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- DSpace Documentation and Training
- Environmental scan/Gather existing current documentation and training materials
- Discuss creation of DSpace documentation contributed by DCAT, for example, videos, tutorials and links to institutional LibGuides that cover DSpace.
We do have a DSpace YouTube account that can be used for Repository Manager Videos. https://www.youtube.com/user/dspacevideos (Tim can help upload videos and a playlist and/or a sub-channel can be created).
- Upcoming:
- 2019 DSpace North American User Group Meeting: Co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota and the Texas Digital Library, on September 23-24, 2019.
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If you can join the call, or are willing to comment on the topics submitted via the meeting page, please add your name, institution, and repository URL to the Call Attendees section below.
Meeting notes
Next Steps:
Use this Google doc for writing recommendations on reorganizing Guides & FAQs, training & support resources, etc.
Focus on DSpace 5, 6 and 7
Link from the release documentation (for DSpace 5, 6 and 7) to training and support resources
Suggested WIKI updates:
Suggested Website updates:
Currently the list of resources on https://duraspace.org/dspace/resources/ and the list of resources in the Resources drop-down in top navigation menu differ significantly which can be a source of confusion. Our recommendations are:
- Consolidate the list of resources to make sure that both menus refer to the same list
- Ensure that both lists have reference to the Wiki https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/ (main documentation page)
DCAT Doc gathering Pages:
Awesome DSpace https://github.com/DSpace-Labs/awesome-dspace
Outdated on DCAT wiki: Documentation Resources collected from DCAT Members
Existing Documentation and Training Materials:
DSpace website resources: https://duraspace.org/dspace/resources/
Official DSpace Documentation for releases: Documentation
- Example, DSpace 6.x Documentation
DSpace Home: Home
Guides and FAQs: Guides and FAQs
User FAQ: User FAQ
Technical FAQ: TechnicalFAQ
DSpace Mailing Lists: Mailing Lists
Training Material page on DSpace web site: https://duraspace.org/dspace/resources/training-materials/
DSpace Resources: DSpaceResources
COAR Repository Toolkit https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/
The DSpace Curator's Handbook: The DSpace Curator's Handbook
EIFL's playlist:
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Cornell University Library Repository Principles and Strategies Handbook https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/57034
Intellij 13 Setup for DSpace Development on Mac OS X
DSpace 6 Debugging with IntelliJ IDEA 15
- Format: youtube clip
- Audience: developers/tech staff
- Advantages: step by step, visual
- Disadvantages: should be ideally refreshed once a year, to ensure it stays up to date with recent IDEA versions and DSpace practices
- Format: self-service web application to learn more about SEO for your DSpace repository
- Audience: repository managers who already use DSpace
- Advantages: immediate learning/results
- Disadvantages: No extensive A to Z explanation, information is provided in smaller tidbits/advice
DSpace Advanced Policy Manager
- Format: youtube clip
- Audience: Repository managers who already use DSpace
- Advantages: point and click of a very specific feature, immediate learning
- Disadvantages:
For this one, I think it's a great example of making sure we make our features more intuitive to start from. If a user really needs a video like this to properly understand the feature, we haven't built the feature or the user interface clear enough. So even though the video serves a purpose right now, I really hope there's no need for videos like this for DSpace 7
Introduction to DSpace Webinar (2013)
- Format: recording of a webinar, ~20 min of prepared content + Q&A
- Audience: Aspiring repository managers / People with little to no prerequisite knowledge
- Advantages: overview, high level
- Disadvantages: not clearly described in metadata what's all covered in there. No one will land on this video looking for something specific, even though it's addressed
EIFL checklist: How to make your DSpace open access repository work really well
Other project examples:
Call Attendees
- Maureen Walsh (Ohio State University)
- Kimberly Chapman (University of Arizona) https://repository.arizona.edu
- Gail Steinhart Cornell University
- Anne Lawrence (Virginia Tech)
- Iryna Kuchma (EIFL)
- Claudio Cortese (4Science)
- Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto)
- Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri)