The DSpace Community

The DSpace platform is open source, so anyone can contribute new features and enhancements to the codebase. The DSpace Community works together to add features and improve the different functions of the system as we learn what users actually want, and how best to support such complex requirements as digital preservation and digital rights management.

DSpace developers pool their collective experience and share expertise with the DSpace community through the DSpace-Tech and DSpace-General mailing lists. Join the DSpace Community to work with DSpace managers, developers, and user to further our common goals.

DSpace Committers

Leading the DSpace Community's development work are a group of dedicated developers and users called the DSpace Committers. Committers and other active contributors to DSpace share ideas and development plans on the DSpace Wiki and the DSpace-devel mailing list.

DSpace User Conferences

2007

The 2007 DSpace User Group Meeting will be held on 18-19 October in Rome, Italy. The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended. See the call for papers and registration details. Don't miss this exciting opportunity!

In January 2007, a DSpace User Group meeting was held at the start of Open Repositories 2007 in San Antonio, Texas.

Prior Years

On April 20-21 2006, the DSpace User Group Meeting was held in Bergen, Norway.

On 31 January - 1 February 2006, the DSpace User Group Meeting, Sydney, Australia formed part of the APSR-sponsored Open Repositories 2006 event.

The second DSpace Federation User Group Meeting was held at the University of Cambridge on Thursday-Friday, 7-8 July 2005.

See the agenda and results of the first DSpace User Conference, held at MIT in March 2004.

The DSpace Project

DSpace was jointly developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Company. From 2003-2004, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded a one-year research project to study how the DSpace Federation might best serve its members and the scholarly community at large.

See the DSpace Federation Project site and the Mellon Foundation year-end report (PDF) for more information on the origins of DSpace.