On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 07:48:53AM -0800, Valerie Schaeffer wrote: > Our library is looking into DSPACE, and my question is... > How involved does IT have to be?
I don't know anything about what your IT department does, so I have to guess. I would guess that, at minimum, you would need for them to provide network service, an IP address, and name service for the machine on which you intend to run DSpace. They might provide the machine itself, already installed, dedicated to your use. They might provide a machine, a database management system, and a container application (e.g. Tomcat) and let you use them. There are a lot of reasonable places to draw the line between IT and client responsibilities. How involved do you *want* to be? You will need someone (library or IT) who can set up and maintain the machine physically; establish, maintain and troubleshoot the network connection; monitor and provision memory and file storage; install, adjust, maintain and upgrade DSpace, a DBMS, a Servlet container and an operating system; secure the machine and its services. How much of that do you want/are you willing to let IT do? > Is this something the library staff can fully install? > Our IT department blocks anything considered "Online Storage." > > Would DSPACE be considered online storage? That is a question that your IT department must answer, since it is their rule. It's a term that could be understood in many distinct ways. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dspace-community. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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