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ItemMaking DSpace 1.5 Your Own: Customization tips & tricks(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Donohue, TimDSpace 1.5 represents a big step towards the future of DSpace software. Are you still trying to wrap your mind around 1.5 or wanting to ready yourself for an upgrade? Get a better understanding of the new DSpace 1.5 architecture, features and customization options! Learn how to customize DSpace 1.5 by taking advantage of the Configurable Submission system, the Configurable Browse system, Manakin (XMLUI), Maven and many other new features. This talk/tutorial will concentrate on what is newly available in DSpace 1.5, and how DSpace 1.5 can be customized in a more "modular" fashion. Although a brief introduction to new DSpace 1.5 features will be provided, the majority of the talk will concentrate on how you can customize DSpace in this new architecture (Maven + Manakin, especially). Examples of both minor and major customizations will be presented, based on upgrade experience in migrating a highly-customized version of DSpace 1.4.2 (IDEALS - http://www.ideals.illinois.edu) to DSpace 1.5 and Manakin.
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ItemUnicorn: The myth of federated search realized simply. Unifying DSpace repositories with the PKP Harvester tool(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Davison, John ; Gilbertson, KeithThe Ohio Digital Resource Commons, located at http://drc.ohiolink.edu, is a union of DSpace repositories operated by higher education institutions in Ohio. The repositories are largely organized and supported by OhioLINK, a consortium of 89 Ohio college and university libraries. In support of the vision of the Digital Resource Commons as a statewide resource, the repository operators saw an immediate need for a federated search tool. A "build it now" approach was taken, and federated searching was implemented in a short timeframe at OhioLINK using the PKP Harvester (http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=harvester) software. A demonstration of the federated search feature at the Digital Resource Commons will be given, highlighting local customizations that were made to PKP Harvester and DSpace in support of the project. These customizations include changes made to mimic the appearance and behavior of existing search interfaces at OhioLINK, and changes made to meet expressed user requirements. Particular attention will be given to a DSpace change that allows image thumbnails to be displayed in federated search results. Issues encountered during the configuration, implementation, and deployment of the PKP Harvester and DSpace OAI-PMH server will be presented, and the choices made in response to these issues will be explained. The process of integrating the search results with the DSpace interface will be detailed, including ongoing efforts to improve the user experience. The Digital Resource Commons' federated search was implemented as a metadata-based search. We will present a general comparison between metadata and full-text searching, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each method. A discussion of metadata uniformity and quality concerns will be presented in the context of federated searching. Particular problems encountered with our metadata will be described, with lessons learned and suggestions for resolution. Operational and maintenance concerns of this system will be discussed, including the metadata harvesting schedule, and the need to flush and rebuild indexes when the metadata schema changes. Future ideas for the DRC's federated search feature will be explored, including an implementation of faceted searching using SOLR, harvesting of non-DSpace repositories, such as CONTENTdm and Fedora, and, finally, the possibility of discarding the current model in favor of an OAI-ORE based system, developed for DSpace at Texas Digital Library, that allows for the possibility of full-text federated searching.
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ItemDepth Customization of DSpace: Best Practices and Techniques of Institutional Repository at IIT Kanpur, India(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Shrivastava, V. D. ; Shukla, Gaurav ; Vijaianand, S. K.Realizing the importance and magnitude of Institutional Repository and global visibility and further research scope, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India has intensively planned and designed a full fledged IR project started in mid 2005. Considering the various characteristics and strategies we have designed a well defined and distinct roadmap for establishing our IR in two phases. In the first phase we have planned the mass digitization of entire theses collection of Masters and Doctoral Dissertations produced from 1963 spanning one million pages with their complex content. The content management and uploading to the content server with extracted metadata encoded in XML from our existing server by an in-house developed script is being organised effectively ensuring adequate quality checking of these pages. Initially manual submission for theses was in place. Now a provision has been made available to researchers to submit their theses online even without submitting any hardcopy in the library. The second phase is conceived of digitizing scholarly publications other than theses from our academic community. Its coverage is extremely appreciable in number and strategy we are using for our IR. Excellent feature of our system is the depth customization of DSpace at several places incorporating enhanced features. We discovered that default features offered by even the latest version of DSpace are not sufficient and adequate for academic community to establish their IR system in its full functionality so as to deliver the right information to the right user at the time it is needed. After a detailed study and research we have incorporated significant features like workflow, additional browse and search options, cross-collection search, linking to keywords/subject/homepage/citation, total count of items in respect of supervisor/subject/citation. Additionally, login user authentication from central database, IP based access restrictions, embargo and encryption on the bit stream are also provided. Redesigned feedback form has also been provided to improve its scope and functionalities of our system. These are unique features of our IR system and these enhanced features may be useful to any system in identical academic environment using DSpace to power their Institutional Repositories.
