide for an existing outline topic or for an additional supplemental topic, or 2) a complete screencast for one outline topic/subtopic, approximately 5 minutes in length. Contributors may use adapt/update previously published material (The DSpace Course http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615, Fedora Tutorial https://wiki.duraspace.org/display
[Dspace-tech] OCLC Webinar: Improving discovery and use of your institutional repository materials
Apologies for the cross posting - Below is a webinar featuring Beth Tillinghast from University of Hawaii at Manoa. From Geri Bunker Ingram, Manager of User Services for Digital Collection Services, OCLC Online Computer LIbrary Center, Inc. Join us to learn how the University of Hawaii at Manoa is organizing their digital library and increasing its visibility by incorporating the newest features of OCLC’s WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway into their workflow. Hear how this free tool can help you increase readership of your digital materials by exposing them through WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local. Taylor Surface, OCLC, will provide an overview of the Gateway and its new features and how they can help to highlight your digital content metadata in WorldCat.org and WorldCat Local. Beth Tillinghast, University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Institutional Repository manager, will discuss current issues and approaches in enhancing workflow and visibility for various collections in the UHM ScholarSpace (DSpace) repositories. Martha Chantiny, Head of Desktop Network Services in the UHM Library, will share the current status of UHM Library image collections, which are posted to the web using the OAI harvestable Streetprint Digital Library. Daniel Ishimitsu, Information Technology Specialist for UHM Library, will discuss the project that he worked on to allow the mapping of thumbnails for display in OAIster, now part of WorldCat.org. Please join your colleagues from the University of Hawaii Manoa and OCLC Digital Collection Services on Thursday, May 3. 12:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00) 9:00 am Hawaii Time (Honolulu, GMT-10:00) 3:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) No registration necessary. Log in at: https://oclc.webex.com/oclc/onstage/g.php?t=ad=316916883 For more information, contact Geri Bunker Ingram at ingr...@oclc.org. -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Contribute to the new KnowledgeBase and win an Amazon gift card!
Congratulations to Catalina Oyler from Oberlin College -- the winner of the March $100 gift card drawing! The April KnowledgeBase drawing is on! Contribute to the DuraSpace KnowledgeBase to get your chance at a $100 Amazon gift card! Don't feel like an expert? You can still contribute content! There are many previously written resources (the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) that you can adapt/re-use (with proper attribution) and put into the KnowledgeBase format. To be eligible for the April drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by April 30, 2012. See below for sample content, links to previously written resources and more details or feel free to email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards! Date: January 31, 2012 9:23:51 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Dear DSpace and Fedora User Communities, Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card! Beginning on February 1, DuraSpace will be holding a monthly drawing to encourage content contributions to the new KnowledgeBase (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase). The KnowledgeBase is an initiative aimed at improving the training and educational resources available to the DSpace and Fedora user communities. Once it is populated with content, this wiki-based resource will help new users get a repository up and running as well as perform various basic administrative tasks using a variety of delivery tools (text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars, etc.). The usefulness of the KnowledgeBase depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. For the next several months if you create content you not only help the community but you could win a chance to help yourself to something on your Amazon wish list! Drawing Details Each month DuraSpace will put out the call for new content contributions to the KnowledgeBase. Contributors can create any type of content the wish -- text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, etc. to address any topic under the existing topic outline for either DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). All entries must be posted to the appropriate wiki page by contributors by the last day of the month. All entries will be validated to ensure submissions meet the minimum entry requirement which is either, 1) a complete text guide for an existing outline topic or for an additional supplemental topic, or 2) a complete screencast for one outline topic/subtopic, approximately 5 minutes in length. Contributors may use adapt/update previously published material (The DSpace Course http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615, Fedora Tutorial https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORACREATE/Tutorial+1+-+Introduction+to+Fedora, etc.), although appropriate attribution should be footnoted. A random drawing will determine a winner of that month's $50 Amazon gift card, which will be awarded within 7 days. Anyone outside of DuraSpace employees/contract employees is eligible to participate. Individuals may enter the contest more than once in the same month to increase their chances of winning and may also win for multiple months. Take a Look The KnowledgeBase was developed in consultation with the community and was designed to allow for as much flexibility and community contributions -- however large or small -- as possible. Content is easy to contribute using the familiar DuraSpace wiki environment. Simply edit or add pages the same way you do anywhere else on the wiki. Any suggestions you may have for making the content more useful, more relevant for the community is always welcomed. Either use the Comment section at the bottom of each page or email Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org. For more information about the KnowledgeBase: https
[Dspace-tech] Last week for the March drawing!
There are 6 days left for the March KnowledgeBase content drawing! To be eligible for the March drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or simply update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by March 31, 2012. See below for more details or email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards! Date: March 6, 2012 8:44:54 AM EST To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com The March KnowledgeBase drawing is on! Contribute to the DuraSpace KnowledgeBase get a chance at a $100 Amazon gift card! Yep, that's right, the drawing has increased this month to $100! Don't feel like an expert? You can still contribute content! There are many previously written resources (the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) that you can adapt/re-use (with proper attribution) and put into the KnowledgeBase format. To be eligible for the March drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by March 31, 2012. See below for sample content, links to previously written resources and more details or feel free to email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards! Date: January 31, 2012 9:23:51 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Dear DSpace and Fedora User Communities, Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card! Beginning on February 1, DuraSpace will be holding a monthly drawing to encourage content contributions to the new KnowledgeBase (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase). The KnowledgeBase is an initiative aimed at improving the training and educational resources available to the DSpace and Fedora user communities. Once it is populated with content, this wiki-based resource will help new users get a repository up and running as well as perform various basic administrative tasks using a variety of delivery tools (text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars, etc.). The usefulness of the KnowledgeBase depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. For the next several months if you create content you not only help the community but you could win a chance to help yourself to something on your Amazon wish list! Drawing Details Each month DuraSpace will put out the call for new content contributions to the KnowledgeBase. Contributors can create any type of content the wish -- text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, etc. to address any topic under the existing topic outline for either DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). All entries must be posted to the appropriate wiki page by contributors by the last day of the month. All entries will be validated to ensure submissions meet the minimum entry requirement which is either, 1) a complete text guide for an existing outline topic or for an additional supplemental topic, or 2) a complete screencast for one outline topic/subtopic, approximately 5 minutes in length. Contributors may use adapt/update previously published material (The DSpace Course http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615, Fedora Tutorial https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORACREATE/Tutorial+1+-+Introduction+to+Fedora, etc
[Dspace-tech] Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards!
The March KnowledgeBase drawing is on! Contribute to the DuraSpace KnowledgeBase get a chance at a $100 Amazon gift card! Yep, that's right, the drawing has increased this month to $100! Don't feel like an expert? You can still contribute content! There are many previously written resources (the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) that you can adapt/re-use (with proper attribution) and put into the KnowledgeBase format. To be eligible for the March drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by March 31, 2012. See below for sample content, links to previously written resources and more details or feel free to email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards! Date: January 31, 2012 9:23:51 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Dear DSpace and Fedora User Communities, Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card! Beginning on February 1, DuraSpace will be holding a monthly drawing to encourage content contributions to the new KnowledgeBase (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase). The KnowledgeBase is an initiative aimed at improving the training and educational resources available to the DSpace and Fedora user communities. Once it is populated with content, this wiki-based resource will help new users get a repository up and running as well as perform various basic administrative tasks using a variety of delivery tools (text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars, etc.). The usefulness of the KnowledgeBase depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. For the next several months if you create content you not only help the community but you could win a chance to help yourself to something on your Amazon wish list! Drawing Details Each month DuraSpace will put out the call for new content contributions to the KnowledgeBase. Contributors can create any type of content the wish -- text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, etc. to address any topic under the existing topic outline for either DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). All entries must be posted to the appropriate wiki page by contributors by the last day of the month. All entries will be validated to ensure submissions meet the minimum entry requirement which is either, 1) a complete text guide for an existing outline topic or for an additional supplemental topic, or 2) a complete screencast for one outline topic/subtopic, approximately 5 minutes in length. Contributors may use adapt/update previously published material (The DSpace Course http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615, Fedora Tutorial https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORACREATE/Tutorial+1+-+Introduction+to+Fedora, etc.), although appropriate attribution should be footnoted. A random drawing will determine a winner of that month's $50 Amazon gift card, which will be awarded within 7 days. Anyone outside of DuraSpace employees/contract employees is eligible to participate. Individuals may enter the contest more than once in the same month to increase their chances of winning and may also win for multiple months. Take a Look The KnowledgeBase was developed in consultation with the community and was designed to allow for as much flexibility and community contributions -- however large or small -- as possible. Content is easy to contribute using the familiar DuraSpace wiki environment. Simply edit or add pages the same way you do anywhere else on the wiki. Any suggestions you may have for making the content more useful, more relevant for the community is always welcomed. Either use the Comment section at the bottom of each page or email Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org. For more information about the KnowledgeBase: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome
[Dspace-tech] Last week for the February drawing!
There are 7 days left for the February KnowledgeBase content drawing! To be eligible for the February drawing: 1) Select any topic from the KnowledgeBase outline (DSpace: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase or Fedora: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). 2) Either write one outline topic (or simply update existing materials from the DSpace Course or the Fedora Tutorials) or record a brief screencast which walks through a topic/concept. 3) Post your content to the KnowledgeBase by February 29, 2012. See below for more details or email me with any questions. Good luck! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Subject: Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards! Date: January 31, 2012 9:23:51 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Dear DSpace and Fedora User Communities, Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card! Beginning on February 1, DuraSpace will be holding a monthly drawing to encourage content contributions to the new KnowledgeBase (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase). The KnowledgeBase is an initiative aimed at improving the training and educational resources available to the DSpace and Fedora user communities. Once it is populated with content, this wiki-based resource will help new users get a repository up and running as well as perform various basic administrative tasks using a variety of delivery tools (text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars, etc.). The usefulness of the KnowledgeBase depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. For the next several months if you create content you not only help the community but you could win a chance to help yourself to something on your Amazon wish list! Drawing Details Each month DuraSpace will put out the call for new content contributions to the KnowledgeBase. Contributors can create any type of content the wish -- text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, etc. to address any topic under the existing topic outline for either DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). All entries must be posted to the appropriate wiki page by contributors by the last day of the month. All entries will be validated to ensure submissions meet the minimum entry requirement which is either, 1) a complete text guide for an existing outline topic or for an additional supplemental topic, or 2) a complete screencast for one outline topic/subtopic, approximately 5 minutes in length. Contributors may use adapt/update previously published material (The DSpace Course http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615, Fedora Tutorial https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORACREATE/Tutorial+1+-+Introduction+to+Fedora, etc.), although appropriate attribution should be footnoted. A random drawing will determine a winner of that month's $50 Amazon gift card, which will be awarded within 7 days. Anyone outside of DuraSpace employees/contract employees is eligible to participate. Individuals may enter the contest more than once in the same month to increase their chances of winning and may also win for multiple months. Take a Look The KnowledgeBase was developed in consultation with the community and was designed to allow for as much flexibility and community contributions -- however large or small -- as possible. Content is easy to contribute using the familiar DuraSpace wiki environment. Simply edit or add pages the same way you do anywhere else on the wiki. Any suggestions you may have for making the content more useful, more relevant for the community is always welcomed. Either use the Comment section at the bottom of each page or email Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org. For more information about the KnowledgeBase: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase For information on content contribution and guidelines: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Contribute+to+KnowledgeBase DSpace KnowledgeBase Home:https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase Sample DSpace Text/Image Content:https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=25467341#124 Sample DSpace Screencast Content: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB
[Dspace-tech] SPARC DSpace user group mtg
Apologies for the cross-posting. Just a reminder that all DSpace enthusiasts are invited to a free, half-day user group meeting on March 14 from 8:30am - 1:00pm following the SPARC 2012 Open Access Meeting in Kansas City. The meeting is a courtesy of DSpace Community Advisory Team, the DuraSpace organization and @mire, a DSpace Registered Service Provider. Included in the meeting will be an update on DSpace, various community presentations and an opportunity for structured networking. To register for the meeting, please send your name and institution to vhollis...@duraspace.org. For additional information and updates on the meeting, please visit https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SPARC+DSpace+User+Group+Meeting+2012 or the SPARC DSUG Crowdvine at http://sparc-dspace.crowdvine.com/posts. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in March! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Contribute to the New KnowledgeBase and Win Amazon Gift Cards!
