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Moving DSpace Forward

Dr Robert TansleyDigital Media Systems Department, HP

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Talk Overview

• DSpace yesterday and today

• A view of DSpace moving forward

• Upcoming in DSpace 1.4 and beyond

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DSpace yesterday and today

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The Origins of DSpace• Problem of a long-term home for born-digital

material identified by HP Labs and MIT Libraries

• Vision: Learn by doing it…− Build a simple functioning system− Start ingesting and managing content

• …and build a community to make it better− Open source approach to encourage adoption, enable

researchers and developers to enhance− The system and our knowledge continues to improve!

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DSpace Timeline

Jul 20052nd user group meeting

140 attendees, 22 countries

Nov 2002 - Mar 2004HP/MIT development;

community support

Nov 2002DSpace 1.0 Released

Mar 2004First user group meeting

120 attendees, 7 countries

Apr 2004Committer group formed

Mar 2005DSpace workshopBangalore, India

Mar 2006Governance advisory

board meeting

Open Source communityresearch/development

Mar 2004 -

Feb 06DSpace UG

meeting, Sydney

Nov 2000 - Nov 2002HP-MIT development of DSpace 1.0

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DSpace Today• 35,000 downloads since 1.0

• 125 registered deployments− Sizes ranging from a few dozen to 110,000 items

• Contains code from nearly 60 developers• ~850 subscribers to general list• ~650 subscribers to main technical list

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Current Uses• Majority “Institutional Repositories”

− Documents, “learning objects”, primary data, images, video

• Government Organisations− Superior Court of Justice in Brazil− Kansas State Library, Kansas State Historical

Society− Los Alamos National Labs

• Corporate internal use− HP Labs!

• Research Platform

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Countries with DSpace Deployments• Australia• Belgium• Brazil• Canada• Chile• China• Colombia• Costa Rica• Denmark• Finland• France

• Germany• Greece• Hong Kong• India• Ireland• Italy• Japan• Mexico• Namibia• Netherlands• Norway

• Portugal• Russia• Singapore• South Africa• Spain• Sweden• Turkey• Taiwan• UK• USA

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Moving DSpace Forward:The Tasks Ahead

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· Testing/QA/bug fixing· Packaging (installers, language packs)· Technical documentation

Release Management

· End user tools and documentation· Statistics· Submission/workflow· Translations

End User Functionality

· Data model, metadata support, versioning· Federation· OAIS mapping/implementation· AIP specification, access/update mech’s· Representation Information, provenance

Repository Architecture

· Modularity, SOA· Performance at scale (e.g. server farms)· Messaging· Logging· Unit testing

Systems Engineering

· Attract funding· Engage resources for core development· Establish processes· Education· External representation (pubs, advocacy)

Communication

· Delegated administration· Collection management tools· Preservation tools (format migration)

Administration/Collection Mgmt

Functionality

Committer group

Current community focus

Some work; more needed

Some work; more needed

Need more here

Need more here

More help please!

Best practice

Innovate

Innovate

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Already in the Works

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Upcoming in DSpace 1.4• User interface improvements

− Browse by Subject (Indian Institute of Science)− Controlled vocabulary entry in submission (Universidade

do Minho)− Improved internationalisation (University of Cambridge;

Universitätsbibliothek Dortmund)− Community-contributed translations:

• Bahasa Indonesia• Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)• French• Galician• German• Hungarian• Japanese• Norwegian Bokmål• Portuguese (Portuguese and Brazilian)• Swedish

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Upcoming in DSpace 1.4• Improved modularity

− Plug-in manager (MIT)− Documented add-on mechanism (University of

Bergen and others)− “Stackable” authentication (MIT)

• Better Windows support (HP Labs)

• Scalability improvements (MIT)

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Upcoming in DSpace 1.4• Repository improvements

− Automated integrity checking (checksums) – (DSpace@Cambridge)

− RSS Feeds (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)− Support for multiple metadata schemas (not just DC)

(Eduworks)− Configure fields (DC or other) to use for browse, search

and display (HP Labs, Beihang University, University of Bergen)

− Pluggable SIP ingest/DIP dissemination (MIT)− Pluggable metadata crosswalks (XSLT or Java code) (MIT)− Exposing METS and MPEG-21 DIDL via OAI-PMH (enabling

resource harvesting/replication) (HP Labs, Beihang University, LANL)

− Use remote Handle Server (HP Labs, Beihang University)− Authorisation improvements (CILEA)

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Future developments (1.5+)• Web Services Interface (WebDAV & SOAP)• Messaging (JMS/ActiveMQ, or WS-notify)• METS AIP manifest generation + storage• Federation (metadata and content)• XML-based UI (Manakin, dev led by Texas

A&M)• Researcher Pages• More configurable submission UI• JHOVE integration• Anything else you come up with!

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Ongoing Research• Federation (China Digital Museum Project)

− HP Labs; China Ministry of Education; Beihang University

• Policy enforcement in data grid environments (Pledge)− MIT, UCSD Libraries, San Diego Supercomputer

Center

• Semantic Web - SIMILE• Preservation - DSpace@Cambridge

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Other developments• DSpace reaches 3rd birthday

• DSpace governance advisory board announced

• XML UI (Manakin) Working Group formed− Hopefully to be followed by others

• DSpace METS profile draft

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Summary• Great progress building an active

community around DSpace• New features coming thick and fast• Need more work on:

− Testing/QA− Systems engineering− Repository architecture− Collection management interfaces

• Poised to make DSpace a very powerful, sustainable platform

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Please get involved!• Test• Translate• Deploy• Experiment• Develop• Document• Support• Share experiences