Recent News

The most recent DSpace News and Announcements can be found at http://www.dspace.org/

Archived News (2002-2007)

DSpace in the News

Since its launch in late 2002, DSpace has attracted attention and press coverage from academic and mainstream press.

2007

• DSpace How-To Guide: tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores (Now serving DSpace 1.4.2 and Manakin 1.1)
  Donohue, Timothy G.
  Phillips, Scott A.
  from "Making DSpace Your Own" tutorial at JCDL 2007 conference
  (Slides and additional materials also available)
• Configurable Submission System for DSpace
  Donohue, Timothy G.
  presented at Open Repositories 2007 conference

2006

• ASRC Subject Codes for DSpace
  Wallis, Corey
  RUBRIC, 2006

• Building a Distributed, Standards-based Repository Federation : the China Digital Museum Project
  Tansley, Robert
  In: D-Lib Magazine 12.2006 (7/8)
  doi:10.1045/july2006-tansley

• Building on Success Scenario Template : DSpace institutional repository at Washington University School of Medicine
  Schoening, Paul

• Chemistry in DSpace
  Downing, Jim
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Customizing and adapting the DSpace package in the context of cultural heritage
  Cesarano, Marco
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Customizing DSpace for a large research university
  Droogmans, Lieven
  Bosman, Ben
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Deep Blue/DSpace Usability Summary
  Ottaviani, Jim

• Development of usage statistics for RepositóriUMRodrigues, Eloy
  Miranda, Angelo
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Digital Sustainability and Digital Repositories
  Bradley, Kevin
  VALA2006

• Distributing Repository functions with DSpace
  Jones, Richard
  DSpace UK&I User Group meeting 24th November 2006

• DSpace : evolution from an Intelligent Design
  Bollini, Andrea
  Meschini, Federico
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• DSpace AddOn and Component Management System
  Jones, Richard
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• DSpace Architecture Review Meeting
  Jones, Richard
  DSpace UK&I User Group meeting 24th November 2006

• DSpace @ the University of Calgary : a digital library of gambling-related publications
  Stevens, Rhys
  JGI:Issue 17, August 2006

• DSpace How-To Guide : tips and tricks for managing common DSpace chores
  Donohue, Tim
  Salo, Dorothea
  presented at Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

• DSpace METS Document Profile for Submission Information Packages (SIP)
  Wolfe, Robert
  Reilly, William

• Export, Import and Backup in DSpace
  Prasad, A. R. D.

• Federating DSpace
  Rutherford, Jim
  DSpace UK&I User Group meeting 24th November 2006

• Federation and Community UpdateWalker, Julie
  Morgan, Peter
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Implementing LOM Schema in DSpace
  Prasad, A. R. D.
  presented at DRTC Conference on ICT for facilitating Digital Learning Environment, Bangalore, India, 11-13 January, 2006

• The implementation of DSpace at universities in Sweden
  Gilbert, Jonas
  Nilen, Peter
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Improving the ETD submission process through automated author self contribution using DSpace
  Hemminger, Bradley
  Fox, Jackson
  Ni, Mao
  Proceedings of Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations

• Inside, outside, where have we been? : the Who of DSpace development in Trinity College Dublin (along with the why, the what and the how)
  Brennan, Niamh
  Lyons, Donal
  DSpace UK&I User Group meeting 24th November 2006

• Institutional Repositories for Research Assessment (IRRA) project
  Knowles, Claire
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• IUScholarWorks : technical overview
  Floyd, Randall

• Making DSpace your own
  Donohue, Tim
  Salo, Dorothea
  2006

• MIT's CWSpace project : packaging metadata for archiving educational content in DSpace
  Reilly, William
  Wolfe, Robert
  Smith, MacKenzie
  International Journal on Digital Libraries 6. 2006, 2 pp 139-147
  doi:10.1007/s00799-005-0131-2

• OAI-PMH and METS for automated export of items from DSpace
  Lewis, Stuart D.
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Open Content and the Emerging Global Meta-University
  Vest, Charles M.

