DSpace in the CGIAR

A slightly-technical presentation to the CGIAR centers about how we're using DSpace to catalog our published outputs and consolidate institutional knowledge centrally.

http://cgspace.cgiar.org

Transcript

1. CGSpace DSpace in the CGIAR
2. - Linux Systems Administrator at ILRI, Kenya - <3 Linux - <3 open-source software - <3 open data - Managing DSpace instance since 2010 - Not a librarian! About me
3. Quite a journey... - 3.5 years of DSpace (since late 2009) - Six major releases - 14 custom XMLUI themes - 10+ CG centers and projects - Millions of visitors - All code is open source, available on github: http://github.com/ilri/DSpace
4. Technologies and projects we use...
5. CGSpace by the numbers Some fun and technical bits about CGSpace
6. Release adoption
7. Tomcat memory allocation as a measure of popularity
8. Tomcat memory allocation as a measure of popularity, cont'd
9. Real-er statistics
10. What do the numbers mean? - Did we really do 700,000+ views at the end of 2010? (Peter?!) - What happened to collection and community views after mid 2011? Play with stats in Google Fusion Tables
11. Open source workflow
12. "DSpace Test" http://dspacetest.cgiar.org - Development / testing instance of DSpace - Mimics "production" CGSpace (users, groups, themes, content) - Tumultuous
13. - Microsoft has "Patch Tuesday" - Never plan maintenance for a Friday (unless you want to spend your whole weekend at work) - From Tuesday -> Friday we test things on DSpace Test - On Monday we push to CGSpace Maintenance Mondays
14. Roadmap - DSpace 3.1 ✓ - SSL (https://cgspace.cgiar.org) - Certificate purchased, tested - LDAP authentication - @tmire modules for enhanced statistics - Discovery (better search)
15. Thanks To everyone involved in CGSpace!