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One of its main characteristics is the flexibility of the data model. DSpace-CRIS is configured so to allow modifications either by importing XLS files
or directly via the User Interface (XLS files export is of course allowed), as better explained below.
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As an example, the screenshot below represents the home page of the DSpace-CRIS installation at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. On the top menu there are the CRIS entities that the library decided to manage: Research Outputs, Researchs, Departments and Schools, Patents and Theses.
2) Customization of entities
There’s a dedicated administrative UI for data model definition which allows the management and creation of 1st level entities (researchers, orgunits/groups, projects):
The same approach is adopted to define new object types and to manage 2nd level CRIS entities (prizes, awards, equipment, laboratories)
3) Links between one or more entities
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