Presented by Susanna Mornati at the 2019 DSpace North American User Group Meeting September 23 & 24, 2019 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Abstract: DSpace-CRIS is a free open-source platform based on DSpace for Research Data and Information Management, adopted by a wide international community of universities and research centers: DSpace-CRIS Home. It complies with recommendations, open standards and technologies such as the OAI-PMH, SignPosting, and ResourceSync (recommended by the COAR Next Generation Repositories WG), it features complete ORCID integration, compliance with the CERIF model, the IIIF framework, and with the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories, Data Archives, CRIS Managers, to improve findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse of digital assets for research and cultural heritage. DSpace-CRIS collects and disseminates information about researchers' profiles, organizations, publications, patents, grants, awards, and all entities that populate the research domain and their relationships, besides storing and exposing full-text publications, datasets, and other relevant digital objects, providing persistent identifiers and long-term preservation capabilities. DSpace-RDM exposes datasets to visual exploration and M2M streaming for analysis thanks to the integration with CKAN. DSpace-GLAM enhances the fruition of the cultural heritage through the (crowd-funded) IIIF image viewer, providing remote fruition of cultural heritage and offering a great user experience. These flavors of DSpace allow to expose and share open data, open information, and open digital objects in a collaborative, interoperable, and sustainable way. The use cases of a variety of institutions in different countries and continents will be shared to show the use of this powerful technology.

1. www.4science.it
«DSpace North American User Group Meeting
Minneapolis, 2019 September 23-24

2. How to enhance your DSpace repository:
Use cases for DSpace-CRIS, DSpace-RDM,
and DSpace-GLAM flavors
DSpace North American
User Group Meeting

3. Overview:
•4Science
•Main features and use cases for:
• DSpace-CRIS
• DSpace-RDM
• DSpace-GLAM
•Next Future
How to enhance your DSpace repository

4. • 4Science is a Certified
Partner of DSpace
• 4Science is active in:
• Leadership Group
• Steering Group
• Committer Group
• Developers Group (Lead
DSpace 7 REST API WG)
• Community Advisory Group
• Outreach Marketing Group
4Science: DSpace contributor

5. Our Team has a longtime commitment in open
source, open standards, interoperability, contributing
to the most relevant international communities for
repositories.
4Science: openness and collaboration

6. A team of experts with
top-rated competences,
strong domain expertise,
technological and
methodological
experience, gained in
decades through
countless projects.
4Science: our Team

7. 4Science: we work for…

8. 4Science: our solutions

9. • DSpace is the most popular free open-source
Digital Asset Management System in the world,
used for Institutional Repositories to manage
publications…
• …but more and more HE and Research Institutions
also need a complete Research Information & Data
Management tool
• Why not use an “extended” version
of DSpace to meet these two relevant needs?
DSpace and “extended” DSpace

10. • In 2009, the team now at 4Science led by Susanna
Mornati and Andrea Bollini, together with the team
at Hong Kong University led by David T. Palmer,
created DSpace-CRIS
• https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRIS/DS
pace-CRIS+Home (documentation)
• DSpace-CRIS is an “extended” version of DSpace,
with 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://dspace-cris.4science.it/ (demo)
DSpace-CRIS: what?

11. www.cineca.it
An integrated view of the research ecosystem

12. • Buying a commercial platform to manage Research
Information (a CRIS, aka RIMS) is expensive and
binds your institutions to a proprietary system
• DSpace-CRIS is free, open source, compliant with
open standards, and provides your institution with
a sustainable and effective tool to manage research
information such as researchers’ profiles,
department pages, project grants & awards,
research outputs, metrics, reports and statistics
DSpace-CRIS: why?

13. DSpace-CRIS: an attractive tool
• State-of-art
technology for
your UI (next:
version 7 with
Angular UI)
• Adaptive,
responsive
• Icons for intuitive
exploration
• Widgets for most
viewed, most
cited, etc.

