department help capture results (presentations, papers, brochures, etc) • Primary location for institutional outputs! • No posting PDFs on corporate website! • Integrate with website and blogs via RSS feeds • Direct ALL traffic to DSpace! • For data sets, videos, etc we make a metadata- only accession with a link to eg YouTube
• XML sitemaps • Consistent domain name, eg: cgspace.cgiar.org • Persistent links for resources • Website speed and HTTPS both a plus • Sign up for Google Webmaster Tools to submit sitemap, control indexing, see stats, etc
-> cgspace.cgiar.org • But resources stay the same! http://hdl.handle.net/10568/67073 • “Handle” service from handle.net • Everything under prefix 10568 is CGSpace • Default DSpace handle prefix is 123456789!
a small army of editors • One-time batch uploads of items from other systems in CSV format (InMagic!) • OAI-PMH for metadata only • OAI-ORE for metadata + bitstreams (eg, from another DSpace or Sharepoint, etc) • SWORD (haven't tried) • REST API (DSpace 5+, haven't tried)
JSON or XML • OAI-PMH for metadata • OAI-ORE for metadata + bitstreams (PDFs, etc) • RSS feeds for websites / blogs • XML sitemaps for search engines* *Google discontinued the use of OAI for discovering site content in 2008! http: //googlewebmastercentral.blogspot. com/2008/04/retiring-support-for-oai-pmh-in.html
Linux systems administration experience (Tomcat, httpd, PostgreSQL, DNS, SSH, git) • General: computer science background • Web developers a diverse bunch... • Java development experience doesn't hurt
jobs) • Backups of assetstore and PostgreSQL! • Altmetrics tracks social media mentions • Separate production / development environments • CGSpace server is $80/month • ~20GB of PDFs, ~8GB of Solr data