[Duraspace] SA DSpace Technical Workshop

[Klapwijk, WOUTER <wklap@sun.ac.za>]

Hi all,

To everyone who attended last week's DSpace Technical Workshop at Stellenbosch, we as the facilitators would like to thank each and everyone of you for attending the workshop.  We are of the opinion that the workshop was a success in terms of the outcomes we set for ourselves to achieve, which were:


1)      Foster a broad understanding of IRs (where it didn't already exist)

2)      Gain a good insight into the underlying architecture of DSpace 1.5.2

3)      Install DSpace 1.5.2

4)      Network with one another

This wouldn't have been possible without you - it was great to see so many representatives from different institutions (HE, NRF, CSIR, HSRC, etc.) gather together with a common goal and purpose and a willingness to network and share with one another.

Please note that all the course content is available on the wiki (http://services.lib.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Install_Dspace) including a link to some of the photos we have managed to upload in the meantime (they are also directly accessible in Gallery at http://neo.bib.sun.ac.za/gallery/main.php/v/dspace_workshop/).  We had to compress the photos i.o.t. upload such a large quantity and haven't finished that process yet, hence the fact that some more photos will be added in due course.

As for the road ahead we have embarked on the following process:


1)      Update the existing IRSPACE listserv hosted at UP with the contact details of all the workshop attendees who aren't already subscribed to that listserv.  Thanks Ina for doing this.

2)      Create a new separate listserv to allow for this form of communication as well as feedback and support issues from the workshop.  You may reply to this e-mail or start a new thread by posting a message to duraspace at moo.sun.ac.za<mailto:duraspace at moo.sun.ac.za>.

3)      Agbor Kandeh (NRF), Marius Odendaal (HSRC) and Craig Strydom (CSIR) have agreed to act as the founding members of a DSpace Community in SA.  This is not separate from the existing Sivulile initiative (http://www.sivulile.org) or any other South African initiatives (listservs, NETD project, DISA, etc.) to support and advocate Open Access and Institutional Repositories within a (South) African context, but rather compliments what is already in place.  We will eventually move the existing wiki from the Stellenbosch website to another more appropriate site to reflect this national approach.  Sean Carte (ESAL / DUT), Neil Evans (Univ Zululand), Ina, Hilton and myself will support this process as necessary to help it get off the ground.

Attached are the electronic versions of the @Mire hand-outs for your record keeping.   On request of Lieven Droogmans of @Mire, I kindly request you to not circulate this material outside of your institutions.

Keep well and all of the best luck with your Repository initiatives at your institutions.

Regards,
Wouter (on behalf of the SU facilitators).

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Wouter Klapwijk
Senior software specialist
Library and Information Service, Stellenbosch University
Tel: +27 21 808-4378, Fax: +27 21 808-3723, Mobile: 083 3888 270
http://library.sun.ac.za<http://library.sun.ac.za/>


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