Presenters:

Wayne Johnston                                                       Rea Devakos

Digital initiatives librarian                                          Coordinator, Scholarly Communication Initiatives

University of Guelph                                                  University of Toronto Libraries

Peter Thiessen                                                            Gabriela Mircea

Programmer/Analyst,                                                  Digital Image/Text Application Administrator

Scholarly Communication Initiatives                              University of Toronto Libraries

University of Toronto Libraries

Abstract

This workshop will provide attendees with the knowledge needed to manage a DSpace repository.  It will cover essential administration and maintenance tasks but will not focus on the more technical details of installing and customizing the software.  We will focus on DSpace version 1.4.2 but we will also introduce some of the changes and new features offered in version 1.5.

Target audience: site administrators, collection managers, service planners

Agenda

·        general information about site administration

·        creating/editing communities and sub-communities

·        creating/editing collections

·        managing e-people

·        item interventions

·        managing the metadata registry

·        manage authorization policies

·        basic configuration/customization

o       The dspace.cfg Configuration Properties File

o       Wording of E-mail Messages

o       The Metadata and Bitstream Format Registries

o       The Default Submission License

o       Customizing the Web User Interface

o       Configuring LDAP Authentication

o       Displaying Image Thumbnails

o       Displaying Community and Collection Item Counts

o       Configuring Controlled Vocabularies

·        introduction to DSpace 1.5

·        introduction to Manakin

·        introduction to OAI-PMH

·        introduction to handle service

Where

Gerstein Science Information Centre

Gerstein Computer Lab,  Room # 2330

7 & 9 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON

Maps

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