COAR » NRF hosts first African DSpace-CRIS Repository Workshop
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Summary:
"he NRF hosted a successful DSpace-CRIS workshop at its National Facility the iThemba Labs, in Cape Town from 04 to 05 December 2016. It was attended by 38 participants including IT administrators, librarians and repository practitioners, drawn from various universities and research councils.
The University of Cape Town and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology Libraries supported the hosting of this pre-conference workshop as part of the Open Access Symposium 2016 week at UCT.
The workshop was facilitated by Andrea Bollini, Chief Technology Innovation Officer at 4Science, Italy, and DSpace-CRIS developer. DSpace-CRIS is an additional open-source module for the DSpace platform and is used extensively in Europe. It extends the DSpace data model, providing the ability to manage, collect and expose data about any entities of the research domain such as people, organisational units, projects, grants, awards, patents, publications etc. A follow-up workshop is planned for 2017
The NRF appreciates the support from COAR which is an international association with over 100 members and partners from around the world representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others. COAR brings together the repository community and major repository networks in order build capacity, align policies and practices, and act as a global voice for the repository community."