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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation Update and Status Report
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation Why? Drive DSpace development open source model Build critical mass of content support value-added services Leverage distributed expertise/services metadata, digital preservation, storage, name authority…
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation Why? Shared direction, leadership, priorities, goals, resources Standards development Putting weight behind standards and “best practices” e.g. W3C, NISO, IETF, ARL/DLF standards
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation Why? Create educated consumers Build new market for scholarly content dissemination Drive commercial development
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation Who? Research-generating organizations e.g. libraries, government agencies, NGOs, museums, archives world-wide overlapping/complementary research interests Industry? IT service organizations?
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 Mellon DSpace Federation Project Cambridge University (UK) Columbia University (US) Cornell University (US) MIT (US) Ohio State University (US) University of Rochester (US) University of Toronto (Canada) University of Washington (US)
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 > 8,000 Downloads 50-50 US, non-US 20 production sites, 125 evaluating/piloting Primarily research universities Museums and Archives Government agencies Private industry e.g. banking, healthcare, etc. Adoption
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004
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DSpace Federation User Group Met at MIT in March, 2004 Participation 125 participants from 50 organizations in 9 countries Mix of programmers, librarians, researchers, and others
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation User Group Agenda Institutional repositories, other applications and content types Technical developments and research projects from user community HP-MIT platform developments Open Source Software process
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace platform 1.2 – last HP/MIT-driven release (April) 2.0 – re-design for more modularity Open Source Software development Committers, Contributors Non-profit organization Platform governance and (probably) own IP Standards development
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 Institutional Repositories Primary service/business for DSpace now Long-term, high-value service Not platform-dependent Needs wider collaboration and information sharing SPARC-sponsored implementors workshop in the fall
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 Other Service Models Learning Object Repositories e.g. DLearn E-thesis Repositories e.g. Theses Alive! Digital special collections e.g. ANU? E-portfolios e.g. Duke Electronic Records Management
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 What’s Next? Federated Search Google/OCLC/DSpace pilot project Virtual collections Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NCSTRL OAI subject-based catalogs New publishing ventures Publishing tools (e.g. Cornell) “Overlay” e-journal sourced from multiple institutions
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CNI Forum, Spring 2004 Questions?
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