[IRTalk] Our African IRs - enhancements

Nason Bimbe nasonbimbe at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 14:29:27 SAST 2016


This is great that you guys are thinking going into that direction.

One other enhancement folks have talked about is adding commenting using
established commenting services such as Disqus, Facebook, etc. I did a demo
using Disqus which you can see at
http://www.rwandaresearchgateway.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/54

Regards
Nason

On 7 October 2016 at 13:04, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues
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> We really urgently need to enhance our IRs using DSpace, allowing ORCID
> integration, as well as a tool such as Altmetrics.com.
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> Did anybody have success with integrating the above? Would be super if we
> can get some programmers to work on the above, and then donate the code to
> the DSpace community. Leti Kleyn (UP) also expressed the very urgent need
> for ORCID.
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> One a bit limited in terms of accommodating social media at this stage,
> but at least in future we will try add the hashtags for individual docs.
> The fracking report will be released soon, and will be a great test for
> openness, ASSAf, impact, visibility, citations etc. Would like to monitor
> all ….. See http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11911/14
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> Really super important that the final report be shared once available –
> for now only uploading the media releases building up interest and momentum
> …. Exciting experiment!
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> Final report to be launched Wednesday 12 Oct at 12:00.
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> Any suggestions re social media integration colleagues?
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> Many thanks!!
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> Kind regards
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> Ina
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