cni forum, spring 2004 dspace federation update and status report
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004
DSpace Federation
Update and Status Report
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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…
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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
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DSpace Federation Why?
Create educated consumers Build new market for scholarly content
dissemination Drive commercial development
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DSpace Federation Who?
Research-generating organizations e.g. libraries, government agencies, NGOs, museums,
archives world-wide overlapping/complementary research interests
Industry? IT service organizations?
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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)
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• > 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Questions?