• Open Repository : hosted Dspace solution from BioMed Central
  Josserand, Marianne
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Open Repository : Hosting DSpace as a Saleable Service
  Merifield, Mark
  DSpace UK&I User Group meeting 24th November 2006

• Psepheda : DSpace at University of Macedonia Library & Information Centre
  Chantavaridou, Elisavet
  Banos, Vangelis
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Repositórios Institucionais em Ciéncia e técnologia uma Experiéncia de customicao do DSpace
  VIANA, C. L. M.
  MÁRDERO ARELLANO, M. A.
  SHINTAKU, M.
  3º Simpósio Internacional de Bibliotecas Digitais, Sao Paulo

• Technical Introduction To and Initial Use Of the Lightweight Network Interface (LNI)
  Reilly, William
  presented at the April 2006 DSpace User Group Meeting, Bergen

• Thanks Google : a love/hate relationship
  Lewis, Stuart D.
  DSpace UK&I User Group meeting 24th November 2006

• Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) : Integrating Texts and Images in DSpace with GIS and Teaching Resources
  Spiro, Lisa
  Wise, Marie
  presented at Digital Humanities 2006

• U-M Library launches Deep Blue : more access to U-M scholarship

• Using DSpace to administer an ETD program : The Drexel experience
  Janick, Stephen
  McLaughlin, Tom
  Proceedings of Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations

2005

• The Australian National University: DSpace Testbed Program
  Raftos, Peter

• Building a Digital Archive : a Dutch Experience
  Horsman, Peter
  Pompe, Klaartje
  RLG Diginews, 15 Dec 2005, Feature Article 2

• Cooperative Technology : Making institutional repositories and course management systems work together
  Jones, Carl
  Brophy, Ben
  Small Tools, Big Ideas October 7, 2005

• DSpace Evaluation
  Lorig, Jonathan
  Metadata Review Group Meeting, 2005

• The DSpace Open Source Digital Asset Management System : challenges and Opportunities.
  Tansley, Robert
  Smith, MacKenzie
  Walker, Julie H.
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3652: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 9th European Conference, ECDL 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 18-23, 2005. Proceedings'' pp. 242-253.
  doi:10.1007/11551362_22

• Eternal Bits how can we preserve digital files and save our collective memory?
  Smith, MacKenzie
  IEEE Spectrum, 2005, 7

• Exploring Strategies for Digital Preservation for DSpace@Cambridge
  Carpenter, Grace
  Downing, Jim
  Proceedings of the Archiving 2005 Conference, Society for Imaging Science and Technology, April 2005.

• The Fading Memory of the State
  Talbot, David
  In:Technology Review, 2005, 7
  See Simson Garfinkel's sidebar called MIT's DSpace Explained.

• HP News Release
  about using DSpace as a digital library for educational TV programming in India

• Improving DSpace@OSU with a Usability Study of the ET/D Submission Process
  Boock, Michael
  Ariadne, 2005, 45

• Notes about possible technical criteria for evaluating institutional repository (IR) software
  Powell, Andy
  UKOLN, 2005

• Open Source Software in der Archivierung
  Jeggle, Christoph

• 'Opening' A Digital Library
  Villano, Matt
  Campus Technology, 2005, 9

• StoneD : A Bridge between Greenstone and DSpace
  Witten, Ian H.
  Bainbridge, David
  Tansley, Roberty
  Huang, Chi-Yu
  Don, Katherine J.
  D-Lib Magazin 11. 2005, 9

2004

• Bringing hidden treasures to light : illuminating DSpace
  Sullivan, Shirley
  Horwood, Lynne
  Garner, Jane
  Young, Eve
  Vala2004

• Building On Our Strengths: Digital Archiving, Preservation and Access
  Report of the Digital Archiving, Preservation and Access Task Force, 2004

• DSpace : a Year in the Life of an Open Source Digital Repository System
  Smith, MacKenzie
  Rodgers, Richard
  Walker, Julie
  Tansley, Robert
  In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3232, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, pp 38-44
  doi:10.1007/b100389
  ISBN 978-3-540-23013-7