Dear DSpace and Fedora User Communities, Do you have experience using DSpace or Fedora? Could you write a description of the Fedora Digital Object Data Model? Could you record a short screencast on how to maximize DSpace’s batch metadata editing feature? If so, you could win a $50 Amazon gift card! Beginning on February 1, DuraSpace will be holding a monthly drawing to encourage content contributions to the new KnowledgeBase (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase). The KnowledgeBase is an initiative aimed at improving the training and educational resources available to the DSpace and Fedora user communities. Once it is populated with content, this wiki-based resource will help new users get a repository up and running as well as perform various basic administrative tasks using a variety of delivery tools (text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars, etc.). The usefulness of the KnowledgeBase depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. For the next several months if you create content you not only help the community but you could win a chance to help yourself to something on your Amazon wish list! Drawing Details Each month DuraSpace will put out the call for new content contributions to the KnowledgeBase. Contributors can create any type of content the wish -- text-based guides, images, diagrams, screencasts, etc. to address any topic under the existing topic outline for either DSpace (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). All entries must be posted to the appropriate wiki page by contributors by the last day of the month. All entries will be validated to ensure submissions meet the minimum entry requirement which is either, 1) a complete text guide for an existing outline topic or for an additional supplemental topic, or 2) a complete screencast for one outline topic/subtopic, approximately 5 minutes in length. Contributors may use adapt/update previously published material (The DSpace Course http://cadair.aber.ac.uk/dspace/handle/2160/615, Fedora Tutorial https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORACREATE/Tutorial+1+-+Introduction+to+Fedora, etc.), although appropriate attribution should be footnoted. A random drawing will determine a winner of that month's $50 Amazon gift card, which will be awarded within 7 days. Anyone outside of DuraSpace employees/contract employees is eligible to participate. Individuals may enter the contest more than once in the same month to increase their chances of winning and may also win for multiple months. Take a Look The KnowledgeBase was developed in consultation with the community and was designed to allow for as much flexibility and community contributions -- however large or small -- as possible. Content is easy to contribute using the familiar DuraSpace wiki environment. Simply edit or add pages the same way you do anywhere else on the wiki. Any suggestions you may have for making the content more useful, more relevant for the community is always welcomed. Either use the Comment section at the bottom of each page or email Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org. For more information about the KnowledgeBase: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase For information on content contribution and guidelines: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Contribute+to+KnowledgeBase DSpace KnowledgeBase Home:https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/DSpace+KnowledgeBase Sample DSpace Text/Image Content:https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=25467341#124 Sample DSpace Screencast Content: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/Upgrading+DSpace Fedora KnowledgeBase Home:https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase Sample Fedora Screencast Content:https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Rebuilding+Indexes-- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] SPARC/DSpace User Group Mtg in March
Apologies for the cross posting. Dear DSpace Community, Plans are in the works for a half day DSpace User Group Meeting from 8:30am to 1pm on March 14, 2012 in Kansas City, Missouri, immediately following the SPARC Open Access Meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/oa12/) on March 11-13. We are in the process of developing the agenda and recruiting presenters. This has traditionally been a fairly informal meeting with lots of opportunity for networking with other DSpace users. In fact, we highly recommend that if possible you plan to allow time after the session to go to lunch and continue small group conversations around specific areas of interest. Plans are still developing, but the meeting will likely include: - Update on 1.8.1 and beyond - Innovative uses of DSpace - call for proposals from the community* - Structured networking session -- find people or projects of interest to you If you have specific suggestions for other content (presentations, tutorials, discussions, etc.) to include in the meeting please feel free to email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Meeting Registration The meeting is being sponsored by the DuraSpace organization and @mire, a Registered DSpace Service Provider. The event It is free for anyone who wishes to participate. For planning purposes, please send an email with your name and institution to vhollis...@duraspace.org March 1. *Call for Proposals We are currently seeking presentation proposals from members of the community with innovative DSpace projects at their institutions. Proposals should be sent to vhollis...@duraspace.org by February 7. Acceptance notification will be sent by February 9. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in March! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] metadata survey results
Dear DSpace Community - (apologies for the cross-posting) Below is a message from the DSpace Community Advisory Team about the recent community survey on improving metadata support. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- At the request of the DSpace Committers and Developers, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team) (DCAT) has begun an effort to build a community consensus on improving the metadata support in future DSpace releases. Last month this process began with a community survey to collect feedback on what improvements organizations would like to see relative to metadata support in DSpace. Survey Result Highlights * 84% of respondents use DSpace or plan to use DSpace * 86% of respondents indicated that Dublin Core was the most relevant metadata standard for their organization * In addition to Dublin Core, respondents saw a need to support ingest and export for the following standards, in order of priority: Dublin Core, MODS, PREMIS, Open URL ContextObject, ETD-MS * 72% of respondents indicated it is a priority to add metadata authority controls/vocabularies to the data model * 62% of respondents indicated it is a priority to have enhanced metadata for Communities, Collections and/or individual Files (bitstreams) * 56% of respondents indicated it is a priority to update to update the Qualified Dublin Core registry to the latest standards of the DCMI. * 54% of respondents indicated would not have objections to prohibiting changes/deletions that would break compliance with the standardized default Dublin Core metadata schema The complete survey results are available here: http://www.dspace.org/images/publications/Metadata%20Support%20Survey%20Final.pdf Where do we go from here? From the survey it is clear that improvements to metadata support in DSpace could help solve some common challenges for many organizations. Many will agree that there is no one size fits all repository software. DSpace is the most popular repository software, used by over 1,000 organizations for a reason – it is relatively easy to get a repository up and running. Because of this the DSpace developers have to be careful that adding functionality it is not at the cost of making it more difficult for the vast majority of DSpace use cases. With that in mind, DCAT has proposed exploring the following priorities with the DSpace Committers/Developers and the user community: 1) Add metadata authority controls/vocabularies to the data model. Since there is an existing add-on for controlled vocabularies (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Authority+Control+of+Metadata+Values), DCAT interprets this to mean that we should open up the rights to use a controlled vocabulary and possibly link it from an external source. Some examples would be the National Agricultural Library (linked open data) and the National Library of Medicine (subject based). 2) Update the Qualified Dublin Core registry to the current DCMI standards, adopting the newer DC Terms namespace (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ ) as an evolutionary step over the 15 original elements (http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/) in the dc namespace. Based on the community survey, DCAT also recommends that the default configuration should separate out standardized DC metadata, administrative metadata and local customizations into distinct metadata schemas. Repository administrators would be prevented from modifying the standardized DC metadata which would effectively break compliance. Instead, local modifications would be accomplished in a separate metadata schema. 3) Enhanced the metadata available for Community, Collections and Files (bitstreams). Unlike Items, Collections, Communities and Files (bitstreams) currently do not have Dublin Core metadata associated with them. The community has expressed an interest in making the available descriptions more granular. 4) Simplify and make local customizations more accessible by bringing more functionality into the user interface or metadata registry. This could also include a utility to import/export metadata to a schema other than DC. Some community members expressed an interest in exposing the RDF triples. In addition, DCAT recommends a comprehensive tutorial on how/where to perform specific metadata schema tasks be developed. 5) Explore the implications of offering hierarchal metadata in DSpace and whether it makes sense, given the DSpace/Fedora integration work. Hierarchal metadata would allow for relationships between community/collection/bitstream metadata. Because Fedora metadata is not stored in the database, as it is in DSpace, but in files, the relational aspect functionality in Fedora is more flexible. It is hoped that the DSpace/Fedora
[Dspace-tech] Introducing the KnowledgeBase
Dear Fedora and DSpace communities - Below is an announcement about a new, exciting community initiative. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Introducing the DuraSpace KnowledgeBase A New Community Home for DSpace and Fedora Learning Resources Ithaca, NY To support the DSpace and Fedora repository software user communities with access to improved online learning materials, the DuraSpace organization today announces the launch of the KnowledgeBase. This dynamic organizational wiki structure is aimed at creating a comprehensive set of training and educational resources for DSpace and Fedora users. Once it is populated with content, the KnowledgeBase will help new users walk through the steps of how to get a repository up and running as well as various basic administrative tasks. Included in this wiki-based guide will be a variety of delivery tool options including text, images, diagrams, screencasts, presentation slides, webinars and more. So far efforts on the KnowledgeBase have focused on designing a flexible structure to make it easy for community members to contribute any size or variety of content. In consultation with the community, DuraSpace has built an interactive home for materials, identified potential tools/guidelines for content contributions, drafted a list of topics to be covered, defined community roles as well as created some sample content. To learn more about the KnowledgeBase, you can visit the main KnowledgeBase page (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase), the DSpace KnowledgeBase page (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Welcome+to+KnowledgeBase) or Fedora KnowledgeBase page (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Fedora+KnowledgeBase). You may also take a look at some sample content: DSpace text-based/image content (https://wiki.duraspace.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=25467341), a DSpace screencast (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSpaceKB/Upgrading+DSpace) and a Fedora screencast (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FedoraKB/Rebuilding+Indexes). The KnowledgeBase’s future usefulness depends on the collaborative efforts of the DSpace and Fedora user communities. The structure has been specifically designed to encourage members of the community to make bite-sized contributions -- text guide for one topic, a short screencast or attaching a link to presentation slides or other useful resources. We hope that you will consider contributing content or becoming a content moderator! If you would like more information on contributing visit How to Contribute (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/KB/Contribute+to+KnowledgeBase) or if you have feedback or questions about the KnowledgeBase, please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org. About DuraSpace DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace provides leadership and innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve libraries, universities, and research centers, for managing and preserving digital content. The organization’s open source technology portfolio includes the DSpace open access repository application and the Fedora open repository platform. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud, an emerging cloud-based service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to ensure durability and enable access to digital content. http://duraspace.org/. -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] LAST DAYS: DSpace Metadata Support Survey
The DSpace Metadata Support Survey will close this Friday, October 21, 2011. Don't miss your chance to voice your opinions! Here is the link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MTVF88G Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Date: September 28, 2011 12:59:30 PM EDT To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: dspacecommunityadvisoryt...@googlegroups.com Subject: DSpace Metadata Support Survey Dear DSpace Community - At the request of the DSpace Committers and Developers, the DSpace Community Advisory Team or DCAT (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team) has begun an effort to build a community consensus on improving the metadata support in future DSpace releases. Because there are many different issues, both from an organizational/policy perspective, as well from a code development perspective, we ask for your input to help clarify the priority and focus. Below is a link to a brief survey. For this survey we are most interested in identifying which challenges could and should be tackled first. Please do your best to indicate the highest priority level issues for your organization, recognizing that if everything is a priority then there may not be a clear starting point. So even if all of these issues are very important to you, please try to focus on which ones would make your life or the lives of your users and management significantly easier. Of course, improvements to metadata support in DSpace can move along faster the more people we have working on the effort. Included in the survey are questions regarding whether you or your organization are willing to contribute time towards the effort, either as a repository manager (as a subject matter expert) or as a developer. We welcome all help, even it if is just to review the progress and provide feedback. Thanks in advance for your participation! Survey link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MTVF88G -The DSpace Community Advisory Team -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Metadata Support Survey
Dear DSpace Community - At the request of the DSpace Committers and Developers, the DSpace Community Advisory Team or DCAT (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team) has begun an effort to build a community consensus on improving the metadata support in future DSpace releases. Because there are many different issues, both from an organizational/policy perspective, as well from a code development perspective, we ask for your input to help clarify the priority and focus. Below is a link to a brief survey. For this survey we are most interested in identifying which challenges could and should be tackled first. Please do your best to indicate the highest priority level issues for your organization, recognizing that if everything is a priority then there may not be a clear starting point. So even if all of these issues are very important to you, please try to focus on which ones would make your life or the lives of your users and management significantly easier. Of course, improvements to metadata support in DSpace can move along faster the more people we have working on the effort. Included in the survey are questions regarding whether you or your organization are willing to contribute time towards the effort, either as a repository manager (as a subject matter expert) or as a developer. We welcome all help, even it if is just to review the progress and provide feedback. Thanks in advance for your participation! Survey link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MTVF88G -The DSpace Community Advisory Team-- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT Update: Collaborating on New DSpace Features
~Apologies for the cross posting~ Ithaca, NY The success of any open-source project lies with the community contributing its collective energy, knowledge, enthusiasm, and effort. In the DSpace community valuable contributions come not just from our numerous volunteer developers and committers, but also a group known as the DSpace Community Advisory Team or DCAT. The primary goals of DCAT are to help review and facilitate community discussions about new feature requests and to provide support to the DSpace committer group in producing software releases. New Feature Review Since the beginning of the year, DCAT has held detailed discussions on a half dozen new feature requests from JIRA. The discussions started asynchronously on the DCAT Discussion Forum, where the new feature requests were discussed and specific requirements outlined. DCAT members also recorded their vote on the priority level and how broadly they believed the feature would appeal to the larger community. Once a request was determined to be high priority/broad appeal, there would also be a discussion about it in one of the weekly developer meetings. Additional DCAT status discussions occurred during the monthly DCAT meetings, which Robin Taylor, the 1. 8 Release Coordinator, and Tim Donohue, DSpace Tech Lead attended. DCAT/Committers/Developers 1.8 Collaboration Thanks to everyone’s efforts, particularly the committers and developers, we are very pleased to announce that the DCAT/DSpace developer collaboration will yield fruits in the upcoming DSpace 1.8 release. Three new features are, in part, a result of this collaboration: DS-749 Reordering of bitstreams, contributed by Kevin Van de Velde from @mire, DCAT discussion leader Jennifer Laherty from Indiana University DS-638 Enable virus checking during submission, contributed by Robin Taylor from the University of Edinburgh, DCAT discussion leader Elin Stangeland from Cambridge University Library Additionally, at the request of the committers, DCAT members also consulted on the improvements to the bulk CSV editing (the feature also known as Batch Metadata Editing). DS-811 Delete/withdraw items via bulk CSV editing, contributed by Stuart Lewis from the University of Auckland, feedback provided by DCAT members For more information about these and other new features in 1.8 please visit https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+1.8.0+Notes. Other DCAT Efforts DCAT has also been working on a community survey to find out what type of improvements users would like to see for metadata support in DSpace. The survey will mark the beginning of the DCAT/committer effort to evolve the types of metadata schemas available as well as ease customization. The community metadata survey will be sent out in the next few weeks and will be used to inform efforts for improvements on future releases of DSpace. For more information about DCAT, please visit the wiki. If you would like to learn more about how to get involved, please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] 2011 DuraSpace Sponsorship Program Update
Dear DSpace and Fedora Communities - Please see the update below about the Sponsor Program. Thank you to all the institutions who have joined with us so far! It is not too late to participate - please encourage your Library Directors to support DuraSpace. To make it easier, see below for a link to our on-line process. Thank you - Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Ithaca NY A few months ago, DuraSpace, an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, launched its 2011 Sponsorship Program to engage leaders from university and library communities in supporting the common goal of ensuring that our scholarly record of digital content and data is saved and accessible for future generations. Program Update DuraSpace is pleased to report that we currently have 50 organizations that have chosen to become sponsors this years. Of the 50 organizations participating so far this year, 16 are new sponsors. It is not too late to for your institution to make a difference. We invite any organizations to make the decision to invest in our shared mission of the preservation of our collective digital heritage. While we have $285,500 in sponsorship money pledged so far and well on our way to our $350,000 goal, we still need help to get there. Please consider joining with us at the Gold, Silver, Bronze or, if you prefer, our new “Friend of DuraSpace” level. If your organization uses Paypal, there is now an on-line process for becoming a Sponsor. Otherwise, you can complete the Sponsor Form and email it to Valorie Hollister, Director of Community Programs; vhollister[at]duraspace.org Current 2011 Sponsors Below is a list of the 2011 Sponsors to date. Please join with your colleagues! GOLD Arizona State University Libraries Columbia University Libraries Cornell University Library Duke University Indiana University Libraries: IUB Libraries, IUPUI Libraries, UITS Research Technologies Johns Hopkins University Libraries Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries North Carolina State University Libraries Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources Texas Digital Library Tufts University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / University of Illinois at Chicago University of Michigan Library University of Pittsburgh, University Library System University of Toronto, Canada University of Virginia Library Virginia Tech Libraries SILVER Georgia Institute of Technology Library and Information Center Harvard Library Northwestern University Rice University Library SWITCH, Switzerland The Ohio State University University of Calgary, Canada University of Guelph, Canada University of Hull, Library and Learning Innovation, United Kingdom University of Maryland University of Minnesota Libraries University of New South Wales, Australia University of Prince Edward Island, Robertson Library, Canada York University Libraries, Canada BRONZE Deakin University Library, Australia Georgetown University, The University Library Karolinska Institutet Library, Sweden Lafayette College, David Bishop Skillman Library Malmo University, Sweden Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library New York University Northeastern University Libraries TU Delft Library, The Netherlands University of Hawaii at Manoa Library University of Manitoba Libraries, Canada University of Massachusetts/Amherst Libraries University of Notre Dame University of Technology Sydney Library, Australia Utrecht University Library, The Netherlands VU Amsterdam Library, The Netherlands Youngstown State University FRIENDS OF DURASPACE George Mason University Libraries Kansas State University Libraries *Bold indicates the renewing Sponsors About DuraSpace DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace software and services are used worldwide as solutions for open access, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital archives, data curation, virtual research environments, and more. DuraSpace provides leadership and innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve libraries, universities, research centers, cultural heritage institutions, and other knowledge stewards. The organization’s open source technology portfolio includes the DSpace open access repository application and the Fedora open repository platform. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud (http://DuraCloud.org), an emerging cloud-based service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital content. The DuraSpace team includes recognized leaders and experts in the management of digital information. The team works with an active and diverse international community committed to the durability of digital resources. The DuraSpace technology portfolio inherently addresses the issue of durability of digital content. Our values are expressed in our organizational byline, “open
