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<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">A webinar that was a joint venture between EIFL's FOSS and OA programmes took place on Monday 28th October 2013, with 21 countries represented among the 43 delegates, including seven
each from Ghana, Lithuania and Nigeria.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">The DSpace began with a presentation from Bram Luyten of <a href="http://atmire.com/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,110,121)" target="_blank">@mire.com</a>, a DSpace support
organisation. The short presentation covered the basics of DSpace and an overview of the newer and upcoming features. Bram showed screenshots of some well known repositories based on DSpace, such as the <a href="https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,110,121)" target="_blank">University
of Cambridge</a> in the UK,<a href="http://dash.harvard.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,110,121)" target="_blank">Harvard University</a> in the USA, the <a href="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,110,121)" target="_blank">World
Bank's Open Knowledge</a> repository, and the <a href="http://repository.uneca.org/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,110,121)" target="_blank">United Nations UNECA</a> repository.</p>
<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">After this 30 minute presentation the session then moved into a Q&A session, based around a GoogleDoc on which was listed a series of questions posted in advance of the webinar by delegates.</p>
<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">Bram talked through answers he had prepared for these questions, while more were posted by delegates during the webinar itself. There were so many questions that the session ran for
90 minutes instead of the scheduled 60, and we are immensely grateful to Bram for staying online and answering in some detail every question that was raised.</p>
<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">After the webinar, Bram spent some considerable time adding more information to the GoogleDoc, making sure every answer was as full as possible. You can read the questions raised by
the delegates and Bram's answers to them at <a href="http://bit.ly/dspace-eifl-questions" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,110,121)" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/dspace-eifl-questions</a></p>
<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">View a <a href="http://www.instantpresenter.com/eifl/EA58DB898747" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,110,121)" target="_blank">recording of the webinar here</a>. (If your connection
is too intermittent to view the recording online, we can provide it to you as a Zip file to download and view offline - just contact simon.ball [at] <a href="http://eifl.net" target="_blank">eifl.net</a>)</p>
<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">Download Bram's slides <a href="http://www.eifl.net/system/files/201310/eifl-dspace-presentation.pdf" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,110,121)" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
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<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">DSpace is an open source software package that provides the tools for management of digital assets, and is commonly used as the basis for institutional repositories.</p>
<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets.</p>
<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">DSpace has a large community of users and developers worldwide - over 1100 organizations currently use the DSpace software in a production or project environment. </p>
<p style="margin-top:10px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding:0px">For more information see our DSpace page <a href="http://www.eifl.net/dspace" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,110,121)" target="_blank">http://www.eifl.net/dspace</a></p>
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