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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…