[Dspace-tech] OR11 - last day to register
Dear DSpace and Fedora Communities, Tomorrow, May 27, is the LAST DAY to register for Open Repositories 2011 on June 6-11, 2011. To register: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main/schedConf/registration To view the main conference schedule and presentations: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main/schedConf/schedule To view the user group meeting schedule and presentations: https://conferences.tdl.org/or/OR2011/OR2011main/schedConf/program#DuraSpace To view the pre-conference program information/registration (including a DuraCloud workshop): http://sites.tdl.org/openrepositories/or11preconference/ To join the OR11 Crowdvine: http://or11.crowdvine.com/ I'm looking forward to seeing many of you there! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DuraSpace 2011 Community Sponsorship Campaign
Dear DSpace Community, Last week kicked off the 2011 DuraSpace Sponsorship Campaign (see press release below). As most of you already know, the sponsor program is designed to help sustain the DuraSpace organization, a not-for-profit. In addition to the press release, we have mailed out 700 sponsorship packets to library directors at institutions around the world, including many of yours. For more information about the sponsor packets you can visit: http://www.duraspace.org/sponsors. You can also read more about our 22010 accomplishments and our 2011 initiatives in our annual report (http://www.duraspace.org/about.php). Please encourage your organization's leadership and others in your network to support our efforts. With the community's help we will continue to enhance our existing technologies, advocate for our user community and innovate with new solutions that ensure the long-term durability of our collective digital heritage. Thank you! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Carol Minton Morris cmmor...@fedora-commons.org Date: May 5, 2011 11:17:55 AM EDT To: fcrepo-dev fedora-commons-develop...@lists.sourceforge.net, fcrepo-user fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, sparc-oafo...@arl.org Subject: [Dspace-general] NEWS RELEASE: DuraSpace Launches 2011 Community Sponsorship Program Reply-To: cmmor...@duraspace.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ONLINE: http://duraspace.org/content/duraspace-launches-2011-community-sponsorship-program May 5, 2011 Contact: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org DuraSpace Launches 2011 Community Sponsorship Program Ithaca, NY The challenges of preserving and providing access to researcher data continue to grow and the stakes remain high. DuraSpace, an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, has launched its 2011 Community Sponsorship Program to engage leaders from university and library communities in supporting the common goal of ensuring that our scholarly record of digital content and data is saved and accessible for future generations. Community sponsors contribute at three levels of giving (http://DuraSpace.org/sponsors) as an investment in community-driven approaches to preserving our digital heritage. DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org) is the home of the DSpace (http://DSpace.org/), Fedora (http://Fedora-commons.org/) open source software for digital repositories and DuraCloud (http://DuraCloud.org), a hosted service for managing your content in the cloud. Providing leadership and community support DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org/) is committed to providing leadership and innovation in the development and deployment of open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. Collaborators include highly respected academic institutions, government agencies, and scientific and cultural organizations. In addition to its work in open source software and services, DuraSpace advocates for open access to scholarly publications and for interoperability of the supporting technologies. DuraSpace has helped to establish open standards and protocols by working with other open source software projects and working closely with commercial partners on integration strategies. Ann J. Wolpert, Director of Libraries, Massachusettes Institute of Technology, offers this rationale for financial support of the DuraSpace organization: “DuraSpace offers immediate solutions for university libraries grappling with growing amounts of digital content and data. By supporting their work, we are not only investing in the future of our own digital repositories, but in the integrity of the larger scholarly record as well.” About DuraSpace DuraSpace is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace software and services are used worldwide as solutions for open access, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital archives, data curation, virtual research environments, and more. DuraSpace provides leadership and innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve libraries, universities, research centers, cultural heritage institutions, and other knowledge stewards. The organization’s open source technology portfolio includes the DSpace open access repository application and the Fedora open repository platform. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud (http://DuraCloud.org), an emerging cloud-based service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital content. The DuraSpace team includes recognized leaders and experts in the management of digital information. The team works with an active and diverse international community committed to the durability of digital resources. The DuraSpace technology portfolio inherently addresses the issue
[Dspace-tech] New Members of the DSpace Community Advisory Team
Dear DSpace Community - DuraSpace is pleased to announce eight new members of the DSpace community group, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT). Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net Sue Kunda - Oregon State University Bram Luyten - @mire Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd The new members above join our veteran volunteers and existing DCAT members: Rea Devakos - University of Toronto Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library Beth Tillinghast - University of Hawaii at Manoa The primary goals of DCAT is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests and to provide support to the DSpace Committer group in producing software releases. The main activities of DCAT are: Review JIRA new feature requests, provide draft of recommendations and lead DCAT discussion on the request Provide feedback in JIRA about specific new feature requests Facilitate community-wide discussions on selected new feature requests - flesh out minimum requirements and potential project team / stakeholders and developers Attend monthly DCAT teleconferences Collaborate on other project, tools, resources which serve the community Help to organize user group meetings Network regularly with other DSpace users in country/region Participate in mailing lists or discussion forums to share knowledge and best practices Periodically attend the weekly DSpace Committers meetings The success of any open-source project lies with the community contributing its collective energy, knowledge, enthusiasm, and effort. Thank you to each of the DCAT members who have volunteered to serve the DSpace community! If you would like more information about DCAT or if you have any questions about their work, please visit the wiki or contact me at vhollis...@duraspace.org. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@durspace.org-- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT March 8 meeting agenda
The DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is holding it's regular monthly meeting tomorrow, March 8 at 9am EDT/14:00 UTC/GMT. Anyone in the community is welcome to join the DCAT meetings, but due to space limitations on our teleconference number, we do ask that if you plan to attend you email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org in advance to ensure there is capacity on the call. The proposed agenda can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes+March+8%2C+2011. For more information about the meetings, including dial in instructions and archived meeting notes visit here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes. Membership to the DCAT is open to anyone in the DSpace community. In our recent call for new DCAT members we had 6 people from around the world volunteer the serve (see new and existing member lists below). You can read more about the group at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team. For anyone who has questions about DCAT or how you can get involved, please feel free to contact me or join the meeting tomorrow. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org New Members Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd Existing Members Rea Devakos - University of Toronto Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library Beth Tillinghast - University of Hawaii at Manoa-- What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Call for new DCAT members
Dear DSpace Community - Would you like to get involved in the new feature development process for DSpace? Would you like to learn more about the DSpace release process? Would you like to expand your network and connections in the DSpace community? The DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is currently seeking new members from the DSpace user community. The primary goals of DCAT is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests and to provide support to the DSpace Committer group in producing software releases. The main activities of DCAT are: Review JIRA new feature requests, provide draft of recommendations and lead DCAT discussion on the request Provide feedback in JIRA about specific new feature requests Facilitate community-wide discussions on selected new feature requests - flesh out minimum requirements and potential project team / stakeholders and developers Attend monthly DCAT teleconferences Collaborate on other project, tools, resources which serve the community Help to organize user group meetings Network regularly with other DSpace users in country/region Participate in mailing lists or discussion forums to share knowledge and best practices Periodically attend the weekly DSpace Committers meetings DCAT members will help develop and refine priorities as necessary. Estimated time for each team member is around 5-10 hours a month. Most of the DCAT work takes place outside of the monthly meeting -- so members who are unable to attend the meeting regularly can still contribute significantly to the DCAT efforts. The team meets on the 1st Tuesday of every month via a conference call, alternating times every month between 9:00am Eastern/14:00 GMT or 3:00pm Eastern/20:00 GMT to accommodate those in different time zones. The purpose of the meeting is primarily to share news/information and refine our review process. DCAT members are volunteers from the world-wide DSpace user community. Members will be primarily made up of individuals who function as DSpace repository managers at their institution and have an interest in advancing the DSpace software, developing resources/tools for DSpace users and as well as expanding the user community network world-wide. The team aims to have representatives from variety of countries/regions in order to provide broad support the DSpace user community. For more information about DCAT, please see the message below or visit the wiki (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team). Please feel free to contact me directly if you are interested in learning more or if you would like to become a member of DCAT. Best regards - Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Date: January 26, 2011 4:44:16 PM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Meeting Needs: New DSpace Open Source Feature Review Process Apologies for the cross-posting - Ithaca, NY Many in the DSpace community are aware of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee's (DGOC) efforts over the past few years. With the guidance and support of the DuraSpace organization, the DGOC has developed several resources for the community. Most recently the launch of the monthly e-forum hosted last week by Alice Platt, was designed by DGOC member Ronee Francis. The most notably DGOC project was the expanded user registry, which provides a browse/search of the DSpace user community database based on various criteria. The DGOC has also helped to pull together some of the large DSpace user group meetings. For more about the DGOC accomplishments, you can visit their wiki page. Development Proccess Proposals Last summer in collaboration with the DSpace Committers, the DGOC authored a proposal for a new community group that would have more direct involvement with the DSpace development process. As agreed to by the Committers, the goal of the new group would be to 1) Provide the community an opportunity to have direct input on new features in future DSpace releases 2) Provide support to the Committer group in producing releases More information about the various proposals are available on the wiki. DGOC Transition Over the past few months the DGOC has been working on behalf of the community and the Committers to design a process to facilitate the above goals. In this effort, it became clear that while the DGOC's previous activities centered around community resource development, that the biggest need in the community was helping to facilitate the development process. As a result, rather than start another seperate project group, the DGOC, in consultation with the Committers, has decided to reconstitute itself into the new group, called the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT). DCAT Begins DCAT
[Dspace-tech] Fwd: [Dspace-general] NEWS RELEASE: DuraSpace Announces new CEO and Chief Strategy Officer
Begin forwarded message: From: Carol Minton Morris cmmor...@fedora-commons.org Date: February 3, 2011 8:50:06 AM EST To: fedora-commons-us...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-general] NEWS RELEASE: DuraSpace Announces new CEO and Chief Strategy Officer Reply-To: cmmor...@duraspace.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 3, 2011 Contact: Carol Minton Morris mailto:cmmor...@duraspace.org DuraSpace Announces new CEO and Chief Strategy Officer Ithaca, NY DuraSpace, a not-for-profit organization providing open source software and services, announced today that Michele Kimpton will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective March 1, 2011. Kimpton is currently the Chief Business Officer of DuraSpace, and formerly the Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation. Kimpton will succeed current CEO, Sandy Payette, who will be entering a doctoral program at Cornell University to pursue a PhD and research focused on the intersection of technology, society, and policy. Payette will continue to work with DuraSpace as Strategic Advisor to the Executive Team through June 2011. Brad McLean will continue in his current role on the Executive Team as Chief Technology Officer. Payette says, “DuraSpace is in a very exciting position, with vibrant open source communities, new technologies, and strong leadership. We have planned ahead to ensure a seamless transition and to maintain our strategic focus on communities and new services. Michele is the perfect person to lead DuraSpace in next phase of our mission-focused work.“ Also effective March 1, 2011, Jonathan Markow will assume the newly created position of Chief Strategy Officer for DuraSpace. Markow brings years of experience in open source software strategy and community leadership. Most recently, Markow was the Executive Director of JASIG, a not-for-profit organization devoted to sponsoring and supporting open source software for higher education. Kimpton was recently featured by the Library of Congress as a “Digital Preservation Pioneer” for her work in developing entrepreneurial, community-driven and culturally sensitive approaches to creating tools and strategies in support of digital archiving (http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners/pioneers/detail_kimpton.html). Kimpton’s ability to create nimble technologies and solutions that are “out of the gate” quickly were especially noted. Kimpton says, “Get a version out into the world as soon as possible and refine it as you go along.” Her strong background in technology development in Asia and Europe will bring innovative open source business practices and technologies to DuraSpace global communities. About DuraSpace DuraSpace (http://duraspace.org) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. DuraSpace software and services are used worldwide as solutions for open access, institutional repositories, digital libraries, digital archives, data curation, virtual research environments, and more. DuraSpace provides leadership and innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve libraries, universities, research centers, cultural heritage institutions, and other knowledge stewards. The organization’s open source technology portfolio includes the DSpace open access repository application and the Fedora open repository platform. DuraSpace is also the home of DuraCloud, an emerging cloud-based service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital content. The DuraSpace team includes recognized leaders and experts in the management of digital information who work with an active and diverse international community committed to the durability of digital resources. The DuraSpace technology portfolio inherently addresses the issue of durability of digital content. Our values are expressed in our organizational byline, “open technologies for durable digital content. This information is online at: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2010/09/09/now-available-duracloud-open-source-06/. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmor...@duraspace.org Skype: carolmmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter@DuraSpace Twitter@DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d___ Dspace-general mailing list dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general
[Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.7 webinar recording NOW available
For anyone who missed it, the DSpace 1.7 webinar recording is now available at: http://www.infiniteconferencing.com/Events/Duraspace/012711duraspace/recording-playback.html Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Carol Minton Morris cmmor...@fedora-commons.org Date: January 18, 2011 10:20:58 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 Web Seminar Jan 27: What's New in DSpace 1.7 Reply-To: cmmor...@duraspace.org Ithaca, NY Please join Peter Dietz, DSpace 1.7 release coordinator, for a web seminar on January 27 at at 11:00 am Eastern for “What's new in DSpace 1.7.” In this one hour web seminar, Peter will provide an overview of 1.7, highlighting the new features and improvements included in the lastest DSpace release and how they could benefit your institution. His presentation will include highlights about: • Mirage XMLUI Theme: a new clean, professional looking theme for XMLUI with increased browser compatibility, easier customization and enhanced performance. Click for a video demo. • DSpace Discovery: a faceted browse/search interface for XMLUI that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository content with auto completion for search and context sensitive browse suggestions. Click for an informational video. • Archival Information Package (AIP) Backup Restore process: allows for a backup of DSpace into a generic METS-based structure, that can be used to migrate DSpace content to another system that supports AIPs (DSpace or non-DSpace). • Curation Administration User Interface: allows for a series of curation tasks (profile bitstream formats, virus scan, check for required metadata) to be performed on objects in DSpace. • PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides • Improved Google Scholar indexing on metadata and PDF content • Improved performance and scalability of DSpace: the code has been thoroughly analyzed by a suite of code quality tools and there have been considerable performance gains with regard to item ingestion and indexing speed • Automated Unit Testing of core code: helps the developers ensure the core code of DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible No pre-registration is required. To participate login 10 minutes prior to the presentation: http://www.infiniteconferencing.com/Events/duraspace; participant code: 7834995 Audio: 641-593-6241; participant code: 7834995 If you are unable to attend, a recording of the web seminar will be available the following week. The recording will be posted on the DuraSpace website, along with other previous web seminars and may be accessed here: http://duraspace.org/resources.php Please contact Carol Minton Morris with questions. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmor...@duraspace.org Skype: carolmmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter@DuraSpace Twitter@DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl___ Dspace-general mailing list dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DCAT Feb 1 meeting agenda call for new members!
The DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is holding it's regular monthly meeting tomorrow, February 1 at 9am EDT/14:00 UTC/GMT. Please see a copy of the message posted last week below for additional details about this group. The proposed agenda can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes+February+1%2C+2011. Membership to the DCAT is open to anyone in the DSpace community. You can read more about the group here in the message below or here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+Community+Advisory+Team. We are currently actively seeking new members. For those interested in talking about the DCAT and how you can get involved, please feel free to contact me or join the meeting tomorrow. Likewise, if you have any feedback or questions about DCAT efforts I'd love to hear from you. Anyone in the community is welcome to join the DCAT meetings, but due to space limitations on our teleconference number, we do ask that if you plan to attend you email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org in advance to ensure there is capacity on the call. For more information about the meetings, including dial in instructions and archived meeting notes visit here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Meeting+Notes. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Date: January 26, 2011 4:44:16 PM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Meeting Needs: New DSpace Open Source Feature Review Process Apologies for the cross-posting - Ithaca, NY Many in the DSpace community are aware of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee's (DGOC) efforts over the past few years. With the guidance and support of the DuraSpace organization, the DGOC has developed several resources for the community. Most recently the launch of the monthly e-forum hosted last week by Alice Platt, was designed by DGOC member Ronee Francis. The most notably DGOC project was the expanded user registry, which provides a browse/search of the DSpace user community database based on various criteria. The DGOC has also helped to pull together some of the large DSpace user group meetings. For more about the DGOC accomplishments, you can visit their wiki page. Development Proccess Proposals Last summer in collaboration with the DSpace Committers, the DGOC authored a proposal for a new community group that would have more direct involvement with the DSpace development process. As agreed to by the Committers, the goal of the new group would be to 1) Provide the community an opportunity to have direct input on new features in future DSpace releases 2) Provide support to the Committer group in producing releases More information about the various proposals are available on the wiki. DGOC Transition Over the past few months the DGOC has been working on behalf of the community and the Committers to design a process to facilitate the above goals. In this effort, it became clear that while the DGOC's previous activities centered around community resource development, that the biggest need in the community was helping to facilitate the development process. As a result, rather than start another seperate project group, the DGOC, in consultation with the Committers, has decided to reconstitute itself into the new group, called the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT). DCAT Begins DCAT started this month reviewing new feature requests from the DSpace community issue/feature tracking tool, JIRA. The aim is to review all new feature requests in JIRA and facilitate community-wide discussions on those requests that appear to have the broadest appeal or would have the biggest impact for the community. Part of the goal of the community discussion is not only to solicit more feedback and gather specific requirements, but also to find project groups or stakeholders who could work on the development of the features. You can see the first few issues that have been reviewed by DCAT on the new wiki-based DSpace discussion forum. DCAT anticipates using this same wiki discussion forum for the community-wide discussions and anyone in the community should feel free to add their thoughts. Announcements and updates about the community discussions will be posted regularly to the mailing lists. The community should note that there is currently over 40 new feature requests in JIRA and it will take the DCAT several months to optimize their review process and get through the backlog. DCAT Membership While all the existing DGOC members will now serve on DCAT, the group would very much welcome new members. The time commitment is minimal and most of the work can be done asynchronously via email and wiki/JIRA postings. More specifics about the member activities
[Dspace-tech] REMINDER: 1.7 webinar starting soon
The What's new in DSpace 1.7 webinar will start in approximately 30 minutes. No pre-registration is required. To participate login 10 minutes prior to the presentation: http://www.infiniteconferencing.com/Events/duraspace; participant code: 7834995 Audio: 641-593-6241; participant code: 7834995 If you are unable to attend, a recording of the web seminar will be available the following week. The recording will be posted on the DuraSpace website, along with other previous web seminars and may be accessed here: http://duraspace.org/resources.php . Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Fwd: REMINDER: 1.7 webinar starting soon
Apologies -- the URL and code were smashed together in the previous msg -- here is a correction http://www.infiniteconferencing.com/Events/duraspace participant code: 7834995 Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Date: January 27, 2011 10:22:34 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: REMINDER: 1.7 webinar starting soon The What's new in DSpace 1.7 webinar will start in approximately 30 minutes. No pre-registration is required. To participate login 10 minutes prior to the presentation: http://www.infiniteconferencing.com/Events/duraspace; participant code: 7834995 Audio: 641-593-6241; participant code: 7834995 If you are unable to attend, a recording of the web seminar will be available the following week. The recording will be posted on the DuraSpace website, along with other previous web seminars and may be accessed here: http://duraspace.org/resources.php . Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] 1.7 webinar questions
Thank you to all who attended the 1.7 webinar today. Our sincere apologies for the abrupt end to the webinar. For those of you who are international, we are working on resolving the issues with your audio connection for future webinars. We appreciate everyone's patience as we work through the logistical issues with our webinar platform. Thank you to Peter Deitz for presenting and for all his efforts on the 1.7 release. And a big thank you to all the committers and developers who make DSpace possible. I've pasted the qa that came across the chat below. If you have any additional questions that didn't get answered, please post them to the list and Peter or one of the other committers/developers will do their best to answer. Once the recording of the webinar is available, I will post a message to the list. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Alice Platt to Q A Group 11:43 I'm still on DSpace 1.5, so I might have missed this. Can we import from the user interface yet or are we still tethered to the command line? Alice Platt to Q A Group 11:43 batch import, I mean Tim Donohue to Valorie Hollister 11:44 Val, are you unmuting for questions? David Gewirtz to Q A Group 11:44 are stats available at the community collection item levels Sue Walker-Thornton to All 11:44 Hi Peter. Is there a XMLUI theme repository? Alice Platt to All 11:44 I'm still on DSpace 1.5, so I might have missed this. Can we batch import from the user interface yet or are we still tethered to the command line? David Gewirtz to All 11:45 are stats available at the community collection item levels Peter Dietz to All 11:45 xmlui themes on github (work in progress) https://github.com/DSpace/xmlui-webapp/network Robin Rice to All 11:46 Congratulations to all on all those improvements. Tim Donohue to Valorie Hollister 11:46 lots of background noise, unfortunately Tim Donohue to Valorie Hollister 11:46 the conference just ended? Chris Charles to All 11:46 All conference hosts have hung up. This conference is now over. Valorie Hollister to All 11:46 Please post your questions in the chat -- we will have to post the questions to the list Alice Platt to All 11:47 can we call back in? Tim Donohue to All 11:47 Whoops...it looks like the conference accidentally kicked us off Valorie Hollister to All 11:47 Apologies for the abrupt end to the call. Valorie Hollister to All 11:47 yes we can all dial back in Peter Dietz to All 11:47 ok, I'll type in responses. batch metadata editing is 1.6 feature Tim Donohue to All 11:47 To answer David Gewirtz: Stats are available at the Site level (in 1.7), and at Community/Collection/Item level as well (since 1.6) Alice Platt to All 11:47 I was actually referring to uploading items in batch Peter Dietz to All 11:47 batch import is from command line for all systems Alice Platt to All 11:48 ok, thank you Peter Peter Dietz to All 11:48 there is sword to look at for repo deposit, Alice Platt to All 11:48 I have one other question -- Mirage looks really great and I can't wait to get my hands on it. Will there be, or is there available a Live CD for 1.7? Sue Walker-Thornton to All 11:48 Thanks for the theme url Peter!!! Peter Dietz to All 11:49 a 1.7.1 release is a possibility, there are a few known bugs that are somewhat minor that would be best to fix from a new release as opposed to making each user manually fix them Tim Donohue to All 11:49 Hi Alice: At this point, we haven't had anyone volunteer to make a Live CD for 1.7. But, if we can find someone interested in it, we would encourage it. However, you can try out 1.7 on our demo server: http://demo.dspace.org/ Michael Guthrie to All 11:50 Thanks for the good overview. Valorie Hollister to All 11:50 Peter, do we want to log back on? Alice Platt to All 11:53 Thank you all! Tim Donohue to All 11:54 Are there any further questions anyone has? Bodnar Robert to All 11:56 Greetings! I would like to ask if there are plans to add the option for xmlui to change the language? Sue Walker-Thornton to All 11:56 Thanks very much for this!! Valorie Hollister to All 11:58 Again, our apologies for the abrupt end to the webinar. All the questions and answers asked in the chat will be posted on the lists If you have further questions, please ask them on the list and Peter or one of the other committers will do their best to respond. Valorie Hollister to All 11:59 Thanks to Peter for presenting today -- and for all his efforts on the 1.7 release. Big thank yous, as always, to all the committers and developers who make DSpace possible! Tim Donohue to All 11:59 Hi Robert Bodnar: The XMLUI currently automatically changes the language based on your web browser language settings. I think we'd be open to providing a dropdown to change the language on demand
[Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.7 Web Seminar Jan 27: What's New in DSpace 1.7
Apologies for the cross-posting -- just a reminder about the 1.7 webinar tomorrow at 11am Eastern. See below for login details. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Carol Minton Morris cmmor...@fedora-commons.org Date: January 18, 2011 10:20:58 AM EST To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace 1.7 Web Seminar Jan 27: What's New in DSpace 1.7 Reply-To: cmmor...@duraspace.org Ithaca, NY Please join Peter Dietz, DSpace 1.7 release coordinator, for a web seminar on January 27 at at 11:00 am Eastern for “What's new in DSpace 1.7.” In this one hour web seminar, Peter will provide an overview of 1.7, highlighting the new features and improvements included in the lastest DSpace release and how they could benefit your institution. His presentation will include highlights about: • Mirage XMLUI Theme: a new clean, professional looking theme for XMLUI with increased browser compatibility, easier customization and enhanced performance. Click for a video demo. • DSpace Discovery: a faceted browse/search interface for XMLUI that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository content with auto completion for search and context sensitive browse suggestions. Click for an informational video. • Archival Information Package (AIP) Backup Restore process: allows for a backup of DSpace into a generic METS-based structure, that can be used to migrate DSpace content to another system that supports AIPs (DSpace or non-DSpace). • Curation Administration User Interface: allows for a series of curation tasks (profile bitstream formats, virus scan, check for required metadata) to be performed on objects in DSpace. • PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides • Improved Google Scholar indexing on metadata and PDF content • Improved performance and scalability of DSpace: the code has been thoroughly analyzed by a suite of code quality tools and there have been considerable performance gains with regard to item ingestion and indexing speed • Automated Unit Testing of core code: helps the developers ensure the core code of DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible No pre-registration is required. To participate login 10 minutes prior to the presentation: http://www.infiniteconferencing.com/Events/duraspace; participant code: 7834995 Audio: 641-593-6241; participant code: 7834995 If you are unable to attend, a recording of the web seminar will be available the following week. The recording will be posted on the DuraSpace website, along with other previous web seminars and may be accessed here: http://duraspace.org/resources.php Please contact Carol Minton Morris with questions. -- Carol Minton Morris DuraSpace Director of Marketing and Communications cmmor...@duraspace.org Skype: carolmmorris 607 592-3135 Twitter@DuraSpace Twitter@DuraCloud http://DuraSpace.org -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl___ Dspace-general mailing list dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DSpace User Community Reaches Milestone
, virtual research environments, and more. DuraSpace provides leadership and innovation in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve libraries, universities, research centers, cultural heritage institutions, and other knowledge stewards. The organization’s open source technology portfolio includes the DSpace open access repository application and the Fedora open repository platform. DuraSpace is also the home of DuraCloud, an emerging cloud-based service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to enable durability and access to digital content. The DuraSpace team includes recognized leaders and experts in the management of digital information. The team works with an active and diverse international community committed to the durability of digital resources. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Meeting Needs: New DSpace Open Source Feature Review Process
Apologies for the cross-posting - Ithaca, NY Many in the DSpace community are aware of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee's (DGOC) efforts over the past few years. With the guidance and support of the DuraSpace organization, the DGOC has developed several resources for the community. Most recently the launch of the monthly e-forum hosted last week by Alice Platt, was designed by DGOC member Ronee Francis. The most notably DGOC project was the expanded user registry, which provides a browse/search of the DSpace user community database based on various criteria. The DGOC has also helped to pull together some of the large DSpace user group meetings. For more about the DGOC accomplishments, you can visit their wiki page. Development Proccess Proposals Last summer in collaboration with the DSpace Committers, the DGOC authored a proposal for a new community group that would have more direct involvement with the DSpace development process. As agreed to by the Committers, the goal of the new group would be to 1) Provide the community an opportunity to have direct input on new features in future DSpace releases 2) Provide support to the Committer group in producing releases More information about the various proposals are available on the wiki. DGOC Transition Over the past few months the DGOC has been working on behalf of the community and the Committers to design a process to facilitate the above goals. In this effort, it became clear that while the DGOC's previous activities centered around community resource development, that the biggest need in the community was helping to facilitate the development process. As a result, rather than start another seperate project group, the DGOC, in consultation with the Committers, has decided to reconstitute itself into the new group, called the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT). DCAT Begins DCAT started this month reviewing new feature requests from the DSpace community issue/feature tracking tool, JIRA. The aim is to review all new feature requests in JIRA and facilitate community-wide discussions on those requests that appear to have the broadest appeal or would have the biggest impact for the community. Part of the goal of the community discussion is not only to solicit more feedback and gather specific requirements, but also to find project groups or stakeholders who could work on the development of the features. You can see the first few issues that have been reviewed by DCAT on the new wiki-based DSpace discussion forum. DCAT anticipates using this same wiki discussion forum for the community-wide discussions and anyone in the community should feel free to add their thoughts. Announcements and updates about the community discussions will be posted regularly to the mailing lists. The community should note that there is currently over 40 new feature requests in JIRA and it will take the DCAT several months to optimize their review process and get through the backlog. DCAT Membership While all the existing DGOC members will now serve on DCAT, the group would very much welcome new members. The time commitment is minimal and most of the work can be done asynchronously via email and wiki/JIRA postings. More specifics about the member activities are on the wiki. This is a great opportunity for non-developers to get involved with the community and be a part of the development process. In an effort to represent the breadth of the world-wide DSpace community, DCAT is specifically interested in recruiting members from Europe and Asia. New Feature Request Process For anyone who would like to learn about how to make a new feature request and what the general process is for new feature development, please visit the wiki page that describes the process and provides helpful information and suggestions. Feedback As always your feedback is welcomed! Please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollis...@duraspace.org if you are interested in getting involved with DCAT or have any questions/feedback. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DGOC Dec 7 Meeting Agenda
The next DSpace Global Outreach Committee meeting is tomorrow, Dec 7 at 9pm EDT/14:00 UTC/GMT. The proposed agenda can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+December+7%2C+2010. We welcome anyone in the community to join the meetings, but due to space limitations on our teleconference number, we do ask that if you plan to attend you email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org in advance to ensure there is capacity on the call. For more information about the meetings, including dial in instructions and archived meeting notes visit here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+Meeting+Notes. Membership to the DGOC is open to anyone in the DSpace community. You can read more about the group here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte. For anyone interested in talking about the DGOC and how you can get involved, please feel free to contact me at any time. Likewise if you have any feedback or questions about DGOC efforts I'd love to hear from you. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DGOC Nov 2 Meeting Agenda
The next DSpace Global Outreach Committee meeting is tomorrow, Nov 2 at 3pm EDT/19:00 UTC/GMT. The proposed agenda can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+November+2%2C+2010. We welcome anyone in the community to join the meetings, but due to space limitations on our teleconference number, we do ask that if you plan to attend you email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org in advance to ensure there is capacity on the call. For more information about the meetings, including dial in instructions and archived meeting notes visit here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+Meeting+Notes. Membership to the DGOC is open to anyone in the DSpace community. You can read more about the group here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte. For anyone interested in talking about the DGOC and how you can get involved, please feel free to contact me at any time. Likewise if you have any feedback or questions about DGOC efforts I'd love to hear from you. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DSpace User Group Mtg at SPARC final schedule details
It is not to late to register! Below are the details and final schedule for the upcoming DSpace User Group Meeting. @mire and DuraSpace invite all DSpace enthusiasts to this half day DSpace user group meeting. The meeting will feature sessions on the upcoming DSpace 1.7 release, both addressed to repository managers and developers. @mire representatives will introduce @mire's unique offering of services and add-on modules, supporting institutions running their own in-house repository. Date Time: November 10, 2010, from 8:30am to 1pm. Location: Baltimore, Maryland The meeting will be held following the SPARC Digital Repositories Conference (http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/10-0513.shtml) on November 8 and 9. Here is the final schedule: 8.30-9.15: Update on 1.7 and beyond by Peter Dietz (DSpace 1.7 release Manager) 9.15-10: @mire products and services by Bram Luyten / Lieven Droogmans / Mark Diggory (@mire) 10-10.15: coffee break 10.15-11: Batch Metadata Editing by Maureen Walsh 11.15-12: Structured Networking for Repository Managers: Challenges and Ambitions for 2011* *Structured Networking: This is a chance for you to hear from other members of the community and learn what they are working on. Depending on your travel plans, you are invited connect with other users to continue networking over lunch. Here are some questions to get the discussion going: -Are you putting a DSpace 1.7 upgrade on your roadmap? Why or why not? -What are your main organizational issues with your repository? (staff time available, boss doesn't want to fund it, researchers don't perceive the value, etc.) -What are your main technical issues with your repository ? (learning curve, staff availability/turnover, working on an older dspace version, etc.) -If there's one thing DuraSpace and/or the community could do for you, that would make YOUR life easier, what would it be? For more information, please visit the wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SPARC+DSpace+User+Group+Meeting+Fall+2010. Although registration is formally closed, please email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org if you would like to attend. I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DuraSpace Community Outreach Update
