[IRTalk] Our African IRs - enhancements

Nason Bimbe nasonbimbe at gmail.com
Fri Oct 7 14:46:33 SAST 2016


Great, I will provide instructions to add to Hilton's wiki.

Regards
Nason

On 7 October 2016 at 13:43, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:

> Would also be a great functionality – thanks Nason!
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> And the AddThis toolbar for easy sharing of repository items via social
> media ….
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> Kind regards
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> *From:* Nason Bimbe [mailto:nasonbimbe at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, October 7, 2016 2:29 PM
> *To:* Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za>
> *Cc:* irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za
> *Subject:* Re: [IRTalk] Our African IRs - enhancements
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> This is great that you guys are thinking going into that direction.
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> 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/
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> Regards
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> Nason
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> On 7 October 2016 at 13:04, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:
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> 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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