AgriOcean DSpaceFAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE combine efforts in their

support of Open Access

Imma Subirats & Sarah Dister, FAO of the United Nations (Italy)Marc Goovaerts, Hasselt University (Belgium)

Denys Slipetskyy, IBSS (Ukraine)

DSpace user group meeting - Geneva, June 21st 2011

Overviewo Cooperation between FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODEo OceanDocs - AGRIS Dspaceo AgriOcean DSpace: the best of both worldso Support and Distributiono Next steps

Cooperation between FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODEFAO and UNESCO-IOC released a customized version of

DSpace – an Open Source, digital document repository system.

The communities supported by FAO and UNESCO-IOC/IODE are synergistic and the standards on metadata and controlled vocabularies are similar for both.

Goals: o Promote open access to scientific informationo Enhance the internal scientific communicationo Make scientific information more accessible o Increase impact of research information

The OceanDocs Network

OceanDocs 31 institutes from Africa and Latin America

http://www.oceandocs.net , 3,405 docsRepositories with the same software:

IBSS(Ukraine) http://repository.ibss.org.ua/dspace, 1,610 docsCEEMAR http://www.ceemar.org, 828 docs

Related institutional repositories:NIO (India) http://drs.nio.org, 3,792 docs (On Dspace) ODINPimris http://pimrisregional.library.usp.ac.fj, 355 docs (On Greenstone)

FAO and DSpaceDSpace as a tool for AGRIS centres Objectives:

Assure quality in metadata creation Sharing information in a standardized manner Use of common semantics and interoperable syntaxesUse of more sophisticated and specialized metadata Use of controlled, multilingual vocabularies

Requirements: AGRIS AP compliancy – AGROVOC Agris Dspace: ARD Prasad - ISI (Bangalore, India)

Adapted submission moduleAGRIS AP export through OAI-PMH

AgriOcean DSpace the best of both world

See http://193.190.8.15/agriocean

New Lay-out

Enhanced submission module - 1

Lay-out possibilities:Switching between typesGrouping of fieldsDefinition of field sizeDifferent fields in a rowLanguage option for a field

Enhanced submission module - 2

Type based submission: input-forms-extended.xml: <collection-type> <collection handle="default"> <type name="Journal Contribution" /> <type name="Book"/> <type name="Book Section" /> <type name="Proceedings Paper" /> …

<type name="Working Paper" /><type name="Map" /><type name="Data Set" /><type name="Other" />

</collection> </collection-type>

Enhanced submission module - 3Authority control

Using the new Dspace 1.7 authority functionalityBased on local table+ adding functionality+ correcting javascript bug+ link between field and authority list is defined in input-forms-extended.xml (not in in dspace.cfg)ex. <authority closed="true" editable="true" presentation="suggest" limit="50">issn</authority>

Enhanced submission module - 4Authority control • Journal titles:

+ possibility to add besides the title an issn+ issn is copied to dc.identifier.issn+ title + volume + issue + start + end page >

dc.identifier.citation• ASFA• AGROVOC

Inclusion of the thesaurus plug-in, developed by Kasetsart University (Bangkok, Thailand)

Enhanced edit page

Extended options for crosswalk• Possibility to access the language and authority values:

E.g. dc.subject.asfa = <subject authority="ASFAT" xml:lang="%l" URI=”%a”>%s</subject> | subject/text()

• MODS: Grouping of tags• Support of Agris AP

AGRIS AP in OAI-PMH. ResultsAGRIS AP crosswalk:

to create a well formated XML for thesauri<ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang=“en” scheme="ags:ASFAT“>Absolute food deficiency</ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus scheme="ags:ASFAT“>http://ontologies.freshwaterlife.org/asfa/skosScheme#Starvation </ags:subjectThesaurus>

<ags:subjectThesaurus xml:lang=“en” scheme=“ags:AGROVOC” > Agropisciculture</ags:subjectThesaurus><ags:subjectThesaurus scheme=“ags:AGROVOC”> http://www.fao.org/aims/aos/agrovoc#c_212 </ags:subjectThesaurus>

Different level approach• Easy-to-install version for small organizationso Based on a build version of Dspaceo Available July 2011 (with some delay)

• Harvesting functionality in OceanDocs:o Harvesting the odin and institutional repositories of the

IODE networko Mirror metadata and documents for archiving purposes

• AGRIS as harvester of FAO-related repositories

Distribution and support• Communication release AgriOcean DSpace:

o FAO repository community: the AGRIS networko IODE repository community: OceanDocs network

• Assistance o AgriOcean DSpace community on AIMS, Agricultural Information

Management Standards (register) o OceanTeacher

• Support material/Self trainingo Preinstallation requirementso Installation of AgriOcean DSpaceo Administration of AgriOcean DSpace

Next steps

• Thesaurus plug-in: • Accessing AGROVOC through web services or locally -

Estimated release: October 2011• AgriOcean Dspace is part of the set of tools to be distributed

among the VOA3R data providers for the implementation of document repositories - Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository - http://voar.eu

• Linked Open Data (LOD) for AgriOcean Dspace

Thank you for your attention

The AgriOcean Dspace Team

http://aims.fao.org/community/group/agriocean-dspacehttp://code.google.com/p/agriocean/