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etc • Accessible: is publicly available • Indexed: can be found in search engines • Reusable: has a permissive license Addresses both the moral and legal imperatives… aka the “carrot” and the “stick”.
• (No posting PDFs on corporate website!) • Content people embedded in each department help capture results (presentations, papers, brochures, etc) • 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
• You can create custom controlled vocabularies in arbitrary namespaces, eg: cg.subject.ilri • Display custom fields selectively in the XMLUI item list and view pages
1. XML sitemaps (see DSpace manual) 2. Submit sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools to control indexing, see stats, etc. 3. Single, consistent domain name, ie: cgspace.cgiar. org 4. Persistent links for resources (“Handle”) 5. Website speed and HTTPS both a plus 6. Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex less important
upon your content • Using XML sitemaps they can consume it in a structured way • Google discontinued the use of OAI for discovering site content in 2008! Drinking from the firehose!
-> 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, Sharepoint, etc) • SWORD (haven't tried) • REST API (DSpace 5+, haven't tried)
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
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