New Features

Community page for DSpace-CRIS users

• What are you working on?
• Where are you looking for partners for development or discussion?

Interested in discussion (Searching for Co-Funders)

• Automatic Software Deposit 

Functionality similar to Zenodo: https://guides.github.com/activities/citable-code/ It should be include local GitLab installations as well (not necessarily a CRIS feature).
Interested: Hamburg University of Technology (Beate Rajski)

• Automatic detection of Identifier type

We are dealing with several Identifier types within DSpace (CRIS), mostly kinds of Persistent Identifiers like DOI, Handle, URN, as well as ISBN, ISSN, URL or similar things. In many contexts it is necessary to know about the identifier type (for instance for lookup or for submission to DataCite or other services). Handling of identifiers is different: sometimes it's qualified as a qualifier in the metadata field (for example dc.identifier.doi or dc.publisher.doi), but this is not good extensible and requires some effort. So it would be nice to have a concept how to deal with these identifiers. A useful extension for that would be the automatic detection of the identifier type. Zenodo has such a mechanism by guessing and suggesting the identifier type. We would like to have such a mechanism for DSpace as well, in any cases, where different identifiers might be used. Zenodo is using a Python toolkit for that (https://idutils.readthedocs.io), that might be useful to implement such a function.
This is not necessarily a CRIS feature only.
Interested: Hamburg University of Technology (Oliver Goldschmidt )

• lobid integration

An integration of lobid (http://lobid.org/) would integrate the German Common Authority Record Database (GND) and other lobid services (like lobid-organisations) into DSpace. This could be useful in various contexts:

• Lookup for subject headings (GND)

  • Lookup of person names (GND)

  • Lookup of organisation units (GND and lobid-organisations)

We would like to have that integration for the various lookup use cases as one more simplification to get content into the entities.
Interested: Hamburg University of Technology (Oliver Goldschmidt ), State and University Library Hamburg (Phu Tu 

• RDMO integration
  A researcher should be able to reuse his own project metadata stored in RDMO. Maybe connection via SWORD. 
  Interested: University of Bamberg (Steffen Illig )

• Duplicate Check for imports

DSpace's duplicate check is triggered on the first page of the submission form. For manually added records this is early enough, but for records taken from a database import operation, this is a bit too late. So it would be a nice feature to see a duplicate warning already on the search result page after looking for new records in databases.

Interested: Hamburg University of Technology (Oliver Goldschmidt ), University of Bamberg (Steffen Illig )

Planned/Realized with 4Science

• Connection of CRIS Entities (Project, Awards) via autocomplete with Publications (ongoing) 

  A first description of the feature can be found here. Enhancements are in progress.
  University of Bamberg & Hamburg University of Technology

• Improvements for switching en/de (done)
  University of Bamberg & Hamburg University of Technology

• Integration of the Unpaywall API in the Submission Workflow (ongoing)
  Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
• Highlight changes in the Submission Workflow for new version (ongoing)
  Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
• Vertical and horizontal tabs in CRIS Entities (ongoing)
  Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
• Hierarchical tree structure (based on the DSpace-GLAM solution) for CRIS-entities in general (ongoing)
  Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
• "Add fulltext" and "green open access publication"-feature (various entry points) (ongoing) 
• "Add fulltext" enables e.g. authorized logged in users to jump directly in the submission workflow again to add the fulltext for dspaceitems, which has been published first as "only metadata"-submission. Enhancements are in progress.
  Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
• Visual clustering and distinction of researcher profiles by status (e.g. in the "people"-section of orgunit-profiles or in facets) (done)
  Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg
• Visual distinction of organization units by type (done)
  Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg

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