• DSpace at the University of Oregon Library
  Johnson, J. Q.
  Online NOrthwest, 2004

• DSpace for E-Print Archives
  Smith, MacKenzie
  HEP Libraries Webzine Issue 9 / February 2004

• Google and DSpace launch joint project
  Open Acces Now, May 10, 2004

• A Guide to Institutional Repositories Software 3rd ed.
  Crow, Raym
  Open Society Institute, 2004

• The Tapir : adding E-Theses Functionality to DSpace
  Jones, Richard
  Ariadne. Issue 41, October 2004

• Institutional Repositories in the context of Digital Preservation
  Wheatley, Paul
  Digital Preservation Coalition, 2004

• Selecting an Open Source Digital Repository (DSpace)
  To Have & to Hold: Metadata & Institutional Repositories RLG Forum, April 7, 2004

• Technically Speaking : an Interview With Robert Tansley, Lead Developer Of The DSpace Project
  Tansley, Robert
  Computer Power User, 2004, 12

• Use a Shoehorn or Design a Better Shoe: Co-Design of a University Repository
  Lindahl, David
  Foster, Nancy Fried

2003

• Beating "bit rot"
  Tansley, Robert
  HP Labs Featured Inventor article, June 2004.

• Building a Business Plan for DSpace, MIT Libraries' Digital Institutional Repository
  Barton, Mary R.
  Walker, Julie Harford
  Journal of Digital Information, volume 4 issue 2, 2003-05-07

• DAEDALUS : Initial experiences with EPrints and DSpace at the University of Glasgow
  Nixon, William
  IAriadne, 2003, 37
  ISSN: 1361-3200
• DSpace: an Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository
  Smith, MacKenzie
  Barton, Mary
  Bass, Mick
  Branschofsky, Margret
  McClellan, Greg
  Stuve, Dave
  Tansley, Robert
  Walker, Julie H.
  D-Lib Magazine, Volume 9 Number 1, January 2003

• DSpace: preserving Digital Data for the Ages
  From HP Labs news, August 2003

• DSpace and ETD-db Comparative Evaluation
  Richard, Jones
  Edinburgh University Library, 2003

• DSpace as an Open Archival Information System : current Status and Future Directions
  Tansley, Robert
  Bass, Mick
  Smith, McKenzie
  doi:10.1007/b11967
  Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries LNCS 2769. pp. 446-460
  ISBN 978-3-540-40726-3

• The DSpace Institutional Digital Repository System : current Functionality
  Tansley, Robert
  Bass, Mick
  Stuve, David
  Branschofsky, Margret
  Chudov, D.
  McClellan, G.
  Smith, MacKenzie
  Marshall, C., Henry, G. and Delcambre, L., Eds.
  Proceedings 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, pp. 87-97.

• Evolving Metadata Needs for an Institutional Repository: MIT's DSpace
  Branschofsky, Margret
  Lubas, Rebecca
  Smith, MacKenzie
  Williams, Sarah
  Dublin Core Conference, 2003

• Great data, but will it last? Spedding, Vanessa
  Reserach Information, Spring 2003

• In DSpace, Ideas Are Forever
  Marx, Vivien
  The New York Times August 3, 2003

• A journey into DSpace
  Smith, MacKenzie
  Open Acces Now, October 20, 2003

• http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/conferences/etd2003/glavash-keith/Prt-PDF/index.pdf MITs DSpace : a good fit for ETDs
  Branschofsky, Margret
  Glavash, Keith
  Proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations

• Phoenix rising : new models for the research monograph?
  Steele, Colin
  Learned Publishing (2003)16, pp 111-122

• Scholar-Based Initiatives in Publishing
  McKiernan, Gerry
  Science & Technology Libraries, Volume: 22 Issue: 3/4

2002

• DSpace
  MacKenzie, Smith
  Forum Preservation of e-Learning Materials and Cost Models for Digital Preservation, 2002
• E-Publish or Perish Der vernetzte Weg zur Freien Wissenschaft
  Krempl, Stefan
  c't 18/2002, S. 84