Presented by Alan Orth and Abenet Yabowork at IITA, Ibadan, Nigeria, 19 - 22 October 2015

1. The Road To CGSpace
Alan Orth and Abenet Yabowork
IITA/AfricaRice CGSpace Training
Ibadan, Nigeria, 19 October 2015

2. 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

3. 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/

4. 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

5. 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 engines
Reusable: has a permissive license
Addresses both the moral and legal
imperatives… aka the “carrot” and the
“stick”.

6. History of DSpace at ILRI
Before: InMagic, physical library
2009: ILRI launches Mahider (“repository” in
Amharic)
2010: Other CGIAR research centers and programs
join our platform and share hard / soft costs
2011: Rebranded as “CGSpace”
2015: 8 CGIAR centers, 5 CRPs, other projects,
~50,000 items, ~200k hits/month

7. “Mahider” in December, 2010

8. “CGSpace” in October, 2015

9. What’s coming soon in CGSpace...

10. • 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”

11. 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

12. 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”

13. Centres,CRPs,projects
CGSpace communities

14. Example of how we use it at ILRI (“Mahider”)

15. Mahider: Home Page
Browse by
programs
and projects
Narrow
search
using
Discover
Subscribe
Find content

16. Mahider: Home Page
Browse by
department
Browse by
type of doc
More Discover
and Browse by
options
Reports
Admins
Recent items

17. Page views and
downloads for
the past 6
month
Mahider: Home Page, Stats

18. Mahider: Home Page, Stats
From ILRI
community,
collections, by
region and time

19. Mahider: Home Page, Stats
From ILRI
community,
collections,
by region and time

20. Mahider: Home Page, Stats
Filter results by
community,
collections,
and time

21. Mahider : Item display
List of items
Subscribe to only
the specific
collection (ILRI
publications)
Example: ILRI Publications

22. Mahider Item display
Bibliographic
info
Full text of
item
Specific Item View

23. stats
Item: Statistics

24. Mahider : Publishes to web sites
Mahider outputs
from RSS
Mahider: Publishes to Websites

25. Mahider : Publishes to intranet
Mahider outputs
from RSS
Mahider: Publishes to Intranet

26. Mahider: Publishes to Twitter
Mahider
outputs from
RSS

27. Mahider: Publishes to Blogs
Mahider
outputs
from RSS

28. Mahider
outputs
from RSS
Mahider: Publishes to Email

29. Search
result
Search, browse,
subscribe
Search
result
Outputs harvested
Research
results
Video/audio
Presentation Publications
Journals
Outputs
re-published
User

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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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