CWSpace
Archiving Courseware Websites to DSpace
Using a Content Packaging Profile
& Web Services
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Digital Library Federation Spring Forum, 2006
April 11, 2006 — Austin, Texas
William Reilly, Rob Wolfe — MIT Libraries
http://cwspace.mit.edu/docs/ProjectMgt/Reports/DLF-Spring2006/MIT-CWSpace-DLF-Spring2006.ppt.htm
2006
William - Digital Library Research Group
Rob - heads up Metadata Services Unit

Project to describe 2 new pieces of functionality for the DSpace platform…


MIT OpenCourseWare is …

DSpace is …

Sponsored by MIT iCampus, 6-year, $25M alliance with Microsoft Research

2 year project, “CWSpace” = OCW + DSpace

Key topics:  To support need for InterOperability, embrace Standards for:
-application profile development (in context of content packaging)
-Web Services access (new) to DSpace digital archive

Adoption of “Standards” always has a degree of interpretation, customization.
Needs to be documented, made machine processable ideally, and further developed with other parties…

CUE NEXT SLIDE
O.K., to get some CONTEXT, what our Project is about … TURN   (Proj. Vision, Goal, Method …)