Please follow the basic DSpace installation process.

Once done:

DSpace-CRIS provides convenient scripts and configuration to quickly start to play with the system.

Entity definitions


./dspace dsrun org.dspace.app.util.InitializeEntityTypesOnly -d


Relationships used internally by some features (this step would be performed automatically in future)

./dspace dsrun org.dspace.app.util.InitializeEntities -f ../config/entities/correction-relationship-types.xml

./dspace dsrun org.dspace.app.util.InitializeEntities -f ../config/entities/hide-sort-relationship-types.xml


DSpace-CRIS does not require DSpace Relationships, defined in {dspace-cris.install.dir}/config/entities/openaire4-relationships.xml and {dspace-cris.install.dir}/config/entities/relationship-types.xml, to be created.

Creation of a communities & collections structure

./dspace dsrun org.dspace.administer.StructBuilder -e <admin-email> -o /fullpath-to-dspace/log/output-sample-structure.xml -f /fullpath-to-dspace/config/sample-structure.xml

Proceed configuring your layout and basic security:

./dspace cris-layout-tool -f /fullpath-to-dspace/etc/conftool/cris-layout-configuration.xls

For further info about configuring layout and basic security see the page Layout and data security configuration tool.


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