DSpace-CRIS is an extended version of DSpace that offers a powerful and flexible data model to describe not only publications but all research entities and their relationships. DSpace-CRIS 7 will feature a new Angular UI and REST API in addition to functionality for compliance with OpenAire, integrating publications from external sources, bidirectional ORCID integration, and synchronizing with other systems. DSpace-CRIS also extends data modeling capabilities and provides tools for data quality, metadata management, and extensibility.

1. Extending DSpace 7
DSpace-CRIS & DSpace-GLAM
for Empowered Repositories
and Digital Libraries
Andrea Bollini
Claudio Cortese
Giuseppe Digilio
Riccardo Fazio
L. Andrea Pascarelli
Susanna Mornati
4SCIENCE
Open Repositories 2019, Hamburg, June 10-13

2. DSpace-CRIS is an “extended” version of DSpace,
the most popular repository platform in the world.
Since 2009, DSpace-CRIS offers a powerful and
flexible data model to describe not just
publications, but all the entities that populate the
research environment and their meaningful
relationships.
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRIS/DSpace-
CRIS+Home (documentation)
https://dspace-cris.4science.it/ (demo)
DSpace-CRIS

6. Enhanced statistics
● Aggregated information about the trend of viewing and downloading over time,
choosing the suitable date range
● Complete and aggregated statistics for entities (total views / downloads of an
author’s publications)
● Data are visualized in form of different graphs (pie chart, line or map), that can
be exported in .png or .jpg format
● The tabular raw data are included as well and it is also possible to search
large tables (top 100 items) and export the data as spreadsheets (xls or csv)
● For the whole repository or single communities and collections: statistics are
available for content and workflow

7. Bibliometrics
● Bibliometrics at item level, aggregation by researchers & department (orgUnit)

8. Living in a (too?) complex world?

9. Choked by complexity

10. Managing complexity

11. What’s new in DSpace-CRIS 7
DSpace-CRIS 7 is based on DSpace 7, so it will
feature a new Angular UI and a new REST API
In addition to DSpace 7, DSpace-CRIS is
already equipped to face the new challenges,
since versions 5 and 6.

12. How to face these challenges?
Part I: functionalities
Out-of-box functionalities to support real business
processes:
● Compliance with OpenAire guidelines for CRIS systems
● Publications feed from external sources (ORCID, Scopus,
WOS, PubMed, ArXiv, ADS, etc.)
● Bidirectional ORCID integration
● Synchronization framework from HR, accounting
systems, etc.

13. Compliance with OpenAire
The OpenAIRE Guidelines helps
repository managers expose
publications, datasets and CRIS
metadata via the OAI-PMH
protocol in order to integrate
with OpenAIRE infrastructure.
https://guidelines.openaire.eu/

14. Publications feed from external sources

15. Synchronization framework
Human Resources
Accounting &
Finance

16. ORCID Integration
Meadows, A., et al. (2019) Recommendations for Supporting ORCID in Repositories,
https://doi.org/10.23640/07243.7777274.v3

17. How to face these challenges?
Part II - Extending data models
Ternary
Relation-
ships
Hierarchical
Metadata
Relation-
ships
bitstreams/
entities

18. Rich relationships management
hide/select
publications, projects,
etc.

19. Lookup for entities population
Linked entities can be
looked up from
external systems and
created on the fly if
needed

20. Data quality
● Claim (Unclaim) publication
● Automatic attribution with Confidence Level
● Claim profile
● Deduplication

21. Metadata management
Fine-grained control
on access to
metadata and their
management
Authorized users can
hide specific
metadata values
project
funding only
editable by
Research
Office
private
email
address can
be hidden

22. Extensible infrastructure
• Extensible
infrastructure to
plugin viewers
dedicated to specific
bitstreams.

23. DSpace-GLAM
A Digital Library Management System built by
4Science to meet the needs of Cultural Heritage
institutions.
Flexible and extensible data model inherited from
DSpace-CRIS to manage relevant metadata
standards and specific conceptual models (such as
LIDO and CIDOC-CRM)
With dedicated add-ons for digital objects
curation, fruition and sharing

24. Resources and support
(extending the community)
● Wiki https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRIS/DSpace-CRIS+Home
● Community channels: DSpace mailing list, Slack
● 100 hours/y community support reviewing and
managing github issues
● DSpace-CRIS User Group (coming in Autumn)

25. Roadmap
● Final release of DSpace-CRIS 7 within 3-6 months from the
official release of DSpace 7
We are working on:
● Angular UI for DSpace-CRIS 7
● REST webservice toward DSpace-CRIS 7 (Angular-based)
● test site for DSpace 7 REST API already available at
https://dspace7.4science.it/)
● the DSpace-CRIS master branch now contains the REST 7
API webapp with support for the CRIS JAVA API

26. From DSpace to DSpace-CRIS/GLAM
• data migration without information loss
• automatic creation of entities and relationships during
the migration process
To version 7:
• effort needed for a new UI
• effort needed for new webservices

27. Thank you for your attention!
Susanna Mornati
susanna.mornati@4science.it
Claudio Cortese
claudio.cortese@4science.it
GARR 2019
Turin
June 4-6
Open Science
Fair 2019
Porto
September 16-
18
OAI 11
2019
Geneva
June 19-21
DSpace
North American
User Group 2019
Minneapolis
Sept. 23-24
Force 11
2019
Edinburgh
October 16-17
Open
Repositories
2019
Hamburg
June 10-13
COAR 2019
Lyon
May 21-23
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