Presentation about T-Space, University of Toronto's institutional repository, by Gabriela Mircea, Scholarly Communications Publishing Coordinator, in KMD1001 class (http://1001.kmdi.utoronto.ca)

1. T-Space
Gabriela Mircea
Scholarly Communications Publishing Coordinator
KMD 1001F - Knowledge Media Design: Fundamental Concepts
Monday, November 05, 2012

2. Agenda
 T-Space
 Service history
 Challenges
 Questions

3. T-Space
DSpace implementation at UofT

4. Scholarly Communication
“.. the system through which research and
other scholarly writings are created,
Create
evaluated for quality, disseminated to the
scholarly community, and preserved for
Evaluate
future use. The system includes both formal
Scholarly
Communication means of communication, such as publication
Disseminate in peer-reviewed journals, and informal
channels, such as electronic listservs.”
Preserve
Association of College and Research Libraries
http://www.ala.org/acrl/publications/whitepapers/principlesstrategies

5. https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/

6. Advantages
Preservation
 Institutional commitment
 File migration and refreshment
 Institutional infrastructure
 Persistent URLs (handles)

7. http://openreflections.wordpress.com/tag/semantic-web/
Advantages
Open Access
 Increased citation rates (Hitchcock, 2012)
 Sharing data - 50% more citations (articles since 2009 in
astrophysics) (Dorch, 2012)
 Greater exposure
 “increase the circulation of research” (Willinsky, 2006)
 Interdisciplinary collaborations
 Partnerships at various levels
 Control over intellectual property
 Greater flexibility
(Canadian Association of Research Libraries )

8.  The library's 6 copies
· Circulated once in one year 2004
· Grand total of 57 times 1992 to 2005
 Hits in a year
· 2005 average chapter visits 204
· 2011 average chapter visits 713

9. http://www.ucpress.edu/img/covers/isbn13/9780520262348.jpg

13. Service history

14. 2004
 The library's 6 copies
· Circulated once in one year 2004
· Grand total of 57 times 1992 to 2005
 Hits in a year
· 2005 average chapter visits 204
· 2011 average chapter visits 713

15. 2005

16. 2005

17. http://focus.library.utoronto.ca/ 2013

18. 2013

19. Challenges

20. Content types, e.g. emails
• Emails are challenging to preserve
 Preserving properties
 Attachments can have unrelated format/content (documents, images , audio files etc.)
 Context/Threads
 Embedded References/Links to external content
• Removed from their native systems will impact:
 Search/Discovery/Retrieve/Render
• Even migrated to other formats (such as xml), no tools exist to
facilitate access, display, search, or visualization of messages
(Prom, 2011 )

26. Bibliography
 Canadian Association of Research Libraries. (n.d.). CARL Open Access Flyer. Retrieved from
http://carl-abrc.ca/uploads/pdfs/CARL_OA_flyer_e.pdf
 Devakos, R (2005) T-Space Increase the impact of your research
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/policies/faculty_intro.ppt
 Dorch, B. (2012). On the Citation Advantage of linking to data. Retrieved September 15, 2012,
from http://hprints.org/hprints-00714715
 Prom, C. J. (2011). Preserving Email. DPC Technology Watch Report 11-01 (p. 57). Great
Britain: Digital Preservation Coalition. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.7207/twr11-01
 Hitchcock S (2012) The effect of open access and downloads (“hits”) on citation impact: a
bibliography of studies. The Open Citation Project, University of Southampton, Retrieved
September 16, 2012, from http://opcit.eprints.org/oacitation-biblio.html
 Willinsky, J. (2006). Why Open Access to Research and Scholarship? The Journal of
Neuroscience, 26(36). doi:doi: 10.1523/​JNEUROSCI.2891-06.2006

27. Questions(?)
What T-Space can do better from a
KMD perspective?
What are some new trends that
would help T-Space better fulfill its
dissemination mandate?