About the Digital Resource Commons

OhioLINK's Digital Resource Commons (DRC) vision is to leverage statewide economies of scale with a content repository service that enables all OhioLINK members and other Ohio institutions to rapidly publish and comprehensively access the wealth of research, historic and creative materials produced by Ohio's scholarly communities. The DRC service will accept, preserve, present, and mediate administration of the educational and research materials of participating institutions. Member institutions can create, use, and manage content stored and preserved on OhioLINK servers without redundant and costly local investments; in doing so, the entire membership can reap the benefits of locally-created content and share in the challenges and burdens of ensuring long-term preservation access.

The OhioLINK DRC will have capabilities to meet the needs of Ohio's scholars and researchers:

  • Institutional Repository: Research portfolios such as pre-prints, post-prints or working papers
  • Web-Mediated Peer Review Electronic Journals: Supporting open access self-archiving and publishing
  • Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Web-mediated submission, tracking, acceptance, and publication of student works
  • Learning Object Repository: Connected to a campus' Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE) for storage and retrieval of course content
  • Online Exhibition System: Digital library platform for libraries, archives, and special collections

The Digital Resource Commons (DRC) ingests, preserves, presents, and mediates administration of the educational and research materials of participating institutions.

See the ExecutiveSummary for more information... Additional details can be found in the ArchivedDocuments.

Become Part of the Project

Project Website

Through this project management website, you can make a direct contribution to the Digital Resource Commons. You can edit any page on this site to add your own thoughts and ideas (via the "Edit This Page" button at the bottom). As prototype releases are deployed, you can report bugs and feature requests through the "New Ticket" function in the page header. You can also join in the discussion of the project on the [http://ohiolink.edu/mailman/listinfo/drc DRC mailing list]. And, if you use an RSS-based news reader, you can track the progress of the project through these feeds:

Wiki RSSReports changes to Wiki pages only Ticket RSSReports changes to issue tickets only
Code RSSReports the check-in of code revisions Ticket RSSCombination of all of the above reports in one RSS feed

Due to wikispam, anonymous change to the Trac environment are no longer allowed. If you would like an account in the project management system (one does make it easier to track your own Wiki changes and issue tickets), please contact peter@OhioLINK.edu.

Mailing Lists

Several mailing lists exist to support the project as well:

drc-announce: low-volume, moderated list through which occasional project status summaries and major milestone announcements will be posted

drc: general discussion about the Digital Resource Commons

drc-devel: technical discussion actual coding and development of the system (also receives rss2email messages about changes to the project Wiki, tickets, or source code changesets)

Technology

The TechnologyPlatform for the DRC is DSpace under development by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard.

Related Projects

The Digital Resource Commons is one of three projects funded by an Ohio Board of Regents Technology Initiatives grant collectively called the Ohio Digital Commons for Education (ODCE). The three components -- this resource repository, the state-wide licensing and development of course management systems (WebCT and Blackboard), and a common access control mechanism (Shibboleth) -- combine to offer a powerful vision for learning and research for the state of Ohio. See OhioDigitalCommonsEducation for more information.

About This Project Management Software

Trac, by Edgewall Software, is a minimalistic approach to web-based management of software projects. Its goal is to simplify effective tracking and handling of software issues, enhancements and overall progress.

All aspects of Trac have been designed with the single goal to help developers write great software while staying out of the way and imposing as little as possible on a team's established process and culture.

As all Wiki pages, this page is editable, this means that you can modify the contents of this page simply by using your web-browser. Simply click on the "Edit this page" link at the bottom of the page. WikiFormatting will give you a detailed description of available Wiki formatting commands. This environment also contains documentation to help you get started with projects.

Other Information

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.