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2000
MIT Libraries and HP Labs undertake a $1,800,000 research and development project “to create an operational software system with broad functionality to capture, manage, preserve, and redistribute digital scholarly research materials in a variety of formats for a variety of purposes.”
2001
“Little D,” a prototype for DSpace is expected to be released at this time according to press accounts of the initial collaboration between MIT Libraries and HP Labs.
2002
DSpace 1.0 is released as open source software, beginning a phase of community input into what had previously been a private project internal to MIT Libraries and HP Labs.
The DSpace system is piloted at MIT libraries, the Sloan School of Management, the Department of Ocean Engineering, the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.
2003- 2004
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Cambridge-MIT Institute fund a one year study to begin “the process of building a collaborative federation of institutions running DSpace.” This project is termed the DSpace Federation Project.
2003
MIT hosts a Technical Workshop as a forum for participants in the DSpace Federation Project to engage one another.
MIT hosts a Policy and Planning for DSpace Implementations Workshop in conjunction with the DSpace Federation Project.
2004
The first DSpace User Group meeting is held at MIT, sponsored by HP and Google. At the meeting, a “committer group” modeled on similar groups at the Apache Software Foundation is established. The group is charged with developing new code for the software. It is revealed that DSpace is being used in a variety of institutional settings, not just higher education.
Version 1.2 of the DSpace software is released. This version “includes code contributions from a number of other institutions, and [is]? entirely tested and debugged by the wider DSpace community.”
DSpace is “running as a live system at approximately 50 organizations worldwide (mostly research universities) and [is]? being implemented, tested, or evaluated by more than one hundred others.”
DSpace’s technical support list has more than 400 subscribers, while the developer list has 40 active participants.
The University of Edinburgh reports on a project to electronic archiving function for theses within DSpace, signaling a new use for DSpace.
2005
The second DSpace Federation User Group meeting is held at New Hall, University of Cambridge, sponsored by Cambridge-MIT Institute and HP Research Laboratories. 140 people from 22 countries attend.
It is reported that DSpace is used at 79 institutions.
DSpace version 1.3.2 is released.
HP Laboratories India announces a project to couple educational television and digital libraries using DSpace in India.
2006
A meeting of the DSpace User Group is held in conjunction with the Open Repositories 2006 Conference sponsored by the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories.
DSpace has six commercial service providers.
The DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board decides to create an independent legal entity to govern DSpace.
MIT Libraries and HP Labs undertake a $1,800,000 research and development project “to create an operational software system with broad functionality to capture, manage, preserve, and redistribute digital scholarly research materials in a variety of formats for a variety of purposes.”
2001
“Little D,” a prototype for DSpace is expected to be released at this time according to press accounts of the initial collaboration between MIT Libraries and HP Labs.
2002
DSpace 1.0 is released as open source software, beginning a phase of community input into what had previously been a private project internal to MIT Libraries and HP Labs.
The DSpace system is piloted at MIT libraries, the Sloan School of Management, the Department of Ocean Engineering, the Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.
2003- 2004
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Cambridge-MIT Institute fund a one year study to begin “the process of building a collaborative federation of institutions running DSpace.” This project is termed the DSpace Federation Project.
2003
MIT hosts a Technical Workshop as a forum for participants in the DSpace Federation Project to engage one another.
MIT hosts a Policy and Planning for DSpace Implementations Workshop in conjunction with the DSpace Federation Project.
2004
The first DSpace User Group meeting is held at MIT, sponsored by HP and Google. At the meeting, a “committer group” modeled on similar groups at the Apache Software Foundation is established. The group is charged with developing new code for the software. It is revealed that DSpace is being used in a variety of institutional settings, not just higher education.
Version 1.2 of the DSpace software is released. This version “includes code contributions from a number of other institutions, and [is]? entirely tested and debugged by the wider DSpace community.”
DSpace is “running as a live system at approximately 50 organizations worldwide (mostly research universities) and [is]? being implemented, tested, or evaluated by more than one hundred others.”
DSpace’s technical support list has more than 400 subscribers, while the developer list has 40 active participants.
The University of Edinburgh reports on a project to electronic archiving function for theses within DSpace, signaling a new use for DSpace.
2005
The second DSpace Federation User Group meeting is held at New Hall, University of Cambridge, sponsored by Cambridge-MIT Institute and HP Research Laboratories. 140 people from 22 countries attend.
It is reported that DSpace is used at 79 institutions.
DSpace version 1.3.2 is released.
HP Laboratories India announces a project to couple educational television and digital libraries using DSpace in India.
2006
A meeting of the DSpace User Group is held in conjunction with the Open Repositories 2006 Conference sponsored by the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories.
DSpace has six commercial service providers.
The DSpace Federation Governance Advisory Board decides to create an independent legal entity to govern DSpace.