© WRLC November 2005 Research Commons Supporting Scholarship in the 21st Century

© WRLC November 2005 Institutional Repositories in Academia “… enables academics to place their content in a free and trusted archive, get it indexed, get it on the Web, and easily find associated metadata.” “The value to the institution comes from the collocation, the interconnection, the archiving, and the preservation of the intellectual output of the institution”.[1][1] [1] “The Value Proposition in Institutional Repositories.” Blythe, Erv and Vinod Chachra. EDUCAUSEreview, September/October URL: Theory: Practice:

© WRLC November 2005 Identifying “Scholarly Output” Articles Preprints Working papers Technical reports Conference papers Books Theses Data sets Computer programs Visualizations, simulations, and other models Multimedia publications Learning objects Audio files Moving video files Websites Podcasts And more…

© WRLC November 2005 WRLC [dspace.org] DSpace manages that content over the long-term, just as physical libraries and archives do. DSpace system makes two identical copies of all data, catalogs metadata about the data, and gives each file a unique URL. The address [handle] sticks for life, even if the archivist later wants to migrate a file into a newer file format. DSpace is a digital asset management system used primarily for institutional repositories. WRLC uses DSpace for ALADIN Research Commons and the Digital Object Catalog Management System (DOC-MS).

© WRLC November 2005 ALADIN Research Commons Communities and Collections ALADIN Research Commons (WRLC Institutional Repository) Institutional Research Commons Communities (DSpace communities) An Institutional Community’s Local Communities (DSpace sub-communities) A Local Community’s Sub-communities (nested DSpace sub-communities) An Institutional Research Commons’ All Institution Collections (DSpace collections) A Local Community’s Collections (nested DSpace collections)

© WRLC November 2005 ALADIN Research Commons – Institutional Communities

© WRLC November 2005 ALADIN Research Commons – Local Communities

© WRLC November 2005 Access and Usage: DSpace and E-People “..The work should be available for access by any WRLC student or faculty member. Restricted access can be accommodated when necessary.” (from ALADIN Research Commons Policies) E-People accounts and permissions are used to identify privileged viewers, submitters, and editors

© WRLC November 2005 Submission Workflow 1. Identify collection for submission(s) of file(s) 2. Describe file(s) for submission(s) 3. Upload file(s) 4. Review submission(s) 5. Publish submission(s)

© WRLC November 2005 Qualified Dublin Core Elements Minimum of descriptive information: Title Date Creator* Type Subject Language (following qualified Dublin Core Metadata schema)  Each collection has the ability to apply default values for all qualified Dublin Core elements included in the DC registry  Additional metadata in alternative schemas can be stored as an additional “file” within the item (MARC, METS, local file, etc.) *In DSpace, Creator maps to Contributor/Author element

© WRLC November 2005 ALADIN Research Commons Sustainability File management Bit stream preservation Import/Export capabilities Long-term migration/emulation – MIME type registry Snapshots and system backups – WRLC technology services

© WRLC November 2005 Learn more about ALADIN Research Commons [dspace.wrlc.org] Catholic University’s Institutional Coordinator: Shanyun Zhang ~ WRLC Central Office: Bruce Hulse ~ Jessica Branco ~