DSpace is an open-source platform that captures, stores, and distributes digital research materials in various formats, providing long-term, managed storage and access control. It supports a wide range of digital artifacts, including articles, datasets, and archived documents, and is widely adopted by research and educational institutions globally. The platform facilitates easy content submission and management, enhancing open access and content sharing while allowing customization of metadata and user interfaces.

1. Using DSpace to store digital artifacts Gavin Henrick Solutions Consultant

2. What is DSpace? Captures Digital research material in any formats Directly from creators Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage Describes Descriptive, technical, rights metadata Persistent identifiers Distributes Via WWW, with necessary access control Preserves Bitstream guaranteed

3. Some Use Cases Institutional research repository Learning object storage (OER) Archiving of documentation and publications Global reach through search engines Persistent URL for each item for reference

4. History Project began in 2000 with HP-MIT Alliance Version 1 released Nov 2002 DSpace foundation formed 2007 July 2009 merged with Fedora Foundation to form Duraspace Foundation Version 1.6 released Feb 2010 Version 1.7 planned end 2010

5. Community ~830 registered live sites World-wide adoption >1m digital assets and growing fast, largest sites several hundred thousand items Profile Primarily research and higher education institutions Cultural heritage organizations, state libraries/archives Some commercial users and service providers Goals Open Access/Content sharing Long-term archiving and preservation Branding and promotion through aggregation

7. Sample installations Over 250 organizations worldwide

10. DSpace Information Model Communities Units of the organization Collections (in communities) Distinct groupings of like items Items (in collections) Logical content objects Receive persistent identifier Bitstreams (in items) Individual files Receive preservation treatment

11. Possible DSpace Content Articles Preprints, e-prints Technical Reports Working Papers Conference Papers E-theses Audio/Video Datasets Statistical, geospatial Images Visual, scientific Teaching material Lecture notes, visualizations, simulations Digitized library collections

12. Communities Departments, Labs, Research Centers, Programs, Schools, etc. Localized policy decisions Who can contribute, access material Submission workflow Submitters, approvers, reviewers, editors Collections definition, management Communities supply metadata Or contract with library

13. Easy to Use Easy to add content Easy to browse and search content Permanent identifier for your content

14. Submitting Content

23. Search All metadata and text is indexed and fully searchable Can customize which fields you want to enable browsing Can choose what fields and text you want to index for search

25. Rights management Can assign creative commons license to your work to allow others to share, remix or reuse if you wish Creativecommons.org

26. Metadata Currently uses standard Dublin core Possible to extend fields as you wish Possible to import MARC and MODs Supports any named space flat non-hierarchal metadata schema

28. Other areas you can customize Submission process Browse and search terms Extend DSpace to work with other web services User interface

29. Why DSpace? Open source, freely available Large community of users world wide Easy to use out of the box Can handle all types of digital formats Initially developed by leading institutions Completely customisable interface Harvest-ready OAI-PMH compatible

30. Questions?

31. Contacts Gavin Henrick [email_address] Enovation Solutions www.enovation.ie

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