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Nathan Sarr
The Tools of UR Research
Research
• Susan Gibbons, David Lindahl and Nancy Foster begin enhancement Project
• Main objectives– Customize DSpace for faculty
– Provide insight into how faculty do their work
• Around 25 faculty interviews
DSpace Meets These Faculty Needs• Work from different computers and locations, both Mac and PC
• Make their own work available to others
• Make digital items permanently accessible
• Have easy access to other people’s work
• Preserve digital items
• Have someone else take responsibility for the server
• Stay current in their fields
DSpace Does Not Meet These Faculty Needs
• Work with co-authors
• Organize their materials according to their own scheme
• Control ownership, security, and access
• Be sure not to violate copyright issues
• Keep everything related to computers easy and flawless
• Reduce chaos or at least not add to it
• Not be any busier
Mapping Needs to Systems
Faculty needs
X
Put my work in a safe place
X
Priority needs (authoring, collaborating)
DSpace
X
Reduce clutter
Doc Mgmt/ IR System
Mapping Needs to Systems
Faculty needs
X
Put my work in a safe place
X
Priority needs (authoring, collaborating)
DSpace
X
Reduce clutter
DSpace + Researcher Page
X
Motivating Needs(others cite my work, etc)
Researcher Page
Personal Information
Research Tools
Researcher Page From Tokyo
The Recruitment Strategy
• Marketing the researcher pages
• Remember “Not any busier”
• Solution: Automatic researcher pages
Statistics• Question – Is our DSpace being used?
• Number of downloads on a bitstream per month
• Stored in the database
• Collection/Community/DSpace – Sum of downloads
• Statistics are public
• Bumps along the way – web crawlers
• The next version – Bitstream downloads per day per IP address
Why Store Statistics in Database?
• Common Question – Why not use the log files?
• Answers:– Little to no maintenance
– Linking to other information
– Real-time response
• Trade-offs– History
– What you see is what you get
Checksum Tool
• The Promise – Preserve and maintain documents
• The Worry – Are we keeping the promise?
• The Basic Idea – Re-Calculate the checksum
• The Email – Anyone written a tool like this? – Jim Downing and Grace Carpenter respond – No, lets write one.
• The Tool – Work began and is almost complete
Demo
• https://dspacedev.lib.rochester.edu
• http://dspacedev.lib.rochester.edu:8080/dspace_latest
• http://urresearch.rochester.edu
Past, Present and Future
• Successes– Researcher tools
– Statistics
– Checksum tool
• DSpace upgrade
• Are there any questions?
UR Research Home Page
New Author Browse
Public Researcher Page
Researcher Tools
Edit Personal Information
Add Link
Add a New Link
Open Folder
Researcher Administration
Researcher Administration
DSpace 1.3
DSpace 1.3
New Statistics
New Statistics
Updated Count
Updated Count
Ignoring IP Addresses
Today’s Downloads
Back To Zero
Past, Present and Future
• Successes– Researcher tools
– Statistics
– Checksum tool
• DSpace upgrade
• Are there any questions?