Several institutions in Germany run DSpace installations. They all have common problems, g.e. automatic delivery of some items to the German National Library. This page (and it's sub-pages) are used to coordinate their collaboration on common German specific problems.

Resources

Mailing List

There is a German DSpace mailing list. If you have questions on how to use DSpace or how to resolve problems, please prefer to write to dspace-tech mailing list. Most probably you will get an answer much faster on dspace-tech then on the very much smaller German mailing list. If you have questions, tips or ideas dealing with problems specific for running a DSpace installation in Germany, then the German DSpace mailing list is the one of choice.

German DSpace User Group Meetings

There were several DSpace user group meetings in Germany some years ago. After a break of several years the Technische Universität Berlin invited to a German DSpace User Group Meeting in 2014 (see bellow) to restart the collaboration within Germany.

• 2014: See German DSpace User Group Meeting 2014
• 2015: A meeting in Tübingen is planned, probably in April or May 2015. Further information will follow as soon as possible.

Topics

Automatic delivery of "Netzpublikationen" and "Elektronische Disserationen" to the German National Library

The German National Library collects several digital publications within Germany. Public academic institutions must deliver those publications. The German National Library offers to collect those publications using OAI-PMH using the format XMetaDissPlus. In this section information will follow on how to support this format using DSpace and its oai module.

Persistent Identifier using urn:nbn:de

Beside handle and DOIs there are other persistent identifier systems. The German National Library supports URN:NBN:DE for several years now. Some years ago it was mandatory to use URN:NBN:DE to deliver doctoral thesis and other digital publications (see above) to the German National Library. This changed! The German National Library accepts Handles or DOIs as well. If you want to you still can generate and register URNs, but this will need some changes within DSpace. There are several implementations to use URN:NBN:DE together with DSpace, but there is no implementation yet that uses the Identifier Service which came up with DSpace 3. Please ask on the German DSpace Mailing list if you have further interest in this topic. Please feel free to add information here about using urn:nbn:de together with DSpace if you're able to.