Galveston Bay Migrates to the Web; DSpace Comes to Texas

This presentation describes how the Galveston Bay Bibliography and Galveston Bay Information Center projects transitioned from a paper world to electronic format. The mission of the Galveston Bay Information Center (GBIC) is to serve as a repository for information and a resource for research on Galveston Bay, its watershed, and the coastal region for all members of the Galveston Bay Community. GBIC was created in response to critical losses of data and information that were identified in the early stages of Galveston Bay National Estuary Program and includes a physical collection as well as a bibliography. With the loss of funding imminent, the administrators of GBIC recognized the need to preserve the collection and its digital bibliography in perpetuity. Enter Texas Digital Library. The University’s participation in TDL enabled GBIC to make the Galveston Bay Bibliography more robust and visible to the entire world.

Making DSpace your own

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DSpace How-To Guide: Tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores

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DSpace Manual: Software version 1.5

DSpace is an open source software platform that enables organizations to: - Capture and describe digital material using a submission workflow module, or a variety of programmatic ingest options - Distribute an organization's digital assets over the web through a search and retrieval system - Preserve digital assets over the long term This system documentation includes a functional overview of the system, which is a good introduction to the capabilities of the system, and should be readable by nontechnical personnel. Everyone should read this section first because it introduces some terminology used throughout the rest of the documentation. For people actually running a DSpace service, there is an installation guide, and sections on configuration and the directory structure. Note that as of DSpace 1.2, the administration user interface guide is now on-line help available from within the DSpace system. Finally, for those interested in the details of how DSpace works, and those potentially interested in modifying the code for their own purposes, there is a detailed architecture and design section.

DSpace Basic Tutorial

PDF of powerpoint slides presented at DSUG 2007 Roma

The DSpace Course - Item Submission Workflows

This module will introduce the item submission workflows available in DSpace. Workflows allow submissions to be checked before entering the repository. Submissions may be checked for accuracy, in order to improve the metadata, or simply to decide if they are OK to be archived. The module will show the three workflow steps available in DSpace, along with details about adding, changing and removing them from the submission process of collections.

Automatic Preparation of ETD Material from the Internet Archive for the DSpace Repository Platform

A big challenge associated with getting an institutional repository off the ground is getting content into it. This article will look at how to use digitization services at the Internet Archive alongside software utilities that the author developed to automate the harvesting of scanned dissertations and associated Dublin Core XML files to create an ETD Portal using the DSpace platform. The end result is a metadata-rich, full-text collection of theses that can be constructed for little out of pocket cost.

Measuring the Maturity of Open Source Software for Digital Libraries: a Case Study of DSpace

The assessment of maturity of software is an important area in the general software sector. The field of OSS also applies various models to measure software maturity. However, measuring maturity of OSS being used for several applications in libraries is an area left with no research so far. This study has attempted to fill the research gap. Measuring maturity of software contributes knowledge on its sustainability over the long term. Maturity of software is one of the factors that positively influence adoption. The investigator measured the maturity of DSpace software using Woods and Guliani‟s Open Source Maturity Model-2005. The present study is significant as it addresses the aspects of maturity of OSS for libraries and fills the research gap on the area. In this sense the study opens new avenues to the field of library and information science by providing an additional tool for librarians in the selection and adoption of OSS. Measuring maturity brings in-depth knowledge on an OSS which will contribute towards the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use as explained in the Technology Acceptance Model theory.

