McGill Libraries Present A Symposium on the Crisis in Scholarly Communication

1. McGill Libraries Present A Symposium on the Crisis in Scholarly Communication "For the Greater Good: Open Access and Institutional Repositories“ T-Space

2. T-Space

3. 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?) T-Space

4. 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 T-Space

5. “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 We were/are impressed by DSpace T-Space

6. MIT: The home of DSpace T-Space

7. This book could/should have been about DSpace T-Space

8. 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) T-Space

9. 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 T-Space

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12. 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 T-Space

13. 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 T-Space

14. UTSC participation rate • Life Sciences 85% • Social Sciences 10% • Humanities 5% T-Space

15. Thought # 3 – T to O • “Twist to Open” (another SuperBowl ad) • T to O • T-Space to O-Space T-Space

16. Implementation/Evaluation Issues • Communication • Management of change • “persuasive technology” • Ubiquitous, open access • OPAC, Web, T-Space, WebCT,Google • Storage • Creative Commons • Future versions T-Space

17. 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 T-Space

18. 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 T-Space

19. T-Space

20. 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 T-Space

21. E-portfolios • early days • activity reports, CVs • links to citations • use of other programs, such as RefWorks • RSS T-Space

22. Microsoft Office 2003 • Research pane • Integration of resources T-Space

23. O-Space • Background – acronym alert • 3 initiatives within O-Space T-Space

24. 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) T-Space

25. O-Space (1) • learning object repository • CORIL • https://ospace.scholarsportal.info/ T-Space

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27. 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 T-Space

28. 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 T-Space

29. O-Space (4) • Potential for cartographic files T-Space

30. Some URLs of interest • DSpace http://www.dspace.org • T-Space http://tspace.library.utoronto.ca • O-Space http://ospace.scholarsportal.info T-Space

31. 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 T-Space

32. 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. T-Space

33. Shepherding Communities? • Institutional Repositories • This is what we do • We bring together communities and their collections, promote their discovery, and make them accessible T-Space

34. Thank you T-Space