Solutions Showcase:
DSpace
Scott E. Siddall
Denison University

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

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]

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

What is DSpace?
Repository with archive emphasis
Metadata workflow manager
Archive with granular access rights
Preservation architecture

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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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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

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

Hierarchy well-suited to consortia
Communities
Sub-communities
Collections
Items
Bitstreams and bundles

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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

Submitter permissions
Can edit metadata for own submission
Can upload files for own submission
Cannot do anything once item is submitted

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)

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)

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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Other features
News and announcements
Notifications about collections
Version tracking

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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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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Pilot management
Representative management board
Faculty sponsorship for collections
Service level agreement

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

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

Strategic role of DSpace
Scholarly Communication – Yes!
Scholarly Publication? Probably not (yet)
A long-term institutional commitment

Thank you
A demonstration site:
http://dspace.liberalarts.org/
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