The importance of clean, well-structured metadata cannot be ignored; poorly maintained metadata can affect discoverability of assets and can break search engine index. This can affect the impact of your archive and can result in less traffic and, potentially, less funding. There are various issues with your metadata you should look out for: Duplication Make…
We are excited to announce the launch of our first integration of Matomo statistics with a DSpace digital archive. This brings together two leading open source projects, and provides DSpace users with a way to easily identify the impact of archived assets through easy-to-understand metrics. Why Matomo Matomo (formerly Piwik) is the leading open source…
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 the inflexibility to utilize the latest technologies because you are stuck with…
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 across multiple web applications and sites. We have recently completed the successful deployment…
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. We’ve experienced customers who have tried to migrate away only to find…
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 including DSpace and Solr. Services are containerized for fast deployment and upgrades, resulting in greatly reduced downtime even…
The new release of the CRIStin repository introduces new metadata fields which may break existing DSpace harvests. To address these changes, we have released a new version of the CRIStin metadata registry for DSpace instances and is publicly available from our code repository at https://github.com/knowledgearcdotorg/cristin/. Check out the associated README file for information on how…
JCar, the Joomla! extension suite for integrating archived information with the Joomla! content management system, is now available as a stable release 1.0.0.
Embed an Altmetric badge on your Joomla! web site and monitor the impact of your research information.
Altmetrics provides an overview of your scholarly material’s online activity in a way that is quick and easy to disseminate. Using altmetrics to measure the impact adds value to your repository, whether that value is simply to help you determine whether users are engaging with your information, to whether it translates into funding opportunities for…