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    • Campus Open-Access Policy Implementation Models and Implications for IR Services 

      Finnie Duranceau, Ellen; Kriegsman, Sue (Purdue Unversity Press, 2015-11)
    • Creating a Social Justice Mindset: Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in the Collections Directorate of the MIT Libraries 

      Baildon, Michelle; Hamlin, Dana; Jankowski, Czeslaw; Kauffman, Rhonda; Lanigan, Julia; e.a. (2017-02-09)
      The Collections Directorate of the MIT Libraries sponsored a task force to identify opportunities for archives, technical services, preservation, scholarly communication, and collections strategy staff to manifest the ...
    • Creating an Institutional Repository: LEADIRS Workbook 

      Barton, Mary R.; Waters, Margaret M. (MIT Libraries, 2004)
      The Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories Seminars programme (LEADIRS) aims to describe and illustrate how to build an online institutional repository. The LEADIRS series of seminars present specialists from ...
    • CSU Dreamin': A Case Study of Collaboration across the California State University System with Arts, Architecture, and Performing Arts Librarians 

      Smith, Kai Alexis; Bliss, Laurel; Roll, Ann (Art Documentation, 2021-06)
      In summer 2017, the California State University (CSU) system implemented a shared unified library management system. This united the catalog records for the physical and electronic collections from all twenty-three campuses ...
    • Curating Architectural 3D CAD Models 

      Smith, MacKenzie (UKOLN at the University of Bath, 2009-07)
      Increasing demand to manage and preserve 3-dimensional models for a variety of physical phenomena (e.g., building and engineering designs, computer games, or scientific visualizations) is creating new challenges for digital ...
    • The Data Dilemma 

      Stout, Amy; Graham, Anne (2007-11-27)
      There’s a famous allegory about a map of the world that grows in detail until every point in reality has its counterpoint on paper; the twist being that such a map is at once ideally accurate and entirely useless, since ...
    • Deciding how to decide: Using the Digital Preservation Storage Criteria 

      Schaefer, Sibyl K; McGovern, Nancy Y; Zierau, Eld MO; Goethals, Andrea L; Wu, Cynthia CM (SAGE Publications, 2021-05)
      The Digital Preservation Storage Criteria (hereafter, the Criteria) grew out of a community discussion at the 12th International Conference on Digital Preservation (iPRES 2015) on the evolving landscape of digital preservation ...
    • DEJA :“ A Year in Review 

      Baudoin, Patsy; Smith, MacKenzie (2002)
      The MIT Libraries'€™ proposed to the Mellon Foundation to plan a preservation archive for dynamic electronic journals (DEJA : a€“ Dynamic E-Journal Archive) that would be reliable, secure, enduring, and sustainable over ...
    • Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital Repositories 

      Smith, MacKenzie; Moore, Reagan W. (Digital Curation Centre, UK, 2007-06)
      The MIT Libraries, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and the University of California San Diego Libraries are conducting the PLEDGE Project to determine the set of policies that affect operational digital preservation ...
    • Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice in Library Technical Services 

      Kauffman, Rhonda Y; Anderson, Martina S (2019-07-02)
      The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries recently embraced a large-scale initiative to incorporate the values of diversity, inclusion, and social justice (DISJ) into library practices. In early 2017, the ...
    • Do Black Wikipedians Matter? Confronting the Whiteness in Wikipedia with Archives and Libraries 

      Smith, Kai (Maize Books, 2021-09)
      Wikipedia is in the top ten of the most visited websites in most places in the world and makes up the backbone of the Internet’s information ecosystem. Despite the global presence of the website and its sister projects, ...
    • DSpace : An Institutional Repository from the MIT Libraries and Hewlett Packard Laboratories 

      Smith, MacKenzie (Springer-Verlag, 2002)
      The DSpaceâ„¢ project of the MIT Libraries and the Hewlett Packard Laboratories has built an institutional repository system for digital research material. This paper will describe the rationale for institutional repositories, ...
    • DSpace as an Open Archival Information System: Current Status and Future Directions 

      Tansley, Robert; Bass, Mick; Smith, MacKenzie (Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2003-01)
      As more and more output from research institutions is born digital, a means for capturing and preserving the results of this investment is required. To begin to understand and address the problems surrounding this task, ...
    • DSpace at MIT: Meeting the Challenges 

      Bass, Michael; Branschofsky, Margret (ACM Press, 2001)
      DSpace is a joint development effort by HP and MIT to establish an electronic system that will enable MIT faculty and researchers to capture, preserve, manage, and disseminate their intellectual output, and that will ...
    • The DSpace Institutional Digital Repository System: Current Functionality 

      Tansley, Robert; Bass, Mick; Stuve, David; Branschofsky, Margret; Chudnov, Daniel; e.a. (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2003)
      In this paper we describe DSpaceâ„¢, an open source system that acts as a repository for digital research and educational material produced by an organization or institution. DSpace was developed during two years’ collaboration ...
    • The DSpace Open Source Digital Asset Management System: Challenges and Opportunities 

      Tansley, Robert; Smith, MacKenzie; Walker, Julie Harford (Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005)
      Last year at the ECDL 2004 conference, we reported some initial progress and experiences developing DSpace as an open source community-driven project [8], particularly as seen from an institutional manager’s viewpoint. We ...
    • DSpace: A Year in the Life of an Open Source Digital Repository System 

      Smith, MacKenzie; Rodgers, Richard; Walker, Julie; Tansley, Robert (Springer-Verlag, 2004)
      The DSpaceâ„¢ digital repository system was released as open source software in November of 2002. In the year since then it has been adopted by a large number of research universities and other organizations world-wide ...
    • DSpace: An Open Source Dynamic Digital Repository 

      Smith, MacKenzie; Barton, Mary; Bass, Mick; Branschofsky, Margret; McClellan, Greg; e.a. (Corporation for National Research Initiatives, 2003-01)
      For the past two years the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs have been collaborating on the development of an open source system called DSpaceâ„¢ that functions as a repository ...
    • DSpace: Durable Digital Documents 

      Branschofsky, Margret; Chudnov, Daniel (ACM Press, 2002)
      The DSpace system for long-term management of institutional scholarly research repositories is now in use at the MIT Libraries; we will demonstrate the system and provide more information about its design, use at MIT, and ...