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While Gabe Galson and Chin Kim continue to hack away at these technical challenges, Annie Johnson, Holly Tomren, Cynthia Schwarz and Gabe Galson are preparing to tackle the big-picture questions surrounding Temple’s incipient IR: --
How must our fledgling DSpace be structured so that it can accommodate the ever-expanding scope of our Elements implementation, as well as changes to Temple’s institutional structure?
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How must our fledgling DSpace be structured to allow further development and accommodate additional affordances, such as the ability to generate DOIs through DSpace, or the ability to ingest dissertations directly from ProQuest?
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How should our DSpace be structured so as to best serve the end user, and to promote discovery?
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How can we make sure our IR metadata retains its utility through (and beyond the life of the systems that currently host it?
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Next week and the week after Gabe will schedule brainstorming meetings with @anniejohnson and @hollytomren, then follow up with formal stakeholder meetings to formally set the course of this project. Holly’s metadata expertise and DSpace experience will help us structure our DSpace and XML crosswalks in a sustainable and scalable way. Annie’s knowledge of institutional repositories, scholarly communications issues, and Temple’s own scholarly community will allow us to deliver a product that satisfies this community's needs. On Annie's suggestion, the Temple team will get in touch with Paolo Mangiafico at duke, who lead the team responsible for the wonderful DukeSpace DSpace implementation, a project centered around a DSpace-Elements integration undertaken in-house. Stay tuned!
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