1. Introduction What is an institutional repository? Why use an IR?
Why D-Space
Implementation
Demonstration

2. Institutional Repositories
“"...services that a university offers to the members of its community for the management and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution." ”
Clifford Lynch, Center for Networked Information

3. Why use an IR?
Share, via open access, results of IIT's research, instruction materials
Global awareness of IIT's scholarly output
Long-term preservation of all forms of digital materials
Single location for everything

4. Why use an IR? NSF and Patent data storage requirements Copyright
Strategic Goal
Overall Good

5. Why D-Space? Open Source Highly configurable & customizable
Widely used
Large community of developers
Extensible

6. Implementation Basic setup: 4-6 weeks
Hardware: $13,000
Customization & advanced configuration: weeks
Consultant: $3,000

7. D-Space @ IIT share.iit.edu Galvin channel via MyIIT
account/submissions/community
How it Works

9. D-Space and the CoA Master Theses Building Drawings/Plans CoA Lectures
CTBUH Data
File Sharing