DSpace: Durable Digital Documents

DSpace is a joint development project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Company. Its mission is to establish a library service to capture, distribute, and preserve the digital, intellectual output of the MIT community. We are developing a software platform for long-term digital content storage and preservation, and implementing this platform as a service of the Libraries

DSpace: Durable Digital Documents

The DSpace system for long-term management of institutional scholarly research repositories is now in use at the MIT Libraries; we will demonstrate the system and provide more information about its design, use at MIT, and other potential uses

The DSpace Institutional Digital Repository System: Current Functionality

In this paper we describe DSpaceâ¢, an open source system that acts as a repository for digital research and educational material produced by an organization or institution. DSpace was developed during two years’ collaboration between the Hewlett-Packard Company and MIT Libraries. The development team worked closely with MIT Libraries staff and early adopter faculty members to produce a âbreadth-first’ system, providing all of the basic features required by a digital repository service. As well as functioning as a live service, DSpace is intended as a base for extending repository functionality, particularly to address long-term preservation concerns. We describe the functionality of the current DSpace system, and briefly describe its technical architecture. We conclude with some remarks about the future development and operation of the DSpace system

Introducing unAPI

Several of us describe unAPI, a tiny HTTP API for serving information objects in next-generation web applications.http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue/48/chudnov-et-al/Keywords: Protocol, OAI-PMH, COinS, Information objects, HTTP API, UnAPI, Microformats, OpenUR

Animals as Sentinels of Bioterrorism Agents

Pets, wildlife, or livestock could provide early warning

code4lib Conference 2006, February 15, 2006 : morning session

Three 20 minute presentations given on the morning of Feb. 15, 2006 at the code4lib Conference at Oregon State University in the LaSells Stewart Center, Corvallis, Oregon.ERP options in an OSS World : Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications are considered some of the largest and most complex systems ever written, and support many of the functions that libraries associate with the acquisitions and processing side of their operations. The information retrieval layers of library systems receive a lot of attention with good reason, but there's also a body of standards and best practices for back office systems which libraries could benefit from as well. Open Source ERP systems offer options for libraries to take advantage of OMG standards and workflow engines, and this session will give an overview of some currently available ERP options. -- Connecting everything with and unAPI and OPA : unAPI is a simple-to-use, simple-to-implement API for web sites that allows rich object access and can be easily layered over existing services like Atom, OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, or SRU. OPA is a general-purpose identifier resolver that wraps API calls to heavily-used but incompatible web services like those from Amazon, Flickr, and Pubmed. -- WikiD : Ward Cunningham describes a wiki as the simplest online database that could possibly work. The cost of this simplicity is that wikis are generally limited to a single collection containing a single kind of record (viz. WikiMarkupLanguage records). WikiD extends the Wiki model to support multiple WikiCollections containing arbitrary schemas of XML records with minimal additional complexity. Furthermore, displays and services can be customized on a per-collection basis