2019 DSpace North American User Group Meeting

Welcome

Presenter: John Butler (Univ. Minnesota)

Getting Started with DSpace 7 Workshop

Presenter: Tim Donohue (DuraSpace)

1/2 day workshop that will provide an overview of the upcoming DSpace 7 release for all audiences. Activities will include an overview of the install/upgrade process, discussion of new features, new configurations options and hands-on User Interface branding.

DSpace 7 - The Power of Configurable Entities

Presenter: TBD

This talk will deeper dive into the new Configurable Entities feature, including how to configure your DSpace to support different object models and how users can create the relations between items. New concepts in DSpace 7 such as relations between items, virtual metadata, display options per object type, etc. will be introduced. Defining an object model through configuration in DSpace 7 is made possible without using specific hardcoded Java classes for the specific objects. To achieve this the concept starts from the current DSpace Item object and extends it, also allowing institutions to keep using DSpace out-of-the-box with its familiar object model. The entities in a custom object model are items that can be typed, and relations between items of different types can be created. Several different object models can be defined and can exist alongside one another in the same repository. Finally, this talk will briefly touch on the next steps for future versions of DSpace.

DSpace 7 - The Angular UI from a User's Perspective

Presenter: Lieven Droogmans (Atmire)

When it comes to a user’s needs, the user interface fulfills an important role. It is the connecting device between the user, and the under the hood machinery that keeps a repository running. The soon to be released DSpace 7 will include a brand-new user interface which is based on the Angular technology. Presentations at previous Open Repositories conferences already emphasized the technical benefits of using this technology as the framework for a new DSpace user interface. Building further on those contributions this presentation will now focus on the improvements the Angular technology will bring to DSpace users and provide a functional overview of the new Angular user interface. This presentation will address improvements both for human and for machine users.

Break

DSpace 7 REST API

Presenter: Mark Diggory

Lightning Talk Presentations

A Method for Normalizing Language Values on Metadata Field Labels (James Creel, Texas A&M University Libraries)

Reporting on Repositories (Colleen Lyon, University of Texas at Austin)

Creating a repository of old exams with DSpace (Mariya Maistrovskaya, University of Toronto Libraries)

How to enhance your DSpace repository: use cases for DSpace-CRIS, DSpace-RDM, and DSpace-GLAM flavors.

Presenter: Susanna Mornati (4Science)

DSpace-CRIS is a free open-source platform based on DSpace for Research Data and Information Management, adopted by a wide international community of universities and research centers: DSpace-CRIS Home. It complies with recommendations, open standards and technologies such as the OAI-PMH, SignPosting, and ResourceSync (recommended by the COAR Next Generation Repositories WG), it features complete ORCID integration, compliance with the CERIF model, the IIIF framework, and with the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories, Data Archives, CRIS Managers, to improve findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reuse of digital assets for research and cultural heritage. DSpace-CRIS collects and disseminates information about researchers' profiles, organizations, publications, patents, grants, awards, and all entities that populate the research domain and their relationships, besides storing and exposing full-text publications, datasets, and other relevant digital objects, providing persistent identifiers and long-term preservation capabilities. DSpace-RDM exposes datasets to visual exploration and M2M streaming for analysis thanks to the integration with CKAN. DSpace-GLAM enhances the fruition of the cultural heritage through the (crowd-funded) IIIF image viewer, providing remote fruition of cultural heritage and offering a great user experience. These flavors of DSpace allow to expose and share open data, open information, and open digital objects in a collaborative, interoperable, and sustainable way. The use cases of three institutions in different countries and continents will be shared to show the use of this powerful technology.

DSpace for Research Data

Presenters:

Birds of a feather breakout session

Unconference style opportunity to suggest and discuss topics with attendees.

SAFCreator workshop

Presenter: James Creel (Texas A&M University Libraries)

SAFCreator is a lightweight Java application for converting metadata spreadsheets and asset files into DSpace Simple Archive Format (SAF) archives for importation. SAFCreator provides enough flexibility to eliminate programming requirements for a wide variety of batch loads. A list of important features includes: Input of metadata and file references as CSV spreadsheets; ability to download remote asset files over HTTP; support for any number of schema.element.qualifier labels; support for multiple values in a field; wildcards to select all the files in a directory; customizable item licenses; customizable read access policies on items; and modular verifiers to check the integrity of batches. The code is open source at https://github.com/jcreel/SAFCreator and under current development. I welcome and encourage pull requests for new features and verifiers. In this workshop, I will demonstrate the tool and provide instruction on DSpace batch imports with SAF.