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titleDSpace Notes on SHARE Proposal from ARL/AAU/APLU

This page contains DSpace-software specific notes in relation to the SHARE Proposal.  More general questions/comments on the SHARE Proposal are also available on the page: SHARE Proposal

Some of these notes are also borrowed from the OR13 DSpace Developers Meeting, where the SHARE proposal was discussed briefly:

General DSpace-specific comments/questions are made throughout the below summary (in italics) and are marked as such.

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  1. PI Identifier  (Also mentioned in "Requisite Conditions")
    • See notes above under "Minimum SHARE metadata fields"
  2. Award Number (Also mentioned in "Requisite Conditions")
    • See notes above under "Minimum SHARE metadata fields"
  3. Publication ID - "unique, persistent identifier to reference the journal article of the publication"
    • For DSpace, this could be the item handle assigned by the repository
  4. Data Set ID - "resolvable, persistent identifier to location of stored data or data sets that are linked to the published article"
    • For DSpace, this could be the item handle assigned by the repository.
    • However, it might be tricky to link a data set to the associated article.
    • If the data set resides outside of the repository, this could be captured by a metadata field on the journal article which stores the location (URL) of the data set
  5. Copyright License Conditions (Also mentioned in "Requisite Conditions")
    • includes embargo information
    • See comments under "Requisite Conditions" above
  6. Sponsoring/Funding Agency Name - "Link to agency providing funding so that reports can be automatically returned"
    • Could just be a new metadata field in DSpace
    • If this is primarily used for reporting, it's likely we also need to capture an email address or a URL / identifier.  It depends on the decisions around reporting.
  7. Reporting - "Creates a feedback loop to the federal agency and the PI's research office providing tracking of publications resulting from awards funded by the agency"
    • For DSpace, this could be supported via OAI-PMH, if the agencies regularly harvest this information from repositories. 
    • But, it's unclear if the repository is expected to push this information to the agencies (currently not supported by DSpace)
  8. Core Usage Statistics - "Reports to authors (and agencies, if desired) include statistical data on usage activity and downloads of their publications."
    • DSpace currently captures usage statistics (views/downloads) on all items in the repository
    • However, statistics are just displayed in the User Interface. There are not any statistical reports (e.g. emailed reports) generated at this time
  9. Metadata Exposed to Search Engines
    • DSpace exposes all its metadata (for public items) to search engines and tries to keep up with latest SEO best practices.
  10. SWORD
    • DSpace already supports both SWORD v1 and v2 (servers).  It also has a SWORD v1 client which can submit content to another system via SWORD.
  11. OpenURL
  12. Some connections to Digital Preservation Network (DPN)? - "All phases connect with and take advantage of the Digital Preservation Network (DPN)"

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