DSpace User Group Meeting 2009

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DSUG 09

Gothenburg, Sweden, Oct. 14-16 2009
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DSpace Services : Backporting DSpace 2 Solutions to DSpace 1
(2009-10-15) Diggory, Mark; @mire
We will outline a variant of the new DSpace 2.0 Services API for registering and accessing Services in DSpace 1.6. The DSpace 2.0 Service API provides the DSpace Application Developer with a centralized but implementation independent registry to publish and access commonly shared services available within the DSpace environment. We have adapted this Service API to operate within the legacy DSpace 1.x environment to help in supporting best practices in customizing both DSpace 1.x and 2.0. Provided with the Service API are three new services: (1) A new DSpace "EventService" providing a means to register multiple EventListeners to observe both usage and change events in the Legacy (JSPUI) and Manakin (XMLUI) User Interfaces. (2) A "PortalService" providing a mechanism to configure the inclusion of content from custom sources into the DSpace XMLUI and finally (3) a “ResourceService” will provide an example of how to associate additional descriptive metadata with DSpace Communities, Collections, Bundles and Bitstreams. Providers will be able to utilize these Services to record events from DSpace 1.6, provide a portal like mechanism for the inclusion and presentation of custom content sources and the ability to associate richer metadata descriptions with DSpace Items, Communities and Collections. As an exemplars of this capability, @MIRE has contributed two projects to the DSpace community: (a) A Solr based Usage Statistics and Reporting engine, the foundation for the @MIRE Statistics and Reporting Suite and (b) A ResourceService that provides a means to associate and maintain additional metadata on other DSpace resources.
Democratising history – how DSpace encourages citizens to work jointly and sustainably on their neighbourhood histories
(2009-10-15) Räth, Joachim; stadtteilgeschichten.net
1. History workshops in Hamburg (Germany), 2. The Citizen as collaborator and user (presenting the workfow of stadtteilgeschichten.net), 3. The Citizen as collaborator (with some remarks on quality assurance), 4. The Citizen as receptive user (with some remarks on visibility and the World Wide Web), 5. The Citizen as active user Since it went online in January 2007, the Digital Archive for Neighbourhood Histories of Hamburg stadtteilgeschichten.net offers to its users a totally new approach to the history of everyday life in this city in the Northern part of Germany. Images, documents, and objects collected by generations of Hamburgian citizens can now be viewed, copied and used for one’s own non-commercial digital projects within the reach of a mouseclick. But there are still some more ambitious aims to this project: we would like to provide forward-looking information technologies as represented by DSpace in order to encourage citizens to work jointly and sustainably on their neighbourhood histories. Democratising History for us means activating and networking citizens so they will change from external users to internal collaborators of the project. Even today the users of stadtteilgeschichten.net get the possibility to collaborate by adding their own comment to the description of a historic document and by sharing it with other users. Thus citizens can activly contribute to the growth of the digital archive and can write the histories of their neighbourhoods – which forms part of their own history. In the near future stadtteilgeschichten.net will offer to the citizens of Hamburg even more qualifed forms of collaboration in the feld of metadata acquisition while revealing the value of their personal historic knowledge. Discussion boards will foster the exchange between users and convey the feeling of a community. Virtual galleries will offer new opportunities to present the acquisitions of one’s individual history to a wider public and to gain appreciation thereby. In cooperation with educational institutions of all levels stadtteilgeschichten.net will use the topic of neighbourhood history in order to teach up-to-date media and information competences. Thus stadtteilgeschichten.net will establish DSpace as a secure digital repository in the area of neighbourhood history as well as a plattform for communication and participation despite any social differences in sex, age, or culture.
Brasiliana USP : 500 Years of Books going Online
(2009-10-14) Kepler, Fábio; Tsujigushi, Vitor; Nunes, Maurício; Pires, Daniela; Diniz, Kollontai; Piazzi, Carla; Lopes, Fernão; University of Sao Paulo
Discussion on the DSpace roadmap
(2009-10-14)
DSpace User Group Meeting 2009. Open discussion on the DSpace roadmap. Convenor: Tim Donohue.
Q&A – Community Update Panel Discussion
(2009-10-16)
DSUG 09 Q&A – Community Update Panel Discussion. Bradley McLean & Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace, Stewart Lewis, Univ of Auckland, Mark Diggory, @admire. Convenor: Eloy Rodrigues, Univ of Minho.
