Transcript DSpace: An Institutional Repository for Cornell Marcy E

Digital Repositories for
Scholarly Output
Marcy E. Rosenkrantz
Director of Library Systems
What is an Institutional
Repository?
• A place for the storage and retrieval of
informal publications, datasets, technical
reports, course materials, etc.
• Material in the repository can be searched,
browsed and retrieved by others.
• An electronic archive, if so designed
• Cornell has 2 institutional repositories:
Techreports and DSpace
Techreports and DSpace
• Techreports:
http://techreports.library.cornell.edu
– Supporting software developed at Cornell,
initially at CS with further development at the
Library for a variety of purposes. DPubS
• DSpace software developed at MIT library
– New functionality contributed by DSpace
Federation members
– Open source code
DSpace’s Organizational
Structure
Community X
Community Y
... Community Q
Collection A
Collection B
Digital Object 1
Digital Object 2
...Digital Object n
bitstream video
...bitstream dataset
May be open or closed
bitsream pdf
...Collection M
CUL DSpace Server
• http://dspace.library.cornell.edu
• Sun Fire V480 Server @ 900 MHz, 4 GB
memory, 2-36GB internal disks, 2 power
supplies
• Dual Fibre Channel network adapter
communicating with a SAN (‘tier 3’
storage)
• Backup and Recovery system in place
Current Communities and Collections
• CU East Asia Papers
– Dance in the No Theater
• Dance in the No Theater, Volume 3, Dance
Patterns
• Cornell Theses
– Communities for Physics and Bio and Environmental
Engineering
• Open and closed collections for Masters Theses and PhD
Dissertations
• Open collections for Professional Degree Reports in BEE
– More planned for Jan. 2004
Let’s Take a Look
• Search and Browse
– http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/
• Now lets add a file
– http://dspace-test.library.cornell.edu
– It may look complicated, but it’s not.
Want to start a Community in
DSpace?
• Things to think about
– Name, customization (content, logo, etc.)
– Collection names and customization
– Groups—who do you want to be able to add Digital
Objects to each collection—names and e-mail
addresses
– Workflow steps—approval process?
• Faculty, Staff and Researchers can send e-mail to:
– [email protected]
Upcoming Features
• Full text searching
• Sub-communities—finer grained
organization
• Possibly Metadata for bitsreams
• Local administration of communities
Born digital or not…
• If you or your center or department has
material like annual reports, course
material, conference proceedings that are
not in an electronic format contact
[email protected] or visit the DCAPS
booth for information about services
available to convert your content to a
suitable electronic format.