The Norwegian Defence Research Establishment have their open archive in the KnowledgeArc ecology, and we have worked with them to develope a future-oriented and inovatative archive. We have now finished the latest developements and are happy to share them with you. Integration Integration is a key-word for all our hosted archives, whatever technology they are…
We understand that different organisations have different needs. Because of that we offer several services so that you can pick the one that suits you and your organisation the best. DSpace As an academic institution, like a university or research institute, you may have academic publications that you need to manage and disseminate. To meet…
Sharethis to the KA archives The newest feature to our KA archives is the integration of sharethis. Sharethis is an application which provide different share- and social- buttons to your archive or website. This in itself may not be so newsworthy, but we believe that sharethis provide a better functionality and flexibility than such buttons…
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 Center, headquartered in Penang, Malaysia, has the goal “to reduce poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture.” The…
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…
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 Non-Discrimination Information System (TANDIS).
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…
DSpace + WordPress = CollectionPress. We are pleased to announce an open source project for the WordPress plugin, CollectionPress. CollectionPress brings together the document and knowledge management capabilities of DSpace with the content management and blogging capabilities of WordPress. CollectionPress can be used for creating an institution’s Author pages, allowing for each author to have…
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…