Presentation given at the euroCRIS Strategic Membership Meeting in November 2016

1. November 2016
Your research is tomorrow’s science:
manage it, preserve it, share it. Now.

2. The Group: Itway

4. 4Science at a Glance

5. Services
• Consultancy: analysis, design, project planning, training
• Installa6on, configura6on, data migra6on, upgrades
• System integra6on, so:ware development and customiza6on
• Support: helpdesk, assistance and so:ware maintenance
• Addons: Repor6ng & analy6cs, Viewers, Cloud storage, …
• Open source CRIS: DSpace-CRIS
• Research Data Repository
• Ins6tu6onal Repositories
• Digital Libraries for Cultural Heritage

6. DSpace-CRIS in a nutshell
2009 - The University of Hong Kong decides to enhance its Ins6tu6onal Repository
Publica+ons
People
Organisa+ons
Projects
..more
Be:er
interac+on,
reputa+on,
dissemina+on
Documentation and software available on the DSpace Wiki:
Asia | US | Canada | Brasil | Europe | Australia |
Africa
More than 80 DSpace-CRIS installations running all around the World
2012 - DSpace-CRIS is released as open source to the community
Today
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRIS/DSpace-CRIS+Home

7. Take care: build together better functionalities

8. Crowd-Funding Openness
We support open source and open standards
and actively contribute to them
Launch of a new Module
- Descrip6on of the available
features
- Roadmap with enhancements
- Target budget
- Minimum contribu6on
Target budget is reached
Full release of the code to
the Community Ins+tu+ons become
Supporters
- Immediate access to
current and future code
- Impact on the Roadmap

9. Crowd-Funding: AddOn Modules
4Science commits to:
1) Develop the func6onali6es included in the roadmap following the funded %
2) Release the module in open source as soon as the budget is reached
3) Recognise the role of the supporters
IIIF Image Viewer
Document Viewer
OCR
Video/Audio
Streaming
0% funded 100% funded
0% funded 100% funded
0% funded 100% funded
0% funded 100% funded
Following some examples:

10. CKAN Add-On Module
• CKAN: widey adopted Open Source Data Repository enabling
open data
• Great! your researcher will be so happy to use another
tool…?!?
• The module adds the CKAN open
data unique features to DSpace
and DSpace-CRIS avoiding
researchers to use another tool
• Easy to link publica6ons, persons,
projects with the dataset
• Stronger long term preserva6on
strategy, dataset versioning
+

11. DSpace-CRIS for datasets
person(s)
project(s)
publication(s)
event(s)

12. DSpace-CRIS for datasets
person(s)
project(s)
publication(s)
event(s)
back link

13. CKAN Add-On Module: preview tabular & geospaHal data
Paginated and filterable

14. CKAN Add-On Module: preview tabular & geospaHal data
different visualization

15. CKAN Add-On Module: architecture
DMZ
proxing
• Open access
• Embargo
• Restricted
Can be integrated
with LTP strategy

16. • Extend the user-base suppor6ng more DSpace
flavors and versions (5.x, 6.x, 7.x, JSPUI, XMLUI &
CRIS)
• Allow use of public avalabile CKAN instances
• Richer metadata on CKAN created dataset
• Setup of access condi6ons also in CKAN
• Connect to Mul6ple CKANs (for collec6ons,
disciplines, projects, funders, etc.)
• Support «live» datasets. Authorized researchers
can manipulate the dataset, when a new version is
ready a snapshot is securely stored in the
repository for long-term preserva6on and access
CKAN Add-On Module: future plans

17. • The crowd-funded modules project will be
completely setup by the end of this month. You will
find proper documenta6on, demo website, target
budget & roadmap on our website:
www.4science.it
• The DSpace-CKAN module will be released very
soon together with DSpace-CRIS 5.6.0, we are just
rolling out the final tes6ng phase
When…

18. 4Science Team
• Strong expert Team cons6tuted over 10 years ago
• Domain experts in Digital Libraries for Cultural Heritage
• Worldwide reputa6on in Repositories and Research Informa6on & Data
Management
• 2 DSpace Commimers
• Creators of DSpace-CRIS in 2009

19. Thank you for amen6on!
info@4science.it
www.4science.it
susanna.morna6@4science.it
andrea.bollini@4science.it