Hello all, Apologies for the crossposting and the somewhat late notice -- Tim and I just found out about this yesterday ourselves!
The third "Making DSpace Your Own" tutorial will be held on Friday morning, October 19, at ASIST 2007 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States (http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/program.html). This tutorial will cover basic-to-intermediate customizations of DSpace, while also including an introduction of Manakin (http://wiki.dspace.org/Manakin) and using Manakin's Aspects and Themes to customize it for your institution. Registration is open for ASIST 2007, and the cost of the conference and tutorials is posted on the tutorial page: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/dspace.html The official announcement is below. Please feel free to contact Tim Donohue (tdonohue at uiuc.edu) or myself (dsalo at library.wisc.edu or dorothea.salo at gmail.com) if you have any questions. We hope to see you at ASIST! -- Starting an institutional or digital repository using DSpace software? Get control over its look and feel! Learn to modify and customize DSpace to reflect your institution's branding, and improve usability for both submitters and users. Learn some of the basics to making your DSpace installation unique with customized code or functionality. While you're at it, learn about the DSpace developer community and how you can give back. This introductory tutorial assumes no knowledge of DSpace or Java. Familiarity with basic Unix commands, FTP, HTML, and XML recommended, though not required. Course Outline: * Why customize DSpace? * Before you start: precautions * Where DSpace code lives * Making easier changes * to page text (Messages.properties) * to look-and-feel (CSS) * to the configuration (dspace.cfg) * to submission forms (input-forms.xml) * Introducing the DSpace developer community * Why contribute to DSpace? * DSpace Patch submission guidelines * Introducing Manakin – the XML/XSLT based interface for DSpace 1.5 * Why has Manakin been chosen to replace JSPs? * Questions & Answers Target audience: Librarians and staff planning or running DSpace installations who want more control over the technology. Introductory to intermediate-level. Basic Unix, FTP, HTML and XML familiarity useful, though not required. No Java, JSP, or CSS knowledge assumed. Learning objectives: - Understand and justify spending effort on DSpace customization - Protect against breaking DSpace during customization - Understand which parts of DSpace are easily changed and which aren't - Know where to go to modify specific aspects of a DSpace installation - Know how to make changes live on the server - Understand why the DSpace community is important, and how to give back - Learn where to go for more information or help when customizing DSpace - Learn the basic structure of JSPs in DSpace - Learn the benefits and functionality provided by the new Manakin (XML-based) interface for DSpace, and why it has been chosen to replace JSPs. Instructors Tim Donohue is a Research Programmer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he works on IDEALS (http://ideals.uiuc.edu), the UIUC institutional repository built on DSpace software. Tim has a background in Java programming and received his MLS from UIUC in May 2005. He is a DSpace Committer and taught a similar DSpace Customization tutorial at JCDL 2006 with Dorothea Salo, then of George Mason University, and another at JCDL 2007 with Scott Phillips of Texas A&M University. Dorothea Salo is Digital Repository Librarian for the University of Wisconsin System's [EMAIL PROTECTED] DSpace repository (http://minds.wisconsin.edu). She holds two MAs (Spanish and Library and Information Studies) from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and began her career in librarianship at George Mason University, where she ran the DSpace-based Mason Archival Repository Service (http://mars.gmu.edu). -- Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608) 262-5493 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
