Nathan Sarr

The Tools of UR Research

Research

• Susan Gibbons, David Lindahl and Nancy Foster begin enhancement Project

• Main objectives– Customize DSpace for faculty

– Provide insight into how faculty do their work

• Around 25 faculty interviews

DSpace Meets These Faculty Needs• Work from different computers and locations, both Mac and PC

• Make their own work available to others

• Make digital items permanently accessible

• Have easy access to other people’s work

• Preserve digital items

• Have someone else take responsibility for the server

• Stay current in their fields

DSpace Does Not Meet These Faculty Needs

• Work with co-authors

• Organize their materials according to their own scheme

• Control ownership, security, and access

• Be sure not to violate copyright issues

• Keep everything related to computers easy and flawless

• Reduce chaos or at least not add to it

• Not be any busier

Mapping Needs to Systems

Faculty needs

X

Put my work in a safe place

X

Priority needs (authoring, collaborating)

DSpace

X

Reduce clutter

Doc Mgmt/ IR System

Mapping Needs to Systems

Faculty needs

X

Put my work in a safe place

X

Priority needs (authoring, collaborating)

DSpace

X

Reduce clutter

DSpace + Researcher Page

X

Motivating Needs(others cite my work, etc)

Researcher Page

Personal Information

Research Tools

Researcher Page From Tokyo

The Recruitment Strategy

• Marketing the researcher pages

• Remember “Not any busier”

• Solution: Automatic researcher pages

Statistics• Question – Is our DSpace being used?

• Number of downloads on a bitstream per month

• Stored in the database

• Collection/Community/DSpace – Sum of downloads

• Statistics are public

• Bumps along the way – web crawlers

• The next version – Bitstream downloads per day per IP address

Why Store Statistics in Database?

• Common Question – Why not use the log files?

• Answers:– Little to no maintenance

– Linking to other information

– Real-time response

• Trade-offs– History

– What you see is what you get

Checksum Tool

• The Promise – Preserve and maintain documents

• The Worry – Are we keeping the promise?

• The Basic Idea – Re-Calculate the checksum

• The Email – Anyone written a tool like this? – Jim Downing and Grace Carpenter respond – No, lets write one.

• The Tool – Work began and is almost complete

Demo

• https://dspacedev.lib.rochester.edu

• http://dspacedev.lib.rochester.edu:8080/dspace_latest

• http://urresearch.rochester.edu

Past, Present and Future

• Successes– Researcher tools

– Statistics

– Checksum tool

• DSpace upgrade

• Are there any questions?

UR Research Home Page

New Author Browse

Public Researcher Page

Researcher Tools

Edit Personal Information

Add Link

Add a New Link

Open Folder

Researcher Administration

Researcher Administration

DSpace 1.3

DSpace 1.3

New Statistics

New Statistics

Updated Count

Updated Count

Ignoring IP Addresses

Today’s Downloads

Back To Zero

Past, Present and Future

• Successes– Researcher tools

– Statistics

– Checksum tool

• DSpace upgrade

• Are there any questions?