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June 11 - 12, 2008 ,
8:00 a.m. (W) - 12:00 p.m. (Th)
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
For all librarians, faculty members, and instructional technologists from participating colleges who are interested in DSpace and want to share ideas and best practices for using the DSpace technology and help develop a rich community of practice focused on its use. (6 program units. Liaisons' deadline: Monday, March 3, 2008)
Participation in the NITLE DSpace User Community's online collaboration space and familiarity with DSpace as a user is recommended. To enroll in the online user community space, please contact Christina Richison.
The DSpace User Community will meet to exchange ideas and perspectives, share best practices and achievements, and aggregate energies related to the use of the DSpace technology in academic and other contexts, focusing on the small independent college community. Community users will explore ideas for collaboration, receive updates about the DSpace technology, and develop important peer contacts as part of developing a mutual support network around DSpace. Participants will learn from other participants about new DSpace developments, such as configurable submission workflows and Manakin. Participants will leave this meeting with a better understand the DSpace technology and how it can enhance their academic programs and operations.
Review the meeting agenda (.pdf, 75.39 KB).
Karen Estlund, Digital Collections Coordinator at the University of Oregon, was the keynote speaker for this meeting and spoke on "The Institutional Repository as a Digital Collection: The Inception and Future of the University of Oregon’s Scholars’ Bank." The University of Oregon’s Scholars’ Bank (institutional repository) began as a library initiative in early 2003 and has since become an important service for the campus community. The initiative began in response to the rising costs of academic journals and the scholarly communication crisis. In the first year, it became apparent that Scholars’ Bank (along with other institutional repositories across the nation) would not solve the crisis but could become a force in creating a new model for scholarly communication. Initial efforts involved the investigation of relevant issues and the creation of documentation and policies addressing: background of the open access movement, local context, content submission, copyright and licensing, and anticipated frequently asked questions. Scholars’ Bank was built on the DSpace software infrastructure, and the DSpace instance has grown to nearly 5,000 items, representing over 70 DSpace communities. Scholar’s Bank includes four uniquely oriented parent collections including: the institutional repository, UO Reports and Documentation (part of the University Archives), the Local and Regional Document Archives, and Renaissance Editions (full text editions of English Renaissance texts). Five years later, as DSpace has undergone enhancements (such the Manakin templating system) and other text-based digital collections are growing, we are re-evaluating the system infrastructure, interface, staffing resources, and collection development policy for Scholars’ Bank and our other digital collections. By treating Scholars’ Bank as a digital collection, we are enforcing a sustainable infrastructure.
Presentation materials from some of our other presenters:
Interested faculty and staff from participating colleges: To participate in this meeting, please contact your campus liaison. Your campus liaison will select your campus's nominees and send their names to NITLE. Nominees will receive further information from NITLE about the registration process.
Interested participants responding to the DSpace/NITLE collaboration offer: Please contact Christina Richison at christina.richison@nitle.org to participate. When contacting Christina, please refer to the NITLE/DSpace Foundation collaboration.
For more information about this meeting's specific program/content, please contact Christina Richison.
For logistical questions, please contact Terri Coahran.
Participation in this event is designed for teams of two participants representing diverse roles: e.g., a librarian and an instructional technologist. Participation is limited to up to two attendees per campus.
Please note that participation in this event is open to all NITLE participating colleges interested in DSpace, regardless their enrollment status in NITLE's DSpace Pilot Service.
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