Dear Dr Jacobs, The University of Glasgow's Open Archives project "DAEDALUS", funded by the JISC FAIR Programme is looking at both the Southampton GNU EPrints software and the MIT/H-P DSpace software.
DAEDALUS will establish a range of OAI-compliant Digital Collections at the University of Glasgow. These collections will include: * Published and peer reviewed academic papers [using the EPrints software] * Pre-prints and grey literature [using DSpace] * Theses [using the Virginia Tech ETD-db software] The intention is to gain experience both of the technical [and metadata] issues inherent in the implementation of these services but also, and more critically to engage our academic community through Advocacy activities to ensure that content is deposited. These Advocacy activities, which include presentations to faculty, attendance at University committees and so forth are crucial to ensure that our repositories don't end up in "ESpace" or, Empty Space. In many respects, the choice of repository software may be an academic one and at the moment the real key is the content and the activities to garner that content. The rich collection of software now available (Eprints, DSpace as well as the CERN Document Server Software) provide us with an opportunity, within the project to gain experience about Eprints and DSpace which we will be able to disseminate to the wider community. In the latter stages of DAEDALUS we will also build a local OAI harvester service for Glasgow which will search across these individual repositories. Further information about DAEDALUS can be found at: http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/daedalus I would be very happy to discuss this work with you further. Best wishes, William J Nixon Project Manager: Service Development [DAEDALUS] -----Original Message----- From: Stevan Harnad [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 14 April 2003 16:53 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EPrints, DSpace or ESpace? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- List-Post: [email protected] List-Post: [email protected] Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 15:05:29 +0100 From: "NA Jacobs, Learning and Research Technology" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [OAI-eprints] dspace / eprints Does anyone have any practical (tech / non-tech) experience of interfacing between Dspace and Eprints servers? I realise, of course, that they should interface perfectly using OAI, but I wonder whether anyone is, say, building an institutional archive from departmental OAI-compliant servers that use both eprints and dspace? Thanks Neil ---------------------- Dr Neil Jacobs, Information Officer (Regard) Institute for Learning and Research Technology University of Bristol 8-10 Berkeley Square Bristol, BS8 1HH, UK phone: +44 (0)117 9287057 fax: +44 (0)117 9287112 email: [email protected]
