1st DSpaceUser Group MeetingMarch 10-11, 2004

William J Nixon,Project Manager (Service Development) DAEDALUS

Putting Eprints Software into the User Community23 June 2004

Objective

“…to bring together the research and other communities to share experiences and discuss the future developments of the DSpace platform and Federation of adopters.”

Range of Presentations

• Day One– Presentations from implementers and users of

DSpace– Range of specialised presentations on tech issues

as well as policy and metrics

• Day Two– Broader issues– DSpace 1.2 demo and 2.x architecture– Discussion

Day One

• Wide range of institutions using DSpace including Toronto, Rochester and Cornell as well as Edinburgh and Glasgow

• Different tracks on areas including user studies, impact factors, scalable storage and persistent identifiers

Day Two

• Broader Issues– Creative Commons [and Licensing]– Global Digital Format Registry – Apache and OSS

• DSpace 1.2 and 2.0– A demo of DSpace 1.2– Proposed architecture for DSpace 2.0

• DSpace Federation Discussion

DSpace Discussion

• Key Questions– How best to sustain DSpace?– What is the best way to get to release 2.0

• Further Questions– What is DSpace?– Who are its stakeholders?– What other uses can be made of DSpace?

Summary

• “The DSpace platform is being put to a variety of uses”

• “The DSpace Federation is now open to all”• “…start thinking about the long-term governance of

DSpace outside of MIT or HP”• “Institutional Repositories are a high-value, long-term

vision, but are still very much works in progress”• “DSpace Federation will continue to foster new and

innovative uses of the DSpace platform”

User Group Meeting Summary and Outcomes, dspace.org

Committers Group

• “ultimate responsibility for the shape of the DSpace software, its architecture and design going forward, and they can apply code changes contributed by the larger DSpace development community to the open source platform.”

• Initial membership of 5• All contributions will be part of the open source

software under the current BSD license

Further Information

• Meeting Summaryhttp://www.dspace.org/conference/meetingsummary.html

• DSpace User Group overviewhttp://www.dspace.org/conference/conference.html

• DSpace Federation Committers Grouphttp://www.dspace.org/federation/committers.html