DSpace in Detail

Today I focused entirely on DSpace at MIT. Did I ever explain what DSpace is? They tell it better at www.dspace.org . But it's an institutional repository (IR) that stores and makes available the intellectual output of a faculty in digital format. I read great articles telling all about it, and also documentation at http://dspace.org/technology/system-docs/, which helps to understand all those nasty little acronyms. I think I'll create an entry just for acronyms so I can keep track. Some of the articles and documentation were written by friend Margret Branschofsky (formerly Lippert).

I found a good treatise on Metadata - referred from the MIT site - produced at the Getty Museum. Interestingly, my "supervisor" at USC will be Barbara Shepard, who went to USC from the Getty. If you want to know about metadata, visit
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/intrometadata/index.html !

It's time to leave this nice library with the view of Betsie Lake and sound of gulls outside the open windows. I've been here 5 hours, counting a lunch break on the bench outside.