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ItemEIAH's Experience in Localization and Customization of DSpace(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Khazraee, Emad ; Malek, Hamed ; Moaddeli, SaeedThe encyclopedia of Iranian architectural history was established with the goal of increasing the accessibility of the widespread resources and documents related to Iranian architectural history and to provide a better and more productive space for collaboration of researchers and scholars, enabling them to expand and improve this encyclopedia. The Infrastructure which is designed is a three level structure. We have a knowledge representation level on the top, an ontology of Iranian architectural history, a conceptual model designed for this specific area of study and The middle level is the mediator level which is responsible for establishing the relation between concepts and documents and enhancing search and semantic interoperability and The underlying level is a digital repository; a localized and customized version of Dspace institutional repository. The main changes that we made to Dspace was implementing the Persian calendar (a.k.a Jalali calendar) and fixing the correct representation of Persian numerals. We've also translated all the messages into Persian and changed the JSPUI for a correct view of page containing right-to-left text. A team of librarians in EIAH reviewed the work-flows and based on their feedback, some changes are made to the way the metadata appears for each item and the way work-flows progress. Using our EIAH Metadata standards we have our own Application Profile based on Dublin Core embedded in Dspace for describing the documents available in the history of Iranian architecture. Our Development plan for Dspace includes: A book viewer A customized search engine (lucene based) Federated search on multiple Dspace installations in national cultural heritage centers Establishing a connection between Semantic Mediawiki and Dspace through OAI-PMH Thumbnail generator for different text document formats Packaging Dspace for Redhat based systems Development of our Application profile based on Singapore framework for DCAP.
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ItemDSpace Global Outreach Committee Update(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Hollister, ValorieOne of the biggest challenges with a world-wide, open source community of over 500 DSpace users from diverse organizations is finding ways to connect with the people that would be helpful or interesting to talk with - either to ask questions, share experiences or partner on projects of mutual interest. With the support and coordination of the DSpace Foundation, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) has several projects aimed at helping members of the community find each other more easily. We will discuss the recent projects of the DGOC and how members of the community can benefit and get involved.
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ItemDSpace - Workshop & Wrapup(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Donohue, Tim ; Hollister, Valorie ; Kimpton, Michele ; Devakos, Rea ; Andersson, Urban
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ItemWrap Up / Next Steps(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Devakos, Rea ; Kimpton, Michele ; Andersson, Urban
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ItemDSpace - Customizations and Integrations(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-21) Vijaianand, S. K. ; Shrivastava, V. D. ; Shukla, Gaurav ; Moaddeli, Saeed ; Khazraee, Emad ; Malek, Hamed ; Gilbertson, Keith
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ItemUsing DSpace as a Disciplinary Data Repository(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20) Scherle, RyanDryad (http://datadryad.org) is a disciplinary repository for datasets underlying published works in biology. Dryad allows investigators to validate published findings, explore new analysis methodologies, and repurpose data for research questions unanticipated by the original authors. Dryad partners with a coalition of scientific societies and journals to encourage deposition of data and to facilitate automatic metadata collection. DSpace fits many of Dryad's needs, but the needs of a disciplinary repository and the needs of a data repository impose constraints not met by off-the-shelf DSpace functionality. These constraints affect both repository organization and features. For example, the community/collection boundaries native to DSpace conflict with the overlapping concerns of biology sub-disciplines, so the communities and collections have been hidden from users. Because the step-by-step DSpace submission process does not accommodate the workflow required to store data associated with publications, a completely new submission system has been implemented. To meet the needs of its user community, Dryad must integrate with other repositories and services. Dryad is developing functionality to search harvested content from specialized repositories, to link between Dryad content and external content, and to facilitate submission of Dryad content to specialized repositories. This presentation details the differences between the needs of Dryad and a general institutional repository, and describes the modifications made to DSpace to accommodate those differences.
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ItemIntroducing Vireo: an ETD Submittal and Management System for DSpace(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009-05-20) Leggett, John ; McFarland, Mark ; Mikeal, Adam ; Phillips, ScottThe Texas Digital Library (TDL) is a consortium of public and private institutions from across the state of Texas; a major project in TDL is the development of a state-wide repository for managing the entire life-cycle of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). The Texas ETD Repository is a large effort that span multiple independent initiatives, all of which interact to support the overall task of managing ETDs in Texas. This presentation will describe Vireo, the customized submission and workflow management application that TDL developed for DSpace, and it's role within the Texas ETD Repository. We will describe its current implementation as a Manakin aspect and theme, and discuss the future plans for the application, including its release to the repository community under an open source license.