1. AgriOcean DSpace
An introduction
Imma Subirats ,Thembani Malapela & Sarah Dister, FAO of the United Nations (Italy)
Marc Goovaerts, Hasselt University (Belgium)
Denys Slipetskyy, IBSS (Ukraine)
April 2012 Presentation

2. Overview
o AgriOcean Dspace Partners
o Cooperation between FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE
o AgriOcean DSpace: Overview
o Support and Distribution
o Current Developments
o AgriOcean Dspace Roadmap :2012/2013

3. AgriOcean Dspace Partners

4. Partners
• Hasselt
University Library - Coordinator of AOD project &
Technical developments
• FAO of the United Nations - Coordinates the Communication
strategy
•Institute of Biology of the South Seas in Ukraine (IBSS) & Hasselt
University Library – executes developments
•UNESCO-IOC/IODE coordinates training activities on
OceanTeacher Platform.

5. Cooperation between
FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE

6. FAO and UNESCO-IOC
 FAO and UNESCO-IOC released a customized version of
DSpace – an Open Source, digital document repository
system.
 The communities supported by FAO and UNESCO-
IOC/IODE are synergistic and the standards on metadata
and controlled vocabularies are similar for both.
 Goals:
o Promote open access to scientific information
o Make scientific information more accessible
o Increase impact of research information

7. UNESCO-IOC: The Oceans Network
OceanDocs
Used by nearly 50 organisations in oceanography and aquatic
science
http://www.oceandocs.org
Repositories with the same software:
IBSS(Ukraine) http://repository.ibss.org.ua/dspace,
CEEMAR http://www.ceemar.org,
Related institutional repositories:
NIO (India) http://drs.nio.org,
ODINPimris http://pimrisregional.library.usp.ac.fj, 355 docs
(On Greenstone)

8. Oceans ctnd..
• The OceanDocs Central is available for smaller
institutes and institutes with limited internet capacity
• Odins create their network repository
• Some institutes have their own repository
• The oceanographic collection can be a part of a
larger institutional repository

9. FAO : AGRIS Network
• The AGRIS Network was set up by FAO in the 70s and
created a worldwide cooperation for sharing access to
agricultural science and technology information.
• Geographic view of centers see
http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search/AgrisLargeMap.do
 The AGRIS open archives and bibliographical databases
cover the many aspects of agriculture, including forestry,
animal husbandry, aquatic sciences and fisheries, and
human nutrition, extension literature from over 100
participating countries.

10. AGRIS Network... ctnd
• AGRIS collection includes 2,690,844 bibliographic records, of which 82.24%
are citations from scientific journals and 21% have links to full text documents

11. AgriOcean Dspace:
Overview

12. AOD current features
The current version is the customization of DSpace 1.7.1 (JSPUI
version), and to date has the following features:
• extended OAI-PMH interface with MODS and AGRIS AP
• use of controlled vocabularies (ASFA, AGROVOC)
• use of authority control for journals (ASFA and AGRIS list)
• availability of type based submission module
• easy to install version for Windows
• up-to-date lay-out: ‘personalizable’’ standard
• advance and customizable import functionalities

13. Content types handled by AOD
Journal contribution
- i.e Article, Review, editorial
Book section
Book
Proceedings paper
Conference contribution
- i.e Paper, Poster, Presentation
Research report
Working paper
Thesis
Other
- Preprint

14. Distribution and support

15. Distribution and support
 Communication release AgriOcean DSpace:
o FAO repository community: the AGRIS network
o IODE repository community: OceanDocs network
o Others: IAALD, DuraSpace
 Assistance
o AgriOcean DSpace community on AIMS, Agricultural Information
Management Standards (register)
http://aims.fao.org/community/group/agriocean-dspace
 Support material/Self training (http://aims.fao.org/tools)
o Preinstallation requirements
o Installation of AgriOcean DSpace
o Administration of AgriOcean DSpace

16. Current Developments

17. 1. Thesaurus plug-in
• ASFA and AGROVOC thesaurus embedded in the
submission process
• Aim to integrate the thesaurus into DSpace in order to be
able to pick and assign keywords for indexing
• The plug-in is needed on two levels: for the data entry
process and for the browsing by subject
7. Authority Control for Journals
ASFA and AGRIS Lists embedded in the submission process

18. Developments.... ctnd
1. Easy Installer on Google Code
AgriOcean DSpace 1.1 is available at Google Code in a
source code and as an easy-to- install version for
Windows
4. Batch import module
The current version of AgriOcean Dspace is 1.1 which
contains a batch import module for AGRIS AP, Endnote
and Web of Science RIS files
• .

19. Installation instances
AOD has been installed in the following instances so far:
• OceanDocs
• Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Ukraine (IBSS)
• Central and Eastern European Marine Repository
(CEEMaR)
• Ministry of Agriculture (Peru)
• Biblioteca Conmemorativa Orton IICA/CATIE
More institutions from Oceans , AGRIS and ASFA
communities are interested in this tool.

20. AgriOcean Dspace Roadmap
2012/2013

21. • Anticipated Technical Developments
• Compartibility with latest Dspace version
• Develop the AOD Interface further
• Extending the use of ontologies and authority
control , i.e. Geonames
3. AOD in the ODIN Communities
4. AOD in the AGRIS Network
5. AOD in the ASFA NetworkCapacity buidling
activities on AOD
6. OceanTeacher course for AOD

22. Thank you for your attention
The AgriOcean DSpace Working Team