Lee Library Information Systems Task List
DSpace

Description: Next possible DSpace Users
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 50 Task ID: 793
Long Description:
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 7/30/2004
Changed: 3/17/2005  
1/25/2005 Richard Culatta, the CSR of the School of Education, is interested. We need to contact Tom Wright and make an appointment to visit them.

Bill needs to meet with Mel Smith of the College of Humanities to see if there is any interest.

2/25/2005 Emailed Richard Culatta again.
3/2/2005 Presented with Randy Olsen to Deans' Council on Monday. Randy asked them to contact us if they are interested.
3/11/2005 Presented to the Scholarly Communications Committee.
3/17/2005 Met with Richard Jensen. We're going to develope the promotional materials with Mike Hooper then talk to other departments.
Description: Long-term consistent reference to documents
Projects: DSpace, Institutional Repository
Priority: 99 Task ID: 540
Long Description: One of the problems with digital documents is the long-term reference them in a way that is meaningful over a very long period of time. Although this may appear to be peripheral to the institutional repository, I think we need to deal with this topic now.
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 11/14/2003
Changed: 11/18/2004  
11/14/2003 There appear to be a number of solutions. CNRI's Public Handle System is one method being used by DSpace. Another is the Persistent URL (PURL).
3/30/2004 DSpace implemented the CNRI Handle System.
6/1/2004 This issue is closed for DSpace, but may still be an issue for the Institutional Repository in the long-term. I'm going to remove DSpace from the list of projects for which this is active, but retain it under the Institutional Repository and Documentum projects.
11/18/2004 I'd like to consider creating another Handle Server for the library and refer all URLs to the Handle Server for items in CONTENTdm.
Description: ECEn DSpace Agreement
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 99 Task ID: 881
Long Description: Now that we have an agreement form, we need to get ECEn to sign it.
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 1/31/2005
Changed: 1/31/2005  
Description: DSpace visible to Google
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 99 Task ID: 882
Long Description: Submit our DSpace instance to Google for indexing.
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 2/1/2005
Changed: 2/25/2005  
2/1/2005 Submitted the website to Google today. I noted that the front page is already visible to Google, but none of the content is. I wonder if we need to do something with the OAI interface?
2/24/2005 This became an issue at the AVP Council today. The front page is still visible, but none of the content. I've asked John Finlay to investigate this.
Description: WebFeat Connector for DSpace
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 99 Task ID: 889
Long Description: If we don't make DSpace visible, it won't be very useful. We need a WebFeat connector so that it can be searched.
Status: Open
Owner: Murdoch, Robert Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 2/25/2005
Changed: 2/25/2005  
2/25/2005 Asked Robert Murdoch to have the connector made.
Description: Create DSpace promotional package
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 99 Task ID: 893
Long Description: Randy asked that I work with Mike Hooper to come up with a promotional package for DSpace, which the special specialists can take to their departments.
Status: Open
Owner: Hooper, Mike Contributors: Jensen, Richard
Lund, Bill
Due: May 1, 2005 Opened: 3/15/2005
Changed: 3/17/2005  
3/17/2005 Mike Hooper has agreed to do this. I will meet with him for content. He will meet with Richard Jensen. The target is to be done by the first of May.
Description: Should we formally join the DSpace Federation?
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 120 Task ID: 861
Long Description: If we are going to use DSpace as an important tool to the mission of the Lee Library, we should consider formally joining the DSpace Federation.
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 11/29/2004
Changed: 3/2/2005  
11/29/2004 Should we also become a part of the "committers" group that can make changes to DSpace?
1/3/2005 It appears that the DSpace federation does not exist, but the committers group is still functioning. Being a committer has obligations to assist in further development. If we are really serious about DSpace long-term, this is probably a good idea.
1/25/2005 John is submitting the LDAP authentication back to DSpace.

Randy and Julene were open to the idea of formally supporting DSpace as part of the library's open source initiative.

3/2/2005 This will be discussed as a part of the larger Open Source issue.
Description: UALC DSpace
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 150 Task ID: 867
Long Description: The UALC directors expressed and interest in DSpace.
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 1/5/2005
Changed: 3/2/2005  
1/5/2005 There will be a meeting of the systems people interested in DSpace after the UALC systems committee meeting on 1/14.
1/14/2005 Notes from the meeting at the State Library:
Attending: USU, Eccles, UofU, BYU

Eccles: they reinstalled. Letting departments decide on what they would like to do. Links to digital collections. Faculty publications and presentations. Departmental publications, annual reports. Looking at publishers that allow authors to put up the final version of their documents. This is not the pdf of the publisher’s version. Will need to do the work for the submitters. They are looking at creating a batch utility for DSpace. This is possible, but is at the Unix prompt. They are looking at a better interface.

State Library: documents of the state agencies.