Connecting the Community
(2009-10-16) Hollister, Valorie; DuraSpace
DRIVER and COAR: from infrastructure to confederation
(2009-10-16) Rodrigues, Eloy; Universidade do Minho
OceanDocs, a network of marine science repositories using DSpace
(2009-10-16) Goovaerts, Marc; Surinx, Dimitri; Verdonck, Christof; Staessens, Sibrand; Slipetskyy, Denys; Hasselt University; IBSS – Sevastopol
DuraCloud : Federated Repositories and Cyberinfrastructure Open technologies and services for managing durable data in the cloud
(2009-10-16) McLean, Bradley; DuraSpace
DSpace RoadMap 2009-2010
(2009-10-14) McLean, Bradley; DuraSpace
DSpace 1.6
(2009-10-14) Lewis, Stuart; University of Auckland
DSpace 1.6 presentation
The DuraSpace organization
(2009-10-14) McLean, Bradley; Hollister, Valorie; DuraSpace
Improving the quality of your metadata
(2009-10-15) Bosman, Ben; @mire
This presentation will outline solutions for typical problems that arise with the quality of an institution’s repository metadata. Metadata present in a repository usually originates from different sources. This can include metadata from legacy systems e.g. migrating data from an older, to be replaced, repository platform, or an online source such as PubMed or ISI WoK. Another important source of repository metadata are authors manually submitting records. The metadata retrieved from these sources has not necessarily been created by Metadata experts, or might not comply to your application profile.
The BibApp extension: a Campus Research Gateway and Expert Finder
(2009-10-15) Donohue, Tim; University of Illinois
WindMusic, example of the new possibilities for DSpace when adding SKOS thesaurus and authority lists management
(2009-10-15) Dupriez, Christophe; Schubnel, Julien; DESTIN inc.; CDMC
Controling metadata through authority lists or thesauri can provide many benefits: (1)multilingual: coded metadata can be translated following the language of users (2)quality control: spelling can be checked (3) exhaustivity: users can retrieve records using synonyms or translations (4) assistance: auto-complete and facetted browsing help users specify their queries and drill-down their results (5) integration: normalizing concepts insures that different applications can be interlinked with precision and exhaustivity: a thesaurus entry can be the keyword to index bibliographic records, the title of a Wiki Page which explains the concept, the code of a chemical substance in a database (or a code in any external database). Full integration of authority lists in DSpace involves changes in submitting, cataloguing, displaying, searching and browsing. We demonstrate in depth the result of this work with www.WindMusic.org, the database of music scores and recordings for Wind Bands and Orchestras.
Digital Repositories and the Semantic Web: Semantic Search and Navigation for DSpace
(2009-10-15) Koutsomitropoulos, Dimitrios; Solomou, Georgia; Alexopoulos, Andreas; Papatheodorou, Theodore; HPCLab, University of Patras
In many digital repository implementations, resources are often described against some flavor of metadata schema, popularly the Dublin Core Element Set (DCMES), as is the case with the DSpace system. However, such an approach cannot capture richer semantic relations that exist or may be implied, in the sense of a Semantic Web ontology. Therefore we first suggest a method in order to semantically intensify the underlying data model and develop an automatic translation of the flatly organized metadata information to this new ontology. Then we propose an implementation that provides for inference-based knowledge discovery, retrieval and navigation on top of digital repositories, based on this ontology. We apply this technique to real information stored in the University of Patras Institutional Repository that is based on DSpace, and confirm that more powerful, inference-based queries can indeed be performed.
Northern Areas open scholarly documents (NAROS): building a service on the shoulders of OAIster
(2009-10-15) Longva, Leif; University of Tromsø
The University of Tromsø in Norway is the northernmost university in the world and has positioned itself as a pivotal research institution on the northern areas. NAROS intend to become a vital resource supporting students and researchers, as well as the general public sharing this field of interest. NAROS will be providing access to open scholarly documents which in one way or another are relevant to northern areas-related topics. The method used by NAROS, is to download the metadata from all the documents available in the entire OAIster, through the use of rsync, and use a filtering mechanism to extract scholarly material within the thematic scope NAROS is aiming at. “The northern areas” is not a theme or subject which is easily defined, and describing filtering terms to extract the documents sought is therefore a challenge. The model applied on the OAIster metadata is: Two different sets of filtering terms are defined: “Approved” and “For control”. The list named “Approved” contains filtering terms which extracts records that as a default qualifies directly for inclusion in NAROS. The list named “For control” contains filtering terms which generate lists of records that needs to be checked manually, in order to decide whether or not to include them in NAROS. Both sets of filtering terms need to be evaluated and modified continuously The OAIster metadata will be downloaded, and the filtering process applied monthly. Except the very first time, only the last month’s addition of metadata records in OAIster will be object of extraction. The job of going through the manual check-list will thus be a huge one only the first time around. An initial study shows us that NAROS from day one (with filtering terms in English and Norwegian only) will obtain approximately 100 000 scholarly documents extracted from more than 600 different archives, by the list of filtering terms tagged “approved”. In addition there will be a list of approximately 30 000 documents extracted from the filtering terms tagged “for control”. We find these figures encouraging. In comparing, Aksnes and Rørstad (2008) [1] found 53 700 published articles within polar science worldwide, in the period from 1981 to 2007. This indicates that NAROS has potential of becoming a vital resource for knowledge about the northern areas. And thus also indicates that lots of thematically relevant documents not available in the traditional polar science sources, will gain significantly in visibility from NAROS. The amount of manual effort needed to go through the list generated by the “For control” terms will not be trivial, but will diminish dramatically as from the second time it is generated. At DSUG 2009 we intend to present a first version of NAROS, as well as our experiences with the data model, the record handling and an evaluation of the quality achieved in our record extraction through the filtering mechanisms. We intend to implement web 2.0 functionality in order to involve users in the process of evaluating the content and to improve the quality and relevance of NAROS.
