Ballantyne, Peter G.

Orth, Alan S.

Yabowork, Abenet

CGSpace

Better lives through livestockILRI’s CGSpace experience: origins, choices, key lessons and challengesPeter Ballantyne, Abenet Yabowork, Alan OrthInternational Livestock Research InstituteInformal Nairobi Dspace Users MeetingNairobi, 22 September 20222CGSpace origins• Established in late 2009• Driven by demands to have all outputs and products openly available and accessible• Replacement for:• Inmagic document catalogue• PDF files spread across the web site• Home made lists of outputs• Manual linking from web sites and blogs, etc• Evolved into ‘CGSpace’ in 20113CGSpace precursor ‘Mahider’ in July 20104CGSpace in September 2022What is CGSpace? • Open digital repository of agricultural research outputs and results produced by ILRI and many partners• ILRI and other partners’ communities all accessible on the same repository platform• Shared admin, user interface, publishing workflows, content management, training, support• Shared costs for hosting, development, and staff time• Allows searching research outputs from all communities in one placehttps://cgspace.cgiar.org6Content choices we made• CGSpace is the ILRI way to publish outputs online• We aim to ‘publish’ as much as we can (with permission)• Organize outputs by content type (publications, multi-media, presentations, articles, etc.)• ‘Map’ items across to projects, themes, teams (organization structure – link to web sites)• We use Dublin Core as well as ‘CG Core’ and other CGSpace-specific metadata• Get many people contributing content (a few editors)7Our digital outputs should have benefits that can travel across boundaries. They need to be:• Well described with high-quality metadata• Archived for posterity using persistent identifiers (Handles)• Easily found and accessed through search engines• Easily shared and re-used without restrictions under open access licensesEnabling open access8Content syndication• RSS feeds get content syndicated across the web and into mailboxes [BUT …]• Open DSpace APIs allow integration with other platforms, i.e., WordPress, Drupal, etc9Questions we getHow about metrics  and usage? – item, project, programSearching isn’t very easy – don’t you have a dashboard? Google is so easy? I need to run a complicated Boolean search …I need the information in my websiteI need to produce a list of search results10‘Republishing’ to the ILRI website via content harvesting11Additional elementsWe work with Atmire – a specialist Dspace companyadvanced technical helpstatistics and usage moduleduplicate checking moduleWe subscribe to Altmetrictrack social attention12Key lessons we learnedKeep to the code … every customisation has a cost when upgradingbuild tools around Dspacepromote the content on other platformsContent is king …enrich with metadata and integrationsconsistency and quality checkingbeyond articles, most downloads are manuals/guides13CGSpace item view14CGSpace item view15Building external visualization and reporting tools16Production server - https://cgspace.cgiar.orgTest server - https://dspacetest.cgiar.orgDspace 7 test installation -https://dspace7test.ilri.orgGitHub – code, vocabularies, issues, changes -https://github.com/ilri/DSpacehttps://github.com/ilri/OpenRXVThe back end17Challenges• Requires very technical skills to maintain and operate• Deep integration with external controlled vocabularies like AGROVOC, ROR, ORCID, etc. is hard• Temptation to customize ‘vanilla’ DSpace is high• Statistics and reporting functionality are limited• Maintaining high-quality metadata is a constant effortTHANK YOU

ILRI’s CGSpace experience: origins, choices, key lessons and challenges

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ILRI’s CGSpace experience: origins, choices, key lessons and challenges

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