What is next? Poll the directors to see if there is a need for UALC presence. If so, then who is going to develop and support it, funding too. Until up and going with the projects, we may not be able to say what the value is. What are their expectations? Demo of what we’ve been able to do.

Demo what the three libraries are doing. I need to email to Ruth Hansen a report on what we have done. Met, shared info, mail list. In the summer issue invitation to view. Next meeting of DSpace working group after 5/6 meeting. Looking at authority control. Looking at batch loading. GWLA project wants a distributed repository, OAI responders and harvesters.

1/25/2005 Bill Lund sent the report to Ruth Ann Hansen.
3/2/2005 Lowering the priority of this task.
Description: DSpace Trouble Tickets
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 9998 Task ID: 742
Long Description:
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 6/1/2004
Changed: 9/13/2004  
6/1/2004 #7329 - After downloading, PDF documents are corrupted.
8/16/2004 #7329 - John writes: "I've finished making the changes to DSpace so that the title page is now added to the PDF documents when they are retrieved from the system. This also makes the pages more dynamic so that when we update the copyright statement or make other changes the title page will automatically change to reflect those changes.

I decided to delete all of the documents from the repository and start from scratch. So any old documents will need to be resubmitted."

9/13/2004 #8821 - Mozilla Firefox having difficulties connecting to DSpace.
Description: DSpace Project Meetings
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 9999 Task ID: 714
Long Description: Attendance at DSpace project meetings.
Status: Open
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors:
Due: TBD Opened: 3/30/2004
Changed: 3/17/2005  
12/20/2004 John Finlay, Bill Lund, Allyson Washburn
1/3/2005 John Finlay, Bill Lund, Ryan Price, Allyson Washburn
1/24/2005 John Finlay, Bill Lund, Ryan Price, Susie Quartey, Allyson Washburn - Next steps
1/31/2005 John Finlay, Bill Lund, Ryan Price, Susie Quartey, Allyson Washburn - Go for it
3/17/2005 John Finlay, Mike Hooper, Richard Jensen, Bill Lund - Promotional materials
Description: Investigate alternatives to internal coding of the ETD system.
Projects: Documentum, DSpace, ETD
Priority: 99 Task ID: 581
Long Description: Two products may provide similar features to the ETD system: DSpace and Documentum. We should investigate for release 4 whether either of these should be selected instead of coding our own project.
Status: Hold
Owner: Hold, Unowned Contributors:
Due: Version 4 Opened: 12/12/2003
Changed: 8/19/2004  
8/19/2004 DSpace is not an appropriate product. Although it supports a workflow, it is quite restricted and not as flexible as this project requires, at least as BYU has defined it. Documentum is still an unknown. At the point that Documentum is available to us, we will investigate its usefulness as an ETD tool.
Description: DSpace usage statistics
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 99 Task ID: 820
Long Description: Dr. Beard writes: "is there anyway to keep track of how many times each publication is accessed?"
Status: Hold
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors: Price, Ryan
Due: TBD Opened: 9/10/2004
Changed: 3/2/2005  
11/29/2004 This issue was also one of the issues brought up at ASIS&T, showing the number of hits on the system and publicizing the top articles. John Finlay reported that there was no mechanism for this in DSpace, but Ryan Price said that the web server itself cold provide this information. This is similar to what we do with the usage page on ETD. This also brings up the question about where would be place this?
11/30/2004 Ryan is looking at the Handle server, which can track usage. It may also be possible to use Webilizer to display the output. There is an inconsistency between what Handle server outputs and what Webilizer wants. We should ask Jacob how he did the ETD usage stats.
1/3/2005 Ryan reports that there is difficulty with the handle server and the statistics that it should be collecting.
3/2/2005 I'm moving this to hold until I hear tht this is a big problem to someone. If I don't hear anything by June 1 I will close this.
Description: Add authority control to DSpace?
Projects: DSpace
Priority: 99 Task ID: 862
Long Description: One of the features that we could use, as well as others, is some type of authority control on a metadata field.
Status: Hold
Owner: Lund, Bill Contributors: Finlay, John
Due: TBD Opened: 11/29/2004
Changed: 3/2/2005  
11/29/2004 I asked Margret Branschofsky of MIT about this at the ASIS&T meeting. She mentioned the lack of authority control as a real problem in DSpace. Even author's names are inconsistent. She said that they have no plans to incorporate this into the product, but would be eager to see someone else do it. This may be an opportunity for us to add to the DSpace community.
12/13/2004 Talked with Joan Gregory of UofU and she thinks this is a good idea. There will be a UALC Systems committee meeting on this.
1/3/2005 John reports that OCLC is doing some work on authority control in DSpace. He will contact them to get more details.
1/25/2005 John found someone who has incorporated authority control into DSpace. They are submitting it to the DSpace project. John has it on the DSpace test server.
3/2/2005 Putting this on hold for now. I don't think that we'll worry about this until it becomes an issue.

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