cni forum, spring 2004 dspace federation update and status report

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

DSpace Federation

Update and Status Report

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

DSpace Federation Why?

Drive DSpace development open source model

Build critical mass of content support value-added services

Leverage distributed expertise/services metadata, digital preservation, storage, name authority…

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

DSpace Federation Why?

Shared direction, leadership, priorities, goals, resources

Standards development Putting weight behind standards and “best practices” e.g. W3C, NISO, IETF, ARL/DLF standards

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

DSpace Federation Why?

Create educated consumers Build new market for scholarly content

dissemination Drive commercial development

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

DSpace Federation Who?

Research-generating organizations e.g. libraries, government agencies, NGOs, museums,

archives world-wide overlapping/complementary research interests

Industry? IT service organizations?

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

Mellon DSpace Federation Project Cambridge University (UK) Columbia University (US) Cornell University (US) MIT (US) Ohio State University (US) University of Rochester (US) University of Toronto (Canada) University of Washington (US)

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

• > 8,000 Downloads• 50-50 US, non-US• 20 production sites, 125 evaluating/piloting

• Primarily research universities• Museums and Archives• Government agencies• Private industry

• e.g. banking, healthcare, etc.

Adoption

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

DSpace Federation User Group Met at MIT in March, 2004 Participation

125 participants from 50 organizations in 9 countries

Mix of programmers, librarians, researchers, and others

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

DSpace Federation User GroupAgenda

Institutional repositories, other applications and content types

Technical developments and research projects from user community

HP-MIT platform developments Open Source Software process

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

DSpace platform 1.2 – last HP/MIT-driven release (April) 2.0 – re-design for more modularity Open Source Software development

Committers, Contributors Non-profit organization

Platform governance and (probably) own IP Standards development

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

Institutional Repositories Primary service/business for DSpace now Long-term, high-value service Not platform-dependent Needs wider collaboration and information

sharing SPARC-sponsored implementors workshop in

the fall

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

Other Service Models Learning Object Repositories

e.g. DLearn E-thesis Repositories

e.g. Theses Alive! Digital special collections

e.g. ANU? E-portfolios

e.g. Duke Electronic Records Management

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

What’s Next? Federated Search

Google/OCLC/DSpace pilot project Virtual collections

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NCSTRL OAI subject-based catalogs

New publishing ventures Publishing tools (e.g. Cornell) “Overlay” e-journal sourced from multiple institutions

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

Questions?