BiMuL: a Video Digital Library based on Dspace
(2009-10-15) Minetti, Valerio; Caccialupi, Roberta; Conte, Georgia; Universita di Milano
The aim of this paper is to present the results of a two years work in management and customization of our digital video archives using Dspace, and showing an ongoing project as well. We had to create a digital archive of about 3,900 didactic videos targeted to be used in public schools and stored on heterogeneous media (such as vhs, beta cam and 3/4). Our goals were to digitalize as a first step a selected subset of these videos, restoring their quality whenever it was possible, and as second step to give them online access. In order to archive these goals we analyzed the whole process, characterizing the various steps and the specific skills of every actor involved, and we looked for a solution in managing very large files, which is the main issue for a digital video archive. Our solution was to create an high quality master copy stored on DVCpro50 digital tape and on ordinary files outside of Dspace asset-store, and ingesting just a streaming version with all the associated metadata for the online archive. The problems faced on Dspace-side of this project were the lack of a filter-media plug-in being able to manage and manipulate ingested files containing audio-video data, and to find an effective way to present video streams in xmlui. Second, we had to find a way to correlate Dspace item with the each master copy. In order to cope with these problems we developed a solution that involves a bash-scripted system that takes care of process original files, converts them in a video format suitable for online stream vision and generates a 30secs clip and other still image previews elements. Finally these items are packaged up into a sip object with a small set of metadata extracted from the master copy and then ingested into Dspace workflow. The position of original files is recorded into Dspace items metadata. On xmlui-side we created a custom theme using JQuery javascript libraries to show video media into a flash player both in embedded (in the page) and into an overlaid mode.
Storing and manipulating Enhanced publications & the discovery with OAI ORE
(2009-10-15) Ruijgrok, Peter; Slabbertje, Martin; Univ of Utrecht
As part of a SURF programme related to enhanced publications, we have prototyped the storage of real-world publications (especially theses) and their related enhancements (such as data sets and related publications) using our Dspace repositoy as the foundation. During the presentation we will discuss the process for collecting additional data from researchers, and how to deal with the knowledge-gap between librarians and researchers that results from their different areas of expertise. A lot of time is spent on 'speaking the same language', which requires understanding the researchers "needs and restrictions" and the "vision and goals" of the repository manager. We will discuss in detail the processes of describing, uploading, storing and maintaining the theses, the additional materials, and the relation between them (to create ORE ReM's) using DSpace. When handling research data, many choices have to be made because the data varies from single files to directories with hundreds of files and from small files to files larger than 3 GB. Since one of the ground-rules of OAI-ORE was that not every component is necessarily part of the same repository, we will show components living in multiple repositories which are not all hosted by our University. For dissemination purposes, we have created the generation and publication of ReM's, which will be explained and related to the DSpace metadata. Through live demos, we will show the behaviour of DSpace when aggregations are requested and when links from within an aggregation are followed all the way to the final publication or datasets. According to the project schedule, an end-user ReM browser will also be available around October 2009.
Making Repository Deposit Easier With SWORD & Use Cases
(2009-10-15) Stevenson, Adrian; Lewis, Stuart; UKOLN; University of Auckland
The presentation will give an overview of the UK JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) funded SWORD2 project. It will essentially be concerned with the need for, and development of, a specification that can be used for depositing research, and learning and teaching materials, and which gave rise to the original SWORD (Simple Web service Offering Repository Deposit) project 1. The presentation will look at how the original SWORD project and the current SWORD 2 project have realised the vision of a standard deposit protocol. The presentation will also consider the future of SWORD and look at some of the recent activity that has arisen around the project outputs, including the adoption into Microsoft Office, a SWORD Facebook application, a Netvibes widget, and current progress with international publishers.

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