McGill Libraries Present
A Symposium on the Crisis in
Scholarly Communication
"For the Greater Good: Open
Access and Institutional
Repositories“
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Session 3: Applications at Two
Institutions
• T-Space University of Toronto –
Implementation and Future Directions
• What should I speak about (and, from
the opening video, do I have an answer
to whether or not we are herding cats?)
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Thought # 1 – D to T, with a F:
DSpace to T-Space, Federation
• This thought was tempered in noting Session
2, “The Development of D-Space; A New Tool
for Scholars and Institutions”, and the speaker,
Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries, MIT
Libraries
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We were/are impressed by
DSpace
“Originality is nothing
but judicious imitation.”
- Voltaire
“Imitation is the most
sincere (form) of
flattery.”
- Colton
“A good imitation is the
most perfect originality.”
- Voltaire
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“I hate careless flattery,
the kind that exhausts
you in your effort to
believe it.”
- Wilson Mizner
MIT: The home of DSpace
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This book could/should have
been about DSpace
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MIT’s DSpace experience
• Adopted it (variety of file formats,
preservation, self submission, open
source, federated*, standards based)
• Capitalized on it
• Concentrate on community
development (“sell” by doing –
conservative staffing model)
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Thought # 2 – T-Space
Champion: UTSC
• This thought was tempered in noting
Session 1, “Crisis and Opportunity in
Scholarly Publishing”, and one of the
speakers, Leslie Chan, Program
Supervisor, Joint Program in New
Media, UTSC
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T-Space Status
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First item received June 2003
Hits approximately 36,000
Over 814 items
744 authors
8 communities
32 collections
Largest Community G8
Largest Collections UTSC Biology
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UTSC as Community leader
• Exemplary faculty - Led by VP of Reseach
Prof. Rudy Boonstra – Leslie Chan
• Submissions include eprints, ebooks,
conference proceedings, course-based Web
sites, video, out-of-print books
• Datasets
• legacy
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UTSC participation rate
• Life Sciences
• Social Sciences
• Humanities
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85%
10%
5%
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Thought # 3 – T to O
• “Twist to Open” (another SuperBowl ad)
• T to O
• T-Space to O-Space
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Implementation/Evaluation
Issues
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Communication
Management of change
“persuasive technology”
Ubiquitous, open access
OPAC, Web, T-Space, WebCT,Google
Storage
Creative Commons
Future versions
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Future directions
• Vice-President, Research and Associate
Provost (The Provost's senior staff is
comprised of two Associate Provosts, a
Deputy Provost and five Vice-Provosts)
• E-portfolios
• Microsoft Office 2003
• O-Space
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V-P, Provost – Research (1)
• Repository of publications by academic
staff focused on administrative functions
(especially within major committees and
task forces) – academic computing,
academic technology and new media,
academic planning
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V-P, Provost – Research (2)
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Another way of presenting university research
Less re-invention of the wheel
Less replication of data
Benefit to other universities reviewing their
administrative processes
• Potential for province-wide initiative of
comparable documents
• Library sees a somewhat different community
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E-portfolios
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early days
activity reports, CVs
links to citations
use of other programs, such as
RefWorks
• RSS
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Microsoft Office 2003
• Research pane
• Integration of resources
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O-Space
• Background – acronym alert
• 3 initiatives within O-Space
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OCUL/OII
• Ontario Council of University Libraries
• Ontario Information Infrastructure (not to be
confused with Ontario Innovation Trust – OIT)
• Ontario Scholars Portal
http://scholarsportal.info
• RACER (“rapid access to collections by
electronic requesting”) (VDX)
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O-Space (1)
• learning object repository
• CORIL
• https://ospace.scholarsportal.info/
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O-Space (2)
• repository for Ontario government
publications in electronic form
• Scholarsportal – storage and delivery
• Ontario Legislative Library - metadata
• terms still to be finalized
• Walkerton Inquiry – electronic copy was
removed (now restored) from government
Web site
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O-Space (3)
• Option for any OCUL member to create
their own IR
• Using existing infrastructure
• Some institutions may have collections
in both their IR and O-Space, since
objects can reside in more than 1 IR
simultaneously
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O-Space (4)
• Potential for cartographic files
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Some URLs of interest
• DSpace
http://www.dspace.org
• T-Space
http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca
• O-Space
http://ospace.scholarsportal.info
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The T-Space Team
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Peter Clinton
Rea Devakos
Gabriela Mircea
Frank Rotiroti
Kent Weaver
m.clinton@utoronto.ca
rea.devakos@utoronto.ca
gabriela.mircea@utoronto.ca
frank.rotiroti@utoronto.ca
kent.weaver@utoronto.ca
• The T-Space communities
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Herding Cats? or
• In a sense, this is
what we do.
• We bring together
information, ideas,
and technologies
• and make them go
where you want.
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Shepherding Communities?
• Institutional
Repositories
• This is what we do
• We bring together
communities and their
collections, promote
their discovery, and
make them accessible
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Thank you
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