Download - DSpace: State of the art
QUICK INTRODUCTIONMEET THE STAKEHOLDERS
Researcher
Institution
Admin staff
End User
Other institutions
1. RESEARCHER: LOOKING FOR VISIBILITY ON HIS/ HER RESEARCH
Researcher
Institution
Admin staff
End User
Other institutions
I want other people to discover my research, but my own website is not really
driving traffic...
2. INSTITUTIONS: LOOKING FOR AN EASY MEANS TO PUBLISH SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT
Researcher
Institution
Admin staff
End User
Other institutions
We want to showcase our scientific output...
...and we need a structured approach to report our research statistics to our
sponsors
3. ADMIN STAFF: LOOKING FOR CONFIGURABILITY AND EASY-OF-USE
Researcher
Institution
Admin staff
End User
Other institutions
Ok, but with all these frequent staff and department changes, I really want something
that is easy to maintain...
4. END USERS: EXPECTING THE SAME USABILITY OF OTHER CONTEMPORARY WEBSITES
Researcher
Institution
Admin staff
End User
Other institutions
Without a user-friendly solution for searching/ browsing information, I’m not really
encouraged to discover all that research...
5. OTHER INSTITUTIONS: LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK TOGETHER
Researcher
Institution
Admin staff
End User
Other institutions
Some of our research is quite related to theirs... it might be interesting to “harvest” their scientific output in our own repository
DSPACE: AN OPEN-SOURCE REPOSITORY SOLUTION, DESIGNED FOR SUCH USE CASES
Researcher
Institution
Admin staff
End User
Other institutionsDSpace
HOW DOES DSPACE DO THAT?
Let’s go through some examples of live repositories and see how DSpace caters for these needs...
1. CONTENT DISSEMINATIONEXAMPLE: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
DSpace allows institutions to easily disseminate their
scientific output
Descriptive metadata on Item Pages (also indexed by search engines)
2. PUBLISHING WORKFLOWEXAMPLE: DEFAULT DSPACE
User-friendly submission interface for helping
submitters to add new content
Assistance for Administrators to review and validate these items
4. CONTENT DISCOVERYEXAMPLE: SAM (PARIS TECH UNIVERSITY)
browse results, or gradually refine your search by adding “filters”
5. AUTOMATED COLLECTION OF STATISTICSEXAMPLE: DEFAULT DSPACE
How many times did people visit this item?
How “productive” is my current
Validation Workflow?What are our
visitors looking for?
6. CONFIGURABLE AND OPEN SOURCEEXAMPLE: UNIVERSITY OF LILLE
Custom user interface, based on standard Mirage theme
WHAT DSPACE IS NOT (YET?)
• DSpace does not have a hierarchical item model
• The DSpace object model is inherently flat.
• DSpace does not have a CRIS-like object model
• Items are objects with their own metadata
• Authors and Departments are not!
• Dspace does not have a standardized API that opens the full functionality of DSpace to external applications
• Current integration focus is on OAI and SWORD
• REST API is candidate to become the first true “API” of DSpace (...but which one will make it?)
WHAT IT IS NOTNO HIERARCHICAL ITEMS - (SIMPLICITY!)
0..*1Community Collection
ItemBundle
Bitstream FormatBitstream
0..*0..1
0..*
0..1
1..*1
1..*
1
0..*1
0..*
0..*
WHAT DSPACE IS NOT (YET?)
• DSpace does not have a hierarchical item model
• The DSpace object model is inherently flat.
• DSpace does not have a CRIS-like object model
• Items are objects with their own metadata
• Authors and Departments are not!
• Dspace does not have a standardized API that opens the full functionality of DSpace to external applications
• Current integration focus is on OAI and SWORD
• REST API is candidate to become the first true “API” of DSpace (...but which one will make it?)
WHAT IT IS NOT“FLAT” METADATA SCHEMA
0..*1Community Collection
ItemBundle
Bitstream FormatBitstream
0..*0..1
0..*
0..1
1..*1
1..*
1
0..*1
0..*
0..*
Author
Not stored as an object, but as metadata with the Item
Affiliation
Project
WHAT DSPACE IS NOT (YET?)
• DSpace does not have a hierarchical item model
• The DSpace object model is inherently flat.
• DSpace does not have a CRIS-like object model
• Items are objects with their own metadata
• Authors and Departments are not!
• Dspace does not have a standardized API that opens the full functionality of DSpace to external applications
• Current integration focus is on OAI and SWORD
• REST API is candidate to become the first true “API” of DSpace (...but which one will make it?)
