CINECA DSpace-CRIS : An Open Source Solution Use Science 2013 w.c ineca.it

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1 CINECA DSpace-CRIS : An Open Source Solution ~ Use Science 2013 Open Infrastructure to Foster Collaboration between Industry and Academia

2 Topics CINECA: a brief overview Solutions for Higher Education & Research Institutions Dspace-CRIS: an open source solution

3 The Company Interuniversity Consortium No-Profit Founded in 1969 Headquarter in Bologna 72 Members 69 Universities 2 Research institutes MIUR

4 What CINECA does Higher Education Solutions & Services for the University Administration Services for the Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) Scientific Research High Performance Computing FERMI: 5 in EU / 15 WW) Scientific Visualization & Interactive Virtual Environments Technological Innovation Data Center Information and Knowledge Management Services Health Care Systems

5 How we work with Universities Cineca Board of Directors University Customers Focus Groups Apps Road Map U-GOV & SURplus Restricted Board Tech Road Map University Customers Cineca Technical Board Product Managers Board Customer Service Board Technical & Delivery Board

6 Solutions for HE = ERP = Best of Breed

7 SURplus: supporting the World of Research Collect institutional research output for evaluation and assessment purposes Measure research results for benchmarking Preserve ICT investments and maximize ROI Disseminate data to enhance impact and visibility

8 SURplus: the Open Source philosophy DSpace, SOLR/Carrot2 and Saiku offer advanced solutions to submit, manage and retrieve data that are crucial to research governance in the context of CRIS applications.

9 SURplus An interoperable infrastructure made of different components DSpace-CRIS Ingestion of data from any legacy systems adopted by an institution Maintenance of specific functional requirements, data model and preferred technologies at the level of applications Data warehouse and Business Intelligence tools to facilitate aggregations of data and the application of measurement parameters and algorithms

10 DSpace-CRIS: a bit of History In 2009 the Hong Kong University wanted to extend the information exposed in their DSpace IR (publications) adding information (people /projects) coming from other systems (mainly for administrative purpose) CRIS One year ago DSpace-CRIS has been released as an open source general solution to enhrich DSpace with CRIS entities & concepts. Nov June 2013 Aug Sept Dec First release: DSpace Second release: - DSpace FixRelease Upgrade release: - DSpace Security fix First release (beta): - DSpace 3.2 Final release: - DSpace Dspace Dspace 1.8.3

11 DSpace-CRIS Andrea Bollini, product manager DSpace-CRIS long term DSpace Committer (from 2007) Luigi Andrea Pascarelli, lead developer DSpace-CRIS new DSpace Committer Andrea Bollini, Release Team for Version 4.0 New features for 4.0: new Look&Feel; external import on submission (with EKT); other technical improvements Up-to-date Technologies: Spring Framework and Spring MVC Hibernate Apache SOLR 4 Support of all DSpace versions accepted by the Community Free download available at:

12 New look&feel

13 A Beta version not so Beta.. 1 Running production installation: The HUB Hong Kong University 10 development installations: Asia, Europe, Australia 40+ installations in Italy starting in 2014 Full documentation will be available after the release of the final version (early 2014)

14 Data model ATTRIBUTE S FEW PREDEFINE D ENTITIES FEW PREDEFINE D APPROAC H DYNAMIC FLEXIBLE NOT HARDCODED UIs DEFINE ANY ASPECTS standard Dspace --> publications & dataset DSpace-CRIS --> other CERIF entites: / ResearcherPage / Project / OrgUnit / 2nd Level Dynamic Object

15 Case Study: The Hong Kong University Dspace-CRIS: designed together with the Hong Kong University & released as open-source dissemination of entities descriptions in the research environment which go beyond publications

16 HKU: The Network

17 HKU: The Researcher

18 HKU: The Publication

19 Main DSpace-CRIS Entities ResearcherPage managing people; structural relations with System Users and pre-configured properties to manage the name variants; This is the only entity that can be managed out-of-box by nonsystem administrators Project and OrgUnit defined as separated entities; Easy to develop future extensions, specializations, specific workflow and editing rules Second level Dynamic Object a single entity specialized by a profile (type) as Journal, Prize, Event, etc.; Any profile has it own set of properties and nested object indipendently defined

20 Defining a DSpace-CRIS Entity UUID Public flag Dynamic Properties: any property belong to a PropertyDefinition System administrator can decide: Repeatable Mandatory Underline storage data type: String, int, double, date, html link, link to other entities Start / End date Scope: link to a Semantic/Classification Object (itself a DynamicObject) Nested object: Repeatable, mandatory, list of properties

21 DSpace metadata: a different point of view.. the technical agnostic one Any metadata is characterized by a schema, element and qualifier but schema = bibliografic information, administrative metadata, etc.; element = relation with people; qualifier = the semantic of the relationship (author, editor, etc.) Which metadata are available, which repeatable and which mandatory is defined by configuration When allowed by the configuration any metadata can holds a reference to other object (authority)

22 Why Open Source? The adoption of opensource solutions allows the SURplus team to customize and enhance the source code depending on the Institutions needs. The OS community provides innovative, high-quality and safe software and it is challenging to work with & for them

23 Last but not least

24 Thank you! ~ m.mennielli@cineca.it