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RIOXX (http://www.rioxx.net) is an emerging standard for Open Access repositories, largely driven by Funder OA Compliance requirements and built in collaboration with UK institutions.
Code and documentation to add support for RIOXX to your DSpace is already available today: https://github.com/atmire/RIOXX/ as UK institutions need to be compliant by April 2016.
Interest in this application profile has already been expressed by non-UK institutions. A JIRA entry has been created to see if it's possible to add support for RIOXX in the DSpace core:
Bram Luyten (Atmire) will give a short demonstration to show what the implications are on the DSpace submission forms and metadata schema through: https://join.me/atmire_meeting. In the event that the live demonstration would somehow fail, we will be referring to the screens in this PDF.
Participants are invited to share from their national and institutional context if the RIOXX profile (or selected fields) makes sense for them. Everyone is invited to think about the issues that could occur if the profile would be merged into the DSpace core, which would already have following concrete implications:
RIOXX
XMLUI Test plan for DSpace 6 Testathon
Even though we have a LOT of tests already, we are still no where near "full coverage" of the DSpace featureset. If you think of a feature that is not covered by the test plan, please add your tests in the plan OR add them in the comments below so someone else can add them.
In general, DCAT concluded the RIOXX standard could also be beneficial for Institutions not having to comply with the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF).
However, RIOXX currently does contain obligatory metadata fields which are not relevant for many institutions outside of the UK. Examples are the 'project' and 'funder' metadata field (see below). For this reason the current RIOXX standard would not be suited for use as the default in the dspace codebase. It would however be convenient to include RIOXX in the DSpace codebase as an optional standard. This way UK institutions would not have to manually adopt the patch. Institutions from outside the UK would also be able to easily adopt the RIOXX standard in case they would prefer RIOXX over the current standard.
For users familiar with the current metadata standard the introduction of RIOXX may be somewhat confusing when it comes to the selection of content type (dc.type) as the RIOXX standard uses its own content type (rioxxterms.type). These fields do have a substantial overlap in vocabulary.
Rioxx added some fields to the describe tabs in the item submission form:
The RIOXX patch also adds a new tab to the submission form, the 'Project' tab. This tab includes two metadata fields: 'Project' and 'Funder'. There is lookup functionality available for both of these fields. The 'funder' lookup is automatically populated by fundref. Both of the metadata fields are mandatory, however this may not be relevant for users outside of the UK, as it was specifically developed for the UK REF compliance. It might be convenient to add the option to choose 'Not Applicable (N/A)' as a value for such users. This way they could include this field in case it would add useful data to some, but not necessarily all of their items.
A RIOXX item should only contain one file, while DSpace items can contain multiple bitstreams. For this reason the RIOXX patch allows you to mark one of the bitstreams in DSpace as the primary bitstream. This will be the only bitstream presented at the RIOXX OAI endpoint.
The RIOXX endpoint does not cause any conflict with other endpoints, instead it runs alongside of them.
The RIOXX OAI endpoint will only be presented with items with completed mandatory metadata. In case your repository would contain items which are not relevant for RIOXX (e.g. electronic theses and dissertations), and thus which will not contain all the metadata required for RIOXX (for example the project field will not be completed), these items will not be available through the OAI endpoint.
Next to adding some metadata fields to the current standard, The RIOXX patch also includes an ORCID integration for DSpace 3 & 4. This functionality was backported from DSpace 5. Including the RIOXX standard in the DSpace codebase would thus facilitate the use of ORCID on some previous DSpace versions.
The DSpace Marketing Interest Group launched 5 new working groups:
David Lewis is facilitating the Mission and Vision Working group. He would like to receive DCAT feedback on his draft document:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B6gsx378OoLAQ2pOYXl5Rm9rN0E&usp=sharing
Please send comments or suggestions to David: dlewis@iupui.edu
If you would like to volunteer to be a member of any of the working groups, please express your interest to David via email: dlewis@iupui.edu