1. © 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice Moving DSpace Forward Dr Robert Tansley Digital Media Systems Department, HP

2. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney2 Talk Overview DSpace yesterday and today A view of DSpace moving forward Upcoming in DSpace 1.4 and beyond

3. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney3 DSpace yesterday and today

4. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney4 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!

5. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney5 DSpace Timeline

6. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney6 DSpace Today 35,000 downloads since 1.0 125 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

7. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney7 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 Platform

8. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney8 Countries with DSpace Deployments Australia Belgium Brazil Canada Chile China Colombia Costa Rica Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong India Ireland Italy Japan Mexico Namibia Netherlands Norway Portugal Russia Singapore South Africa Spain Sweden Turkey Taiwan UK USA

9. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney9 Moving DSpace Forward: The Tasks Ahead

10. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney10 Committer group Current community focus Some work; more needed Need more here More help please! Best practice Innovate

11. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney11 Already in the Works

12. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney12 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: Bahasa Indonesia Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) French Galician German Hungarian Japanese Norwegian Bokmål Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian) Swedish

13. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney13 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 improvements (MIT)

14. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney14 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)

15. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney15 Future developments (1.5+) Web Services Interface (WebDAV & SOAP) Messaging (JMS/ActiveMQ, or WS-notify) METS 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 else you come up with!

16. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney16 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 - DSpace@Cambridge

17. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney17 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 METS profile draft

18. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney18 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

19. 31 Jan 2006DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney19 Please get involved! Test Translate Deploy Experiment Develop Document Support Share experiences