Dspace and E-Learning
William Reilly
Technical Analyst, MIT Libraries' Digital Library Research Group
Friday
10:15 am - 11:45 am
Room: Jr B
Session Abstract
An introductory presentation to DSpace, the digital archive system and open source community.
The precise relation of a digital archive to a collaboration and learning environment (CLE) like Sakai is a topic very much in development. Preliminary ideas on potential integration points will be presented, from a forthcoming whitepaper {1}. These will be discussed within the context of [recent Sakai discussion group activity|http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=16778] on closely related topics (e.g. Sakaibrary, Twin Peaks, Fedora, OKI, repositories generally). Comparison made of "repository" as a component of the architectural stack of a CLE (akin to Sakai's Resource Tool and ContentHosting API), vs. "repository" or digital archive as a peer system to a CLE, whereby interoperation is achieved via Web Services. General topics include: DSpace's architecture, information model, its other (non E-Learning) audiences & purposes, its open source community, and the DSpace Federation governance board. E-Learning-related topics include: [CWSpace|http://cwspace.mit.edu/]: archiving [MIT's OpenCourseWare|http://ocw.mit.edu/] (OCW) to DSpace; and the [Stellar|http://stellar.mit.edu/] Image Tool, using DSpace as backend. Contributing speakers to include some remarks from Indiana University vis-a-vis repositories as they relate to the current scope of Sakaibrary; remarks from Univ. of Cambridge initial experiments with Sakai and DSpace integration; and a report from the [Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching|http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/] exploration of DSpace as candidate back-end and dissemination platform (non Sakai-related) for their [KEEP Toolkit|http://www.cfkeep.org/static/] (see [Technical Demos|http://sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=173&Itemid=523] page). {1} Univ. of Cambridge, CARET, "DSpace/Sakai Integration Report" (draft May 16, 2006) (sorry, not yet on network)
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