One-day Pilot Workshop On DSpace
13 February, 2021
One-day pilot workshop on "DSpace: Digital Repository System" was conducted online on 13 February 2021
from 10.00 AM to 5.00 PM by National Virtual Library of India (NVLI), Funded by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The workshop
was started with the welcome address by Course Coordinator Professor Kannan Moudgalya PI, NVLI and Spoken Tutorial Project.
This workshop was limited to the invited users only. IIT Bombay sent the invitation link for the online registration. This workshop was conducted
for two different audiences. This was limited to the Librarians/ library staff and system administrators from each institution. Ms. Savita,
Assistant Librarian and Mr. Satender Pal, System Administrator from Dronacharya College of Engineering, Gurugram
attended the online session. All the registered participants were attended the workshop from their convenient place. Virtual classroom systems were
used to interact with participants. There were live video interactions and Spoken Tutorial sessions during the workshop. During the Spoken Tutorial
sessions, participants were expected to learn DSpace using a side by side method. There was a separate classroom created for two different audiences
(librarian & system administrators) during the practice sessions in the workshop.
Following topics were covered in the workshop:
- Overview of DSpace
- DSpace installation on Windows and Ubuntu Linux OS
- Email configuration for DSpace
- Customization of DSpace Home Page
- User Registration in DSpace
- Managing DSpace user accounts
- Created Community and sub-community
- Created Collection
- Item submission in DSpace
- Item Review in DSpace
- Batch import of Items
After successfully completion of the workshop, librarians are capable to provide accessed to users using standard protocol.
Now they can organize digital contents in hierarchical manner and can manage user authorizations to content in digital repository.
And System Administrators would be able to Install DSpace on Windows 10 / Ubuntu Linux 18.04 Operating Systems, configure email settings
of DSpace to send/receive emails and customise DSpace User Interface.
It was a great opportunity for the participants to learn about DSpace open source repository software package.