UVMDC Meeting November 11, 2004
Notes by Steve

Attending
Chris Burns
Deborah Boothby
Hope Greenberg
Ines Berrizbeitia
Justin Henru
Wesley Wright
Steve Cavrak
Wichada Sukantarat
Paul Philbin
Christine Massey


1. Looking at DSpace (Wesley Wright)

A. Overview

Dspace 1.2.1 (Beta) replaced Dspace 1.2 (Final) on
September 22, 2004:
http://badger.uvm.edu/dspace/

Sample Collections
- Art History
- Center for Research on Vermont
- Chris's Sandbox
- Geology Department
- History Department
- Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
- Plant and Soil Science (Greenhouse)
- UVM Bailey-Howe Library
- UVMDC Sandbox

[slouching towards fedora... ]

New Features
- thumbnail(once per night)
-

Next features
- LDAP integration (authentication, authorization)

DSpace Support Mailing Lists
DSpace User Community
- what is the current "state" of DSpace
- http://dspace.org/feedback/mailing.html


B. Building A collection

Business Features (done in Java)
- submit
- approval
-

Submission Page
- Author
- Title
- Series / Report
- Identifiers
- Type {animation,

Submitting Items
- Customizing the Interface

Slide Collection
-


2. Should we be looking at another product ? When ? (Hope)

ContentDM - make a collection
DSppace - item mapper
Product X -

interaction with Dublin Core via OAI Format
- http://gort.ucsd.edu/mtdocs/archives/diglet/001502.html

OAIster
http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

Open Archives Initiative
http://www.openarchives.org/



3. Hiring Student Help (Hope)

Model: TechCat Program
- CTL / Holly Buckland


Model: University of Washington Digital Collection
- http://content.lib.washington.edu/
- Exhibits
- Collections
- Collaborative Projects

Model: Work Study

DigiCats (Christine)
- scanning, tagging
- Projects: Aiken Lectures
- Projects: Exhibits
- Projects: Wichida
- Projects: Work Studies


4. Standardizing Metadata (Justin)

Managing Metadata
- what is the minimial
- what do we do with extraneous information
- what creates a "citation" ("handles")


- Dublin Core Fields
- UVM Image Database Update Form
- http://www.uvm.edu/image_db/uvmdc/insert_all.php


Summary:
- both are fitting our needs
- optimistic about it developing fast
- good research tool
- what is the evolution of the geology database

- are there alternative front ends
- are there collection templates

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