Salam,
1st of all i would like to wish a very happy new year(hope its not too late) to you. Well this 2010 i would like to starts with Uniten's initiatives in developing their own digital repository. Early this month i just found out that Uniten also has a dspace. I have to omit that it looks simple but nice.
They also embed a google search on right side bar which i think is a good idea. However its not a common google search bar, its a google scholar! I have no idea what it is actually. Can someone tell me what is it??? Apart from that the dspace at uniten also consist many collections such as articles, newspaper articles and the most interesting - past year examination paper. Besides, they also have link to Uniten's website and UNITEN Library (which also has links to other universities institutional repository). Maybe for you guys its nothing but a direct simple hyperlink, but not many dspace (here in my blog) did this.
Hopefully, this dspace helps students in doing a research and be the one stop centre for knowledge at Uniten. Here take a visit : http://dspace.uniten.edu.my So, congratulations to the Uniten's dspace team and good luck in enhancing / maintaining the repository. :)
Showing posts with label DSpace Malaysia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DSpace Malaysia. Show all posts
Monday, January 25, 2010
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Digital Solutions Enterprise | Malaysia
Salam,
Its been a while since my last post in this blog. I've been busy with works and training. Well, for this post i'm gonna tell u guys about the Digital Solutions Enterprise. This company provide a services like developing digital library and conduct training / workshop using Greenstone and DSpace.
As far as i'm concern this is the only company that has this services (using Greenstone,DSpace). They also have a consultation on digital library content,indexing etc. Last but not least, they also offer graphic design!! And all this with a very reasonable price. How i know? I'm the founder of this company!!Hahahah..
Digital Solutions Enterprise also has years of experience in developing digital library using Greenstone and conducting a workshop / training for both Greenstone and DSpace software. So, if your organization wants to build up a digital library or institutional repository by hiring some external experts in this field, feel free to contact them via email digitalsolutionsent AT yahoo.com choww..
Its been a while since my last post in this blog. I've been busy with works and training. Well, for this post i'm gonna tell u guys about the Digital Solutions Enterprise. This company provide a services like developing digital library and conduct training / workshop using Greenstone and DSpace.
As far as i'm concern this is the only company that has this services (using Greenstone,DSpace). They also have a consultation on digital library content,indexing etc. Last but not least, they also offer graphic design!! And all this with a very reasonable price. How i know? I'm the founder of this company!!Hahahah..
Digital Solutions Enterprise also has years of experience in developing digital library using Greenstone and conducting a workshop / training for both Greenstone and DSpace software. So, if your organization wants to build up a digital library or institutional repository by hiring some external experts in this field, feel free to contact them via email digitalsolutionsent AT yahoo.com choww..
Monday, August 24, 2009
DSpace @ UM | Malaysia
Salam,
Today i'm gonna write about dspace. DSpace is an open source software for developing digital library. It is developed by HP-MIT Alliance. Its widely used by most institutions all over the world. Easy to install, configure and customize are among the reasons why this software is the first choice. In fact, at Malaysia there are more than 3 institutions (as far as i'm concern) using dspace for institutional repository.
Well, for me i'm going to tell you a bit about DSpace at University of Malaya as i involved little bit in configuration and customization. The installation of DSpace is not as simple as greenstone. As it builds on java, any changes you made may need to recompile before you can see the changes. Besides the dspace installation pack, you may need apache maven, postgreSQL, apache ant and some more softwares (i can't remember).
However, you don't have to worry as the step-by-step guidelines is availabe on the dspace web for the beginner. Compared to greenstone dspace is totally 100% online repository as the records are submitted through its web and not like greenstone which use GLI to build records. The good thing about dspace is you can easily create a collection, sub collection, community and sub community to better organise your repository. DSpace @ UM is for student at UM submitting their thesis and other related paper work. Its a commitment by our Information Science head of department Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abrizah Abdullah with help from the team and Mr.Nor Badrul.
