3. • Content is stored in a
central location
• The data store is
populated with the
different collections of
content.
Content
store
4. Make connections between
the different sources of
content and make searching
across them possible
DOCUMENT TYPES
abstract / summary
THEMES AND TOPICS
Climate change /
global warming
LOCATION
Myanmar / Burma
5. • An application programming
interface enables users with
the requisite technical
capacity, to gain access to
the content
• This relies on organisations
or individuals having the
technical capacity to interact
with an API
6. Plugins that interface with
common content
management systems such
as Wordpress, Drupal and
Joomla have been made to
make it easier for non
technical users to consume
content from the Hub
7. Having “imported” content to
their own websites, users
can then present the new
Hub content alongside their
own content … and then
contribute to the Hub
import
re-submit
present repurpose
8. For more information please contact:
Kelly Shephard
k.shephard@ids.ac.uk
www.okhub.org
Editor's Notes
My name is Kelly Shephard and I work at the Institute of Development Studies.
This is a research institute based in Sussex in the UK.
Together, with my team and partners, we work with research content – to shape it and identify who needs to have access to it in order to make informed decisions and global change.
So lets think about the content
Content – and by that we mean open-liscensed metadata (bibliographic and links) about research documents and organisations – are being entered into the hub. Users can then either search the hub or use tools such as the open api to interact with the data and shape it for their audience needs.
So far IDS has committed content form three in house knowledge and information services – British Library for Development Studies (BLDS), Eldis and BRIDGE. They have been joined by partners such as Genre Action, CCCCC, Philippines Institute for Devlopment Studies, 3IE and Practical Action.
Content – and by that we mean open-liscensed metadata (bibliographic and links) about research documents and organisations – are being entered into the hub. Users can then either search the hub or use tools such as the open api to interact with the data and shape it for their audience needs.
This is where the mapping of different data structures to connect one set of data to the others happens such as the mapping of fields and taxonomy structures like themes/topics. The search index uses SOLR and makes it possible for users to construct complex searches of the content (using the API) to identify what’s useful to them.
Content access 1
We have made plugins (for common content management systems) that allow non-technical users to consume Hub content.
Having “imported” content to their own websites, users can then present the new Hub content alongside their own content
…and then contribute to the Hub