Dear DSpace Community - I wanted to make sure you all were aware of the update on DuraSpace's community strategy/outreach function. As you can see from the announcement below, the DuraSpace organization is consolidating all of the community groups (Solution Communities, DSpace Global Outreach Committee, Ambassadors, etc.) into one community group framework. The idea is to refine the framework -- optimizing what works and sharing best practices between groups. The hope is in doing so we can broaden the reach and the value of the various community groups. There are also some people changes -- Thorny Staples, my counterpart who works with the Fedora community is leaving the DuraSpace organization and my role is broadening a bit. So, what does this mean for the DSpace community? Not much change really. I believe everyone agrees that the DGOC's new focus of helping with the development process -- reviewing the JIRA new feature issues -- seems to be the place that group can have the biggest impact / most benefit to the community. The past accomplishments and successes of DGOC will hopefully be useful to other DuraSpace community groups. There has also been some discussion of expanding the DSpace Ambassador program to the Fedora community -- and developing a similar network of Fedora Ambassadors. We will be looking for feedback from the DSpace Ambassadors and the Fedora community to help determine what will serve the community best. As always, we are interested in hearing your questions / concerns / feedback. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Programs DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org DuraSpace Community Outreach Update Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 2:17 pm Written by: vhollister In order to serve specific needs and interests within the community, the DuraSpace organization has helped to develop and facilitate a pilot concept of several new community groups over the past two years. The Solution Communities, DSpace Ambassadors, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee as well as collaborations like the Hydra Project, are examples of groups that have provided a variety of ways for the individuals and institutions to engage with the community. Several of these groups have accomplished a great deal since their inception and more information is available by clicking on their links above. Going forward, DuraSpace will roll all the community groups under one framework, with the goal of providing support across both the Fedora and DSpace projects. Wikis and other infrastructure support used to facilitate the existing and future groups will be consolidated and DuraSpace will continue to encourage anyone to take advantage of the community group framework regardless of what technology they use. DuraSpace’s Director of Community Strategy and Fedora Project Lead, Thornton Staples, will be leaving the DuraSpace organization in November for a role at the Smithsonian Institution as the Director of Research and Scientific Data Management in the CIO’s office. Thorny will continue his involvement with the Fedora user community and various community groups in his new role at the Smithsonian. Valorie Hollister will transition into a new role as DuraSpace’s Director of Community Programs. In that role she will lead community efforts to promote initiatives that focus on broadening the reach of the DuraSpace community. Over the next few months she will work with the Fedora and DSpace communities to refine the DuraSpace community group framework and will work closely with the groups’ organizing committees and/or group members to help promote their future activities and successes. Technical Leads for DSpace and Fedora — Tim Donohue and Chris Wilper respectively — will continue in their roles working with Committers on software development as well as helping to define the technology roadmap for each project. In addition to the project technical leads and the Director of Community Programs, as always, the DSpace and Fedora communities will also have many resources available to them — including the mailing lists, wikis, project websites and service providers. We look forward to the DSpace and Fedora communities’ work and activities ahead and welcome your feedback on how the DuraSpace organization can help promote more collaboration in the future. Here is a link to the post: http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2010/10/20/duraspace-community-outreach-update/ -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
[Dspace-tech] DSpace User Group Mtg after SPARC-last wk to register
This is the last week to register for the DSpace User Group Meeting on November 10, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, from 8:30am to 1pm. The meeting will be held following the SPARC Digital Repositories Conference (http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/10-0513.shtml) on November 8 and 9. Here is the current agenda: 1) Update on 1.7 and beyond 2) Structured Networking/Innovative uses of DSpace - call for proposals from the community* 3) @mire projects and products 4) Batch metadata editing tutorial Meeting Registration The meeting is being sponsored by @mire, a Registered DSpace Service Provider, and is free to anyone who wishes to participate. For planning purposes, please be sure to register by this Friday, October 22, 2010. Send an email with your name and institution to vhollis...@duraspace.org. *Call for Proposals We are still seeking presentation proposals from members of the community with innovative DSpace projects at their institutions. Proposals should be sent to vhollis...@duraspace.org by October 22, 2010. For more information, please visit the wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/SPARC+DSpace+User+Group+Meeting+Fall+2010. I look forward to seeing you in a few weeks! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] recent webinars - recordings now available
The recordings of 2 recent webinars are now available on the duraspace.org website: http://duraspace.org/resources.php. Please see the full descriptions below. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org DSpace 1.6 Usage Statistics: How Does it Work? -- September 22, 2010 Join Ben Bosman, CTO @mire, as he explains how @mire’s open-source version of the “Content and Usage Analysis” DSpace module released with DSpace 1.6 can work for you. The DSpace 1.6 statistics solution offers logging of usage data including bitstream downloads, item display page visits, and collection and community homepage visits. This presentation will dive into the implementation details of this new statistics solution by outlining the following topics: •the storage of the statistics data; •various potential usage scenarios of the different statistics; •some of the opportunities for improving the statistics in future DSpace releases or customizing local requirements. DuraSpace Open Integration Architecture: A Pathway to Interoperation -- September 28, 2010 *What will it take to integrate a set of unique open source technologies in order to benefit the communities that rely on them to create accessible and durable digital resources? * Join Brad McLean, DuraSpace CTO, for an “All About Repositories” web seminar co-sponsored by DuraSpace and ORACLE where he will address that question. He will provide an update on DuraSpace’s technology strategy including a high level overview of each of DuraSpace’s three major open source preservation platforms: DSpace, a turnkey institutional repository; DuraCloud, preservation support over cloud computing platforms; and Fedora, a framework and toolkit for building digital repositories. This presentation will outline a proposed pathway to coexistence and interoperation of all three technologies. Brad will review updated roadmaps for each project and present current and future integration and migration plans. Each of these projects has a vibrant ecosystem of collaborating projects, from which examples will be highlighted illustrating practical integration approaches among and between these systems. -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Global Outreach Oct 5 Meeting Notes
The notes from the DGOC October 5 meeting are available at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+October+5%2C+2010. The next meeting will be on November 2. Please see my previous post below for additional information. Feel free to contact me with any questions or feedback. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DGOC Oct 5 Meeting Agenda
The next DSpace Global Outreach Committee meeting is tomorrow, Oct 5 at 9am EDT/13:00 and 3pm EDT/19:00 UTC/GMT. The proposed agenda can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+October+5%2C+2010. We welcome anyone in the community to join the meetings, but due to space limitations on our teleconference number, we do ask that if you plan to attend you email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org in advance to ensure there is capacity on the call. For more information about the meetings, including dial in instructions and archived meeting notes visit here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+Meeting+Notes. Membership to the DGOC is open to anyone in the DSpace community. You can read more about the group here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte. For anyone interested in talking about the DGOC and how you can get involved, please feel free to contact me at any time. Likewise if you have any feedback or questions about DGOC efforts I'd love to hear from you. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Virtualization is moving to the mainstream and overtaking non-virtualized environment for deploying applications. Does it make network security easier or more difficult to achieve? Read this whitepaper to separate the two and get a better understanding. http://p.sf.net/sfu/hp-phase2-d2d___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Call for proposals and registrations for DSUG after SPARC Conference
Apologies for the cross posting. Dear DSpace Community, There will be a 1/2 day DSpace User Group Meeting from 8:30am to 1pm on November 10, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, immediately following the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/10-0513.shtml) on November 8 and 9. Based on feedback from the community, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee has put together the following proposed agenda: 1) Update on 1.7 and beyond 2) Innovative uses of DSpace - call for proposals from the community* 3) @mire projects and products 4) Batch metadata editing tutorial** 5) Structured networking session -- find people or projects of interest to you Meeting Registration The meeting is being sponsored by @mire, a Registered DSpace Service Provider, and is free to anyone who wishes to participate. For planning purposes, please be sure to register by October 20, 2010. Send an email with your name and institution to vhollis...@duraspace.org. *Call for Proposals We are currently seeking presentation proposals from members of the community with innovative DSpace projects at their institutions. Proposals should be sent to vhollis...@duraspace.org by October 13, 2010. Acceptance notification will be sent by October 20. **Batch metadata editing tutorial We are seeking a presenter for this tutorial session. Content has already been written for a similar tutorial at OR10 and can easily be re-used. If you have used the batch metadata editing tool in DSpace 1.6 and would like to help spread the joy of this fantastic tool, please email vhollis...@duraspace.org. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible in November! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org-- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Global Outreach Sept 7 Meeting Notes
The notes from the DGOC September 7 meeting are available at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+September+7%2C+2010. The next meeting will be on October 5. Please see my previous post below for additional information. Feel free to contact me with any questions or feedback. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Begin forwarded message: From: Valorie Hollister vhollis...@duraspace.org Date: September 3, 2010 1:49:37 PM EDT To: dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net, dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-general] DSpace Global Outreach Update Dear DSpace Community - As many of you are aware, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) is a group of volunteers from the DSpace community who work to identify or develop resources and tools for DSpace users, as well as to advance the user community network world-wide. The DGOC has been hard at work this year on various projects, the most recent of which was the collaboration with DSpace committers to develop a session at OR10 specifically designed for repository managers. The session was extremely well received and recordings and/or copies of the slides will be available soon. In May, the DGOC launched the new and improved DSpace user registry database (http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_formdashboardItemid=151lang=en) which allows the community to not just see who uses DSpace, but provides a search and filter functions which enable users to find other institutions which may have similar repositories and environments to their own. Over the past several months, the DGOC has also been exploring ways to get more members of community involved in the software release process. There were some good discussions and proposals (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposals#Proposals-ReleaseCycle%2FProcessProposals) which resulted in agreement from the committer group to have a more formalized group or process to help facilitate broader community assistance and feedback in the release process. The intention is that this process will provide support to the release coordinator, as well as allow for more non-techies to take an active part in the evolution of the software. A logical place to incubate some of these ideas is with the DGOC. To that end, the DGOC plans to begin to help the committers review new feature requests in JIRA (http://jira.dspace.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=truetype=2status=1status=3status=4sorter/field=issuekeysorter/order=DESC). Part of this process will include encouraging and facilitating discussions about specific feature ideas with the community through the general mailing list. The hope is that more people will participate in determining the relevancy of the feature requests as well as assist in defining the requirements of a request. To make all of the DGOC efforts more transparent to the community, the monthly DGOC meetings are now open to anyone who wants to attend. We welcome anyone in the community to join the meetings, but due to space limitations on our teleconference number, we do ask that if you plan to attend you email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org in advance to ensure there is capacity on the call. For more information about the meetings, including all the archived meeting notes visit here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+Meeting+Notes. Our next meeting is scheduled for September 7 and the proposed agenda can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+September+7%2C+2010 Membership to the DGOC is open to anyone in the DSpace community. You can read more about the group here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte. For anyone interested in talking about the DGOC and how you can get involved, please feel free to contact me at any time. Likewise if you have any feedback or questions about DGOC efforts I'd love to hear from you. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd___ Dspace-general mailing list dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-general -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Global Outreach Update
Dear DSpace Community - As many of you are aware, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) is a group of volunteers from the DSpace community who work to identify or develop resources and tools for DSpace users, as well as to advance the user community network world-wide. The DGOC has been hard at work this year on various projects, the most recent of which was the collaboration with DSpace committers to develop a session at OR10 specifically designed for repository managers. The session was extremely well received and recordings and/or copies of the slides will be available soon. In May, the DGOC launched the new and improved DSpace user registry database (http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_formdashboardItemid=151lang=en) which allows the community to not just see who uses DSpace, but provides a search and filter functions which enable users to find other institutions which may have similar repositories and environments to their own. Over the past several months, the DGOC has also been exploring ways to get more members of community involved in the software release process. There were some good discussions and proposals (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Proposals#Proposals-ReleaseCycle%2FProcessProposals) which resulted in agreement from the committer group to have a more formalized group or process to help facilitate broader community assistance and feedback in the release process. The intention is that this process will provide support to the release coordinator, as well as allow for more non-techies to take an active part in the evolution of the software. A logical place to incubate some of these ideas is with the DGOC. To that end, the DGOC plans to begin to help the committers review new feature requests in JIRA (http://jira.dspace.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=truetype=2status=1status=3status=4sorter/field=issuekeysorter/order=DESC). Part of this process will include encouraging and facilitating discussions about specific feature ideas with the community through the general mailing list. The hope is that more people will participate in determining the relevancy of the feature requests as well as assist in defining the requirements of a request. To make all of the DGOC efforts more transparent to the community, the monthly DGOC meetings are now open to anyone who wants to attend. We welcome anyone in the community to join the meetings, but due to space limitations on our teleconference number, we do ask that if you plan to attend you email me at vhollis...@duraspace.org in advance to ensure there is capacity on the call. For more information about the meetings, including all the archived meeting notes visit here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+Meeting+Notes. Our next meeting is scheduled for September 7 and the proposed agenda can be found here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DGOC+September+7%2C+2010 Membership to the DGOC is open to anyone in the DSpace community. You can read more about the group here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte. For anyone interested in talking about the DGOC and how you can get involved, please feel free to contact me at any time. Likewise if you have any feedback or questions about DGOC efforts I'd love to hear from you. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DSpace User Group Meeting after SPARC Conference
Apologies for the cross posting. Dear DSpace Community, There will be a one day DSpace User Group Meeting on November 10, 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland, immediately following the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting (http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/10-0513.shtml) on November 8 and 9. A big thank you to @mire (http://atmire.com/), a Registered DSpace Service Provider, who is sponsoring the DSpace meeting. As the DSpace Global Outreach Committee plans the user group meeting, we are looking for community feedback on what type of content would be most interesting to include. For anyone who may attend, we'd like to know what you are most interested in hearing about. Please email me (vhollis...@duraspace.org) your feedback on the top content items you would like to see -- either based on the list of possible presentations below or add your own ideas for content. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace DSpace User Group Meeting Presentation Ideas: 1) Update on DSpace: 1.7 and beyond 2) DSpace Under the Hood: How DSpace works (based on the joint presentation of DSpace Committers and the DSpace Global Outreach Committee at OR10 http://or2010.fecyt.es/Resources/documentos/Duraspace/DSpace%20Under%20the%20Hood_How%20DSpace%20works.pdf) 3) DSpace Under the Hood: The development process and YOUR role in it (based on the joint presentation of DSpace Committers and the DSpace Global Outreach Committee at OR10 http://or2010.fecyt.es/Resources/documentos/Duraspace/DSpace%20Under%20the%20Hood_The%20development%20process%20and%20YOUR%20role%20in%20it.pdf) 4) A Tutorial on the Batch Metadata Editing Tool (based on the presentation by Leonie Hayes at OR10 http://or2010.fecyt.es/Resources/documentos/Duraspace/Batch%20Metadata%20Editing.pdf) 5) Structured discussion on a topic of interest - some examples could include: -preservation and archiving practices - what Solutions Communities may have to offer -usage statistics (item downloads, page vists, etc) - establishing standards so info can be exchanged -your DSpace team - what skills do you need to keep DSpace up and running? how many staff to you need tosupport your repository? 6) Half day Manakin Training by Eric Luhrs from Lafayette College 7) SWORD Workshop: Adding SWORD to your repository armor (based on the OR10 workshop http://or2010.fecyt.es/Publico/WorkShop/index.aspx#b3) 8) Presentations from the DSpace community about interesting projects - successes or failures of different DSpace use cases (video repositories, dark archives, etc) 9) DSpace Surgery - bring your questions and problems 10) YOUR IDEAS? On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Jennifer McLennan wrote: Registration is now open for the next installment of the popular SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting. The meeting is hosted by SPARC, in partnership with SPARC Europe and SPARC Japan/National Institute of Informatics, and will be held November 8 9, 2010 at the Renaissance Harborplace Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The SPARC digital repositories meetings have played an integral part in advancing the potential of repositories to expand the dissemination of scholarship and transform scholarly communication. First held in 2004, the meeting is regularly hosted in the UK or Europe, Japan, and North America, draws hundreds of participants from around the globe, and has helped set the stage for key developments over the past six years. The North American meeting is a unique forum for diverse stakeholders – librarians, technologists, research producers, research funders, publishers and commercial interests – to come together and consider how best to leverage the practices and policies that have proven successful and explore new challenges. The meeting is also a key venue for librarians, the leading advocates for repositories, to share and refine strategies to engage stakeholders across campus. For more details about the meeting, visit http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/10-0513.shtml REGISTER NOW at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/dr10 - Jennifer McLennan Director of Programs Operations SPARC jenni...@arl.org (202) 296-2296 x121 Fax: (202) 872-0884 *** SPARC 2010 Digital Repositories Meeting November 8 9 - Baltimore, MD http://www.arl.org/sparc/media/09-0223.shtml *** Open Access Week 2010 October 18 - 24. Everywhere. http://www.openaccessweek.org *** http://www.arl.org/sparc -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev
[Dspace-tech] DuraSpace Launches Sponsorship Program
Dear DSpace Community, Today we have launched a Sponsorship Program to help sustain the DuraSpace organization. We have posted a press release (see a portion below) as well as some informational resources on the duraspace.org website. We have also mailed out 600 sponsorship packets to library directors at institutions around the world. Please encourage your institution's library director and others in your DSpace community network to support our efforts. With the community's help we will continue to enhance our existing technologies, advocate for our user community and innovate with new solutions that ensure the long-term durability of our collective digital heritage. Thank you! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org DuraSpace Launches Sponsorship Program Thursday, May 20th, 2010 8:49 am Written by: Carol Minton Morris Ithaca, NY DuraSpace, an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, has launched its 2010 Sponsorship Program (http://DuraSpace.org/sponsorship.php) to engage leaders from university and library communities in supporting the organization’s ongoing mission. DuraSpace provides open source software and services to help ensure that current and future generations have access to our collective digital heritage. DuraSpace is the home of the DSpace (http://DSpace.org/) and Fedora (http://Fedora-commons.org/) open source software for digital repositories. Sponsors contribute at three levels of giving (http://DuraSpace.org/sponsorshiplevels.php) as an investment in community-driven approaches to preserving our digital heritage. Providing Leadership and Advocacy DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org/) is committed to providing leadership and innovation in the development and deployment of open technologies that promote durable, persistent access to digital data. Collaborators include highly respected academic institutions, government agencies, and scientific and cultural organizations. In addition to its work in open source software and services, DuraSpace advocates for open access to scholarly publications and for interoperability of the supporting technologies. DuraSpace has helped to establish open standards and protocols by working with other open source software projects and working closely with commercial partners on integration strategies. Clifford A. Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) offers this rationale for financial support of the DuraSpace organization: “DuraSpace is well positioned to focus resources and talent to accelerate progress in areas critical to the research, education and cultural memory communities.”-- ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] New and Improved DSpace Registry
