• What is DSpace - why use DSpace? - not mktg piece, help audience understand what DSpace does (Potential for an early topic to complete)
  • what DSpace does really well and not so well
  • why would you chose DSpace vs. Fedora (same content as in Fedora version)

• Topics regarding Installation/Setup: (Potential for an early topic to complete, with a paragraph example)
  • Installing DSpace for the First Time - What you need to plan for, how to do it.
  • Overview of DSpace Interface Options (XMLUI, JSPUI, OAI, SWORD, LNI) - What to choose and how to make a decision
  • Overview of DSpace directories & where data is stored in DSpace (high-level architecture overview).
  • Basic Configuration options – intro to the 'config' directory
  • Feature Overview
  • Intro to Upgrading DSpace
• Topics about getting started with UI Basics:
  • Overview of Communities & Collections - Create your first Community, Create your first Collection
  • Getting started with Adding Users / Groups
  • Getting started with DSpace Access Controls / Rights
  • Submit your first Item
  • Browsing & Searching DSpace
  • Editing your DSpace Profile, email notifications, etc.
• DSpace Administration:
  • Managing Content:
    • Administration options for Communities / Collections / Items (may need to be several webinars)
    • Changing Rights/Permissions on a Community / Collection / Item
    • Withdrawing / Deleting / Editing Items
    • "Mapping" / Linking Items to multiple Collections/Communities
    • Editing or Deleting Communities or Collections
    • Batch Metadata Editing
    • Metadata Authority Control
    • Adding a Custom Metadata Schema or Custom Metadata Fields
    • Enabling RSS Feeds
    • Improving your Indexing by Google / Google Scholar / Other Search Engines
  • Changing the UI or enabling optional features:
    • Intro to Handle Server?
    • Basics of customizing your Item Submission Process (change metadata fields, steps, etc)
    • Change "Browse By" options (add a new Metadata field to browse by)
    • Managing DSpace Access Statistics
    • Changing Header/Footer
    • Basic Intro to XMLUI Themes (Potential for an early topic to complete)
    • Adding "Discovery" (faceted browsing/searching)
    • Enabling Embargoing of content in Submission process
    • Enabling Creative Commons Licensing options in Submission process
    • Enabling OAI-PMH / SWORD / LNI (may need separate webinars)
  • Advanced Administration Tasks
    • Exporting/Importing bulk content
    • Backing up your DSpace instance
    • Scaling your DSpace instance / hints on improving performance
    • Migrating / Moving from one server to another
    • Moving / Copying one Community/Collection to another DSpace (via AIPs)
    • Curation Tasks
    • Configuring Media Filters (for file indexing and thumbnails)
    • Hooking DSpace up to your local Institution Authentication (LDAP, Shibboleth, etc)
    • Using the Checksum Checker (why/how)
    • Harvesting Content from an external source via OAI-PMH or OAI-ORE
    • Using DSpace with DuraCloud?

From The DSpace Course (RSP/Stuart Lewis)

The DSpace Course - Stuart Lewis and Chris Yates - August 2008
An Introduction to DSpace
How to Get Help
Repository Structure
Items in DSpace
An Introduction to Users and Groups
An Introduction to Metadata in DSpace
Technical Basic
Identifiers
DSpace Configuration
User management and authentication options
Metadata Input Customisation
Look and Feel Customisation
Language Customisation
Item Submission Workflows
Import and Export
RSS Feeds, Alerts and News
DSpace Statistics and Google Analytics
Configuring LDAP
Upgrading from 1.4. to 1.5
SWORD Basics
Course templates