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• Meet DSpace - watch a 5 minute overview video
• Splash Around - visit the DSpace demo site to play with the current release
• DSpace FAQ's - see answers to common quetions
• Terminology - translation for common terms 

Table of Contents:

Section 1:  Introduction to DSpace

What is DSpace

• What is DSpace
• What can DSpace be used for
• What are the benefits of using DSpace
• How does DSpace work

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• What help is available from the DSpace community
• What help is available as part of the DSpace software
• How to deal with Internal Server Errors produced by the DSpace system
• What help is available from service providers  

Section 2:  Installation & Set-Up

Getting Started with DSpace 

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• How does DSpace use version numbers
• What is the upgrade path 
• How to upgrade a DSpace installation from version X.X. to X.Y.

Section 3:  User Interface Basics

Understanding  and Creating Communities & Collections

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DSpace Access Controls and Rights

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Browsing & Searching DSpace

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Editing your DSpace Profile

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Section 4:  DSpace Administration

User Management and Authentication Options

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• Metadata Authority Control
• Adding a Custom Metadata Schema or Custom Metadata Fields
• Understand which part of the submission process can be customized
• Understand field types and definitions
• Modify the DSpace submission process

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Enabling RSS Feeds

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• Know how the RSS feeds work in DSpace
• Be able to set up and understand email alerts
• Know how to edit the news on the front page
• Edit the news on the front page

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• Understand what persistent identifiers are, how they work and the benefits to using them in a DSpace repository environment
• Understand what a handle is – the persistent identifier currently used in DSpace
• Have an overview of how to apply for a handle
• Have seen a handle in use
• Understand how to set up the handle server

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Basics of customizing your Item Submission Process

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• Understand the purpose of workflows
• Be able to describe the three different workflows available in DSpace and when each might be used
• Be able to create, modify or remove a workflow step from a collection
• Create a workflow, submit an item into the collection with the workflow, and complete the workflow

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• Add a new Metadata field to browse by:

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Section 5:  Customization

SP -Look and Feel Customization

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Enabling OAI-PMH / SWORD / LNI

Section 6: Advanced Features

Advanced Administration Tasks

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• Understand how DSpace uses LDAP for authentication
• Be able to configure a DSpace instance to authenticate against an LDAP server
• Know which tools to use and how to use them in order to test LDAP connection issues

Using the Checksum Checker (why/how)

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Harvesting Content from an external source via OAI-PMH or OAI-ORE

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Using DSpace with DuraCloud?

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