The DSpace Course
August 28, 2008
Congratulations to the JISC-funded Repositories Support Project for The DSpace Course initiative! A colleague brought this to my attention today and I immediately took a look.
The DSpace course is a set of 20 modules that can be used to create a custom course. Released with a creative commons “by-attribution share-alike” license, both pdfs and powerpoint/word files are released for easy remixing and resue.
The course modules cover topics such as configuration, customization and management. It is an incredibly valuable training resource, especially for new hires that have the skills but are not familiar with DSpace. It will save me weeks of training time in the future by quickly demystifying DSpace and making it more approachable. To further enhance the learning experience, an accompanying live CD has also been released which allows DSpace to be run and used without having to install it on a server.
My thanks to Stuart Lewis and Chris Yates for all their hard work. My printer is humming in the background as I’m looking forward to ploughing through the course on my home commute.