Now we have come to the customization. hmmm.. i don't where to start actually. At first, i have been asked by Mr.Bad to change the 'look' of the dspace. Then Dr.Abrizah asked me to create another 'face' for dspace using DSpace Manakin. hmm.. its already in the dspace installation package, you just need to configure to enable the manakin interface. Anyway, its a great experienced playing with this software. later, i will tell you on dspace workshop handled by University of Malaya Library for AUNILO.
-DSpace Workshop for Aunilo-
Aunilo is stands for 'ASEAN University Network Inter Library'. The University Of Malaya Library handled a workshop title '3-day Intitutional Repository (IR) Workshop Using DSpace for AUNILO Members.' Started from 25th - 27th May 2009. The modules in the workshop are :
1.Install;
2.Configure;
3.Customize;
4.Harvest; and
5.Use DSpace Interface and its various utility panels.
And as for my part, i did the installation, configuration and customization using Manakin Interface. Its a half day talk of step-by-step guidelines and also troubleshooting for those encounter problems during the tutorial.
If the schedule for the workshop still available you can see it here: http://aunilo.wordpress.com/3-day-institutional-repository-workshop-using-dspace-schedule. Anyway, its my 1st time teaching people who are from outside Malaysia and i can say that i might be the youngest person in that workshop (not really sure, but i think so.). So, at 1st place i was a bit nervous, but from time to time as i start to focus on the teaching my feelings are getting better. Overall, the workshop is one successful program and i have fun attending and sharing some knowledge with others :)
Today i'm gonna write about dspace. DSpace is an open source software for developing digital library. It is developed by HP-MIT Alliance. Its widely used by most institutions all over the world. Easy to install, configure and customize are among the reasons why this software is the first choice. In fact, at Malaysia there are more than 3 institutions (as far as i'm concern) using dspace for institutional repository.
Well, for me i'm going to tell you a bit about DSpace at University of Malaya as i involved little bit in configuration and customization. The installation of DSpace is not as simple as greenstone. As it builds on java, any changes you made may need to recompile before you can see the changes. Besides the dspace installation pack, you may need apache maven, postgreSQL, apache ant and some more softwares (i can't remember).
However, you don't have to worry as the step-by-step guidelines is availabe on the dspace web for the beginner. Compared to greenstone dspace is totally 100% online repository as the records are submitted through its web and not like greenstone which use GLI to build records. The good thing about dspace is you can easily create a collection, sub collection, community and sub community to better organise your repository. DSpace @ UM is for student at UM submitting their thesis and other related paper work. Its a commitment by our Information Science head of department Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abrizah Abdullah with help from the team and Mr.Nor Badrul.
Now we have come to the customization. hmmm.. i don't where to start actually. At first, i have been asked by Mr.Bad to change the 'look' of the dspace. Then Dr.Abrizah asked me to create another 'face' for dspace using DSpace Manakin. hmm.. its already in the dspace installation package, you just need to configure to enable the manakin interface. Anyway, its a great experienced playing with this software. later, i will tell you on dspace workshop handled by University of Malaya Library for AUNILO.
-DSpace Workshop for Aunilo-
Aunilo is stands for 'ASEAN University Network Inter Library'. The University Of Malaya Library handled a workshop title '3-day Intitutional Repository (IR) Workshop Using DSpace for AUNILO Members.' Started from 25th - 27th May 2009. The modules in the workshop are :
1.Install;
2.Configure;
3.Customize;
4.Harvest; and
5.Use DSpace Interface and its various utility panels.
And as for my part, i did the installation, configuration and customization using Manakin Interface. Its a half day talk of step-by-step guidelines and also troubleshooting for those encounter problems during the tutorial.
If the schedule for the workshop still available you can see it here: http://aunilo.wordpress.com/3-day-institutional-repository-workshop-using-dspace-schedule. Anyway, its my 1st time teaching people who are from outside Malaysia and i can say that i might be the youngest person in that workshop (not really sure, but i think so.). So, at 1st place i was a bit nervous, but from time to time as i start to focus on the teaching my feelings are getting better. Overall, the workshop is one successful program and i have fun attending and sharing some knowledge with others :)
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