Some DSpace Customisations

Enovation Solutions Ltd

The Friary, Bow Street, Dublin 7

www.enovation.ie

Some DSpace Customisations

Gavin Henrick, Solutions Consultant

Presented at Repository Fringe 2009

www.repositoryfringe.org #rf09

Overview

Enovation Background

Some prior projects

SDCC Learning Circle

Current Projects

What we do

Provide commercial services supporting primarily Open

Source applications.

• Implementation

• Migration

• Integration

• Customisation

• Hosting & Management

• Application Support

• Consultancy

• Training

What we support

• DSpace

• EPrints

• Fedora Commons

• Moodle

• Mahara

• Mantis

• MRBS

• Joomla

• Mambo

• Drupal

• SugarCRM

• Alfresco

• JasperServer

• Virtualisation

Some Prior Projects

Trinity College Dublin Tara

• 2-way integration to their Student Research System

• Custom E-theses Workflow from submission to

printing

• Hide Empty Collections

• Enhanced Advanced Search

• Integration extended of the TAPIR code and to cater

for TCD licencing and restrictions.

University of Limerick

• Implemented Mods->Dublin Core parsing

SDCC Learning Circle

Background

The existing site was a CMS with document management

plug-in.

They wanted a more strictly controlled repository with set

meta data requirements, and simple processes

They had specific design and user interface changes

They wanted a streamlined submission process

A much improved browsing experience was needed

Solutions

Make adding items simpler

Tree based category selection

Implement a simpler submit page, encompassing all aspects

on one page

Standardise the Author names

Implement a “Find people” interface to central user system

Standardise the Keywords

Implement a taxonomy driven lookup which pre-checks and

suggests keywords as user types

Solutions

Make adding news/event information easier

Embed HTML editor for news areas

Add news and events blogs to the site

Advanced search improvements

Implement a range of UI improvements to advanced search

Improved Browsing Experience

SUBMISSION PROCESS

NEWS SYSTEM

ADVANCED SEARCH

BROWSING

Main Page

Current Projects

Digital Learning Object Repository

“Recommend a resources”

“Add a Review/Comment”

Subject based Communities of Practice

Fedora Preservation Layer

Use of Escidoc front end

Customised services

Current Projects

Social Studies “Dark Archive”

Preserve Original Image formats internally

Generate and publish web formats watermarked

Export extract of system to Open Access Repository

Link to Map server for rendering

Open Access Portal

Harvester for the National funded project

Linking seven universities in Ireland

Contacts

Gavin Henrick

gavin.henrick@enovation.ie

Enovation Solutions

www.enovation.ie