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This page lists common questions about the DSpaceDirect hosted service. If you have additional questions not answered below or if you are interested in a service quote, please contact customerservice@duraspace.org |
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DSpaceDirect
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vs. DSpace
DSpaceDirect is a hosted
service from the version of the latest, out-of-the-box DSpace software. The service is provided by the DuraSpace non-profit organization
that allows users and allows institutions of all sizes to store, organize, and manage DSpace repository content in the cloud. DSpaceDirect can be used to preserve and provide access to
academic faculty and student papers, projects, and research making digital objects and makes content easily searchable by end users and easily managed by content curators.
DSpaceDirect vs. DSpace
DSpaceDirect is just a hosted version of the latest, out-of-the-box DSpace software. In order to make your DSpaceDirect site easier to work with, we've slightly tweaked which out-of-the-box DSpace features are enabled or disabled by default. Below is a brief summary of our default settings for DSpaceDirect. As a DSpaceDirect customer, you may ask for a different set of features to be enabled or disabled based on your own needs.
Enabled by default in DSpaceDirect:- All DSpaceDirect sites use the DSpace XMLUI (XML based UI). : Each DSpaceDirect site has its own custom theme, which is based on the default "Mirage" XMLUI Theme which comes with DSpace.
- Discovery search feature. : This allows for filtered/faceted searches within DSpace.
- Usage Statistics (Solr-based). : This allows for Community/Collection/Item usage statistics to be captured.
- Optionally, Google Analytics may be enabled and is recommended.
- Bulk Metadata Editing is increased to 500 items at a time. This allows administrators to change the metadata of up to 500 items at once, instead of the default of 20.
- Google Scholar friendly embedded tags. : These HTML tags are hidden into each page and allow Google Scholar to more easily index/search your site.
- RSS/Atom feeds. : These feeds allow users to subscribe to your site or to individual Communities or Collections. Users can receive notifications of newly added content in their RSS reader of choice.
- Checksum checker feature. This : This feature is run occasionally and verifies that individual files stored in DSpaceDirect have not become corrupted.
- OAI-PMH interface. : This allows for external systems to harvest metadata via OAI-PMH and link to content in your site.
- SWORD (v1 and v2) interface. : This allows for external systems to deposit content via the SWORD protocol (after authenticating)
- All other standard "out-of-the-box" DSpace features (except where noted below).
Disabled by default in DSpaceDirect: (
may be enabled by request)
- Item Level Versioning. This feature lets you version Items within DSpace. However, as the feature is still very new to DSpace (and disabled by default), we have chosen to leave it disabled in DSpaceDirect.Mobile Theme. This feature adds a separate mobile theme for DSpace sites. Currently it is disabled by default as it is in "beta".
- Advanced Approval Workflows. These allow more flexibility to the workflow approval processes. However, as the feature is still very new to DSpace (and disabled by default), we have chosen to leave it disabled in DSpaceDirect.
- Ability to assign Creative Commons licenses to Items during deposit. As this feature is disabled by default in DSpace, we have chosen to leave it disabled in DSpaceDirect.
- LDAP or Shibboleth Authentication. By default, DSpaceDirect just uses DSpace's internal authentication. However, if your institution uses LDAP or Shibboleth we will gladly help configure DSpaceDirect to use it as well.
- SWORD Client. This feature allows admins to send content from DSpace to an external system which supports the SWORD protocol.
Please note that the above list obviously will change over time as new features are added to DSpace (and also therefore DSpaceDirect). For DSpaceDirect, our general policy is to ensure default DSpace features are always enabled. We also try to enable optional DSpace features which we feel are both widely useful and well established/stable.
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Subscriptions
DSpaceDirect Subscriptions are are priced based on the total GB of storage needed for your account. You can see our subscription options here and our optional add-on packages here. Accounts requiring storage over 250GB 250 GB require a custom quote; contact us and we will be happy to help you.
Add-On Packages
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.
Migrating Content from an Existing Repository
Enhanced Branding
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DuraSpace can migrate content out of existing DSpace repositories (any version), or out of other systems that can export metadata to a CSV file. We cannot migrate content out of proprietary repository systems such as CONTENTdm and BePress.
For detailed information about content migration, see our Content Migration Information Sheet.
Customized Submission Process & Metadata Fields
DSpaceDirect accounts include the default DSpace metadata fields, default submission fields, default OAI-PMH fields and default search, browse, and discover filters. You can see all these default fields here. Your institution can customize these fields for a one time fee. For details see the Customized Metadata Form.
Enhanced Branding
Limited customization and branding is included in our basic subscriptions. We include up to two hours of customization work. You can see examples of basic customized DSpaceDirect sites by reviewing our sample sites: Sample Site 1 and Sample Site 2.
If you require more extensive branding, our enhanced branding add-on package increases the time spent on customization to five hours. This time can be spent to more closely match (to the extent possible) the look and feel of your institution’s web site. The enhanced branding package is an annual fee to cover the time needed to ensure your custom branding is migrated to new versions of DSpace.
For a detailed overview of what branding and customization is included in the default DSpaceDirect subscription and options for enhanced branding see our Enhanced Branding Information Sheet.
Custom URL
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. This is a one-time fee. For information about what is required to have a custom URL, see the Custom URL Information Sheet.
Local Authentication
Extended Support
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