A small slide stack to introduce an audience to DSpace, what it is, what makes it go, what you get out of the box, and how to start off working with it. Originally delivered to a group of developers at UCLA Library, so there might be some UCLA-specific links, that don't work for non-UCLA types. Sorry about that.

1. Hardy Pottinger
@hardypottinger
hpottinger@library.ucla.edu
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2. DSpace: tl;dr
 wikipedia.org/wiki/DSpace
 youtube.com/user/dspacedirectvideos
intro video (more “nuts and bolts”)
 youtube.com/watch?v=7dSNuBfTYeo
Overview/links to more details than I have provided here
 wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Functional+Overview
Wiki for University of Edinburgh’s DataShare repository (based on DSpace)
 www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/datashare
 https://docs.library.ucla.edu/display/diit/DSpace+Pilot
Our pilot DSpace Repository: http://dspilot.library.ucla.edu

3. DSpace - what is it?
community-driven open source
 repository software
 a Java servlet - requires a servlet container,
like Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, GlassFish
 a set of Java-based utility scripts

4. DSpace - what is it?
 an asset store (filesystem or service) and
 a metadata store (PotgreSQL or Oracle,
 not MySQL)

5. DSpace - what is it?
 the most widely used repository software
platform (open source or proprietary)
 about 2,000 installations worldwide
 (120 countries)
 70% of all institutional repositories (according
to an ARL survey, SPEC-Kit 292) run on DSpace
http://publications.arl.org/Institutional-
Repositories-SPEC-Kit-292/

6. DSpace - what is it?
 a very active community of developers, managers,
and users, across the globe (24 active committers,
over 150 contributors on GitHub)
 developers: dspace-devel@googlegroups.com
 managers: dspace-community@googlegroups.com
 tinyurl.com/dspace-dcat
 users: dspace-tech@googlegroups.com

7. DSpace - what is it?
 additional/commercial support is available from
15 DSpace Registered Service Providers (RSP)
 10 countries: Belgium, Brazil, Germany, India,
Italy, Spain, South Korea, UK, US, Vietnam
 45% of the lines of code contributed to DSpace
were contributed by developers currently
employed by RSPs

8. DSpace - Data Model

9. DSpace - Data Model
 This data model is “baked in” to DSpace
 you can’t really change it or customize it
 But you can give it a “fancy coat of paint”
 i18n customization allows you to change
 any text you wish, on any page of DSpace
 example:“collection” can become “project”

10. DSpace UI alternatives
the future
 DSpace has a mature REST-API
 Several prototype UIs were created to replace
the out of the box UIs for DSpace
 Ruby on Rails, Play! Framework, Angular2
 DSpace 7.0 will ship with a new Angular2-
based UI as the only out of the box UI

11. DSpace UI alternatives
right now
 DSpace has two out of the box UIs
 XMLUI (based on Apache Cocoon)
 JSPUI (based on Java Server Pages)
 SkylightUI is based on CodeIgnitor (a lightweight
PHP MVC framework)
 provides a public interface to the Solr
metadata and bitstreams housed on a DSpace
repository

12. Vagrant-DSpace
 https://github.com/dspace/vagrant-dspace
 A handy way to get some real experience with
working on a DSpace repository
 Also a great way to “onboard” a new developer:
is a complete development environment for
DSpace

13. Vagrant-DSpace
 https://github.com/dspace/vagrant-dspace
 The README is full of great info
 size the VM appropriately, via the local.yaml file
in the config folder (use half your host
machine’s memory at the most)
 https://github.com/DSpace/vagrant-
dspace/blob/master/config/local.yaml.example
#L35

14. DSpace: tl;dr
 wikipedia.org/wiki/DSpace
 youtube.com/user/dspacedirectvideos
intro video (more “nuts and bolts”)
 youtube.com/watch?v=7dSNuBfTYeo
Overview/links to more details than I have provided here
 wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Functional+Overview
Wiki for University of Edinburgh’s DataShare repository (based on DSpace)
 www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/datashare
 https://docs.library.ucla.edu/display/diit/DSpace+Pilot
Our pilot DSpace Repository: http://dspilot.library.ucla.edu

15. Questions?
Hardy Pottinger
@hardypottinger
hpottinger@library.ucla.edu