Our presentation at Open Repositories 2009 has been published in the Journal of Digital Information. Congratulations Alexey.
Alexey Maslov, James Creel, Adam Mikeal, Scott Phillips, John Leggett, Mark McFarland. Adding OAI-ORE Support to Repository Platforms. Journal of Digital Information, Volume 11, Number 1. Available at http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/749
My colleague, Adam Mikeal, presented our paper titled “Large-scale ETD repositories: a case study of a digital library application” at JCDL 2009, where it was nominated for best paper! The paper describes at a high level the Texas Digital Library’s implementation of a state-wide electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) system, delving into the theoretical, technical, and political issues that were encountered. Vireo is the main component of the system, a Manakin-based addon to DSpace that handles the ETD work flow, starting with a student’s initial submission through an iterative staff review, cataloging by the library, and on to final publication.
Citation:
Mikeal, A., Creel, J., Maslov, A., Phillips, S., Leggett, J., and McFarland, M. 2009. Large-scale ETD repositories: a case study of a digital library application. In Proceedings of the 2009 Joint international Conference on Digital Libraries (Austin, TX, USA, June 15 – 19, 2009). JCDL ’09. ACM, New York, NY, 135-144. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1555400.1555423
During the Open Repositories 2009 conference I attended the Microsoft’s “Tools for Repositories” workshop. At the workshop Microsoft was able to get down into the details of their new products and how they are intended to work together. I was impressed by the breadth of work that Microsoft is engaging in to support scholarly publishing use-cases within their tool set. The workshop lasted about 4 hours, longer than most of the other workshops at OR09. The bulk of time was given to the two developers Savas Paratatidas and Pablo Fernicola, along with the team leader Alex Wade.
Microsoft announced their intention to engage with the repository community at last year’s OR08 conference in Southhampton. The OR09 workshop featured the tools that Microsoft has developed in the intervening year starting with new authoring tools in Word, publishing via SWORD, a new peer-reviewed journaling service, and the new .NET based repository. It’s clear to see that Microsoft will have a huge impact on scholarly publishing in the future. We, as the repository community, will need to adjust our services to ensure they work smoothly within the Microsoft ecosystem. After the jump read about the three big features that were presented.
Scott Phillips leads a team of software developers at Texas A&M University Libraries working on a wide range of library related products. Scott is also a leading contributor and committer for the DSpace open source community.
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