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Enovation Solutions Ltd
The Friary, Bow Street, Dublin 7
www.enovation.ie
Some DSpace Customisations
Gavin Henrick, Solutions Consultant
Presented at Repository Fringe 2009
www.repositoryfringe.org #rf09
Overview
Enovation Background
Some prior projects
SDCC Learning Circle
Current Projects
What we do
Provide commercial services supporting primarily Open
Source applications.
• Implementation
• Migration
• Integration
• Customisation
• Hosting & Management
• Application Support
• Consultancy
• Training
What we support
• DSpace
• EPrints
• Fedora Commons
• Moodle
• Mahara
• Mantis
• MRBS
• Joomla
• Mambo
• Drupal
• SugarCRM
• Alfresco
• JasperServer
• Virtualisation
Some Prior Projects
Trinity College Dublin Tara
• 2-way integration to their Student Research System
• Custom E-theses Workflow from submission to
printing
• Hide Empty Collections
• Enhanced Advanced Search
• Integration extended of the TAPIR code and to cater
for TCD licencing and restrictions.
University of Limerick
• Implemented Mods->Dublin Core parsing
SDCC Learning Circle
Background
The existing site was a CMS with document management
plug-in.
They wanted a more strictly controlled repository with set
meta data requirements, and simple processes
They had specific design and user interface changes
They wanted a streamlined submission process
A much improved browsing experience was needed
Solutions
Make adding items simpler
Tree based category selection
Implement a simpler submit page, encompassing all aspects
on one page
Standardise the Author names
Implement a “Find people” interface to central user system
Standardise the Keywords
Implement a taxonomy driven lookup which pre-checks and
suggests keywords as user types
Solutions
Make adding news/event information easier
Embed HTML editor for news areas
Add news and events blogs to the site
Advanced search improvements
Implement a range of UI improvements to advanced search
Improved Browsing Experience
SUBMISSION PROCESS
NEWS SYSTEM
ADVANCED SEARCH
BROWSING
Main Page
Current Projects
Digital Learning Object Repository
“Recommend a resources”
“Add a Review/Comment”
Subject based Communities of Practice
Fedora Preservation Layer
Use of Escidoc front end
Customised services
Current Projects
Social Studies “Dark Archive”
Preserve Original Image formats internally
Generate and publish web formats watermarked
Export extract of system to Open Access Repository
Link to Map server for rendering
Open Access Portal
Harvester for the National funded project
Linking seven universities in Ireland
Contacts
Gavin Henrick
Enovation Solutions
www.enovation.ie