AgriOcean DspaceCustomized version of DSpace for agricultural and aquatic networks in parallel with developments at Hasselt University

Denys Slipetskyy (Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Ukraine), Dirk Leinders, Marc Goovaerts (Hasselt University)Imma Subirats, Sarah Dister, Thembani Malapela, Johannes Keizer (FAO of the United Nations)

VOA3R Workshop presentation

VOA3R

European project: Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository: A platform for sharing scientific and scholarly research related to agriculture, aquaculture and environment

Providing services: Combining harvesting of repositories and a research social

network

How to deliver good services? On the repository side: By collecting rich and high quality

metadata

See: http://voa3r.cc.uah.es/

VOA3R

Metadata quality

Refined metadata: To format the source: ex. Acta Oceanográfica del

Pacífico, 9(1). p. 103-114, you need separate input fields Use of ontologies: AGROVOC, ASFA, Geonames, … Unique identifiers: Author ID’s, ISSN, DOI,

Resource URI’s Rich metadata standards

The relevance of metadata quality becomes visible on the service side.

AgriOcean Dspace

In 2010, the United Nations agencies of FAO and UNESCO-IOC announced a joint initiative to provide a customized version of DSpace: to promote open access to scientific literature in the field of

oceanography, agriculture and related sciences available in digital form;

to assure good metadata quality and the use of thesauri and other forms of authority control;

to develop sustainable repositories that are more accessible and visible;

The customization is branded AgriOcean Dspace (AOD), and integrates the previous developments of both UN agencies in one customized version of DSpace.  

AgriOcean Dspace

customization of Dspace extended OAI-PMH interface with MODS, AGRIS AP, VOA3R AP use of controlled vocabularies (ASFA, AGROVOC) use of authority control for journals (ASFA and AGRIS list) availability of type based submission module advanced and customizable import functionalities

easy to install version for Windows

New Lay-out

Enhanced submission module

Lay-out possibilities: Switching between types Grouping of fields Definition of field size Different fields in a row Language option for a field

Type based submission

input-forms-extended.xml: <collection-type>

<collection handle="default"> <type name="Journal Contribution" /> <type name="Book"/> <type name="Book Section" /> <type name="Proceedings Paper" /> …

<type name="Working Paper" /> <type name="Map" /> <type name="Data Set" /> <type name="Other" />

</collection> </collection-type>

Authority control

Using the Dspace authority functionality Based on local table: e.g. sql.asfa = SELECT termcode as

authority, en as value FROM asfa WHERE lower(en) LIKE '%' || lower(?) || '%' ORDER BY en LIMIT 500.

Link between field and authority list is defined in input-forms-extended.xml (not in in dspace.cfg): ex. <authority closed="true" editable=“false" presentation="suggest" limit="50">asfa</authority>

Authority control on journal titles

Possibility to add besides the title an issn if not available in the authority list

ISSN is copied to dc.identifier.issn title + volume + issue + start + end page >

dc.identifier.citation

Authority control on author names

Author identification: alternative writing adding a new one using Dspace index

Only available for UHasselt staff

Only available for Dspace administrators

Embargo on bitstream level

Import on interface level

Import in the submission workflow as ‘unfinished submission’

Metadata of xml and ris-based formats: xml: Agris AP, MODS Ris: Endnote

Translation to DIM format

Easy installer for windows

Based on a built version With NSIS - script

Distribution

Installations by different partners: OceanDocs: >40 institutes from Africa and Latin

America IBSS(Ukraine) & CEEMAR (East-European network) Published Ocean Data (Pilot Project of SCOR, MBLWHOI

and IODE to archive data sets) Ministry of Agriculture (Peru) KMFRI & KARI, Kenya

Interest of: The OdinAfrica network, JIMMA University (Ethiopia),

Moi University (Kenya), VLIR-UOS Network of 12 Cuban universities and institutions related to the agricultural domain in Latin America.

To be harvested by AGRIS , VOA3R , OceanDocs

Different level approach

Easy-to-install version for small organizations Based on a built version of Dspace

Harvesting functionality in OceanDocs: Harvesting the odin and institutional repositories of the

IODE network Mirror metadata and documents for archiving purposes

AGRIS as harvester of FAO-related repositories

Communication and Support

Main tool: AIMS (FAO) - http://aims.fao.org/agriocean-dspace

Communication AgriOcean DSpace: FAO repository community: the AGRIS network IODE repository community: OceanDocs network

Assistance AgriOcean DSpace community on AIMS, Agricultural

Information Management Standards (register) OceanTeacher

Support material/Self training Preinstallation requirements Installation of AgriOcean DSpace Administration of AgriOcean DSpace

AOD-community on AIMS

http://aims.fao.org/agriocean-dspace

Future development

Ontology plug-in/module: For SKOS, OWL, … Authority control on different type of descriptors

(thesauri, authors, geographical descriptors, …) Accessing AGROVOC through web services or locally

AgriOcean Dspace is part of the set of tools to be distributed among the VOA3R data providers for the implementation of document repositories - http://voa3r.eu

Linked Open Data (LOD) for AgriOcean Dspace After JSP?

The AgriOcean Dspace Team: Imma Subirats, Sarah Dister, Thembani

Malapela(FAO of the United Nations) Denys Slipetskyy (Institute of Biology of the

Southern Seas, Ukraine), Dirk Leinders, Nils De Wolf, Marc Goovaerts

(Hasselt University Library, Belgium)

http://aims.fao.org/community/group/agriocean-dspace http://code.google.com/p/agriocean/