1. EthERNet Research & Education Repository
Eyuel Mulatu – EthERNet – Ethiopia
EthERNet e-Research Hackfest – Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) 1

2. Computational model and Technology used Implementation strategy
Outline
problem area
Starting point
Computational model and Technology used
Implementation strategy 2

3. Problem area
Ethiopia has over 33 public universities and these Universities in Ethiopia do not have repositories to publish research papers, Student thesis and other publications and to be visible in the national and international research community.
Thus, achieving the following has been impossible
Getting resources on previously conducted researches
Or having information about theses with high socio economic value for Ethiopia if implemented on large scale
Or checking if a title for thesis has already been published and if so how much is covered in the topic and which university it was published on
Or providing citability and authorship
Or visibility to the international science and research community
Or having an international Digital Object Identifier for their publications
Or having a repository with localized content 3

4. Problem area
By providing EthERNet Research & Education Repository through the educational private cloud the universities can leverage the rich functionalities that will be offered through the Sci-GaIA Open access repository’s underlying Invenio platform.
This application will leverage parts of a use case issued
by Mr. Yosef Abate and Mr. Behailu Korma in the Sci-GaIA hackfest conducted in Lagos Naigeria. 4

5. The users identified in this application are Scientific Researchers
Workflow
The users identified in this application are
Scientific Researchers
Students
Under Graduate
Graduate
PhD and all other university Communities
The above users will be able to:
Login through a federated identity provider
Submit research papers, Thesis, and other publications based on the categories that will be provided for their respective institutions
Search through the entire repository through a simple search interface with simple filters
Search through the entire repository through Advanced search interface with Advanced filters
Find similar research papers, thesis, and publications that could be useful for their own 5

6. Data model
Since the application fully adapts the Sci-GaIA open access repository all publications, Research papers and thesis papers will be submitted and stored
On search and retrieval, the returned records will be provided to the users. 6

7. the computing model that will be applied will be:
Computing model and technologies used
Since EthERNet Repository is developed to be deployed on the EthERNet’s educational private cloud
the computing model that will be applied will be:
Persistent cloud computing (private cloud)
I will be adopting The Invenio v powered
Sci-GaIA Open Access Repository technology that will be cloned to EthERNet’s Science Gateway to EthERNet’s needs . 7

8. Implementation strategy
Cloning and making the environment ready
milestones :
Category setting, submit functionality
Complete functionality 8

9. Thank you!
sci-gaia.eu 9