Mark, Jason and all - Thank you for your feedback. I understand and agree with the need to use terms consistently -- and certainly see from a developer's perspective that calling things addon modules has a very specific meaning that you all have been careful to define and set standards for. In the case of the new registry, I will have customizations substituted for addons to attempt to avoid confusion in the community. I would argue, though, that we need to come up with a term that is easily interpreted by those outside the DSpace community or those very new to the community as a better substitute for addons than customizations (which seems to be a bit generic and intimidating for an non-developer). We have had a lot feedback that non-developers want to know what other functionality/features can be added to DSpace. And, it is natural to think that if you go to a software website you will see what options are available. This was why last year the DSpace Global Outreach Cmte (with feedback from some committers) developed the Addons/Extensions page on dspace.org (http://www.dspace.org/add-ons-and-extensions/addons/). I completely agree that the list is imperfect -- because the items are not true addon modules as the developers have defined them. The list is even more imperfect now since the release of 1.6, as several of the items listed are now included in the standard download of DSpace. Imperfect as this list is, it does provide some idea of which specific features there is considerable work completed on -- certainly enough that someone else could re-use -- to those trying to figure out if DSpace is something that will meet / could meet their needs. I propose that we work on the definition of all terms you list below (and any others) as a community on the wiki. I suggest this effort begin with the developers, as they have the best sense of what the terminology means across most software application. As a workspace to start the process I have created an wiki page (http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/Terminology). I invite anyone to visit the page and add their thoughts. Following some agreement on terms we can re-vamp the dspace.org Addon/Extensions page, perhaps moving it back to the wiki to ease input and maintenance. Let me know if you have other suggestions to help move this issue forward. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@yahoo.com On May 8, 2010, at 5:02 PM, Jason Fowler wrote: I concur with everything Mark said. The interface is great! However, I also found those designations confusing. Also, is there any way that dissertations and theses could be added somewhere besides the addons section? I would love to be able to know where all of the DSpace ETD collections were. Thanks, Jason Fowler, CA, MSLS Archives and Special Collections Librarian The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Vice President, ALABI jfow...@sbts.edu From: Mark Diggory [mdigg...@atmire.com] Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 4:46 PM To: Valorie Hollister Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] New and Improved DSpace Registry Valorie, Congratulations on the new interface. I like the layout and the search interface. However, I have a minor semantic clarification, I would recommend changing Addons Extensions Integrations to just Customizations. Many of the features listed in the Addon category appear to be local customizations to DSpace done as a local case and not full fledged reusable Addons or Modules that can be easily added to DSpace. I also recommend that the community really needs to properly clarify what is meant by Addon, Extension, Integration, Plugin, Module, Patch and other terms. In the developers group we now already have a very strict definition of what an Addon Module is. We need this clarification when describing to users what the DSpace developer community officially considers the endorsed manner in which to package and distribute customizations to DSpace. Addon Modules should be Maven Artifact Modules, packaged and distributed via Maven repositories such as the Maven central repository in a manner such that they can be included into your build process as dependencies with simply a few lines of configuration. It would probably be good if there were a separate classification for Addon Modules that is different from other Customizations. http://wiki.dspace.org/Modules Having a well defined terminology will assure that we all understand what is being described when we are conversing with one another about how we have changed DSpace. Cheers, Mark -- Mark R. Diggory Head of U.S. Operations - @mire http://www.atmire.com - Institutional Repository Solutions http://www.togather.eu - Before getting together, get t...@ther
[Dspace-tech] New and Improved DSpace Registry
Dear DSpace Community, There is a new resource now available to the DSpace community -- the much improved DSpace user registry (http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace/Repository-List.html). Please read the news item below for more information. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Have you ever wondered which institutions have upgraded to the most recent version of DSpace or which repositories have video files stored? DuraSpace is pleased to announce a new resource, the community DSpace Registry (http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace/Repository-List.html). The database was conceived of and designed by members of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte) (DGOC) to address one of the biggest challenges within the DSpace user community; not just to identify which institutions used DSpace, but also cultivate a resource with some basic information about those repositories to help facilitate connections between users. The work started early last year and included a Community Networking Survey (http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/Community+Networking+Survey+Results), which gathered data about repositories and seeded the information now available in the database. Members of the DSpace community will now be able to search the database to discover other institutions which have similar repositories, environments or interests to their own. The hope of DGOC and the DuraSpace organization is that this listing will help foster all types of connections and collaborations in the future. What is new? The most popular page on the dspace.org site for the last few years has been the Who's Using DSpace? page. This page was a simple list of DSpace repositories with only the institution name, country and URL link listed. The list was not easily searchable or sortable. The new DSpace repositories database provides much more information and functionality. And there are now over 800 known repositories included in the database, representing over 80 countries. Main Table View The main database view provides you with a sortable table of all known DSpace instances. It includes the institution name, country, type of institution (academic, museum, government, etc), DSpace version/user interface and the URL link. This list can be re-ordered by any of the fields listed -- so if you want to get a quick view of who is using 1.6 XML/Manakin it can be done in an instant by clicking on the column header. Detailed Repository View To view all the available information about a specific repository (use case, file types stored, type of content stored, addons/extensions, database, operating system, etc), you simply click on the institution name. You will then view all the information available in the database about that particular repository. Search/Filters On the left hand side there is a number of search filters, including an open text search which you can use to perform a single or multi-faceted search and will produce a listing of those institutions which meet your selected criteria. How can you add or update your institution's information? The information available in the repositories database is limited to what has been provided by the institution either by registering previously on dspace.org, the ROAR listing (http://roar.eprints.org/) or by responding to the April 2009 Community Networking Survey. We would love to help foster more connections. Please take the time to register or to update your repository's information by making use of the registration form (http://www.dspace.org/component/option,com_facileforms/Itemid,151/ff_name,dspaceinstance/lang,en/) for new listings or update form (http://www.dspace.org/component/option,com_facileforms/Itemid,154/) for existing listings. Please note that we expect updates to existing listings may take a few days to show up in the database and we ask for your patience. Acknowledgments Many thanks to the DGOC for their design and review work on this project. Thanks also to Valorie Hollister, Director of Community Development, DSpace Project/DuraSpace for driving the project forward and to Lauren L'Esperance, DSpace.org webmaster who worked out all the technical pieces. We look forward to hearing your feedback and comments about the new DSpace Registry. Please contact Valorie Hollister at vhollister[at]duraspace.org directly. -- ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] New and Improved DSpace Registry
The dspace.org site is under attack from hackers. Please try the link again in an hour or so. Apologies for the inconvenience. On May 7, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Jason Fowler wrote: Valorie, Are you certain that link is correct? I'm getting a 404. Thanks, Jason Fowler, CA, MSLS Archives and Special Collections Librarian The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Vice President, ALABI jfow...@sbts.edu From: Valorie Hollister [vhollis...@duraspace.org] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:56 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-tech] New and Improved DSpace Registry Dear DSpace Community, There is a new resource now available to the DSpace community -- the much improved DSpace user registry (http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace/Repository-List.html). Please read the news item below for more information. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.orgmailto:vhollis...@duraspace.org Have you ever wondered which institutions have upgraded to the most recent version of DSpace or which repositories have video files stored? DuraSpace is pleased to announce a new resource, the community DSpace Registryhttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dspace.org%2Fwhos-using-dspace%2FRepository-List.htmlid=preview (http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace/Repository-List.html). The database was conceived of and designed by members of the DSpace Global Outreach Committeehttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.dspace.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FDSPACE%2FDSpace%2BGlobal%2BOutreach%2BCmteid=preview (http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte) (DGOC) to address one of the biggest challenges within the DSpace user community; not just to identify which institutions used DSpace, but also cultivate a resource with some basic information about those repositories to help facilitate connections between users. The work started early last year and included a Community Networking Surveyhttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.dspace.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FDSPACE%2FCommunity%2BNetworking%2BSurvey%2BResultsid=preview (http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/Community+Networking+Survey+Results), which gathered data about repositories and seeded the information now available in the database. Members of the DSpace community will now be able to search the database to discover other institutions which have similar repositories, environments or interests to their own. The hope of DGOC and the DuraSpace organization is that this listing will help foster all types of connections and collaborations in the future. What is new? The most popular page on the dspace.orghttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dspace.org%2Fid=preview site for the last few years has been the Who's Using DSpace? page. This page was a simple list of DSpace repositories with only the institution name, country and URL link listed. The list was not easily searchable or sortable. The new DSpace repositories database provides much more information and functionality. And there are now over 800 known repositories included in the database, representing over 80 countries. Main Table View The main database view provides you with a sortable table of all known DSpace instances. It includes the institution name, country, type of institution (academic, museum, government, etc), DSpace version/user interface and the URL link. This list can be re-ordered by any of the fields listed -- so if you want to get a quick view of who is using 1.6 XML/Manakin it can be done in an instant by clicking on the column header. Detailed Repository View To view all the available information about a specific repository (use case, file types stored, type of content stored, addons/extensions, database, operating system, etc), you simply click on the institution name. You will then view all the information available in the database about that particular repository. Search/Filters On the left hand side there is a number of search filters, including an open text search which you can use to perform a single or multi-faceted search and will produce a listing of those institutions which meet your selected criteria. How can you add or update your institution's information? The information available in the repositories database is limited to what has been provided by the institution either by registering previously on dspace.orghttp://dspace.org, the ROARhttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Froar.eprints.org%2Fid=preview listing (http://roar.eprints.org/) or by responding to the April 2009
Re: [Dspace-tech] New and Improved DSpace Registry
It is being worked on and should be resolved shortly. On May 7, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Wendy J Bossons wrote: There appears to be an issue with the dspace.org web site, maybe a hack, or maybe some other type of failure. I just recently sent a message to Valorie as all of the pages appear to be down. The main page is a directory listing . . . is there anyone else who should be contacted? ..\Wendy Wendy Bossons Web Developer MIT Libraries Technology Research Development Building E25-131 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02141-4307 Phone 617-253-0770 Fax 617-253-4462 wboss...@mit.edu http://libraries.mit.edu On May 7, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Jason Fowler wrote: Valorie, Are you certain that link is correct? I'm getting a 404. Thanks, Jason Fowler, CA, MSLS Archives and Special Collections Librarian The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Vice President, ALABI jfow...@sbts.edu From: Valorie Hollister [vhollis...@duraspace.org] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:56 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-tech] New and Improved DSpace Registry Dear DSpace Community, There is a new resource now available to the DSpace community -- the much improved DSpace user registry (http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace/Repository-List.html). Please read the news item below for more information. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.orgmailto:vhollis...@duraspace.org Have you ever wondered which institutions have upgraded to the most recent version of DSpace or which repositories have video files stored? DuraSpace is pleased to announce a new resource, the community DSpace Registryhttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dspace.org%2Fwhos-using-dspace%2FRepository-List.htmlid=preview (http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace/Repository-List.html). The database was conceived of and designed by members of the DSpace Global Outreach Committeehttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.dspace.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FDSPACE%2FDSpace%2BGlobal%2BOutreach%2BCmteid=preview (http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte) (DGOC) to address one of the biggest challenges within the DSpace user community; not just to identify which institutions used DSpace, but also cultivate a resource with some basic information about those repositories to help facilitate connections between users. The work started early last year and included a Community Networking Surveyhttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.dspace.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FDSPACE%2FCommunity%2BNetworking%2BSurvey%2BResultsid=preview (http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/Community+Networking+Survey+Results), which gathered data about repos! itories and seeded the information now available in the database. Members of the DSpace community will now be able to search the database to discover other institutions which have similar repositories, environments or interests to their own. The hope of DGOC and the DuraSpace organization is that this listing will help foster all types of connections and collaborations in the future. What is new? The most popular page on the dspace.orghttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dspace.org%2Fid=preview site for the last few years has been the Who's Using DSpace? page. This page was a simple list of DSpace repositories with only the institution name, country and URL link listed. The list was not easily searchable or sortable. The new DSpace repositories database provides much more information and functionality. And there are now over 800 known repositories included in the database, representing over 80 countries. Main Table View The main database view provides you with a sortable table of all known DSpace instances. It includes the institution name, country, type of institution (academic, museum, government, etc), DSpace version/user interface and the URL link. This list can be re-ordered by any of the fields listed -- so if you want to get a quick view of who is using 1.6 XML/Manakin it can be done in an instant by clicking on the column header. Detailed Repository View To view all the available information about a specific repository (use case, file types stored, type of content stored, addons/extensions, database, operating system, etc), you simply click on the institution name. You will then view all the information available in the database about that particular repository. Search/Filters On the left hand side there is a number of search filters, including an open text search which you can use to perform a single or multi-faceted
Re: [Dspace-tech] New and Improved DSpace Registry
It is back up now. On May 7, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Wendy J Bossons wrote: There appears to be an issue with the dspace.org web site, maybe a hack, or maybe some other type of failure. I just recently sent a message to Valorie as all of the pages appear to be down. The main page is a directory listing . . . is there anyone else who should be contacted? ..\Wendy Wendy Bossons Web Developer MIT Libraries Technology Research Development Building E25-131 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02141-4307 Phone 617-253-0770 Fax 617-253-4462 wboss...@mit.edu http://libraries.mit.edu On May 7, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Jason Fowler wrote: Valorie, Are you certain that link is correct? I'm getting a 404. Thanks, Jason Fowler, CA, MSLS Archives and Special Collections Librarian The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Vice President, ALABI jfow...@sbts.edu From: Valorie Hollister [vhollis...@duraspace.org] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:56 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net; dspace-gene...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Dspace-tech] New and Improved DSpace Registry Dear DSpace Community, There is a new resource now available to the DSpace community -- the much improved DSpace user registry (http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace/Repository-List.html). Please read the news item below for more information. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.orgmailto:vhollis...@duraspace.org Have you ever wondered which institutions have upgraded to the most recent version of DSpace or which repositories have video files stored? DuraSpace is pleased to announce a new resource, the community DSpace Registryhttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dspace.org%2Fwhos-using-dspace%2FRepository-List.htmlid=preview (http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace/Repository-List.html). The database was conceived of and designed by members of the DSpace Global Outreach Committeehttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.dspace.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FDSPACE%2FDSpace%2BGlobal%2BOutreach%2BCmteid=preview (http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte) (DGOC) to address one of the biggest challenges within the DSpace user community; not just to identify which institutions used DSpace, but also cultivate a resource with some basic information about those repositories to help facilitate connections between users. The work started early last year and included a Community Networking Surveyhttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.dspace.org%2Fconfluence%2Fdisplay%2FDSPACE%2FCommunity%2BNetworking%2BSurvey%2BResultsid=preview (http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/Community+Networking+Survey+Results), which gathered data about repos! itories and seeded the information now available in the database. Members of the DSpace community will now be able to search the database to discover other institutions which have similar repositories, environments or interests to their own. The hope of DGOC and the DuraSpace organization is that this listing will help foster all types of connections and collaborations in the future. What is new? The most popular page on the dspace.orghttp://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=i8p7uodab.0.0.5iy95gcab.0ts=S0483p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dspace.org%2Fid=preview site for the last few years has been the Who's Using DSpace? page. This page was a simple list of DSpace repositories with only the institution name, country and URL link listed. The list was not easily searchable or sortable. The new DSpace repositories database provides much more information and functionality. And there are now over 800 known repositories included in the database, representing over 80 countries. Main Table View The main database view provides you with a sortable table of all known DSpace instances. It includes the institution name, country, type of institution (academic, museum, government, etc), DSpace version/user interface and the URL link. This list can be re-ordered by any of the fields listed -- so if you want to get a quick view of who is using 1.6 XML/Manakin it can be done in an instant by clicking on the column header. Detailed Repository View To view all the available information about a specific repository (use case, file types stored, type of content stored, addons/extensions, database, operating system, etc), you simply click on the institution name. You will then view all the information available in the database about that particular repository. Search/Filters On the left hand side there is a number of search filters, including an open text search which you can use to perform a single or multi-faceted search and will produce a listing
[Dspace-tech] DSpace wiki migration complete!
