1. Repository Software Marc Goovaerts, Hasselt University Library
OceanTeacher Academy Training Course
Development and Management of e-Repositories
8 – 12 April 2013

2. Overview Introduction Software Repository-harvester model OAI-verbs
Exercise: evaluation of Eprints - DSpace

3. Repositories & Harvesters
Submission: Documents, data sets, … are made available in Open Access
Local access – local tasks
Harvesters:
Global services: Search – Community development
Ex. OAIster, Scientific Commons

4. Repository – Harvester model
Repositories:
to collect content
Harvesters:
to provide services

5. Harvesters Problems of harvesting: Alternative approach of harvesting:
Limited metadata standards (Dublin Core)
=> Limited services
Classical harvesters can’t compete with Google and Google Scholar.
Ex. AVANO has stopped in the aquatic community
Alternative approach of harvesting:
Higher metadata standards
Community building
ex. VOA3R

6. OAI verbs Ex. NIO - OceanDocs Identify ListMetadataFormats ListSets
ListMetadataFormats
ListSets
ListIdentifiers

7. OAI verbs Ex. NIO – OceanDocs OAI repository explorer GetRecord
ListRecords
OAI repository explorer
to query repositories:

8. Repository software Open Source: Commercial:
EPrints (
Department of Computer Science E-Repository
e-Prints Soton
Dspace
Commercial:
Digital Commons, Open Repositories
Other software with OA functionality:
ABCD, Greenstone, some ILMS

9. Repository software Overview: - see http://www.OpenDOAR.org
Downloaded from on April 5, 2013

10. Exercise 1 Submit an article in: Evaluate: EPrints: Dspace
Demo:
Dspace
Demo:
Evaluate:
The process of submitting
The quality of the metadata

11. Exercise 2 Evaluate repositories of Eprints and DSpace:
On their search and browse possibilities
On their OAI-possibilities
Use OpenDOAR ( )
to find the repositories
To find the OAI-URL
Query using the OAI-verbs (spec. ListMetadataFormats)
(See previous slides)

12. Comparison Eprints - DSpace
- subject: too general
+ type - structure
Dspace
- preliminary question
- no controlled vocabularies
- no type frames
- communities-collections