D-Space Project Timeline

By August 15, 2004

Form IR advisory group

By September 15, 2004
Define content scope for IR

Define functions of the IR

Define Descriptive Metadata elements

Install the current release of DSPACE

By September 20, 2004

Configure DSPACE to allow for EID authentication

By September 30, 2004

Define Administrative Metadata elements

By October 1, 2004

Configure the system so that it has the appropriate accounts necessary for managing the THESES and Dissertations

By October 10, 2004

Gather a sample set of T&D

By October 15, 2004

Define what the IR will do

Define Behavioral Metadata elements

Review metadata elements from Maps project

By October 20, 2004

Ingest 1 test group using manual upload (to test interface)

By October 30, 2004

Ingest 1 test group using batch ingest (to test interface)

By November 1, 2004

Provide a full METs document with all elements

By November 15, 2004

Define the functions of a system to edit, store and manage the metadata being collected for these projects

Review the metadata elements from the MAPS project

Build a prototype interface to the metadata

By November 30, 2004

End review of system specs for the Metadata project
End review of DSPACE

JANUARY 1, 2005 – RELEASE Theses & Dissertations in D-Space

FEBRUARY 15, 2004

Release a prototype interface to the metadata