DSpace User Group

We encourage DSpace developers and technical staff to get involved with the Repository Challenge.

Thursday 3rd April

8:45-9:00

Welcome / Introduction

 

9:00-10:30

DSpace 1.5 launch, and DSpace Future

Announcing the release of the most significant upgrade in DSpace's history. To be followed by a presentation of the developing role of the DSpace foundation, and the roadmap for DSpace 2.0.

11:00-12:30

Case Studies and Best Practices

Celebrating the diversity of the DSpace community:

• eJamaica.org - information sharing, with many customisations for handling multimedia and other content.
• Pandektis - Greek historical and cultural repository, with context-sensitive presentation and linking of material
• Research evaluation - techniques and requirements for using DSpace to aid in evaluating the work of researchers

14:00-15:30

Engagement, Interaction and Personalisation

A look at the Virtual Olympic Museum, and how utilising the semantic relationships between resources enhances the user's experiences. Followed by a discussion of experiments at HPLabs into the use of personalisation features (bookmarking, tagging, etc.) that can drive engagement with researchers.

16:00-17:30

DSpace 1.5 training

A practical demonstration of how the new organisation and facilities of DSpace 1.5 aids the creation of customised solutions.

Friday 4th April