The Longsight Group is pleased to be hosting and supporting a new digital repository service offered to the higher education community by NITLE, the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education. The NITLE service is based on DSpace, the open source repository application developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs.
DSpace captures, stores, indexes, preserves and redistributes an institution’s materials in digital formats. Colleges and universities worldwide use DSpace for a variety of digital archiving needs -- from institutional repositories (IRs) to learning object repositories or electronic records management, and more. DSpace is organized hierarchically into communities, collections and sub-collections, and provides a strong set of tools for cataloging content.
The more than twenty institutions currently subscribed to the NITLE service are using DSpace to archive and showcase campus scholarship and creative work and to explore the potential of DSpace as a long-term solution for archiving intellectual property. Each subscribing institution has its own customized community in which they create and catalog collections.
According to Jo Ellen Parker, NITLE’s Executive Director, “NITLE turned to Longsight to host our Institutional Repository Service because we needed utterly reliable support from an organization that understands and is sensitive to the needs of our client institutions. Our expectations on both fronts have been fully met.” More information about the NITLE DSpace Service is available online.
NITLE is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to promoting liberal education.
The Longsight Group provides support services for carefully selected open source applications.
