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• Topics regarding Installation/Setup: (Potential for an early topic to complete, with a paragraph example)
  • Installing DSpace for the First Time - What you need to plan for, how to do it.
    • install/set up process (paragraph descriptor only w/references and future plans)
    • no great "how to install" presentations or tutorials available currently, the best we have are some various Install Tips wiki pages:
      • Hints/Tips Installation page which provides examples of installing DSpace on various OSes 
      • Official Installation Docs
  • Overview of DSpace Interface Options (XMLUI, JSPUI, OAI, SWORD, LNI) - What to choose and how to make a decision 
    • Making DSpace XMLUI Your Own (2009 presentation by Tim) 
    • Learning to Use Manakin (2007 presentation by Scott Phillips)
    • Various XMLUI How-Tos at: XMLUI How To Guides. Ones most appropriate for an "intro to XMLUI" include: 
      • Manakin theme tutorial 
      • Create a new theme (Manakin) 
      • Install a theme (Manakin) 
      • Manakin Themes and Recipes 
      • Create a new aspect (Manakin) 
      • Install an Aspect (Manakin)
  • Overview of DSpace directories & where data is stored in DSpace (high-level architecture overview).
  • Basic Configuration options – intro to the 'config' directory
  • Feature Overview
  • Intro to Upgrading DSpace
• Topics about getting started with UI Basics:
  • Overview of Communities & Collections - Create your first Community, Create your first Collection
  • Getting started with Adding Users / Groups
  • Getting started with DSpace Access Controls / Rights
  • Submit your first Item
  • Browsing & Searching DSpace
  • Editing your DSpace Profile, email notifications, etc.
• DSpace Administration:
  • Managing Content:
    • Administration options for Communities / Collections / Items (may need to be several webinars)
    • Changing Rights/Permissions on a Community / Collection / Item
    • Withdrawing / Deleting / Editing Items
    • "Mapping" / Linking Items to multiple Collections/Communities
    • Editing or Deleting Communities or Collections
    • Batch Metadata Editing
    • Metadata Authority Control
    • Adding a Custom Metadata Schema or Custom Metadata Fields
    • Enabling RSS Feeds
    • Improving your Indexing by Google / Google Scholar / Other Search Engines
  • Changing the UI or enabling optional features:
    • Intro to Handle Server?
    • Basics of customizing your Item Submission Process (change metadata fields, steps, etc)
    • Change "Browse By" options (add a new Metadata field to browse by)
    • Managing DSpace Access Statistics
    • Changing Header/Footer
    • Basic Intro to XMLUI Themes (Potential for an early topic to complete)
    • Adding "Discovery" (faceted browsing/searching)
    • Enabling Embargoing of content in Submission process
    • Enabling Creative Commons Licensing options in Submission process
    • Enabling OAI-PMH / SWORD / LNI (may need separate webinars)
  • Advanced Administration Tasks
    • Exporting/Importing bulk content
    • Backing up your DSpace instance
    • Scaling your DSpace instance / hints on improving performance
    • Migrating / Moving from one server to another
    • Moving / Copying one Community/Collection to another DSpace (via AIPs)
    • Curation Tasks
    • Configuring Media Filters (for file indexing and thumbnails)
    • Hooking DSpace up to your local Institution Authentication (LDAP, Shibboleth, etc)
    • Using the Checksum Checker (why/how)
    • Harvesting Content from an external source via OAI-PMH or OAI-ORE
    • Using DSpace with DuraCloud?

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