DSpace is a community-driven, open-source repository software extensively used worldwide, with around 2,000 installations across 120 countries, comprising 70% of all institutional repositories. It features a standard data model and allows for limited customization, while offering additional support from registered service providers in 10 countries. The upcoming DSpace 7.0 will introduce a new UI based on Angular2, enhancing user experience and functionality.

1. Hardy Pottinger
@hardypottinger
hpottinger@library.ucla.edu
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2. DSpace: tl;dr
 wikipedia.org/wiki/DSpace
 youtube.com/user/dspacedirectvideos
intro video (more “nuts and bolts”)
 youtube.com/watch?v=7dSNuBfTYeo
Overview/links to more details than I have provided here
 wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Functional+Overview
Wiki for University of Edinburgh’s DataShare repository (based on DSpace)
 www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/datashare
 https://docs.library.ucla.edu/display/diit/DSpace+Pilot
Our pilot DSpace Repository: http://dspilot.library.ucla.edu

3. DSpace - what is it?
community-driven open source
 repository software
 a Java servlet - requires a servlet container,
like Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, GlassFish
 a set of Java-based utility scripts

4. DSpace - what is it?
 an asset store (filesystem or service) and
 a metadata store (PotgreSQL or Oracle,
 not MySQL)

5. DSpace - what is it?
 the most widely used repository software
platform (open source or proprietary)
 about 2,000 installations worldwide
 (120 countries)
 70% of all institutional repositories (according
to an ARL survey, SPEC-Kit 292) run on DSpace
http://publications.arl.org/Institutional-
Repositories-SPEC-Kit-292/

6. DSpace - what is it?
 a very active community of developers, managers,
and users, across the globe (24 active committers,
over 150 contributors on GitHub)
 developers: dspace-devel@googlegroups.com
 managers: dspace-community@googlegroups.com
 tinyurl.com/dspace-dcat
 users: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com

7. DSpace - what is it?
 additional/commercial support is available from
15 DSpace Registered Service Providers (RSP)
 10 countries: Belgium, Brazil, Germany, India,
Italy, Spain, South Korea, UK, US, Vietnam
 45% of the lines of code contributed to DSpace
were contributed by developers currently
employed by RSPs

8. DSpace - Data Model

9. DSpace - Data Model
 This data model is “baked in” to DSpace
 you can’t really change it or customize it
 But you can give it a “fancy coat of paint”
 i18n customization allows you to change
 any text you wish, on any page of DSpace
 example:“collection” can become “project”

10. DSpace UI alternatives
the future
 DSpace has a mature REST-API
 Several prototype UIs were created to replace
the out of the box UIs for DSpace
 Ruby on Rails, Play! Framework, Angular2
 DSpace 7.0 will ship with a new Angular2-
based UI as the only out of the box UI

11. DSpace UI alternatives
right now
 DSpace has two out of the box UIs
 XMLUI (based on Apache Cocoon)
 JSPUI (based on Java Server Pages)
 SkylightUI is based on CodeIgnitor (a lightweight
PHP MVC framework)
 provides a public interface to the Solr
metadata and bitstreams housed on a DSpace
repository

12. Vagrant-DSpace
 https://github.com/dspace/vagrant-dspace
 A handy way to get some real experience with
working on a DSpace repository
 Also a great way to “onboard” a new developer:
is a complete development environment for
DSpace

13. Vagrant-DSpace
 https://github.com/dspace/vagrant-dspace
 The README is full of great info
 size the VM appropriately, via the local.yaml file
in the config folder (use half your host
machine’s memory at the most)
 https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-
dspace/blob/master/config/local.yaml.example
#L35

14. DSpace: tl;dr
 wikipedia.org/wiki/DSpace
 youtube.com/user/dspacedirectvideos
intro video (more “nuts and bolts”)
 youtube.com/watch?v=7dSNuBfTYeo
Overview/links to more details than I have provided here
 wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Functional+Overview
Wiki for University of Edinburgh’s DataShare repository (based on DSpace)
 www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/datashare
 https://docs.library.ucla.edu/display/diit/DSpace+Pilot
Our pilot DSpace Repository: http://dspilot.library.ucla.edu

15. Questions?
Hardy Pottinger
@hardypottinger
hpottinger@library.ucla.edu