Introduction to DSpace
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The document introduces DSpace, an open-source software used for managing and preserving digital content, utilized by various institutions globally. It explains the structure of DSpace, including communities, collections, and items, along with metadata types important for effective data management. The document also highlights the DSpace community and collaboration aspects, emphasizing its widespread use in academia and beyond.
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Introduction to DSpace
- 1. Introduction to DSpace Iryna Kuchma OpenAccess Programme Manager Open Access and the Evolving Scholarly Communication Environment workshop, July 11, 2012, Makerere University www.eifl.net Attribution 3.0 Unported
- 3. Top Reasons toUse DSpace Largest community of users and developers worldwide Free open source software Completely customizable to fit your needs Used by educational, government, private and commercial institutions Can be installed out of the box Can manage and preserve all types of digital content
- 4. 1322 DSpace instancesin almost 100 countries worldwide http://www.dspace.org/whos-using- dspace
- 6. What does DSpacelook like? http://www.dspace.org/images/stories/dspace-diagram.pdf
- 12. The DSpace Community EachDSpace service is comprised of Communities – the highest level of the DSpace content hierarchy Communities may be: • Departments • Labs • Research Centres • Schools Each community contains descriptive metadata about itself and the collections contained within it
- 13. The DSpace Collection Eachcommunity in turn have collections which contain items or files Collections can belong to a single community or multiple communities (collaboration between communities may result in a shared collection) As with communities, each collection contains descriptive metadata about itself and the items contained within it
- 14. What is anitem? An item is made up of: – Metadata – Bundles (e.g. ORIGINAL / LICENCE / TEXT) – Bitstreams
- 15. What’s metadata? Metadata is"data about data", of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items. Metadata (sometimes written 'meta data') are used to facilitate the understanding, characteristics, and management usage of data. The metadata required for effective data management varies with the type of data and context of use (e.g. metadata about a title would typically include a description of the content, the author; in the context of a camera, where the data are the photographic image, metadata would typically include the date the photograph was taken and details of the camera settings (lens, focal length, aperture, shutter timing, white balance, etc.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata)
- 16. Types of metadata Theare two broad types of metadata 1. Descriptive metadata The title is “A brief history of time” 2. Administrative metadata The item was deposited on 28th May 2008 at 20:25
- 17. Encoding metadata Metadata isencoded using metadata schemas DSpace uses Dublin Core by default – Schema = ‘dc’ – Qualified Dublin Core – Elements • E.g. Title / Creator / Subject / Description – Qualifiers • E.g. Title.main / Title.subtitle / Title.series – E.g. dc.identifier.citation
- 19. Credits These slides havebeen produced re-using The DSpace Course by: – Stuart Lewis & Chris Yates – Repository Support Project http://www.rsp.ac.uk/ – Part of the RepositoryNet – Funded by JISC http://www.jisc.ac.uk/
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