CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation Update and Status Report

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation  Why? Drive DSpace development  open source model Build critical mass of content  support value-added services Leverage distributed expertise/services  metadata, digital preservation, storage, name authority…

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation  Why? Shared direction, leadership, priorities, goals, resources Standards development  Putting weight behind standards and “best practices”  e.g. W3C, NISO, IETF, ARL/DLF standards

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation  Why? Create educated consumers Build new market for scholarly content dissemination Drive commercial development

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation  Who? Research-generating organizations  e.g. libraries, government agencies, NGOs, museums, archives  world-wide  overlapping/complementary research interests Industry? IT service organizations?

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 Mellon DSpace Federation Project  Cambridge University (UK)  Columbia University (US)  Cornell University (US)  MIT (US)  Ohio State University (US)  University of Rochester (US)  University of Toronto (Canada)  University of Washington (US)

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 > 8,000 Downloads US, non-US 20 production sites, 125 evaluating/piloting Primarily research universities Museums and Archives Government agencies Private industry e.g. banking, healthcare, etc. Adoption

CNI Forum, Spring 2004

DSpace Federation User Group  Met at MIT in March, 2004  Participation 125 participants from 50 organizations in 9 countries  Mix of programmers, librarians, researchers, and others

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace Federation User Group Agenda Institutional repositories, other applications and content types Technical developments and research projects from user community HP-MIT platform developments Open Source Software process

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 DSpace platform  1.2 – last HP/MIT-driven release (April)  2.0 – re-design for more modularity  Open Source Software development Committers, Contributors  Non-profit organization Platform governance and (probably) own IP Standards development

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 Institutional Repositories  Primary service/business for DSpace now  Long-term, high-value service  Not platform-dependent  Needs wider collaboration and information sharing  SPARC-sponsored implementors workshop in the fall

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 Other Service Models  Learning Object Repositories e.g. DLearn  E-thesis Repositories e.g. Theses Alive!  Digital special collections e.g. ANU?  E-portfolios e.g. Duke  Electronic Records Management

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 What’s Next?  Federated Search Google/OCLC/DSpace pilot project  Virtual collections Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NCSTRL OAI subject-based catalogs  New publishing ventures Publishing tools (e.g. Cornell) “Overlay” e-journal sourced from multiple institutions

CNI Forum, Spring 2004 Questions?