14. DSpace-CRIS use cases: an item

15. DSpace-CRIS use cases: a researcher

16. DSpace-CRIS use cases: a researcher

17. DSpace-CRIS use cases: (aggregated) metrics

18. DSpace-CRIS use cases: publications

19. DSpace-CRIS use cases: network

20. DSpace-CRIS use cases: (aggregated) statistics

21. DSpace-CRIS use cases: projects

22. DSpace-CRIS use cases: projects
http://qldresearch.intersearch.com.au/qldresearchjspui/visualCircle.jsp

23. DSpace-CRIS use cases: ORCID v.2
See the slides about complete ORCID integration of DSpace-CRIS at:
https://doi.org/10.23640/07243.9884033.v2

24. DSpace-CRIS use cases: ORCID v.2

25. DSpace-CRIS: https://digital.csic.es/
Integrated with an internal CRIS

26. DSpace-CRIS: http://www.earth-prints.org/
Ontological approach

27. http://ira.lib.polyu.edu.hk/
DSpace-CRIS as a National Portal in Catalunya:
http://portalrecerca.csuc.cat/

28. • Recently at 4Science we released, free and open
source, an integration with CKAN, the world's leading
open-source data management platform
• Using an extensible viewer framework you can now
offer data discovery, exploration, preview, sampling,
visualization, preservation, data streaming for
external analysis from your DSpace repository just by
adopting the CKAN add-on!
• CKAN makes open webservices for tabular data
available: https://ckan.org/
• Download from: https://github.com/4Science/dspace-
ckan
DSpace-RDM: Research Data

29. • Using DSpace(-CRIS) and CKAN together you can
make your research data FAIR:
• https://www.force11.org/group/fairgroup/fairprinciples
DSpace-RDM: Research Data

30. DSpace-RDM: Research Data

31. CKAN Add-On Module: preview tabular & geospatial data
Paginated and filterable

32. CKAN Add-On Module: preview tabular & geospatial data
Graph visualization

33. CKAN Add-On Module: preview tabular & geospatial data
Interactive map visualization

34. CKAN Integration Add-On: architecture
backend
proxing
• Open access
• Embargo
• Restricted
It can be integrated with LTP
strategies and data analysis tools
Open Source, get it from GitHub!

35. • https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRIS/DS
pace-CRIS+Users
• Universities and Research Centers will obviously
benefit from a platform that can collect, manage,
preserve and disseminate all information and data
about research and its performance.
• GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Museums, Archives) can
likewise benefit from DSpace-GLAM, a “flavour” of
DSpace-CRIS specially configured to provide a rich
context to digital assets of the Cultural Heritage
Extending DSpace: where?

36. DSpace-GLAM
(Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums)
DSpace-GLAM is a free, open source,
platform for the Cultural Heritage,
compliant with open standards
It provides institutions with
a sustainable and effective tool
to manage and enhance
their digital assets

37. DSpace-GLAM: a data model for CH
Built by 4Science on top of DSpace-
CRIS to meet the needs of Cultural
Heritage institutions:
• complex, multidimensional,
hierarchic metadata structures,
• management of relationships to
provide a rich context to digital
objects
• tools for exploration, visualization,
and interpretation
Flexible and extensible data model
inherited from DSpace-CRIS to
manage relevant metadata standards
and specific conceptual models

38. DSpace-GLAM: a data model for CH
Weaknesses of “plain” DSpace metadata
management:
• Flat metadata model
• Weak support for technical and structural metadata
• All information stored as string at the database level
with minimum support (and validation) for data
entry in the UI
DSpace-GLAM improves the metadata at the item
level providing:
• Support for nested metadata
• Support for technical and structural metadata
• Additional input types for data entry (number, year
and regex validation)

39. DSpace-GLAM: entities for CH
DSpace-GLAM can manage all the
entities important to contextualize
digital cultural heritage:
• Persons
• Families
• Fonds
• Events
• Places
• Concepts
• …………..
Entities can be created to integrate
different metadata standards and
conceptual models

40. DSpace-GLAM: hierarchic structures
DSpace-GLAM extends the
data model in order to
manage the hierarchic
metadata structure
required by archival
standards such as ISAD (G)
and EAD
DSpace-GLAM also
manages the production
and preservation context
of the archive required by
ISAAR-CPF, EAC-CPF, and
ISDIAH

