DAY 1: Monday, 7 September
THEME: An introduction to Institutional Repositories
 

Time and
 Location

Content

Facilitators
(UP and SU)

Outcomes

Type / Material

08:00 – 08:30
J.S. Gericke Library
Staff Tea Room

Registration and Refreshments

08:30 – 08:35
J.S. Gericke Library
Auditorium

Welcome.

Dr. Reggie Raju
Director: IT and Communications, SU LIS.

08:35 – 08:45
J.S. Gericke Library
Auditorium

Workshop arrangements and intended outcomes.

W. Klapwijk, SU

Purpose of workshop and logistics.

Slides

08:45 – 09:30
J.S. Gericke Library
Auditorium

Introduction and current state of Institutional Repositories.

I. Smith, UP

- Purpose of an IR.
- Current state of IR on national and international level.

Slides / wiki

09:30 – 10:30
J.S. Gericke Library
Auditorium

Planning your Institutional Repository.

I. Smith, UP

- Conducting a needs analysis.
- Compiling a business plan.
- Compiling and presenting a proposal.
- Getting buy-in from management.

Slides / wiki

10:30 – 11:00

Refreshments (and move across to NARGA)

11:00 – 11:30
NARGA

Requirements for a Trusted  Digital Repository (TDR) and measuring trustworthiness in repositories.

W. Klapwijk, SU
I. Smith, UP

- Trusted Digital Repository attributes.
- TDR roles and responsibilities.

Slides / wiki / Handouts

11:30 – 13:00
NARGA

Administering your repository .

I. Smith, UP
L. Daniels, UP

- Structuring your IR.
 

Slides / wiki

13:00 – 14:00
Die Bloukamer

Lunch
 

14:00 – 15:30
NARGA

Administering your repository (continued).

I. Smith, UP
L. Daniels, UP

- Creating Communities and Collections.
- Setting up workflows.

Slides / wiki

15:30 – 16:00

Refreshments (reconvene in Library Auditorium)

16:00 – 17:00
J.S. Gericke Library
Auditorium

Marketing your Institutional Repository and giving exposure to all content.

I. Smith, UP

- How to give proactive advocacy to your IR.

Presentation / wiki

DAY 2: Tuesday, 8 September
THEME: Installing and configuring Ubuntu 8.04LTS (Server edition)
 

Time and
 Location

Content

Facilitators
(SU)

Outcomes

Type / Material

08:30 – 09:00
NARGA

Familiarization, sign-on and overview of computer equipment.

H. Gibson
Assisted by:
LIS-IT staff

To be comfortable with workstation setup.

Practical

09:00 – 09:30
NARGA

An overview of the LATP stack. (Linux/Apache/Tomcat/PostgreSQL)

W. Klapwijk

Insight into the underlying dependencies on which DSpace is built.

Slides / Demo

09:30 – 10:00
NARGA

Overview of Linux Ubuntu Server networking.

H. Gibson

- DHCP
- Static IP setup
- DNS
- Firewall, etc.

Hands-on, demo / Wiki

10:00 – 10:30
NARGA

10:30 – 11:00

Refreshments

11:00 – 13:00
NARGA

Installing Ubuntu 8.04LTS (Server edition).

H. Gibson
Assisted by:
LIS-IT staff

- Experience with installing the ISO image.

Hands-on / Wiki

13:00 – 14:00
Die Bloukamer

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30
NARGA

Ubuntu software management practices.

H. Gibson
Assisted by:
LIS-IT staff

- sources-list.
- ufw.
- apt-get, etc.

Hands-on / Wiki

15:30 – 16:00

Refreshments

16:00 – 17:00
NARGA

Installing a LAMP-stack application on Ubuntu: Wordpress blog.

H. Gibson
Assisted by:
LIS-IT

- Practical experience installing an application on Linux.

Hands-on / Wiki

DAY 3: Wednesday, 9 September
THEME: Installing DSpace (release 1.5.x)
 

Time and
Location

Content

Facilitators
(SU)

Outcomes

Type / Material

08:30 – 09:00
NARGA

An overview of the DSpace architecture.

