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Current Research Information System (CRIS) / Research Information Management System (RIMS)

The overlap between DSpace and the realm of CRIS/RIMS systems comes from the fact that publications, usually stored in DSpace, are important objects in a CRIS system. The overall concept of a CRIS system is broader and encompasses rich objects for staff, projects, grants etc. DSpace-CRIS extends the data model of DSpace to manage entities and attributes, with their reciprocal links, that represent research information and populate the research domain according to the CERIF standard.

• DSpace-CRIS extension

Examples of DSpace-CRIS used as a CRIS + Institutional repository include:

• University of Hong Kong, China, http://hub.hku.hk/
• National University of Singapore, Singapore, https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/
• Hamburg University of Technology, https://tore.tuhh.de/
• Portal de la Recerca de les Universitats de Catalunya, https://portalrecerca.csuc.cat/prc
• Cyprus University of Technology, http://ktisis.cut.ac.cy/

In the open source realm DSpace is often compared with:

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• Symplectic Elements
• PURE from Elsevier
• Converis from Thomson Reuters

Features that make DSpace-CRIS strong in this area:

• Flexible data model compliant with the CERIF standard
• Pre-configured entities for the research domain 
• Contextualized dynamic components
• Statistics available at all levels of hierarchy and aggregated statistics of linked entities
• Researcher's profile and CV
• Complete ORCID v3 integration (pull/push of profiles, publications, projects)
• Integration with bibliographic and bibliometric databases
• Management of hierarchical metadata

External articles about DSpace-CRIS in this area:

• D. Palmer, A. Bollini, S. Mornati, M. Mennielli. DSpace-CRIS@HKU: Achieving visibility with a CERIF compliant Open Source System in "Managing Data-Intensive Science: the Role of Research Information Systems in Realising the Digital Agenda": Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (2014), http://dspacecris.eurocris.org/handle/11366/192

Data Repository

In recent years, DSpace is increasingly being used to store research data.

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• Dryad
• Edinburgh DataShare
• Data Repository for the University of Minnesota
• University of Exeter ORE: 15TB dataset, chunked into 20GB files, in a single DSpace item.

In the open source realm DSpace is often compared with:

• Dataverse (it features versioning, access to unpublished datasets for members of the research group, M2M data streaming - this last feature was added to DSpace with the CKAN integration)

Features that make DSpace strong in this area:

• Persistent URLs and unique identifiers
• Item and bitstream versioning
• Checksum generation and verification
• Bitstream format registry
• Integration with CKAN for data visualization and M2M streaming for data analysis
• OpenAIRE compliancycompliance
   

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