DSpace at Princeton University is open for business!

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Data­Space can now be used to store papers and data.  From the homepage:

“Data­Space is a dig­i­tal repos­i­tory meant for both archiv­ing and pub­licly dis­sem­i­nat­ing dig­i­tal data which are the result of research, aca­d­e­mic, or admin­is­tra­tive work per­formed by mem­bers of the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity com­mu­nity. Data­Space will pro­mote aware­ness of the data and address con­cerns for ensur­ing the long-term avail­abil­ity of data in the repository.”

There are papers from 2 groups or com­mu­ni­ties avail­able so far: 

Civil and Envi­ron­men­tal Engineering
Woodrow Wil­son School of Pub­lic and Inter­na­tional Affairs

There is a use­ful “About” page, and the “Help” page gives you the mechan­ics of run­ning searches using the Jakarta Lucerne search engine, which bears lots of sim­i­lar­i­ties to Google.

Con­tact:  Mark Ratliff, Dig­i­tal Repos­i­tory Archi­tect, Phone: (609) 258‑0228.

6 thoughts on “DSpace at Princeton University is open for business!”

  4. Also started using a sim­i­lar sys­tem in our soft­ware, has saved us so much devel­op­ment hours.

    Regards,

    Mar­tin

  5. Also started using a sim­i­lar sys­tem in our soft­ware, has saved us so much devel­op­ment hours.

    Regards,

    Mar­tin

  6. We’ve just begun util­is­ing this as part of our appli­ca­tion upgrade test­ing. Most appli­ca­tions, based on data­bases, have some form of data­base upgrade com­po­nent (e.g. SQL upgrade scripts apply­ing update and insert state­ments) when you upgrade the appli­ca­tion. This tool has proved price­less in assist­ing us deter­mine the before and after mod­i­fi­ca­tions as part of an upgrade. Rather often we’ll oper­ate the this tool against a fully pop­u­lated data­base and show­ing the out­comes to a devel­oper will shed light on all sorts of issues. A won­der­ful time saver and very capa­ble. Worth a trial run if noth­ing else.

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