We are pleased to announce that the DSpace wiki migration from MediaWiki to Confluence is complete! The new wiki on Confluence is available at: http://wiki.dspace.org. The old wiki on MediaWiki is still available in read only status at: http://oldwiki.dspace.org. Please note that clean up on the new wiki following the migration is on-going. Some of the formatting, links, file attachments, table of contents, etc, need to be fixed by manually editing each page. Many of the most popularly visited pages have already been fixed -- but we need community members to pitch in where you can and continue with the cleanup. If you have wiki pages you reference frequently, please lend a hand by fixing those pages. The best way to help with the clean up is to visit a page and see if there are any strange formatting, missing table of contents, bad links or missing attachments. The DSpace Confluence Migration summary page (http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Confluence+Migration) lists the top 150 most-accessed pages in this wiki and indicate which pages have been reviewed so far. You can reference the same page on the old wiki (at http://oldwiki.dspace.org.) so you can see what the page is supposed to look like, link to, etc. We have created a reference for common fixes we've encountered at http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Wiki+Migration+Issue+Fixes. There is also a formating style guide at http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Wiki+Style+Guide to provide some hints on using the Confluence formating editor. Please feel free to make any helpful additions to any of the reference pages above. Thanks in advance for your help with the wiki clean up! If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me, Tim Donohue or Brad McLean. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Skype: vhollister http://wiki.dspace.org/confluence/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Confluence+Migration -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DSpace wiki migration next week
Dear DSpace Community, Next Tuesday, March 30 the DSpace wiki on MediaWiki will be migrated to a Confluence wiki. Starting on Tuesday the old wiki on MediaWiki will be in read only status, meaning no one will be able to make any changes or additions. We will notify the DSpace community once the migration has completed, and the new Confluence wiki is open for changes/updates. Following the migration, http://wiki.dspace.org will be redirected to the new Confluence wiki location. The old MediWiki will continue to be available in read only status at http://oldwiki.dspace.org. The DSpace wiki project team will be working on fixing some of the known issues on the most popular wiki pages following the migration. We'd appreciate additional help from the community -- repairing broken links, formating, etc. -- over the next few weeks or as you encounter these or similar issues in the future. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me, Tim Donohue or Brad McLean. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Skype: vhollister PREVIOUS POST ON THE MIGRATION PROJECT On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Valorie Hollister vhollis...@fedora-commons.org mailto:vhollis...@fedora-commons.org wrote: Dear DSpace Community, After many community discussions and some limited testing, the DuraSpace organization would like to propose migrating the DSpace wiki, currently based on MediaWiki to a Confluence wiki. The migration would provide more wiki functionality to the DSpace community, including: * Ability to edit using a basic Word-like interface (WYSIWYG interface) * Ability to export pages to Word/PDF * Capable of supporting the DSpace manual natively to ease editing and contributing * Support for simple diagrams * Better integration into existing DuraSpace.org infrastructure In addition, moving the DSpace wiki to Confluence would also mean that both the DSpace and the Fedora communities would use the same wiki platform, allowing for more easily shared information infrastructure. We are currently looking for repository administrators/managers or other interested volunteers to help us clean up, reorganize and test migrated wiki content. Other tasks may include helping us redesign and restructure the new wiki space. Your help will ensure the DSpace Wiki receives a much needed facelift! The project is likely to begin in the next few weeks (exact date forthcoming) and last a month. We estimate the project to take a few hours a week. Please contact me if you are interested in helping out with the wiki migration project. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Skype: vhollister -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Webinar with 1.6 overveiw on Wed Mar 17
Apologies for the cross-posting. Just a reminder that the What’s New in Fedora 3.3 and DSpace 1.6? webinar is this Wednesday, March 17. See full description and registration info below. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Skype: vhollister Please join Fedora and DSpace community developers for a free DuraSpace/SPARC “All About Repositories” web seminar highlighting new Fedora 3.3 and DSpace 1.6 features on March 17, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Find out about what’s new in Fedora 3.3 open source repository software, and how it can boost your repository’s functionality and performance in this session. Fedora 3.3 was made public in December of 2009 (Download Fedora 3.3 here: http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/jQ3S) marking the first entirely community-led release of the popular open source repository software. New features include support for relationships among datastreams within digital objects, including API methods for manipulating relationships and indexing, integration of the Fedora Enhanced Security Layer (FESL), a new community-developed module to support a wider range of authentication methods, improvements to the Fedora REST API, support for retrieving content using a File URI scheme during ingest, support for Microsoft SQL Server, support for Mulgara to 2.1.4, proving a significant performance boost, upgrade of bundled Tomcat to version 6 and support for HTTP Proxy server for getting external content. Learn how to put the new release of DSpace 1.6 (due March 3, 2010) to work for your institution. Several new community-requested features are now available including an enhanced statistics package, an embargo facility so items can be kept dark for a period of time, authority control lists, the ability to delegate community administration so you can assign management permissions to others to manage at a community/sub-community/collection, improved documentation and more. Bram Luyten, @mire (http://atmire.com/) who is an active DSpace community member commented, “Both from an end-user perspective, as well as the administrator side of things, this release is a great leap forward.” Register for the web seminar here: http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml. Recordings of past “All About Repositories” web seminars may be downloaded here: http://duraspace.org/resources.php. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Final day for DuraCloud Jan 2010 Survey
* The DuraCloud survey will be open for your participation until tomorrow, Friday January 22. We've had excellent participation so far -- but want to make sure we gather as much useful feedback as possible. If you haven't completed the survey, please do so by the end of Friday. Here is the link to the survey: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DJ7H3V7 ** For anyone interested in a preview of the full survey, a PDF version is available: http://duraspace.org/documents/DuraCloudSurveyJan10.pdf The purpose of this survey is to help the DuraSpace organization define what features and functionality are most important to the community as we develop DuraCloud. We also would like to identify the variety of use cases interested in the service. The survey should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete. If you are interested in participating in the beta test program for DuraCloud that launches late spring 2010 you can sign up at http://duraspace.org/duracloudpilotform.php. ** For more information on the DuraCloud project please visit http://duraspace.org/duracloud.php. Thanks for your participation and support. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org * -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] NISO's January Webinar: From ILS to Repository and Back: Data Interoperability
Please see the upcoming NISO webinar below featuring the IDEALS repository at the University of Illinois, which is based on DSpace. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Skype: vhollister *From: *Cynthia Hodgson chodg...@niso.org mailto:chodg...@niso.org *Date: *January 4, 2010 10:18:19 AM EST *To: *SPARC-IR *Subject: **[SPARC-IR] NISO's January Webinar: From ILS to Repository and Back: Data Interoperability* *Reply-To: *SPARC Institutional Repositories Discussion List sparc...@arl.org mailto:sparc...@arl.org NISO's monthly webinar for January 2010 will discuss From ILS to Repository and Back: Data Interoperability. The webinar will take place on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. (Eastern time). Can't make it on January 13th? Register and you get access to the recorded archive for one year to watch at your convenience. About the Webinar While institutional repository (IR) systems are meant to focus on the storage of digital objects, most repositories contain not only objects, but also metadata about those items. One of the main functions of library systems is to help facilitate the discovery of items and content using metadata. Where is the line between IR systems and the discovery and management tools the libraries use to manage their collections? What are some strategies that libraries can employ to integrate these systems? Is anyone having success? As libraries increasingly become the home to special digital collections and scanned materials, finding simple ways to exchange information and ensure discoverability of IR content will be critical to efficient management of both systems. This webinar will provide attendees with an overview of recent research in this topic as well as real-world examples from organizations who are working toward interoperability. Speakers -- Kathleen Menzies, OCRIS: Online Catalogue and Repository Interoperability Study - Funded by the JISC Scholarly Communications Group, OCRIS examined the interoperability of LMSs, IRs and other administrative systems in operation within UK universities. The project team produced extensive recommendations for improving the visibility and usefulness of intellectual assets and associated data by allowing central, and rapidly developing, information systems to interoperate. The findings of the OCRIS project will be presented to members of the NISO followed by a discussion of their implications and how they relate to the wider context. -- Sarah Shreeves, IDEALS repository at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - IDEALS is the digital repository for research and scholarship - including published and unpublished papers, datasets, video and audio - produced at the University of Illinois. Registration For more information and to register, visit the event webpage http://www.niso.org/news/events/2010/datainterop/). Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the webinar for one year. NISO and NASIG members receive a discounted member rate. A student discount is also available. NISO is also offering package discounts for multiple webinars. Buy four webinars, get two free. Buy six webinars, get seven free. Visit the SAVE! webpage (http://www.niso.org/news/events/2010#packages) for more information. January Open Teleconference And join us for the free teleconference on January 11 from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. (Eastern). Karen Coyle, Digital Library Consultant and member of NISO's Architecture Committee, will discuss the work of the Architecture Committee and The NISO Framework, which will be used to strategically direct the work of NISO. No registration necessary; To join, simply dial 877-375-2160 and enter the code: 17800743. Cynthia Hodgson NISO Technical Editor Consultant National Information Standards Organization Email: hodgso...@verizon.net mailto:hodgso...@verizon.net Phone: 301-654-2512 # This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the sparc...@arl.org mailto:sparc...@arl.org email list, a forum for discussion of practical questions and issues relating to the development and operation of institutional repositories. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: sparc-ir-...@arl.org mailto:sparc-ir-...@arl.org To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to sparc-ir-dig...@arl.org mailto:sparc-ir-dig...@arl.org To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to sparc-ir-in...@arl.org mailto:sparc-ir-in...@arl.org Visit the Web archive at https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-IR/ -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast
[Dspace-tech] DSpace wiki migration project
Dear DSpace Community, After many community discussions and some limited testing, the DuraSpace organization would like to propose migrating the DSpace wiki, currently based on MediaWiki to a Confluence wiki. The migration would provide more wiki functionality to the DSpace community, including: * Ability to edit using a basic Word-like interface (WYSIWYG interface) * Ability to export pages to Word/PDF * Capable of supporting the DSpace manual natively to ease editing and contributing * Support for simple diagrams * Better integration into existing DuraSpace.org infrastructure In addition, moving the DSpace wiki to Confluence would also mean that both the DSpace and the Fedora communities would use the same wiki platform, allowing for more easily shared information infrastructure. We are currently looking for repository administrators/managers or other interested volunteers to help us clean up, reorganize and test migrated wiki content. Other tasks may include helping us redesign and restructure the new wiki space. Your help will ensure the DSpace Wiki receives a much needed facelift! The project is likely to begin in the next few weeks (exact date forthcoming) and last a month. We estimate the project to take a few hours a week. Please contact me if you are interested in helping out with the wiki migration project. Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace vhollis...@duraspace.org Skype: vhollister -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] How to Participate in the DuraCloud Pilot Program Webinar on Dec 16
Apologies for the cross posting If you've liked what you've been hearing about DuraCloud and want to learn more about how your organization can participate in the upcoming pilot program, please join the upcoming webinar on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 10:00 am PST. Repositories in the Cloud: How to Participate in the DuraCloud Pilot Program The DuraSpace organization is conducting a pilot program to test a new cloud-based service, DuraCloud. Cloud technologies use remote computers to provide local services through the Internet. DuraCloud lets an institution provide data storage and access without having to maintain its own dedicated technical infrastructure. Attend this web seminar presented by Michele Kimpton, CBO DuraSpace, to find out how your organization can participate. This webinar is part of the All About Repositories series featuring technology solutions from the industry leaders: DuraSpace, SPARC, and Sun Microsystems. There is no fee for participating. To register, visit http://www.education-webevents.com/. -- Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DSpace Reaches Over 700 Instances Worldwide
/Apologies for the cross posting.../ Dear DSpace Community Members - The DSpace platform now has over 700 instances in over 70 different countries worldwide! DSpace continues to be the most popular repository solution, with well over a third of the known institutional repositories using the DSpace software. Each month there are between 20-30 new instances of DSpace. Check out Who's Using DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/whos-using-dspace/Repository-List.html) to see the complete list. If your repository isn't included, please register with us (http://www.dspace.org/component/option,com_facileforms/Itemid,125/) as we'd love to include your organization in our growing community! Valorie Hollister Director of Community Development, DSpace Project DuraSpace v...@dspace.org Skype: vhollister -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] DuraCloud DuraSpace Webinars - Wed Sept 30
There are 2 webinars this Wednesday, Sept 30 that will be of interest to the DSpace community. Please see the descriptions below. Valorie Hollister DuraSpace Director of Community Development, DSpace Project 860-966-1937 v...@dspace.org Skype: vhollister -- DuraSpace Updates from Fedora Commons and DSpace: Web Seminar, Sept. 30 The next Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC ?All About Repositories? web seminar will take place on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:00am PT. Register at http://www.education-webevents.com/. DuraSpace flagship open source repository platforms are preparing to release new versions of Fedora (late 2009) and DSpace (Oct. 2009). Please join presenters Chris Wilper and Brad McLean for an overview of current Fedora and DSpace development initiatives and community updates. This 60 min. web event will give an overview of Dspace 1.6 features like better statistics, an embargo feature, a batch metadata editing feature, and over 50 bug fixes and feature requests. --- Focus on ?DuraCloud? at LOC Web Seminar Sept. 30 Please join Michele Kimpton, Chief Business Officer of DuraSpace, for a web seminar sponsored by the Library of Congress (LOC) NDIIPP on Sept. 30, 2009. She will present an overview of the DuraCloud platform, currently in development. Her presentation will include details about the current DuraCloud pilot program in progress with New York Public Library and Biodiversity Heritage Library. Meeting Details: Topic: DuraCloud Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 Time: 2:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York) Meeting Number: 483 677 904 Meeting Password: September09 Please click the link below to see more information, or to join the meeting. To join the online meeting (Now from iPhones too!) 1. Go to https://issevents.webex.com/issevents/j.php?ED=125825167UID=1015427367; PW=8d9db53738011b1208395e054102 2. Enter your name and email address. 3. Enter the meeting password: September09 4. Click Join Now. To join the teleconference only Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada): 866-469-3239 Call-in toll number (US/Canada): 1-650-429-3300 Toll-free dialing restrictions: http://www.webex.com/pdf/tollfree_restrictions.pdf For assistance 1. Go to https://issevents.webex.com/issevents/mc 2. On the left navigation bar, click Support. Please pass this information about joining the session on to those who are particularly interested in digital preservation. If your project or organization would like to share details of the work your doing with the NDIIPP community in a WebEx seminar, please let email Michelle Gallinger at m...@loc.gov. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] FINAL CALL for Entries for the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest
