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| DSpace-CRIS | |
|---|---|
| Name | DSpace-CRIS |
| Type | Open-source research information management system |
| Developer | Duraspace Foundation; LIMS; University of Minho; RedIRIS |
| Initial release | 2012 |
| Programming language | Java, JSP, XML |
| License | BSD-style |
DSpace-CRIS is a research information management extension designed to augment repository platforms for institutions such as University of Oxford, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Cambridge, and Stanford University. It combines descriptive metadata, researcher profiles, and research outputs to support reporting needs for organizations like European Commission, National Institutes of Health, Wellcome Trust, and Horizon 2020. Adopted by consortia including SPARC, COAR, and EUDAT, the software is used alongside systems from vendors such as Elsevier, Clarivate, Digital Science, and ProQuest.
DSpace-CRIS provides a platform to manage scholarly outputs, profiles, projects, grants, and affiliations for institutions such as University of California, University of Toronto, University of Melbourne, University of Oxford, and ETH Zurich. It supports reporting to funders like European Research Council, National Science Foundation, UK Research and Innovation, Wellcome Trust, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The platform interoperates with standards promoted by NISO, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, ORCID, Crossref, DataCite, and CASRAI. Implementations have been undertaken by organizations including CERN, Max Planck Society, CNRS, Italian National Research Council, and CSIC.
Development began in projects led by research infrastructures such as University of Minho, OpenAIRE, RedIRIS, DuraSpace, KIT, and University of Glasgow, with contributions from EUDAT, JISC, JISC Collections, SURF, and APARSEN. Early adopters included Universidade do Minho, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Minho, Università di Roma La Sapienza, and Politecnico di Milano. Funding sources and collaborations involved European Commission, FP7, Horizon 2020, ERC, Jisc, and FCT. Key milestones intersected with initiatives at OpenAIRE, SHERPA/RoMEO, COPE, and SPARC Europe.
The system models entities such as researchers, publications, datasets, projects, grants, and organizational units for universities like Princeton University, Columbia University, Yale University, Brown University, and Cornell University. It integrates identifiers from ORCID, Scopus, Web of Science, Crossref, DataCite, and PubMed to enable discovery used by services like Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Web of Science, and Dimensions. Reporting features map to taxonomies used by Times Higher Education, QS World University Rankings, Leiden Ranking, Research Excellence Framework, and CWTS metrics. Administrative functions echo workflows familiar to staff at MIT Libraries, Bodleian Libraries, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Library of Congress, and German National Library.
Built on the core repository stack shared with platforms such as DSpace, Fedora Commons, Invenio, EPrints, and Islandora, the architecture uses Java EE components, PostgreSQL or MySQL databases, Apache Tomcat, and indexing with Apache Solr and Elasticsearch. Authentication and authorization integrate with LDAP, Shibboleth, SAML, CAS, and federations like eduGAIN and InCommon. Metadata crosswalks accommodate Dublin Core, MODS, MARC, CERIF, RDF, and JSON-LD schemas used in projects at Library of Congress, Europeana, DBpedia, and Wikidata.
Interoperability is achieved via APIs and protocols such as OAI-PMH, SWORD, REST, SPARQL, OAI-ORE, and OpenAIRE Guidelines to connect with infrastructures like Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, Dataverse, and HAL. Identity and identifier services link to ORCID, Crossref, DataCite, ROR, and ISNI while bibliometrics and altmetrics integrate with Altmetric, PlumX, Scopus, Clarivate Analytics, and Dimensions. The platform supports export and reporting formats required by Horizon Europe, REF 2021, NIH RePORTER, CORDIS, and OpenAIRE.
Institutions deploy the system for scenarios including institutional repositories at University of Edinburgh, research offices at University of Manchester, national consortia such as CRIS Madrid, and subject repositories like arXiv and bioRxiv. Use cases include grant management for European Research Council, compliance reporting for Wellcome Trust, open access monitoring for Plan S, and research assessment exercises like Research Excellence Framework. Variants are customized for professional schools at Johns Hopkins University, medical centers like Mayo Clinic, national laboratories such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and cultural heritage institutions including British Library.
Development and stewardship involve communities and organizations including DuraSpace, Lafayette College, Jisc, OpenAIRE, COAR, SPARC, EUDAT, CERN, and national infrastructures like RedIRIS and SURF. Contributors come from academic libraries at Harvard Library, Yale University Library, National Library of Medicine, and consortia such as HathiTrust and LIBER. Governance models mirror those used by projects like DSpace Foundation, Fedora Commons, and InvenioRDM with working groups, roadmaps, and community-driven release cycles.
Adopters including Max Planck Society, CSIC, CNRS, CERN, and University of Bologna report benefits in metadata quality, researcher visibility, and compliance with funder mandates such as Plan S and Horizon 2020. Evaluations compare the platform alongside commercial systems from Elsevier and Clarivate, open-source alternatives like Invenio, EPrints, and Islandora, and service offerings by Digital Science. Impact metrics referenced by Times Higher Education, QS, and CWTS Leiden Ranking reflect the role of integrated CRIS systems in institutional strategy and scholarly communication reforms championed by OpenAIRE, SPARC Europe, and COAR.