Introduction
DSpace-CRIS consists of a data model describing objects of interest to the Reseach ecosystem and a set of tools to manage the data. While standard DSpace deals with publications and data sets, DSpace-CRIS involves other CRIS entities: Researchers, Projects, Organization Units and Second Level Dynamic Objects (single entities specialized by a profile, such as Journals, Prizes, Events etc: each profile can define its own set of properties and nested objects). A CRIS (Current Research Information Systems), aka as RIMS (Research Information Management System), is a system to collect information about the entities that populate the research domain and provide researchers, managers and administrators, funders and decision makers, with a solid knowledge of the research activities, their outputs and results to inform institutional strategies.
Differently from other (commercial) CRIS, DSpace-CRIS also includes the institutional repository and provides high visibility on the web to all the collected information and objects.
Management of CRIS entities
- Dedicated administrative UI for data model definition of 1st level CRIS entities: researchers, orgunits/groups, projects, using the JDynA framework
- Ability to define new object types via UI to manage 2nd level CRIS entities, such as: prizes, awards, equipment, laboratories shared and linked to one or more 1st or 2nd level CRIS entities
- Detail page for any entity organized in Tabs and Boxes themed with JQuery UI
- Faceted Search using the DSpace Discovery 3.0 configuration
- Customizable Browse indexes as for DSpace items
- Network visualization and analysis
Integration of DSpace-CRIS entities with publications (DSpace Item)
- CRIS entities as authority for Item metadata
- List of referencing DSpace Items in the detail page of the CRIS entities
- Ability to hide publications (or any other related entity: projects, etc.) in the researcher profile
- List of selected publications (or any other related entity: projects, etc.)
- Claim/disclaim (link/unlink) previously entered publication items, to a researcher profile
Usage Statistics
- CRIS entity detail page visit
- Global & Top related CERIF Entity views & downloads referencing the CRIS entity (projects for researchers, researchers for OrgUnits, etc.)
- Global & Top item views & downloads referencing the CRIS entity
- email and RSS alerts
Article level metrics
PubMed
- Cited-by count in the item page
- Number of pubmed articles for researcher
- Total citations in pubmed for researcher (only items in local DSpace database will be counted)
Interoperability
- SOAP WebServices for READ-ONLY access to CRIS information
- Export CRIS entities in CERIF XML 1.6 (coming soon - see the RoadMap)
- Import CRIS entities from CERIF 1.6 XML (coming soon - see the RoadMap)
- CERIF compliance test / REST API (coming soon - see the RoadMap)
New features in DSpace-CRIS 5
- ORCID integration
- Ability to claim profiles
- Global search with Text Highlighting