1	Solutions Showcase: DSpace Scott E. Siddall Denison University
2	In 2010… Prospective students envision their major by browsing your institution’s Repository of Student Scholarship Consortial faculty members share curricular and research materials because tools to catalog the content are effective Your alums read selected contributions that are reviewed and assembled into a virtual journal of creativity and scholarship
3	Growth in digital content In 200 years… 29 million monographs 2.7 million recordings 12 million photographs 4.8 million maps 57 million manuscripts Today, globally, this volume of digital data is produced each 15 minutes 40% of our time spent searching; 70% of content is created anew [Center for Advanced Computing Research]
4	DSpace Organize and use content today Archive for the future Of course… Images, documents, music But more… Data sets, software, videos, compound items And preserve access and authenticity
5	What is DSpace? Repository with archive emphasis Metadata workflow manager Archive with granular access rights Preservation architecture
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8	Open source Flexible, modifiable Costs: lower? Maybe, but certainly different Technical details Java application, Linux, Apache, Tomcat, relational database Built on a community of innovation
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14	Loosely coupled architecture Best-of-breed architecture Modular Interoperable, designed for integration e.g., authentication via LDAP, CAS, AD Group definitions Fit easily into campus IT framework Based on open standards
15	Open standards J2EE – Java program code Mac/Windows/Unix agnostic Metadata schema Dublin core, METS SQL MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle File formats Tiff, PDF, XML, MP3 Global Digital Format Registry Permanent URI Handle. net – name service from CNRI
16	Hierarchy well-suited to consortia Communities Sub-communities Collections Items Bitstreams and bundles
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21	Metadata workflow roles Submitter Reviewer Coordinator Metadata Editor E-mail goes to each person at the appropriate step in the workflow Authorizations are set up in advance for each role in the workflow
22	Submitter permissions Can edit metadata for own submission Can upload files for own submission Cannot do anything once item is submitted
23	Reviewer and coordinator permissions Can review content of all files submitted to collection Can accept or reject all submissions to collection Can send a message explaining decision Rejection stops submission Acceptance lets submission go to next step (cannot edit metadata or change files)
24	Metadata editor permissions Can edit metadata of all submissions to collection Submission automatically becomes part of DSpace after this step (any approval would have happened before)
25	Flexible searching Within a community or collection Across all communities and collections in one DSpace instance Federated searching across DSpace instances through OAI harvesting
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29	Other features News and announcements Notifications about collections Version tracking
30	Challenges Tuning the interface Costs of metadata creation Additional metadata schema Small colleges Are we consumers or developers or both? Support – there are commercial offerings
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32	A pilot program Student theses, journals, monographs, digital collections (e.g., texts, images, multimedia) Open for submission by faculty-sponsored individuals on campus Metadata review
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34	Pilot management Representative management board Faculty sponsorship for collections Service level agreement
35	Service Level Agreement The university provides routine web resources including server, space, backup, limited administrative support without any guarantees for performance or access will maintain long-term access to content (stable URLs, archived copies, pointers to removed materials) does not limit or charge for access to the content, and will not claim copyrights on the content will from time to time promote the Denison University Digital Archive
36	Service Level Agreement The sponsor and contributor are responsible for all content must comply with the current Acceptable Use Policy are fully and individually responsible for compliance with copyright laws and regulations are responsible for page markup, uploading data, maintenance, updates, error corrections, optimization of graphics and multimedia elements, proper titling and initial metadata tagging cannot charge for access will apply for ISSN and will register online publication with abstracting and indexing services, if desired retain full rights over the content, including the right to remove their archived content
37	Strategic role of DSpace Scholarly Communication – Yes! Scholarly Publication? Probably not (yet) A long-term institutional commitment
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