WHAT IT IS NOTSTRONG FOCUS ON DEPOSIT/ HARVESTING
DSpace
OAI
Sword
External system doing a submission
External system doing a harvest
repository deposit
repository harvesting
WHAT IT IS NOT...BUT NOT YET A STANDARDIZED “API”
DSpace
OAI
Sword
External system doing a submission
External system doing a harvest
repository deposit
repository harvesting
???
External system querying DSpace
External system retrieving Item
metadata
External system retrieving Item
bitstream
See further: REST API?
DSPACE IS SOFTWARE “IN EVOLUTION”
1. What DSpace is and is not
2. Where do we come from?
3. Where are we going?
2010-2011: DSPACE 1.7IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BASE THEME
DSpace 1.7 1.8 3.x
20/10/2010
Basic search & Browse
XMLUI theme, but still rather difficult to
customize
2010-2011: DSPACE 1.7IMPROVEMENTS TO THE BASE THEME
DSpace 1.7 1.8 3.x
Source: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC17/History
2011-2012: DSPACE 1.8FINAL RELEASE OF “FACETED SEARCH”
DSpace 1.7 1.8 3.x
Much better search & browse experience
for end users
2011-2012: DSPACE 1.8 CONFIGURABLE WORKFLOWS
DSpace 1.7 1.8 3.x
Ability to configure the order in which workflow steps are
executed
2012-2013: DSPACE 3.XBETA FEATURE: ITEM VERSIONING
DSpace 1.7 3.x1.8
Basic support for Item Versioning (BETA)
OVERVIEW
1. Trend towards “Social/ Sharing”
2. Further Systems Integration (REST)
3. Advanced Authority (ORCID)
1. SHARING & SOCIAL MEDIARECENT QUESTIONS FROM OUR CLIENTS
“How can we help end users to share their favorite items on Facebook?”
“Users should have their private “item basket” in DSpace, in which
they keep their favorite items”“Is there a way to send automated
updates to Facebook when we submit a new item to DSpace?”
“We have a lot of visual content. Can our visitors somehow share these images on their Pinterest site? This would drive traffic to our repository”
“Can we extend the Item pages in DSpace to allow visitors to rate an item and provide
user comments?”
1. SHARING & SOCIAL MEDIA - CASE STUDY...TO A SOCIAL PLATFORM FOR NON-EXPERTS
Virtual expositions allow users to discover
the content of the repository
OVERVIEW
1. Trend towards “Social/ Sharing”
2. Further Systems Integration (REST)
3. Advanced Authority (ORCID)
2. THE REST APIFURTHER SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
DSpace
OAI
Sword
External system doing a submission
External system doing a harvest
repository deposit
repository harvesting
REST API
External system querying DSpace
External system retrieving Item
metadata
External system retrieving Item
bitstream
However...many many many
discussions ongoing...
OVERVIEW
1. Trend towards “Social/ Sharing”
2. Further Systems Integration (REST)
3. Advanced Authority (ORCID)
RESEARCHERS ARE MOBILE PEOPLE...
• When I move to another institution, I will typically receive a new staff ID
• Often, this staff ID will be used as an “authority”, linked to the papers I submit in that institution’s repository
• ...but my other papers at my previous institution will still contain my other staff ID....
• How do I ensure that both sets are linked to me?
...AND THEY OFTEN WORK TOGETHER ACROSS UNIVERSITIES
• I recently wrote a paper together with a colleague from another university
• We are now archiving this paper in our respective repositories
• Since I don’t have a staff ID at the other institution, how can my colleague still include my name with authority control?
• See also: duplicate detection in the context of nation-wide harvesting (Belgium, France, ...)
SO TO CONCLUDE....WE HAVE LOTS OF IDEAS FOR DISCUSSION :)
• Is DSpace evolving too slow? Too fast?
• How do you want to see DSpace evolve?
• More social? (Facebook, Twitter, User profiles?)
• More expert-minded? (Endnote, Zotero, Orcid, ...)
• More mobile? (More development effort on tablet and smartphone version?)
• More CRIS-like? (Organisation Units, Research Projects and Researchers as first class objects with their own metadata?)
• Do you think the REST API is a core feature for the next release of DSpace? Should it be integrated in the core, or released as add-on module?
IT WOULD BE GREAT TO DISCUSS SOME OF THESE ELEMENTS WITH YOU TODAY!!