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Journal of Digital Information, Volume 4 Issue 2
Article No. 173, 2003-05-07
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Themes: Digital libraries

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Building a Business Plan for DSpace, MIT Libraries' Digital Institutional Repository

Mary R. Barton and Julie Harford Walker
MIT Libraries, DSpace Project, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 14S-216,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307
Email: mbarton@mit.edu, jhwalker@mit.edu
Key features References; Figure 1; Tables 1-2
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Contents

  • 1 Introduction
    • DSpace Status
  • 2 Business Plan Methodology
  • 3 The DSpace Service
  • 4 Cost Model
    • Staff Salaries and Benefits
    • Operating Expenses
    • System Equipment Escrow
    • Federation Note
  • 5 Funding Sources
  • 6 Future Plans
  • 7 Conclusion and Next Steps
  • References

Abstract

The paper presents an overview of the methodology and results of the MIT Libraries' business plan development project for DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/), MIT's digital institutional repository. The introductory section includes a description of DSpace, the objectives of the business plan project, and the current status of the DSpace project. The methodology section explains the process and tools with which the business plan was developed. The remainder of the paper describes the results of the business plan project, including the DSpace service definition, the cost model, potential funding sources, and future DSpace plans.
Keywords: digital libraries, institutional repository, scholarly communication
 

Index of Figures

Figure 1. DSpace Services

Index of Tables

Table 1.  DSpace Cost Classifications
Table 2.  DSpace Budget Allocations

References

Fleishauer, Carol, Mary Barton, Margret Branschofsky, Dan Chudnov, Catherine Friedman, Keith Glavash, Carl Jones, Jeff Merriman, Sarah Mitchell, MacKenzie Smith, Megan Sniffin-Marinoff, Julie Harford Walker (2002) "Report of the DSpace Transition Planning Group to the MIT Libraries Steering Committee", Cambridge, MA, April

Hedstrom, Margaret (1995) "Digital preservation: a time bomb for Digital Libraries". Symposium on Reconnecting Science and Humanities in Digital Libraries, Lexington, Kentucky, October
http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/DL/hedstrom.html

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Overview http://dublincore.org/about/

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