41. Painting: The flagellation Painter: Piero della Francesca
Event: Council of Ferrara (AD 1438)
Event: Council of Mantua (AD 1459)
Place: FerraraConcept: Renaissance
Concept: Humanism
Concept: Neoplatonism
Person: Emperor John VIII Palaiologos
Place: Mantua
Interpretation: Ronchey
DSpace-GLAM: historical contexts

42. DSpace-GLAM: interoperability
,
• Connected to VIAF records and Getty Vocabularies for
precise identification of persons, artists and places
• Out-of-box in DSpace 7 using the “old” authority framework

43. DSpace-GLAM: add-on modules
Released free: CKAN integration
Our add-on modules (crowd-funded)

44. DSpace-GLAM: add-on modules
Released free: CKAN integration
Our add-on modules (crowd-funded)

45. IIIF-compliant
1. Presentation API
2. Image API
3. Search API
4. Authentication
API (in roadmap)
DSpace-GLAM: IIIF Image ViewerDSpace-GLAM: IIIF Image Viewer

46. DSpace-GLAM: IIIF Image ViewerDSpace-GLAM: IIIF Image Viewer

47. Integrated Universal
Viewer

48. IIIF Image API
allows a smooth
interaction with the
image files e.g. zoom

49. IIIF Presentation API
generates ToC on the fly
using the metadata of the
item and the bitstreams

50. Bitstreams
metadata
Hierarchic ToC
An example from a PDF
document offered as a
complex package of page
images

51. Images linked with their textual
transcription / OCR
Standard hOCR format indexed in a webannotation
server to exploit IIIF Search API

52. Image side-by-side corresponding text
using an additional OCR panel

53. An example in Arabic characters
https://dspace-glam.4science.it/handle/1234/24

54. IIIF Image Viewer: share and reuse
Share images with other
scholars/users
without waiving proper
attribution, e.g. using the
«manifest» JSON file:
https://dspace-
glam.4science.it/json/iiif/123
4/11/30/manifest
in another IIIF Image Viewer:
http://projectmirador.org/de
mo/

55. Video/Audio streaming module
Full open source and standard stack:
Transcode of the audio/video formats in a
format and encoding appropriate to the
adopted media server (adaptive video
streaming)
DASH to share media with other
scholars/users without waiving proper
attribution, e.g. using the «manifest» XML
file:
https://dspace-glam.4science.it/av-
stream/1841/ch/0/29/94/83/manifest.mpd
in another DASH client:
http://dashif.org/reference/players/javascri
pt/v2.4.1/samples/dash-if-reference-
player/index.html
https://dspace-
glam.4science.it/explore?bitstream_id=1841&han
dle=1234/7&provider=video-streaming

56. DSpace-CRIS/GLAM priorities
• Make life easier (e.g. Grobid for PDF parsing)
• Interoperability (bi-directional)
• Open standards (e.g. CERIF, …)
• Persistent Identifiers (ORCID, Datacite DOIs, …)
• Research data («FAIRification»)
• Alignment with OpenAIRE guidelines
• COAR Next Generation Repositories (ResourceSync,
Signposting, …)
• Digital Libraries for Cultural Heritage (add-ons)
• Last, but not least: DSPACE-CRIS/GLAM 7!

57. OpenAIRE alignment
OpenAIRE has published a series of guidelines for main
research repositories’ use cases:
• OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories
• OpenAIRE Guidelines for Data Archives
• OpenAIRE Guidelines for CRIS Managers
https://guidelines.openaire.eu/en/latest/
4Science contributes to the Guidelines, has
implemented the first two in DSpace-CRIS, and has
been awarded the implementation of CRIS guidelines
in DSpace-CRIS (and --> DSpace-CRIS 7):
https://www.openaire.eu/blogs/realizing-the-
implementation-of-the-openaire-cris-cerif-guidelines-in-
dspace-cris-1

58. Much more to come!
Consult the roadmap:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRI
S/Product+RoadMap
And participate:
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRI
S/New+Features

59. Susanna Mornati
susanna.mornati@4science.it
skype: susanna.mornati
linkedin: susannamornati
orcid: 0000-0001-9931-3637
Thanks for your attention!
Questions are welcome ☺
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