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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

“Imitation is the most sincere (form) of flattery.”

- Colton

“A good imitation is the most perfect originality.”

- Voltaire

“Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.”

- Voltaire

“I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.” - Wilson Mizner

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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

• 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 165

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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 85%

• Social Sciences 10%

• Humanities 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• Peter Clinton m.clinton@utoronto.ca• Rea Devakos rea.devakos@utoronto.ca• Gabriela Mircea gabriela.mircea@utoronto.ca• Frank Rotiroti frank.rotiroti@utoronto.ca• Kent Weaver 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