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- Do we need two platforms? DSpace & Fedora
- Need to see if the 3-5 yr "visions" overlap for the platforms. Think of as a venn diagram - may be a lot of overlap or little
- Would be important to the University Librarians - need a message as to why give to one or both. Show that we've analyzed whether merging platforms is worthwhile
- Types of DSpace institutions
- Institutions who are essentially happy with DSpace as out-of-the-box IR
- Institutions who are stretching the boundaries of DSpace
- Faculty wanting something easier to use, "flashier". Even building their own tools, using other (non-preservation) system
- "In between" - like the simplicity but want "flashier" interface, similar
- Is there a common vision for DSpace? (even amongst our small group)
- In many ways it has morphed from it's initial use case that is was built for
- Should it be a generic digital repository, or concentrate on solving just IR / preservation repository?
- Institutional Visions / Use Cases
- Institution #1 - Lots of integration points & access - less about preservation
- DSpace is free, relatively robust. Large User community.
- End user deposit. published & unpublished content
- Managing diverse research output (ORCIDs). Data with access controls. Digital Collection & Mgmt)
- Research info mgmt systems. Needs good integration points
- Integrates into a different digital preservation.
- Streaming server, stats module were added as they went
- "Killer App" = E-Theses. Harder stuff is images/video.
- Institution #2 - Started small and simple, constantly expanding
- Initial decision was it is open source. Philosophy to support OS
- Capturing university output
- Getting to streaming servers
- "In between group" - like ease of use. Small library - students used to do input
- Migration of some content from ContentDM to DSpace. Having requests to extend DSpace to add some ContentDM features
- Feeding publications (university publishing) direct to DSpace
- Getting data in and out easily
- Went with Islandora for a Digital Library solution (better "Digital library" product than DSpace).
- Question has come up whether to use Islandora instead of DSpace for some content
- Possibility: Using DSpace as a true "preservation repository" and feeding content to Islandora (or similar)
- Positives outweigh the negatives at this point. But, how many systems can they really support amongst digital library / IR services?
- "DSpace with a lot of 'hooks' on it" - could solve a lot of use cases with good integration points. But, shifts focus to of spending staff time integrating and supporting a larger suite of software. - Tito
- Institution #1 - Lots of integration points & access - less about preservation
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