Adventures in Time and DSpace Robert Tansley Digital
Adventures in Time and DSpace Robert Tansley Digital Media Systems Lab, HP Labs © 2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice
Dr. Robert Tansley • HP Labs Senior Research Scientist • Designer and Architect of DSpace • Original DSpace team member (joined Dec 2000) • Research media 7 July 2005 focus: Long-term preservation of digital DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 2
Topics • A brief history • Our community • The future 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 3
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A Brief History of DSpace: 2000 • 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! 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 5
A Brief History of DSpace: 2000 - 2002 • 2000 – 2002: HP-funded, co-located HP Labs and MIT Libraries team builds DSpace 1. 0 • Version 1. 0 released 4 November 2002 • “Breadth-first” repository system − End-to-end out-of-the-box functionality 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 6
A Brief History of DSpace: 2003 • DSpace Federation project − 7 “early adopter” institutions – Canada, UK, USA • DSpace 1. 1 released 8 May 2003 • Number of downloads reaches 5, 000 • Most 7 July 2005 development still by HP and MIT DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 7
A Brief History of DSpace: 2004 • First user group meeting: 10 -11 March 2004, Cambridge, MA, USA − ~120 attendees from 50 organisations and 8 countries • DSpace “committer” group formed • DSpace 1. 2 released 13 August 2004 − First version to include significant contributions from outside HP/MIT 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 8
A Brief History of DSpace: 2005 • International workshop on DSpace held in Bangalore, India − 27 participants from 7 countries incl. India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and France • DSpace 1. 3 beta released 28 June 2005 • DSpace user group meeting in Cambridge, UK 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 9
A Snapshot of the DSpace Community 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 10
The DSpace Community • Main • 39 mailing lists each have over 500 subscribers code contributors from 24 organisations − More contributions from new sources coming in weekly • 7 “committers” • >100 known deployments in 28 countries − Source: Wiki, Google searches 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 11
Countries with DSpace Deployments • Australia • Germany • Norway • Belgium • Greece • Portugal • Brazil • Hong Kong • Singapore • Canada • India • South Africa • Chile • Italy • Spain • China • Japan • Sweden • Colombia • Mexico • Taiwan • Denmark • Namibia • UK • Finland • Netherlands • USA • France 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 12
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Community-developed Functionality • Image thumbnail browsing – Australian National University • Statistics • Custom • SRB 7 July 2005 – University of Edinburgh submission forms – OCLC grid storage compatibility – USCD Libraries DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 25
Community-developed Functionality • Creative Commons distribution licenses – Creative Commons • LDAP authentication – Brigham Young University • Internationalised UI – University of Patras and Budapest University of Technology and Economics 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 26
Some Forthcoming Communitydeveloped Functionality • RSS feeds -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • OAI-PMH and METS-based metadata + content sharing – Beihang University and HP Labs − DSpace OAI harvester tool from Old Dominion University • Comment threads for Items – University of Rochester • Browse by controlled vocabulary subject – Indian Institute of Science 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 27
Research Projects • Digital preservation − DSpace @ Cambridge – Cambridge University − China Digital Museum Project – Beihang University, China Mo. E, HP Labs − DSRB – UCSD/SDSC, MIT Libraries • Publishing and User Interface frameworks − XML UI framework – Texas A&M university − XML publishing – Australian National University 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 28
Research Projects • Interoperability with other systems − CARET – Cambridge University − CWSpace – MIT Libraries • User interface functionality − Researcher pages – University of Rochester − Comment pages – Universidade do Minho 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 29
Architecture Progress • Architectural goals for “DSpace 2. 0” presented at UG meeting in Cambridge, MA • Prototypes and proposals of different approaches − Asset store for preservation: Cambridge University, UCSD/MIT, HP Labs − Modularity: MIT, University of Wisconsin − XML UI: Texas A&M, ANU 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 30
The Future 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 31
Achievements • Made the transition to open source development • Vibrant, global community • Collectively • Many stakeholders – DSpace has a secure future • Deployment 7 July 2005 many resources working on DSpace channel for research DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 32
Challenges • Coordinating our resources − But still enabling innovation and creativity • Enabling a common DSpace platform to support such a diverse community − Avoid leaving people behind and “code forks” • Keeping the platform robust, consistent, manageable, understandable − Introducing architectural changes − Documentation 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 33
Where to now? 7 July 2005 DSpace User Group Meeting, Cambridge, UK 34
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