Implementación de un repositorio de datos científicos usando DSPACE

El nuevo modelo de e-colaboración científica y e-producción de conocimiento imponen el registro, catalogación y la preservación distribuida de grandes volúmenes de datos. Su posterior análisis y el conocimiento que de ellos emerja se logrará mediante de técnicas de minería de datos, las cuales dependerán, en gran medida , los mecanismos de almacenamiento y catalogación utilizado. Por ello, cada vez más y con más frecuencia, las comunidades virtuales de investigación requieren de ambientes de e-colaboración y e-investigación centrados en los datos. LAGOVirtual es un proyecto en fase de desarrollo el cual tiene como objetivo final establecer una plataforma de colaboración para el Large Aperture Gamma Ray Burst Observatory (LAGO). Este observatorio continental está diseñado para la detección de componentes de alta energía de rayos gamma, mediante la utilización de detectores Cherenkov de agua, ubicados en sitios de alta montaña (Chacaltaya-Bolivia, 5300 m.s.n.m, Pico Espejo-Venezuela, 4750 m.s.n.m., Sierra Negra- Mexico, 4650 m.s.n.m., Marcapomacocha-Peru, 4600 m.s.n.m). Esta plataforma de colaboración utiliza como para un repositorio DSpace adaptado para la preservación y diseminación de los datos registrados en cada una de las instalaciones. DSpace ha sido modificado aprovechando su estructura jerárquica, creando como comunidades principales a los países miembros del proyecto, seguido por subcomunidades, conformadas por las diferentes instituciones y tipo de investigación. Los datos adquiridos por los detectores Cherenkov, son almacenados y catalogados dentro de esta estructura, igualmente, se almacenan los datos de análisis (datos de los instrumentos, gráficos, datos post-procesados, etc.) asociados, manteniendo un vínculo entre ellos dentro del repositorio.Esta contribución tiene por objeto, además de las tendencias de distintas comunidades para la preservación de datos a través de repositorios, mostrar los detalles de la implantación particular para LAGO DSpace.

Integração do framework manakin com a plataforma dspace para múltiplas apresentações visuais de informações nos repositórios digitais

Digital repositories are currently being used by education and research institutions in Brazil as an alternative for propagating scientific and academic results, mainly to reach institutional memory and visibility. However, the way these results are presented may influence their use, affecting user-system interaction through the interface components. Thus, it is possible to state that an unique digital information environment can offer different ways of visual presentation, customizing informational and visual components for specific users communities. In this context, tools are being developed as a resource to make access and use of information easier, and to increase the usability of digital informational environments. One of these tools, Manakin, is presented in this paper, as well as its integration with the DSpace platform, in order to enable multiple visual presentations, stressing the importance of the differentiation and direction of interfaces by a single repository to the various knowledge fields. So, results and examples of repositories with multiple visual presentations are introduced, to facilitate the use of the presented tool, as well as to reinforce the importance of a differentiated visual identity by areas of knowledge in a single repository, by means of literary and exploratory analysis.

REPOCLACAI. Acceso y preservación del conocimiento sobre derechos sexuales y reproductivos: una estrategia regional basada en DSpace

Presentado en la Conferencia BIREDIAL. Bibliotecas y Repositorios Digitales: Gestión del conocimiento, acceso abierto y visibilidad latinoamericana. Bogotá, 9 al 11 de Mayo 2011.

DSpace como repositório eletrônico de monografias da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba

O conhecimento científico, para ser bem disseminado, precisa de um canal apropriado. Este artigo se destina a apresentar o DSpace, escolhido pelo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas da Universidade Estadual da Paraíba - UEPB como ferramenta para criaçao do repositório eletrônico de coleçoes bibliográficas e disponibilizaçao do seu acervo de monografias em formato eletrônico. Identifica os aspectos desse processo de inserçao e acesso das monografias, bem como a disponibilizaçao on-line e a preservaçao digital da sua produçao acadêmica. O presente artigo é um relato de experiência que torna-se necessário ser divulgado na área de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informaçao, pois serve de instrumento de pesquisa por ser um caso bem sucedido de acesso e disponibilizaçao da informaçao referente a produçao bibliográfica da UEPB. O trabalho proposto tem como escopo final o relato de experiência do processo de criaçao, disponibilizaçao e disseminaçao das monografias da UEPB, que foi conseguido com a criaçao do repositório eletrônico das monografias da instituiçao em questao, através do Setor Clinica de Trabalho Acadêmico-SeCTA. A importância da disponibilizaçao desse acervo bibliográfico aponta-o como um centro referencial de dados para a pesquisa de alunos da UEPB, bem como ser referência para pesquisas bibliográficas e eletrônicas para outras instituiçoes Brasileiras