Margret Branschofsky

DSpace at MIT: meeting the challenges

DSpace is a joint development effort by HP and MIT to establish an ele ctronic system that will enable MIT faculty and researchers to capture, preserve, manage, and disseminate their intellectual output, and that will enable the Institute to maintain its intellectual heritage. The effort further aims to facilitate sharing of intellectual content and metadata among institutions by minimizing barriers to adoption and federation. This brief paper describes the motivation behind the project, its goals, objectives, progress, and references to detailed definition & design materials.

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.

Foundations of digital libraries: Organizational & management issues. Sponsored by SIG DL, SIG MGT

Digital libraries are at a point in their progression where many have been well established. Furthermore, groups in the field have begun to develop best practices in areas such as digitization and metadata architecture. However, other areas have been less discussed, namely the organizational and management issues that digital libraries must address. These issues include staffing, collaboration among departments or institutions, budgeting, and the strategies that digital libraries use to ensure long-term sustainability for projects. Panelists in this session will discuss the strategies that they have used to meet the organizational and management needs of their digital library projects.

Digital library repository service planning and development

At its most basic, a repository is a digital resource panelists, all of whom have experience in the management and delivery system. In practical implementation of a repository system, will present issues implementation, a repository may contain diverse content in establishing and building varying types of repository characterized by heterogeneity of format and in the level services within a research library setting. of detail and format of descriptive metadata, be based The following issues will be discussed: upon wildly varying architectures, provide multiple levels of resource preservation, support a wide-ranging scope of discovery and delivery services in support of an institutions mission, and potentially provide the tools that allow effective use of its contents. The development of digital asset management tools, content workflows, and discovery interface with authentication and access controls is an expensive and time-consuming process that requires detailed planning and effective project management. Furthermore, as the distributed and local digital repository environment coalesces and its requirements become clearer, institutions will also undergo organizational change in significant ways to take on these management and delivery functions. The 0 0