http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5671 2013-03-16T06:16:09Z 2013-03-16T06:16:09Z http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/86479 2013-03-14T23:23:06Z 2009-05-17T00:00:00Z

Adding OAI-ORE Support to Repository Platforms The Texas Digital Library is a cooperative initiative of Texas universities. One of TDL’s core services is a federated collection of ETDs from its member schools. As this collection grew, the need for tools to manage the content exchange from the local to the federated repository became evident. This paper presents our experiences adding harvesting support to the DSpace repository platform using the ORE and PMH protocols from the Open Archives Initiative. We describe our use case for a statewide ETD repository and the mapping of the OAI-ORE data model to the DSpace architecture. We discuss our implementation that adds both dissemination and harvesting functionality to the repository. We conclude by discussing the architectural flexibility added to the TDL repository through this project.

2009-05-17T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85724 2008-10-10T23:28:01Z 2008-07-24T09:02:17Z

ETD Management in the Texas Digital Library: lessons Learned from a Demonstrator As a consortium of libraries from public and private institutions across the state of Texas, the Texas Digital Library (TDL) exists to promote the scholarly activities of its members. One of its earliest initiatives was a federated collection of ETDs from across the state. There are currently 16 participating schools in TDL, four of which are contributing over 4000 ETDs per year, and membership and contributions are growing. A diverse set of content contributors introduces the problems of inconsistent metadata and incompatible storage and access methods, making it difficult to offer effective tools and services. This influenced the decision to create a state-wide system for managing the entire life-cycle of ETDs, from the point of ingestion to final publication; pooling resources to address this common problem was appealing for both technical and economic reasons. In 2007, we reported on the status of the functional system prototype. This paper reports on the results of the demonstrator event that is taking place in spring 2008 at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas, and discusses the requirements for moving to a production environment. These include testing and scaling the system to handle the large numbers of users dispersed over a significant geographic area (Texas is the third-largest producer of PhDs in the US). Our intention is to embrace international standards for ETD metadata and policies as they continue to evolve through community efforts, such as the NDLTD union catalog of ETDs. Finally, we will examine the status of the project’s release as an add-on component to a DSpace repository through the Manakin interface framework under an open source license. A primary design goal of this project is to create a product that satisfies TDL’s requirements and provides a turnkey implementation for ETD management and publication that can be scaled for the broader academic community.

2008-07-24T09:02:17Z http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5693 2009-03-25T02:08:30Z 2007-07-16T16:07:16Z

De-facing DSpace with Manakin

2007-07-16T16:07:16Z http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5692 2009-03-25T02:08:30Z 2007-07-16T16:03:47Z

DSpace XML UI Project Technical Overview This paper describes the modifications to DSpace by Texas A&M Libraries to support an XML-based user interface. DSpace supports digital repositories composed of communities and collections. Each community within DSpace typically represents an organizational unit within an institution. To increase the appeal of DSpace as a digital repository to these communities, this project enables the establishment of a unique look and feel that might extend outside of DSpace into an existing web presence. We believe this may increase the adoption of DSpace by these communities.

2007-07-16T16:03:47Z