The Road To CGSpace Alan Orth and Abenet Yabowork IITA/AfricaRice CGSpace Training Ibadan, Nigeria, 19 October 2015
The Road To CGSpace
Alan Orth and Abenet Yabowork
IITA/AfricaRice CGSpace TrainingIbadan, Nigeria, 19 October 2015
What is DSpace?
• Open-source software for creating digital repositories
• Driven by demands to have all outputs and products available and accessible
• Stewarded by DuraSpace with input from the user and developer communities
• Not a “library” management system
CGIAR Science
Council in 2008:
Research
benefits must
travel across
borders
Access to Public Goods, Long on CGIAR Agenda
https://r4dconsult.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/international-public-goods-research/
CGIAR Circa 2008
Our research outputs and results were in bad shape!
• Addresses were not permanent• Not on the internet (or digital!)• Not captured• Kept inside intranets
DSpace Helps Make Information “F.A.I.R”
Free: no subscriptions, passwords, or “paywalls”Accessible: is publicly available (long term)Indexed: can be found in search enginesReusable: has a permissive license
Addresses both the moral and legal imperatives… aka the “carrot” and the “stick”.
History of DSpace at ILRI
Before: InMagic, physical library2009: ILRI launches Mahider (“repository” in
Amharic)2010: Other CGIAR research centers and programs
join our platform and share hard / soft costs2011: Rebranded as “CGSpace”2015: 8 CGIAR centers, 5 CRPs, other projects,
~50,000 items, ~200k hits/month
“Mahider” in December, 2010
“CGSpace” in October, 2015
What’s coming soon in CGSpace...
• Primary location for institutional outputs! (No posting PDFs on corporate website!)• Content people embedded in each department
help capture results (presentations, papers, brochures, etc)
• Integrate with website and blogs via RSS feeds (Direct ALL traffic to DSpace!)• For data sets, videos, etc we make a metadata-
only accession with a link to eg YouTube
How ILRI Uses “Mahider”
What is “CGSpace”?
• “Multi-tenant” use of a DSpace application• Shared admin, look and feel, publishing,
content management, hosting, training and support
• Enhances access to—and use of—knowledge (~30,000 open access materials currently)
• Indexes and preserves outputs by giving persistent identifiers
• Allows searching across centers, CRPs, projects, etc
open access + open standards + open licenses =
enhanced visibility of research outputs
Publications, journal articles, books, training materials, project reports, factsheets, links to digital audios, videos, presentations and posters
Hosted content Content ‘out’
Harvested content
CGSpace as “Publishing”
Cent
res,
CRP
s, p
roje
cts
CGSpace communities
Example of how we use it at ILRI (“Mahider”)
Mahider: Home Page
Browse by
programs
and projectsNarrow
search
using
Discover
Subscribe
Find content
Mahider: Home Page
Browse by
department
Browse by
type of doc
More Discover and Browse by options
Reports
Adm
ins
Recent items
Page views and
downloads for
the past 6
month
Mahider: Home Page, Stats
Mahider: Home Page, Stats
From ILRI
community,
collections, by
region and time
Mahider: Home Page, Stats
From ILRI
community,
collections,
by region and time
Mahider: Home Page, Stats
Filter results by
community,
collections,
and time
Mahider : Item display
List of items
Subscribe to only
the specific
collection (ILRI
publications)
Example: ILRI Publications
Mahider Item display
Bibliographic
info
Full text of
item
Specific Item View
stats
Item: Statistics
Mahider : Publishes to web sites
Mahider outputs
from RSS
Mahider: Publishes to Websites
Mahider : Publishes to intranet
Mahider outputs from RSS
Mahider: Publishes to Intranet
Mahider: Publishes to Twitter
Mahider outputs from RSS
Mahider: Publishes to Blogs
Mahider
outputs
from RSS
Mahider
outputs
from RSS
Mahider: Publishes to Email
Search
result
Search, browse, subscribe
Search
result
Outputs harvestedResearch
results
Video/audio
Presentation Publications
Journals
Outputs re-published
User
Running “CGSpace”
• We are “cost” and “expertise” sharing• Requires “more than basic” expertise to exploit in terms of
admin, customization, interface, content architecture• All code changes deposited in GitHub (where main DSpace
code development now is)• Staff time—Linux admin, information systems and content
specialists• Dedicated production and development servers• Active Yammer network• Annual CGSpace partners meeting
Ongoing Work
• Migration of legacy content by centers• Align CGSpace metadata to draft “CG core”• Upgrade to version 5 (testing in the past two
weeks) brings many new features, like ORCID, Linked Open Data, etc
• DSpace to WordPress• DSpace to Drupal• AGROVOC plugin• Harvest from other DSpace instances
This presentation has a Creative Commons licence. You are free to re-use or distribute this work for non-commercial purposes, provided credit is given to ILRI.
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