W. Klapwijk

- LAMP stack and 3-tier architecture.

Slides / Demo

09:00 – 10:30
NARGA

Installing DSpace.

H. Gibson
Assisted by:
LIS-IT

- Basic packages install procedure.

Hands-on / Wiki

10:30 – 11:00

Refreshments

11:00 – 13:00
NARGA

Installing DSpace (continued).

H. Gibson
Assisted by:
LIS-IT

- Tomcat/Apache.
- PostgreSQL.
- Maven package and build.

Hands-on / Wiki

13:00 – 14:00
SU Botanical Gardens

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30
NARGA

Installing DSpace (continued).

H. Gibson
Assisted by:
LIS-IT

- Ant compile.
- Configuration files.

Hands-on / Wiki

15:30 – 16:00

Refreshments

16:00 – 17:00
NARGA

Preparing a workspace in DSpace.

W. Klapwijk

- LDAP setup and configuration.
- Community and collection setup.

Hands-on / Wiki

DAY 4: Thursday, 10 September
THEME: Configuring the DSpace XML/XSLT presentation layer (Manakin)
 

Time and
Location

Content

Facilitators
(@Mire)

Outcomes

Type /
Material

08:30 – 09:00
NARGA

Welcome and Introduction: about @Mire.

L.Droogmans, @Mire

All about @Mire as a business unit, and its services and products.

Presentation

09:00 – 10:30
NARGA

The Manakin dependencies: XML/XSLT and Cocoon.

L.Droogmans

Working with XML (basics, namespaces, schema), XLST, XPath, Cocoon

Presentation
Hands-on exercises

10:30 – 11:00

Refreshments

11:00 – 13:00
NARGA

Manakin architecture

L.Droogmans

- A fundamental understanding of the underlying Manakin building blocks.
- DRI schema, Wing-based transformers, Themes, Aspects.

Presentation

13:00 – 14:00
Die Bloukamer

Lunch

14:00 – 15:30
NARGA

Customizing Manakin.

L. Droogmans

Basic: customizing style (HTML/CSS/i18n) & Themes (XML/XSLT).

Hands-on
Short presentation

15:30 – 16:00

Refreshments

16:00 – 17:00
NARGA

Customizing Manakin (continued).

L. Droogmans

Advanced: customizing aspects.

Hands-on
Short presentation

17:30 – 21:30
 

SPONSORED SOCIAL EVENT
(Moyo Restaurant, Spier Wine Estate, Lynedoch - bordering Stellenbosch)
 

DAY 5: Friday, 11 September
THEME: Submission, Batch ingest, OAI-PMH crosswalks
 

Time and
Location

Content

Facilitators
(@Mire)

Outcomes

Type /
Material

08:30 – 09:30
NARGA

Configuring DSpace Item Submissions.

L. Droogmans

- Configuring submission input forms
- Submission steps
- Workflow

Presentation / Hands-on

09:30 – 10:30
NARGA

An overview of the DSpace import and export functionality.

L. Droogmans

- Using the DSpace import tool
- The DSpace archive directory

Presentation / Hands-on

10:30 – 11:00

Refreshments

11:00 – 13:00
NARGA

Configuring OAI-PMH in DSpace.

L. Droogmans

- OAI protocol for metadata harvesting basics
- OAI-PMH in the DSpace architecture
- Java dissemination crosswalks
- XSLT-based crosswalks
- Java OAICat crosswalks

Presentation / Hands-on

13:00 – 14:00
J.S. Gericke Library
Staff Tea Room

Finger Lunch

Some participants may leave here to catch early flights.

14:00 – 15:00
J.S. Gericke Library
Auditorium

@Mire commercial solutions / plug-ins for DSpace.

L. Droogmans

DSpace add-on modules demo (@Mire labs)

Sales pitch / Demo.

15:00

Wrap-up

W. Klapwijk