A service-oriented national e-theses information system and repository

Introduction In this article we present an overview of the information technology infrastructure that supports the operation of the Greek National Archive of Doctoral Theses (HEDI). The infrastructure, which has been recently re-developed replacing a legacy system, makes use of repository software, in particular the DSpace platform, as part of a service-oriented information system based on open source components

From open data to data-intensive science through CERIF

OGD (Open Government Data) is provided from government departments for transparency and to stimulate a market in ICT services for industry and citizens. Research datasets from publicly funded research commonly are associated with the open scholarly publications movement. However, the former world commonly is derived from the latter with generalisation and summarisation. There is advantage in a user of OGD being able to ‘drill down’ to the underlying research datasets. OGD encourages cross-domain research because the summarized data from different domains is more easily relatable. Bridging across the two worlds requires rich metadata; CERIF (Common European research Information Format) has proved itself to be ideally suited to this requirement. Utilising the research datasets is data-intensive science, a component of e-Research. Data-intensive science also requires access to an e-infrastructure. Virtualisation of this e-infrastructure optimizes this

A service-oriented national e-theses information system and repository

Introduction In this article we present an overview of the information technology infrastructure that supports the operation of the Greek National Archive of Doctoral Theses (HEDI). The infrastructure, which has been recently re-developed replacing a legacy system, makes use of repository software, in particular the DSpace platform, as part of a service-oriented information system based on open source components

Implementing citation management and report generation value-added services over OAI-PMH compliant repositories

The National Documentation Center (EKT) has developed HELIOS (http://helios-eie.ekt.gr) - the institutional repository of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) aiming at collecting the scientific work of its associate researchers. DSpace has been used as the repository platform in the implementation of HELIOS. According to the repository literature (A DRIVER’s Guide to European Repositories, Amsterdam University Press, 2008), offering value-added services to researchers can be an important factor for repository take-up, able to significantly increase deposits through self-archiving. Therefore, in order to encourage the usage of HELIOS among the NHRF researchers, an application providing value-added services over the repository has been developed. In brief, this application harvests the digital repository's data and presents them outside the repository's framework, enabling citation management and configurable custom reporting, for example producing publication lists per researcher and institute, exactly in the format applied in the institute annual report. The application is in operation on top of the HELIOS DSpace-based repository; however it has been designed and implemented to depend only on information retrieved via OAI-PMH, so that it can work with any OAI-PMH compliant repository platform (DSpace, Eprints, Fedora, etc.