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KnowledgeArc Provides managed hosting, installation, and customisation services for the Institutional Repository software DSpace.

Document Management

Not all organisations require DSpace and KnowledgeArc provides Document Management hosting, indexing and installation services.

Online Learning

Education Technology has become much in demand with more and more courses being digitised and being made available online.

Open Source

KnowledgeArc Solutions are built on Open Source software. We also provide Statistics, Search Indexing, and custom solutions, both hosted and onsite installation.

WorldFish Digital Archive arrives on KnowledgeArc Platform

by Michael Guthrie | November 27, 2018 | Blog, DSpace | 0 Comments

We are pleased to welcome CGIAR's WorldFish Digital Archive to KnowledgeArc's managed hosted DSpace platform. CGIAR is dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger whilst working with the various ecosystems to provide research for sustainable agriculture. WorldFish...

DSpace Statistics is fundamentally flawed (and Google Analytics is not the answer)

by Hayden Young | November 20, 2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

While it has its many flaws, DSpace's biggest strength has always been its out-of-the-box usability; install and configure it, and all the parts are in place to store, describe, index, search and view your archived material. However, with this kind of simplicity comes...

Authenticating your DSpace users with OpenAthens

by Hayden Young | October 29, 2018 | Authentication, Blog, DSpace, Institutional Repository | 0 Comments

We have been hard at work deploying OpenAthens integrations with DSpace for the National Health Service. OpenAthens is a centralized identity and access control mechanism provided by Eduserv, moving identities to cloud so that users can log in with the same details...

KnowledgeArc Selected as OSCE TANDIS Hosting Partner

by Michael Guthrie | August 17, 2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

We are pleased to announce that KnowledgeArc has been selected to host and manage the DSpace-CRIS installation for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) which is called Tolerance and...

Owning your DSpace Data

by Hayden Young | July 31, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Many application and SaaS hosts pitch a no fuss, easy to use, up-to-date hosted archive. However, most customers who sign up for these services don't plan for what will happen when they no longer wish to use the services of their existing host....

Launch DSpace in less than 5 minutes with the KnowledgeArc Platform

by Hayden Young | June 7, 2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

We are proud to announce the official release of our new hosting service, The KnowledgeArc Platform. The KnowledgeArc Platform uses a combination leading open source technologies to provide a fast, scalable, low-cost infrastructure for running various applications...

Ethereum Archive – Ownership

by Hayden Young | April 23, 2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

Investigating ownership and role-based access in KnowledgeArc.Network Ethereum archiving contracts.

Ethereum Archive – Embargoing

by Hayden Young | April 21, 2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

The concept of embargoing in the digital asset management world consists of making an item private until a particular point in time. There are various reasons for doing this. Maybe only select users are allowed to view the material for a particular amount of time;...

Ethereum Archive – Viewing an Item

by Hayden Young | April 16, 2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

In the post Ethereum as a Decentralized Archive we developed a simple item contract for archiving. The item held the hash of a file along with metadata describing the file. What we now need is a way to view an item contract on the Ethereum network. The easiest way is...

Using Ethereum as a Decentralized Archive

by Hayden Young | April 8, 2018 | Blog | 0 Comments

Ethereum is a powerful computer which uses the blockchain for processing and storing information in a decentralized way. Applications, known as smart contracts, are executed on the blockchain and the cost of interacting with these applications is baked into the price....