I am probably one of the few who has just discovered this but, for anyone interested in dspace technology Uof T is one of the first university's to have subscribed to the service from its inception. As part of my software evaluation I arranged to interview someone from the IT department and get the lowdown on Tspace - our very own version of dspace. Not only has Uof T decided to fully subscribe to the service, they are rolling out a new version in 2008.
My interest in the technology is in how it could be utilized as a teaching aid, especially in view of the growing use of digital materials in the classroom. Right now the biggest issue is getting the Profs to find time to archive and enter their data. According to 'my source' its mostly students - many from FIS - who are doing the grunt work and entering all the data for the Profs. Being in the archives stream I find this technology to be quite interesting. I can see this technology really altering the landscape of academia, making communications, research and information sharing much more commonplace and dare I say it, simplified.
Just image, a simplifed academic environment......seems almost unnatural!
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There seemed to be nothing but positive comments from every blogger and chatter about Dspace online; the only negative comments were, in fact, about the difficulties encountered trying to get faculty to actually use it!
I looked at Greenstone for this assignment, but now that I read all the favourable comments about Dspace, I'll definitely look into it too. The thing I liked about this assignment was that I felt like I was actually learning something I could draw on in a job situation (and possibly even a job interview situation!).
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