[IRTalk] IR Software comparison by Unesco

Thu Aug 31 15:04:51 SAST 2017

Greetings,

I heard that University of North West’ IR is integrated into ORCID , and they are using DSpace,

On IRTalk group, who is from North West?

Kind regards
Tyson
UJ IR

From: IRTalk [mailto:irtalk-bounces at lists.lib.sun.ac.za] On Behalf Of Ina Smith
Sent: 31 August 2017 02:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRTalk] IR Software comparison by Unesco

Thanks so much Nason! Do you know of a good example IR using ORCIDs, and also a DSpace 7? And your own IR?

And can you assist IRs if needed? Please feel free to share on this mailing list how it works ...

From: Nason Bimbe [mailto:nasonbimbe at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 2:52 PM
To: Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za<mailto:Ina at assaf.org.za>>
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Subject: Re: [IRTalk] IR Software comparison by Unesco

Dear Ina,
Another thing to think about is the move to DSpace 7 which has a complete rewrite of the UI (only one UI using Angular JS will  be available). DSpace 7 uses a lot of improvements made in DSpace 6+ in terms of the back-end and Application layers  which may make upgrading to 7 a little bit better.

Best
Nason

On 31 August 2017 at 13:46, Nason Bimbe <nasonbimbe at gmail.com<mailto:nasonbimbe at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Ina,
The latest version is 6.1 (http://dspace.org/latest-release) but if you are 5.5/6 or later, it is advisable to go to 5.7 that is if you can not go to 6.1 straight away. 5.7 and 6.1 has a security fix for a vulnerability that was discovered in the earlier versions of DSpace including 6.0. in February 2017. 6.1 also uses the latest ORCID API ver.2 as the ver.1 which is in 5.x has been retired by ORCID.

Regards
Nason

On 31 August 2017 at 13:30, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za<mailto:Ina at assaf.org.za>> wrote:
Dear Nason

Many thanks for pointing out. Good to take note. Btw – what version of DSpace is the most recent and stable at this stage? And if one wants to have ORCID ID as a meteadata field, which version do you recommend? ASSAf IR is on 5.5. Would appreciate your advise so much.

Kind regards
Ina

From: Nason Bimbe [mailto:nasonbimbe at gmail.com<mailto:nasonbimbe at gmail.com>]
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 1:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [IRTalk] IR Software comparison by Unesco

Thanks Ina for the link.

The report seems rather old as they are comparing a DSpace 3+. For example where they say it is not mobile friendly but as of DSpace 5+ it is one can use Mirage2 UI (XMLUI) and a Bootstrap based UI (JSPUI) - just to pick one of the attributes the report uses for comparison.

Regards
Nason

On 27 August 2017 at 17:48, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za<mailto:Ina at assaf.org.za>> wrote:
A comparison of the 5 top IR software solutions by Unesco (2014)
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/news/institutional_repository_software.pdf

DSpace service providers: http://www.dspace.org/service-providers/

DSpace hosted option: http://dspacedirect.org/

Bepress Digital Commons https://www.bepress.com/ (Elsevier) – not Open Source

If you know of any more resent comparisons, please share …

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