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DSpace Newsletters

• DSpace Newsletter, Spring 2002
• DSpace Newsletter, Summer 2001
• DSpace Newsletter, Spring 2001

DSpace in the News

• "Superarchives" Could Hold All Scholarly Output
     The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 5, 2002
• HP-MIT Partnership Transforming Libraries into Digital Document Repositories
     The MIT Report, vol. XXX, no.2, March 2002, p.3
• DSpace Project Hits Milestone: Early Adopter Phase Begins
     MIT Libraries Press Release, March 12, 2002
  
• DSpace: Sharing MIT's Intellectual Output
     MIT Libraries News, Vol.12, No.2, Fall/Winter 2000, p.4
• DSpace at MIT: What Users Want
      SPARC e-News, October-November 2000
• The DSpace Project
      MIT Faculty Newsletter, Vol. XII No. 4, April/May 2000

HP News Releases

• HP Labs, MIT Libraries Join Forces to Build 'D Space'
    HP World, June 2, 2000.

Promotional Materials

• Posters

DSpace Milestones

Checkpoint 1 - Planning

• Survey of similar systems and potential collaborators- COMPLETED
• List of commercial systems that might be applicable or have useful components- COMPLETED
• Resources on the web -- bookmarks of relevant documents and other projects - COMPLETED
• Lead user study and identification -COMPLETED
• Team staffing competency model - COMPLETED
• The team membership fully staffed- COMPLETED
• Initial, skeletal architectural specification - COMPLETED
• List of areas which will need discovery or improvement - COMPLETED
• Detailed project data sheet - COMPLETED
• Initial, skeletal requirements document - COMPLETED
• Detailed project schedule - COMPLETED
• Inhabitable space for team established - COMPLETED

Checkpoint 2 - Design

• Complete architectural specification - COMPLETED
• Complete software design specifications - COMPLETED
• Specifications for user documentation - COMPLETED
• Training specifications - COMPLETED
• Complete test plans: component tests, integration tests, and system tests - COMPLETED

Checkpoint 3 - Version 0 code and test

• Repository complete - COMPLETED
• Continuity policy document - COMPLETED

Checkpoint 4 - Version 1 design

• Revised software design specifications - COMPLETED
• Revised specifications for user documentation - COMPLETED
• Revised training specifications - COMPLETED
• Revised test plans: component tests, integration tests, and system tests - COMPLETED
• Business plan for taking the system beyond version 1 roll-out to ongoing service and support as part of MIT infrastructure - COMPLETED

Future Functionality

• System available outside MIT/HP
• Rights management framework
• Publishing/printing capabilities
• Metadata to RDF standards
• Community-specific metadata to complement submission
• Full text searching

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