Moving DSpace Forward Dr Robert Tansley Digital Media

Talk Overview • DSpace • A yesterday and today view of DSpace moving forward • Upcoming 31 Jan 2006 in DSpace 1. 4 and beyond DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 2

DSpace yesterday and today 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 3

The Origins of DSpace • Problem of a long-term home for born-digital material identified by HP Labs and MIT Libraries • Vision: Learn by doing it… − Build a simple functioning system − Start ingesting and managing content • …and build a community to make it better − Open source approach to encourage adoption, enable researchers and developers to enhance − The system and our knowledge continues to improve! 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 4

DSpace Timeline 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 5

DSpace Today • 35, 000 • 125 downloads since 1. 0 registered deployments − Sizes ranging from a few dozen to 110, 000 items • Contains code from nearly 60 developers • ~850 subscribers to general list • ~650 subscribers to main technical list 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 6

Current Uses • Majority “Institutional Repositories” − Documents, “learning objects”, primary data, images, video • Government Organisations − Superior Court of Justice in Brazil − Kansas State Library, Kansas State Historical Society − Los Alamos National Labs • Corporate internal use − HP Labs! • Research 31 Jan 2006 Platform DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 7

Countries with DSpace Deployments • Australia • Germany • Portugal • Belgium • Greece • Russia • Brazil • Hong Kong • Singapore • Canada • India • South Africa • Chile • Ireland • Spain • China • Italy • Sweden • Colombia • Japan • Turkey • Costa Rica • Mexico • Taiwan • Denmark • Namibia • UK • Finland • Netherlands • USA • France • Norway 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 8

Moving DSpace Forward: The Tasks Ahead 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 9

More help please! Committer group Current community focus Innovate Some work; more needed Best practice Need more here 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 10

Already in the Works 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 11

Upcoming in DSpace 1. 4 • User interface improvements − Browse by Subject (Indian Institute of Science) − Controlled vocabulary entry in submission (Universidade do Minho) − Improved internationalisation (University of Cambridge; Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund) − Community-contributed translations: • • • 31 Jan 2006 Bahasa Indonesia Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) French Galician German Hungarian Japanese Norwegian Bokmål Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian) Swedish DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 12

Upcoming in DSpace 1. 4 • Improved modularity − Plug-in manager (MIT) − Documented add-on mechanism (University of Bergen and others) − “Stackable” authentication (MIT) • Better Windows support (HP Labs) • Scalability 31 Jan 2006 improvements (MIT) DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 13

Upcoming in DSpace 1. 4 • Repository improvements − Automated integrity checking (checksums) – (DSpace@Cambridge) − RSS Feeds (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) − Support for multiple metadata schemas (not just DC) (Eduworks) − Configure fields (DC or other) to use for browse, search and display (HP Labs, Beihang University, University of Bergen) − Pluggable SIP ingest/DIP dissemination (MIT) − Pluggable metadata crosswalks (XSLT or Java code) (MIT) − Exposing METS and MPEG-21 DIDL via OAI-PMH (enabling resource harvesting/replication) (HP Labs, Beihang University, LANL) − Use remote Handle Server (HP Labs, Beihang University) − Authorisation improvements (CILEA) 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 14

Future developments (1. 5+) • Web Services Interface (Web. DAV & SOAP) • Messaging • METS (JMS/Active. MQ, or WS-notify) AIP manifest generation + storage • Federation (metadata and content) • XML-based UI (Manakin, dev led by Texas A&M) • Researcher Pages • More configurable submission UI • JHOVE integration • Anything 31 Jan 2006 else you come up with! DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 15

Ongoing Research • Federation (China Digital Museum Project) − HP Labs; China Ministry of Education; Beihang University • Policy enforcement in data grid environments (Pledge) − MIT, UCSD Libraries, San Diego Supercomputer Center • Semantic Web - SIMILE • Preservation 31 Jan 2006 - DSpace@Cambridge DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 16

Other developments • DSpace reaches 3 rd birthday • DSpace governance advisory board announced • XML UI (Manakin) Working Group formed − Hopefully to be followed by others • DSpace 31 Jan 2006 METS profile draft DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 17

Summary • Great progress building an active community around DSpace • New features coming thick and fast • Need more work on: − Testing/QA − Systems engineering − Repository architecture − Collection management interfaces • Poised to make DSpace a very powerful, sustainable platform 31 Jan 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 18

Please get involved! • Test • Translate • Deploy • Experiment • Develop • Document • Support • Share 31 Jan 2006 experiences DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney 19

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