Bram LUYTEN

Bram Luyten co-founded @mire, an international solution provider for the open source institutional repository platform DSpace. Over the past five years, Bram and his colleagues worked on DSpace related projects for 60 institutions, in 15 countries. Client institutions include The Inter American Development Bank (IDB), the British Library and the United Nations Economics Commission for Africa (UNECA). Through the experience with a diversity of content types, use cases and requirements, @mire has a unique expertise in DSpace, both from an organizational as well as technical perspective.

Bram holds a Masters of Sciences degree in Computer Science from K.U. Leuven (Belgium). His current research interests are enhancing online exposure of repositories, repository statistics and metadata.

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bluyten
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1000 Institutions 100 Countries 10 Years 1 Platform: Metadata in DSpace

The DSpace open source institutional repository platform is used by a very diverse community to ensure online access and preservation of digital collections. Overarching the spectrum between scholarly communication, theses, datasets and special library collections, DSpace offers an out of the box solution easy and generic enough to accommodate these uses.

As a member of the DSpace community and the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT), Bram Luyten will illustrate how the simple Dublin Core Metadata foundations of DSpace are enhanced to meet the needs of more complex usecases.

More in particular, he will present the results of ongoing work to improve metadata facilities in DSpace, facing challenges of serving users with more usability and flexibility, keeping up with the rapid evolutions of the web in general.