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DSpace is an open source software package which provides the tools for management of digital assets, and is commonly used as the basis for an institutional repository. It is also intended as a platform for Digital preservation activities. Since its release in 2002, as a product of the HP-MIT Alliance, it has been installed and is in production at over 100 institutions around the globe [1], from large universities to small higher education colleges and research centres. It is shared under a BSD licence. ...
Institutional repository refers to the digital collection, capturing and preserving of intellectual output of an institution, particularly those involved in research. ...
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The BSD license is the license agreement that the BSD software (largely, a version of UNIX) is distributed under. ...
History
The first version of DSpace was released in November 2002, following a joint effort by developers from MIT and HP Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In March 2004 the first DSpace User Group Meeting (DSUG) took place at Hotel@MIT, and it was there that the first discussions concerning the DSpace community and its future governance were discussed in earnest. The DSpace Federation formed a loose grouping of interested institutions, while the DSpace Committers group (see Community Development Model below) was formed shortly after, consisting of five developers from HP Labs, MIT, OCLC, University of Cambridge, and University of Edinburgh. Later two further developers from Australian National University and Texas A & M University also joined this group. DSpace 1.3 was released in 2005, and at around the same time the second DSpace User Group Meeting was held at the University of Cambridge. Following this, two further smaller user group meetings were spawned, the first in January/February 2006 in Sydney, and the second in April 2006 in Bergen, Norway. Most recently version 1.4 was released in July 2006. Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT, MapúaTech or simply Mapúa) is a private, non-sectarian, Filipino tertiary institute located in Intramuros, Manila. ...
HP Labs (or HP Laboratories) is the research arm of HP. HP Labs function is to deliver breakthrough technologies and to create business opportunities that go beyond HPs current strategies. ...
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OCLC Online Computer Library Center was founded in 1967 and originally named the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC). ...
The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a renowned centre for teaching and research in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...
The Australian National University (ANU), is a university located in Canberra, the national capital of Australia. ...
Texas A&M University at College Station Texas A&M University, often Texas A&M, A&M or TAMU for short, is one of the flagship universities of Texas, and is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. ...
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Community Development Model The DSpace community has attempted to base its formal structure along the same lines as the Apache Foundation community development model. That is, there is a user-base, within which is contained a subset of developers, some of whom are contributors to the core codebase. The developments by these contributors are then added to the distribution under the curation of a core team of committers, whose job is to ensure that the code meets the various guidelines laid out in the developer documentation, and that it contributes effectively to the direction of DSpace development (which should be/is decided by the community as a whole). The community is serviced technologically by a development base at SourceForge, and a number of mailing lists for technical queries and development discussion, as well as a general list for non-technical community members. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache webserver. ...
Codebase is a term used in software development to refer to the aggregate of all source code used to build a particular application or component. ...
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Membership of the community is implied by being interested and involved - there are no formal membership fees or lists.
Technology DSpace is written in Java and JSP, using the Java Servlet Framework. It uses a relational database, and supports the use of PostgreSQL and Oracle. It makes its holdings available primarily via a web interface, but it also supports the OAI-PMH v2.0, and is capable of exporting METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) packages also. Future versions are likely to see increasing use of web services, and changes to the User Interface layer. Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ...
JavaServer Pages (JSP) is a Java technology that allows software developers to dynamically generate HTML, XML or other types of documents in response to a Web client request. ...
PostgreSQL is a free object-relational database server (database management system), released under a flexible BSD-style license. ...
An Oracle database consists of a collection of data managed by an Oracle database management system. ...
A protocol developed by the Open Archives Initiative. ...
A web service is a collection of protocols and standards used for exchanging data between applications. ...
The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ...
Alternatives Similar open source products are Greenstone, Fedora and GNU EPrints. Greenstone Digital Library Software is a suite of software for building and distributing digital library collections. ...
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Eprints is free, open source software for generating an Open Access (OA) Institutional Repository (IR) that is compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). ...
Towards Understanding the Role of DSpace in the Information Landscape, Open Repositories Conference 2007 Last January the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories gathered visionaries for the first time in Sydney http://www.apsr.edu.au/Open_Repositories_2006/ to share information about how Dspace, Fedora, and Eprints repositories were changing the nature of scholarly and commercial information communities of practice. The upcoming Open Repositories Conference will bring user communities and others a step closer to understanding the pivotal role that repositories play in the emerging information landscape. Institutions such as universities, research laboratories, publishers, libraries, and commercial organizations are creating innovative repository-based systems that address the entire lifecycle of information—from supporting the creation and management of digital content, to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, to ultimately ensuring long-term preservation and archiving. Open Repositories 2007 (OR07) will bring global stakeholders together again to discuss the challenges inherent in the conference tagline, “Achieving Interoperability in an Open World.” What are the policy issues that are implied in an open world? What are the technical challenges in achieving interoperability across heterogenesous repositories and related services? How can advanced repository-based systems enable the collaborative processes around “e-science” and scholarly communication? What are the challenges in enabling users to discover and access information across distributed repositories? What does open access to content mean across cultures? These are just some of the questions that attendees will ponder during the three-and-a-half day conference scheduled for January 23-26, 2007 in San Antonio, Texas.
Dspace, Fedora, and Eprints User Group meetings will be held on Jan. 23 and 24, followed by combined conference plenary sessions on Jan. 24, 25 and 26. The conference reception and poster session will take place on Jan. 24. Advance registration for the conference is open until December 22, 2006. More information including an at-a-glance conference schedule and plenary, keynote and user group session descriptions is available at http://openrepositories.org/.
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