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The DSpaceDirect Demo Repository offers a chance to preview a basic DSpaceDirect repository. If you would like an administrative account in order to test the administrative functions please create an account on the Demo repository and contact us to have the account upgraded to test the administrative features.
DSpaceDirect Subscriptions are are priced based on the total GB of storage needed for your account. You can see our subscription options here. Accounts requiring storage over 250 GB (up to 1 TB total storage) require a custom quote; contact us and we will be happy to help you.
DSpaceDirect offers several optional add-on packages to help meet your repository needs. Details for each package are below, and you can review pricing on the DSpaceDirect website.
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DSpaceDirect can allow for up to 1 TB of total storage (both content and index) per account.
DuraSpace can transfer data out of existing DSpace repositories (any version). We cannot transfer or migrate content from repository systems such as CONTENTdm and Digital Commons.
For detailed information about content migration, see our DSpace Data Transfer Information Sheet.
DSpaceDirect accounts include the default DSpace metadata fields, default submission fields, default OAI-PMH fields and default search, browse, and discover filters. You can review these default fields here. Your institution can customize these fields and other aspects of the submissions process (such as licenses and advanced embargoes) for a one time fee. For details see the Enhanced Submission Process and Metadata Form.
By default DSpaceDirect repositories have a DSpaceDirect URL: repositoryname.dspacedirect.org. If you would like to redirect to a URL on your institutions website, you can add the custom URL package for a one-time fee. Please note that in order to set up a custom URL, you must be able to manage your institution’s DNS or request changes of your institution’s DNS, as well as provide a valid SSL certificate. It is a good idea to discuss these requirements with your institution's website adminstrator prior to starting your subscription.
Location-based authentication is available for DSpaceDirect repositories or restricted collections within a repository.
All DSpaceDirect plans come with access to a customer support ticket system for 10 free support requests annually. The Extended Support Package allows unlimited access to our customer support ticket system for support needs, questions, and other issues. This package is especially useful for large migration accounts.
A new DSpaceDirect account can take from 4-10 weeks to implement. The implementation does not begin until a service level agreement has been executed, and the subscription invoice has been paid.
Factors that influence implementation timing include how many other new accounts are in the implementation process queue (May-September can be particularly busy) and the number of add-on packages required.
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Please see our Security FAQ.
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If the external service supports OAI-PMH metadata harvesting, then you could harvest your DSpaceDirect content metadata into the external system in order to make your DSpaceDirect content searchable/findable. This would mean that the external system would contain a copy of your DSpaceDirect item metadata and could therefore search your DSpaceDirect content and provide a direct link to individual items in your DSpaceDirect site. This is the route that most libraries take to make DSpace content available in a library catalog or discovery service (as most of these services support OAI-PMH harvesting from other systems, like DSpace).
For instance, according to the documentation available online:
So, simply point either of those at the DSpaceDirect OAI-PMH interface and then schedule the external service to harvest metadata from DSpaceDirect on a regular basis.
Every DSpaceDirect site has an OAI-PMH interface available
atat https://[dspacedirect-site-url]/oai/request?verb=Identify
For example: https://demo.dspacedirect.org/oai/request?verb=Identify
DSpaceDirect customers are not be able to make direct changes to the code of
yourtheir DSpace site (though
youcustomers may
obviouslyrequest theme changes or similar). The DuraSpace organization handles the installation, maintenance, and upgrades of the DSpace code and the servers it is running on as part of the hosted and managed DSpaceDirect service.
Allowing customers to add customized code may complicate the upgrade process for their site, making it potentially very difficult for DuraSpace to perform an upgrade on your behalf. Further, allowing customers to have direct server access (e.g. via SSH) can also be a security concern as DuraSpace runs several customer sites on a single server. For those reasons, DuraSpace does not give customers direct access to update or modify the DSpace code for their site.
Currently, DSpaceDirect offers the following (out-of-the-box) DSpace APIs:
SWORD v1 or v2 (available off the "/sword" path of each site) - more info on using SWORD at http://swordapp.org/about/
OAI-PMH (available off the "/oai" path of each site) - more info on using OAI-PMH at: http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/
REST API (available off the "/rest" path of each site) - more info on the DSpace REST API at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/REST+API
No, DSpaceDirect does not support CAS currently. However, there was some development work being conducted in order to support CAS in the latest release of open source DSpace. Unfortunately, it was not finished in time of the release. The work will likely be rolled into next year's release of DSpace (which at that time, would then be made available in DSpaceDirect). So, the short answer is that CAS is not supported by DSpaceDirect yet, but will be as soon as CAS support is added to DSpace.
In the DSpace structure, often the Journal is represented as a Community (or sub-community) with the issue represented as a Collection, and individual articles as Items within the collection. This arrangement may or may not be ideal depending on how your institution may want a Journal displayed/represented, but DSpace does still allow for basic Journal/Issue metadata (and thumbnails) as Communities/Collections support metadata and thumbnails.
Through the DSpaceDirect administrative interface, you can export metadata to an Excel spreadhseet or CSV file.
What Viewers Do You Have Integrated For Images, Video, Sound?Currently, there are no integrated media viewers (for video or audio files) in DSpaceDirect, although you are able to *store* any media file format. For images, you are also able to store any image format with DSpaceDirect, and certain image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG) will automatically have a thumbnail generated to be used within the user interface. However, there are not slideshow or image gallery capabilities.
DSpaceDirect does not support CAS.
Through the DSpaceDirect administrative interface, you can export metadata to an Excel spreadsheet or CSV file.
For detailed information about accessing statistics, please see: Getting Started How-To: Usage Statistics
Built-in usage statistics (Solr-based) are included in DSpaceDirect. Community/Collection/Item statistics are captured. By default only admins can see the built-in statistics. It is possible to make very basic statistics publicly available, but only information about downloads and views are displayed per item/collection/community.
Google Analytics may also be enabled and is recommended. Google Analytics more thoroughly weeds out spider and bot activity, resulting in more accurate statistics.
Individual DSpace page visits: In Google Analytics, this info is under the "Behavior -> Site Content -> All Pages" section. It should allow you to easily see the top pages visited, and filter that list based on page name or path.
File downloads: These are recorded as "events" in Google Analytics. So, this info is under the "Behavior -> Events -> Pages" section. By default it'll show the top URLs used to download Items, but it also provides ways to filter that information based on page name or URL.