Institutional Repository Development: A Case Study of KARI and KAINet | Agricultural Information Management Standards (AIMS)

abernard102@gmail.com 2012-11-19

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Use the link to access the full text article from AIMS.  The article opens as follows: "This paper is based on KAINet’s and KARI’s experience and lessons learnt with developing digital repositories using AgriDrupal and AgriOceanDspace. KAINet is a network originally made up of institutions that were on the Kenya AGRIS Pilot Project supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization with funding from the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The institutions are KARI Headquarters, KARI – National Agricultural Research Laboratories (NARL), the Kenya Forestry Research Institute (KEFRI), the Ministry of Agriculture Library, and the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). The KAINet website was originally developed in 2006 using Typo3 Content Management System with WebAGRIS, a software tool for creating, managing and disseminating metadata compliant with AGRIS Application Profile (AP), running in the background for the repository metadata management. The KARI portal was developed using Drupal and integrated with WebGRIS. In both cases, users searched the WebAGRIS installation/interface integrated into another environment hence limiting its performance and usability. The WebAGRIS platform was made up of JavaServlets and CGI-based application and templating systems. It served both KARI and KAINet well but was expensive to maintain. Updating the portals with new features and ensuring that they integrate well with WebAGRIS was often difficult. Because of the limitations of the tools and lessons learnt, there was need to look at other available tools for implementing digital repositories. Tools that seamlessly integrate website/portal functionalities with content (full-text) and metadata management functionalities.  Therefore, the KAINet ICT team monitored and followed the AgriDrupal and AgriOceanDspace development with great interest and anticipation, and also participated in the testing, offering feedback inputs from time to time for these tools. In late 2011, it was decided to migrate KARI’s repository to AgriOceanDspace and KAINet’s repository to AgriDrupal platforms. This would make it easier to adopt new cutting-edge technologies, improve search ability online, and integrate the tow repositories seamlessly with other online services to enhance the visibility and accessibility of content and to make the metadata records easily harvestable by other service providers."

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http://aims.fao.org/community/blogs/institutional-repository-development-case-study-kari-and-kainet

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oa.new oa.green oa.libraries oa.ir oa.librarians oa.agriculture oa.africa oa.environment oa.kenya oa.forestry oa.jkuat oa.drupal oa.fao oa.dspace oa.aims oa.kari oa.kainet oa.narl oa.kefri oa.repositories.case oa.agridrupal oa.agrridspace oa.repositories oa.south

Date tagged:

11/19/2012, 11:45

Date published:

11/19/2012, 06:45