This document discusses creating a digital library service using DSpace. It begins with an introduction to DSpace, a digital content management system. It then covers digital preservation philosophy and strategies used by DSpace. Key differences between institutional repositories and digital libraries are outlined. The document provides details on the features, architecture, standards, and administration of DSpace installations. It presents examples of possible content and concludes with a scenario for making digital resources openly available electronically using DSpace.

1. Creating a Digital library Service
Model
Introduction Dspace a ‘real time’ Digital
Content Management System
By
Bharat Kumar M. Chaudhari
Faculty Of Engineering and Technology, PDPU, Gandhinagar
M. 94284154 Email: bharat.chaudhari@spm.ac.in

2. Digital Preservation
“Preservation is a critical
function for any institutional repository,
as organizations both large and small
realize the need for built-in digital
preservation tools to ensure access,
storage, and management for the long-term.
DSpace fulfills that responsibility
admirably. The choice of which better suits
an institution depends on its resources,
technology support, and desire to have a
heavily customizable or out-of the box
solution to institutional repository and
preservation needs.” -Lisa Phillips

3. Digital Preservation
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Philosophy
 Lots
of digital material is already lost
 Most digital material is at risk
 Better to have it, do bit preservation than to lose it
completely
 Need to capture as much information as possible
to support functional preservation
 Cost/benefit tradeoffs

4. {Electronic} e-Institutional
Repository
Vs Digital Library
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Institutional Repository are organized around a particular Institutional community
while Digital Library may be May be built around any number of organizing principles
(often topic, subject, or discipline).
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Institutional Repository are dependent upon the voluntary contribution of materials by
scholars for the content in their collection while Digital Library are the product of a
deliberate collection development policy
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Institutional Repository are mainly repositories and therefore may only offer limited
user services while Digital Library are typically include an important service aspect
(reference and research assistance, interpretive content or special resources).
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A repository makes the intellectual output of an organization (or multiple
organizations or just one department) freely and openly available. A digital library on
the other hand, is a gateway to electronic resources including but not limited to: an
OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue), ebooks, ejournals (usually subscription
based), bibliographic databases (e.g. CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Embase,
Cochrane Library, Web of Science - depending on your subject areas) and citation
management tools. It should also include access to online referencing and to a live
librarian (real qualified person is good). I manage both a digital library and a
repository so if you need more info, please contact me. It might be wise to start with
a needs analysis of your clients.

5. What is DSpace
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100% free open source software
Based on JAVA (Web based /Web archiving)
Begin federation
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First Developed by MIT and HP
MIT first public release
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Fall 2002 DSpace Foundation
October 3, 2002 &
Open Source to the world - DSpace 1.0
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November 4, 2002

6. What is DSpace (Count…
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Scalable (Means any grid supporthardware, Cloud)
Modular- like Joomla, Drupal, Moodle
User Friendly
Multi-user (including both searching and
maintenance)
Multimedia digital object enabled
Platform independent (including both client
and server components) interoperable

7. Federation Partners
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Cambridge University (UK)
Columbia University (US)
Cornell University (US)
Ohio State University (US)
University of Rochester (US)
University of Toronto
(Canada)
University of Washington
(US)

8. What DSpace can…
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Captures
 Digital
research material in various formats
 Directly from creators (e.g. faculty)
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Describes
 Descriptive,
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Distributes
 Via
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technical, rights metadata
WWW, with necessary access control
Preserves type : Functional Preservation

9. DSpace Offering
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Large-scale, stable, managed long-term
storage
Support for range of digital formats
depositing of multiples bite in one item
Easy-to-use submission process
Persistent network identifiers
Access control
Search and delivery interface
Digital preservation services

10. Possible Content
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Preprints, articles
 Images
Technical Reports
 visual, scientific,
etc.
Working Papers
 Audio files
Conference Papers
 Video files
E-theses
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Manuscript, Museum ArtifactsLearning Objects
Datasets: statistical, geospatial Reformatted digital
library collections

11. Technology Stack
ApacheMaven, Tomcat, OpenSSL/mod_ssl
 Java 1.3, JSP 1.2, Servlet 2.3
 PostgreSQL 7, JDBC (rdbms)
 CNRI Handle System 5 (persistent ids)
 Lucene 1.2 (index/search)
 Jena (RDF History system)
 JUnit (testing), Log4j (logging)
 HP/UX, Linux, Solaris, etc.
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12. Information Structure
“Community" is a grouping of collections and/or
"Sub-communities“
“Collection" is a group of related items in an archive.
"Items" are records that describe the file(s) being
archived, using the Dublin Core metadata scheme
"Bundle" is a grouping of files associated with an
item
"Bitstreams" are the individual files grouped together
in a bundle and associated with an item. (e.g. license
text, jpegs, tiffs, pdfs, doc, xml)

13. Information Structure

14. Information Model
Communities
DSpace system
Archival Storage
SCHOOLS
Metadata (Database)
DEPARTMENTS
LABS
Submission
Subsystem
Search/Browse Subsystem
Web User Interface
SCHOOL
PROGRAM
LAB
USER
CENTER
CENTERS
USER
PROGRAMS
Collection
Item
Item
Item
Item
Collection
DEPARTMENT
Collection
Collection
USER

15. Standards
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Qualified Dublin Core
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Crosswalk from MARC
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based on Library Application Profile
based on Library of Congress crosswalk
Minimally effective preservation metadata
METS-encoded OAIS AIP in bitstore
Support for collection/community-specific
schemas in development (SIMILE)
OAI-PMH v 2.0 (Open Archive’s Initiative Protocol
for metadata harvesting)
UNICODE Compliant

17. Administering DSpace
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Anonymous Users (anybody)
Members, who wish to subscribe to a collection
(one can not subscribe to communities). Also
called E-person in DSpace
Submitters (authors), who submit their
publications to a collection (they should be
members and have been authorized to submit).
Reviewers - members who are authorized to
review submissions. They can either accept or
reject submissions). Normally, they are subject
specialists
Metadata Editors – who validate the metadata.
Normally, they are library professionals

18. Administering DSpace (Count…
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Collection Administrators. In a large digital
repository collection administration can be
delegated various E-groups.
They can choose the reviewers, metadata
editors among members and decide the
collection policy
They are different from DSpace administrators,
who have the overall responsibility and power.
A kind of super-user

19. E-Groups
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DSpace calls the reviewers, metadata
editors, collection administrators as E-groups
It means, there can be more than one eperson (member) in any list of reviewers or
metadata editors etc.
Each e-group can be associated with one or
more collections
A member can be placed in none or more than
one e-group

20. DSpace Administrator (cont,..
 Can add local (non-standard) elements to
Dublin Core
 Can add new bit stream formats
 Customization of DSpace Screens
 Customization of E-mail alerts
 Modification of License for submission

21. DSpace Administrator (cont,..
 Can add local (non-standard) elements to
Dublin Core
 Can add new bit stream formats
 Customization of DSpace Screens
 Customization of E-mail alerts
 Modification of License for submission

22. Digital Resources in e-open form: A
Scenario

23. Digital Resources in e-open form:
A Scenario

24. Digital Resources in e-open form:
A Scenario

29. Credit
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