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McGill Libraries Present A Symposium on the Crisis in Scholarly Communication "For the Greater Good: Open Access and Institutional Repositories“. Session 3: Applications at Two Institutions. T-Space University of Toronto – Implementation and Future Directions - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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McGill Libraries Present
A Symposium on the Crisis in Scholarly Communication
"For the Greater Good: Open Access and Institutional
Repositories“
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Session 3: Applications at Two Institutions
• T-Space University of Toronto – Implementation and Future Directions
• What should I speak about (and, from the opening video, do I have an answer to whether or not we are herding cats?)
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Thought # 1 – D to T, with a F:DSpace to T-Space, Federation
• This thought was tempered in noting Session 2, “The Development of D-Space; A New Tool for Scholars and Institutions”, and the speaker, Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries, MIT Libraries
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We were/are impressed by DSpace
“Imitation is the most sincere (form) of flattery.”
- Colton
“A good imitation is the most perfect originality.”
- Voltaire
“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”
- Voltaire
“I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.” - Wilson Mizner
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MIT: The home of DSpace
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This book could/should have been about DSpace
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MIT’s DSpace experience
• Adopted it (variety of file formats, preservation, self submission, open source, federated*, standards based)
• Capitalized on it• Concentrate on community
development (“sell” by doing – conservative staffing model)
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Thought # 2 – T-Space Champion: UTSC
• This thought was tempered in noting Session 1, “Crisis and Opportunity in Scholarly Publishing”, and one of the speakers, Leslie Chan, Program Supervisor, Joint Program in New Media, UTSC
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T-Space Status
• First item received June 2003• Hits approximately 36,000• Over 814 items• 744 authors• 8 communities• 32 collections• Largest Community G8
Largest Collections UTSC Biology 165
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UTSC as Community leader
• Exemplary faculty - Led by VP of Reseach Prof. Rudy Boonstra – Leslie Chan
• Submissions include eprints, ebooks, conference proceedings, course-based Web sites, video, out-of-print books
• Datasets• legacy
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UTSC participation rate
• Life Sciences 85%
• Social Sciences 10%
• Humanities 5%
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Thought # 3 – T to O
• “Twist to Open” (another SuperBowl ad)
• T to O
• T-Space to O-Space
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Implementation/Evaluation Issues
• Communication• Management of change• “persuasive technology”• Ubiquitous, open access• OPAC, Web, T-Space, WebCT,Google• Storage• Creative Commons• Future versions
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Future directions
• Vice-President, Research and Associate Provost (The Provost's senior staff is comprised of two Associate Provosts, a Deputy Provost and five Vice-Provosts)
• E-portfolios• Microsoft Office 2003• O-Space
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V-P, Provost – Research (1)
• Repository of publications by academic staff focused on administrative functions (especially within major committees and task forces) – academic computing, academic technology and new media, academic planning
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V-P, Provost – Research (2)
• Another way of presenting university research• Less re-invention of the wheel• Less replication of data• Benefit to other universities reviewing their
administrative processes • Potential for province-wide initiative of
comparable documents• Library sees a somewhat different community
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E-portfolios
• early days
• activity reports, CVs
• links to citations
• use of other programs, such as RefWorks
• RSS
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Microsoft Office 2003
• Research pane
• Integration of resources
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O-Space
• Background – acronym alert
• 3 initiatives within O-Space
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OCUL/OII
• Ontario Council of University Libraries• Ontario Information Infrastructure (not to be
confused with Ontario Innovation Trust – OIT)• Ontario Scholars Portal
http://scholarsportal.info• RACER (“rapid access to collections by
electronic requesting”) (VDX)
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O-Space (1)
• learning object repository
• CORIL
• https://ospace.scholarsportal.info/
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O-Space (2)
• repository for Ontario government publications in electronic form
• Scholarsportal – storage and delivery• Ontario Legislative Library - metadata• terms still to be finalized• Walkerton Inquiry – electronic copy was
removed (now restored) from government Web site
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O-Space (3)
• Option for any OCUL member to create their own IR
• Using existing infrastructure
• Some institutions may have collections in both their IR and O-Space, since objects can reside in more than 1 IR simultaneously
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O-Space (4)
• Potential for cartographic files
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Some URLs of interest
• DSpace http://www.dspace.org
• T-Space http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca
• O-Space http://ospace.scholarsportal.info
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The T-Space Team
• Peter Clinton [email protected]• Rea Devakos [email protected]• Gabriela Mircea [email protected]• Frank Rotiroti [email protected]• Kent Weaver [email protected]
• The T-Space communities
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Herding Cats? or
• In a sense, this is what we do.
• We bring together information, ideas, and technologies
• and make them go where you want.
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Shepherding Communities?
• Institutional Repositories
• This is what we do• We bring together
communities and their collections, promote their discovery, and make them accessible
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Thank you