Entries for the DuraSpace/SPARC Open Access Week Contest are due by Sep 28. We'd love to see more great repository stories from the DSpace community. Winners will receive some good exposure as well as $50 Amazon gift certificates. See below for more details. Valorie Hollister DuraSpace Director of Community Development, DSpace Project 860-966-1937 v...@dspace.org Skype: vhollister CALL for Entries for the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest: Highlighting Repository Stories Worth Sharing Have you been a part of establishing or maintaining a unique digital repository that provides open access to a collection that was previously not used or under-used? Do you enjoy showcasing your repository?s content and the cool tools that encourage use of the materials? Do you have anecdotes about how access to resources from your repository changed someone?s life, or their thinking on an issue, or contributed to a breakthrough idea? Please consider sharing your passion and knowledge of collecting, curating managing and sharing digital repository resources from every corner of the globe by entering the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest and telling your story. Of the more than 700 DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org/) repositories worldwide many provide open access to their online resources for users and patrons. The aim of the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest is to celebrate your organization?s commitment to online development and dissemination of diverse?and often hidden?digital assets by describing unique cases and serendipitous uses that make remarkable things happen. Judy Breck writes in her introduction to the Golden Swamp Web site (http://www.goldenswamp.com/) which highlights the virtual ecology that emerges in the open Internet: A global golden age is trickling across our threshold and will very soon pour in through our doors and windows engulfing us all. This tsunami is grand news. Please help DuraSpace share your ?grand news? by highlighting your hidden treasures and how they are used. Whether your repository features three-dimensional historic objects that turn in space, photographs and artworks, unique media collections, historic documents, scientific artifacts, out-of-print volumes or any other type of digital object please consider telling your story about how these culturally significant resources have helped to shape the global knowledge landscape. Entries will be accepted at http://duraspace.org/contest.php beginning on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. through September 28, 2009. DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest winners will be announced on October 1, 2009. Winners will receive $50 Amazon gift certificates and will be invited to tell their stories during the Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC All About Repositories Web Seminar on Oct. 14, 2009. This Web Seminar will be part of the DuraSpace SPARC Global Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org) package of materials that will be available in honor of Open AccessWeek Oct. 19-23, 2009. Contact Carol Minton Morris for more information. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9#45;12, 2009. Register now#33; http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] Fall 2009 All About Repositories Webinars
Dear DSpace Community, Don't miss the Fall 2009 All About Repositories series featuring technology solutions from the industry leaders; DuraSpace, SPARC, and Sun Microsystems. These highly successful webinars provide overviews of best practices, technology updates, and key trend analyses for academic resources directors, IT managers, digital librarians, repository managers and developers, and curators. The first event is coming up on Sept. 9th, so Register Today at; http://www.education-webevents.com/ Fall Series Titles: Easy-to-use DuraSpace Repositories Enabling Open Access: Islandora, DSpace and NSDL EduPak Sept. 9, 2009 at 10:00am PT To celebrate Open Access Week Oct. 19-23 join presenters Mark Leggott, Valorie Hollister, Art Pasquinelli, and Carol Minton Morris as they unpack three open access, out-of-the-box repository solutions that will help make your digital assets available to your community ASAP. Mark Leggott, University Librarian, University of Prince Edward Island will explain Islandora, based on the easy-to-use Drupal content management system with a Fedora Commons Repository Software on the back end. Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace Director of Community Development for DSpace, will talk about DSpace Repository software used by more than 600 institutions globally. Carol Minton Morris, DuraSpace Marketing and Communications and NSDL Communications, will introduce EduPak 1.0, a lightweight version of the open-source digital library platform used to power the National Science Digital Library that is designed to meet the needs of national educational organizations and institutions focused on establishing specialized digital collections, conducting educational research, and providing teachers with pedagogical tools that require basic digital repository technology. Art Pasquinelli from Sun will give an overview on the Sun PASIG event Oct. 7-9 and pertinent technology developments relevant to the repository community. New DuraSpace Stack Releases: Fedora Commons, DSpace, and Mulgara Sept. 30, 2009 at 10:00am PT SPARC OA Week Kick-off Presentation and Presentation of DuraSpace OA Week Winners Oct. 14, 2009 at 10:00am PT Repositories in the Cloud: How to Participate in the DuraCloud Pilot Program Oct. 28, 2009 at 10:00am PT Valorie Hollister DuraSpace Director of Community Development, DSpace Project 860-966-1937 v...@dspace.org Skype: vhollister -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] CALL for Entries for the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest: ?Highlighting Repository Stories Worth Sharing?
Dear Community - DuraSpace is having a contest in honor of Open Access Week-- and we'd love to see some of the great repository stories from the DSpace community. Winners will receive some good exposure as well as $50 Amazon gift certificates. See below for more details. Valorie Hollister DuraSpace Director of Community Development, DSpace Project 860-966-1937 v...@dspace.org Skype: vhollister CALL for Entries for the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest: ?Highlighting Repository Stories Worth Sharing? Thursday, August 27th, 2009 1:16 pm Written by: Carol Minton Morris Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Have you been a part of establishing or maintaining a unique digital repository that provides open access to a collection that was previously not used or under-used? Do you enjoy showcasing your repository?s content and the cool tools that encourage use of the materials? Do you have anecdotes about how access to resources from your repository changed someone?s life, or their thinking on an issue, or contributed to a breakthrough idea? Please consider sharing your passion and knowledge of collecting, curating managing and sharing digital repository resources from every corner of the globe by entering the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest and telling your story. Of the more than 700 DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org/) repositories worldwide many provide open access to their online resources for users and patrons. The aim of the DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest is to celebrate your organization?s commitment to online development and dissemination of diverse?and often hidden?digital assets by describing unique cases and serendipitous uses that make remarkable things happen. Judy Breck writes in her introduction to the ?Golden Swamp? Web site (http://www.goldenswamp.com/) which highlights the virtual ecology that emerges in the open Internet: ?A global golden age is trickling across our threshold and will very soon pour in through our doors and windows engulfing us all. This tsunami is grand news.? Please help DuraSpace share your ?grand news? by highlighting your hidden treasures and how they are used. Whether your repository features three-dimensional historic objects that turn in space, photographs and artworks, unique media collections, historic documents, scientific artifacts, out-of-print volumes or any other type of digital object please consider telling your story about how these culturally significant resources have helped to shape the global knowledge landscape. Entries will be accepted at http://duraspace.org/contest.php beginning on Tuesday, September 1, 2009. through September 28, 2009. DuraSpace SPARC Open Access Week Contest winners will be announced on October 1, 2009. Winners will receive $50 Amazon gift certificates and will be invited to tell their stories during the Sun/DuraSpace/SPARC ?All About Repositories? Web Seminar on Oct. 14, 2009. This Web Seminar will be part of the DuraSpace SPARC Global Open Access Week (http://www.openaccessweek.org) package of materials that will be available in honor of Open AccessWeek Oct. 19-23, 2009. Contact Carol Minton Morris for more information. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] FW:Look who?s talking about IRs---Provosts!
Below is a recent article that may be of interest. Valorie Hollister Community Outreach Manager DSpace Foundation - Forwarded Message Begin forwarded message: From: Kathleen Cowan kco...@bepress.com Date: June 23, 2009 7:09:18 AM EDT To: sparc...@serv01.m349.sgded.com Subject: [SPARC-IR] Look who?s talking about IRs---Provosts! Reply-To: SPARC Institutional Repositories Discussion List sparc...@arl.org Provost listservs have been buzzing with exchanges about open access and distribution of university-produced knowledge. I see this as pretty exciting news for the IR community. It could make the work of getting a committed top-level stakeholder a whole lot easier. If this is your job, I would suggest you check out Making the Case for an Institutional Repository to Your Provost. The stories and examples in this paper should provide you with some good ammunition as you seek to bring in high-level support for your repository. http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1027context=ir_research -- Kathleen Cowan Product Marketing Manager Berkeley Electronic Press 2809 Telegraph Ave. Suite 202 Berkeley, CA 94705 510-665-1200 X118 Fax: 510-665-1201 www.bepress.com bepress: 10 years of accelerating and enhancing the flow of scholarly ideas -- ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
Re: [Dspace-tech] [Dspace-general] OR09 DSpace User Group Mtg Recordings Available
I'll check and get back to you. Valorie Hollister Community Outreach Manager DSpace Foundation Quoting Richard Jones rich...@symplectic.co.uk: Hi Valorie, Recordings of the presentations from the DSpace User Group Mtg at OR09 are now available. Follow the links below. If you have trouble viewing them in Firefox, try Internet Explorer instead. I don't have that option, I'm afraid. Do you have links to a version of these presentations which will work under Linux? Or at least which don't require a Microsoft plugin for the browser? Perhaps they could be uploaded to youtube? Cheers, Richard Valorie Hollister Community Outreach Manager DSpace Foundation May 20th, 2009 Session One DuraSpace - Michele Kimpton and Sandy Payette http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_1/index.html Session Two DSpace Technology Overview - Bradley McLean Repository Software Technical Update with Chris Wilper - Chris Wilper http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_2/index.html Session Three 2.0 Demonstration - Ben Bosman http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_3/index.html Session Four XMLUI Modularity in DSpace 1.5 2.0 - Mark Diggory DSpace 1.5 Modifications: A Technical Overview - Elliot Metsger DSpace 2 Service Manager Framework - Aaron Zeckoski http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_4/index.html Session Five Designing and Implementing a Learning Object Repository - William E Moen Using DSpace as a Disciplinary Data Repository - Ryan Scherle Introducing Vireo - ETD Submittal and Management for DSpace - Adam Mikeal, Scott Phillips, John Leggett, Mark McFarland The Sustainability, Preservation, Accessibility of Internal and External Communities by Universities - Jeffrey Trimble and Salvador Barragan http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_5/index.html May 21st, 2009 Session One Depth Customization of DSpace - S.K. Vijaianand and V.D. Shrivastava http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_1/index.html EIAH's Experience in Localization and Customization of DSpace - Emad Khazraee, Saeed Moaddeli and Hamed Malek http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_2/index.html The Myth of Federated Searching - OhioLINK Digital Resoursce Commons Team http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_3/index.html Session Two Making DSpace 1.5 Your Own: Customizing Via Overlays - Tim Donohue http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_4/index.html DSpace Global Outreach Committee Update - Valorie Hollister http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_5/index.html ___ Dspace-general mailing list dspace-gene...@mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general -- Richard Jones Head Repository Systems Architect, Symplectic Limited e: rich...@symplectic.co.uk t: 0845 026 4755 t: +44 (0)207 7334036 w: http://www.symplectic.co.uk/ -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] All About Repositories Webinar: All About DSpace
Join the live web event All About Repositories Webinar: All About DSpace on June 3, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. PT; 12:00 p.m. ET. DSpace is the world's most popular open source software for creating an institutional repository. Currently there are over 500 organizations using DSpace to enable access to their research output and other content. If your organization is interested in making their research output or digital content openly accessible, than the DSpace software might be the perfect platform for you. This webinar will give an overview of the software, how to get started using DSpace and where you can turn for help. There will be time at the end of the presentation to answer any questions you may have. The DSpace software was originally developed by Hewlett Packard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. Both organizations made the software open source so that any organization could use it for their own purpose. There is no fee to attend this Sun/DSpace/Fedora/SPARC web event. Please register by June 2 at http://www.education-webevents.com/. Valorie Hollister Community Outreach Manager DSpace Foundation -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
[Dspace-tech] OR09 DSpace User Group Mtg Recordings Available
Recordings of the presentations from the DSpace User Group Mtg at OR09 are now available. Follow the links below. If you have trouble viewing them in Firefox, try Internet Explorer instead. Valorie Hollister Community Outreach Manager DSpace Foundation May 20th, 2009 Session One DuraSpace - Michele Kimpton and Sandy Payette http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_1/index.html Session Two DSpace Technology Overview - Bradley McLean Repository Software Technical Update with Chris Wilper - Chris Wilper http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_2/index.html Session Three 2.0 Demonstration - Ben Bosman http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_3/index.html Session Four XMLUI Modularity in DSpace 1.5 2.0 - Mark Diggory DSpace 1.5 Modifications: A Technical Overview - Elliot Metsger DSpace 2 Service Manager Framework - Aaron Zeckoski http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_4/index.html Session Five Designing and Implementing a Learning Object Repository - William E Moen Using DSpace as a Disciplinary Data Repository - Ryan Scherle Introducing Vireo - ETD Submittal and Management for DSpace - Adam Mikeal, Scott Phillips, John Leggett, Mark McFarland The Sustainability, Preservation, Accessibility of Internal and External Communities by Universities - Jeffrey Trimble and Salvador Barragan http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052009_5/index.html May 21st, 2009 Session One Depth Customization of DSpace - S.K. Vijaianand and V.D. Shrivastava http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_1/index.html EIAH's Experience in Localization and Customization of DSpace - Emad Khazraee, Saeed Moaddeli and Hamed Malek http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_2/index.html The Myth of Federated Searching - OhioLINK Digital Resoursce Commons Team http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_3/index.html Session Two Making DSpace 1.5 Your Own: Customizing Via Overlays - Tim Donohue http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_4/index.html DSpace Global Outreach Committee Update - Valorie Hollister http://presentations.dlpe.gatech.edu/or09/or09_052109_5/index.html -- Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com ___ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
