Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Verlicchi, Federico]

Hello Kayla,
It is certainly possible to use DSpace as a single backend for multiple 
frontends. In this way, different institutions or archives can share the 
backend having, at the same time, their own frontend customized according to 
different needs.

As 4Science, we managed a project with the University of Amsterdam that led to 
deliver a system with several frontends with a single backend based on DSpace.

Here are the links to the frontends:

  *   https://www.rooilijn.nl/artikelen/
  *   https://scripties.uba.uva.nl/
  *   https://www.linguisticsinamsterdam.nl/home

from which it is possible to access the digital resources stored on DSpace.

Finally, as far as the DSpace data model is concerned, it can be modified and 
extended as required to handle also the standards required by archives and 
digital libraries.

We are already managing several Digital Libraries and Digital Archives using 
DSpace. (WE WORK FOR - 4Science)
For any questions do not hesitate to contact me at any time.
Thank you,
Federico


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From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Kayla Abner 

Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 10:13 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG 
Subject: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

Hello all,

I have a question about possibly using DSpace as a "database" / server and
whether or not we could design multiple frontends that draw from it. Here's
the ideal situation I have in mind:

   1. A faculty member wants to build a "digital archive" for their stuff
   2. We upload their stuff into our DSpace instance
   3. We or they design a unique frontend for people to interact with the
   stuff in DSpace.

For step 3, could this be done in Omeka? Wordpress? Something else? This
would enable each "archive" to have its own plane of existence on the
internet, and allow for customization if someone wants a map, or drop-down
menus to search the archive, etc., depending on their needs.

I usually recommend things like Airtable, Omeka, and eHive for this type of
project, but more and more these platforms don't meet the needs of
academics. I have an intermediate understanding of hosting and websites, so
I appreciate any ideas you all have!

Stay well,



Kayla Abner

(she/her)

*Digital Scholarship Librarian*

Digital Initiatives and Preservation

Library, Museums and Press

University of Delaware

kab...@udel.edu


***The **University of Delaware, a land grant institution, is located on
land that was and continues to be vital to the web of life of the Nanticoke
and Lenni-Lenape people. We express gratitude and honor the people who have
inhabited, cultivated, and nourished this land for thousands of years, even
after their attempted forced removal during the colonial era and early
federal period*. The University of Delaware also financially benefitted
from the expropriation of Indigenous territories in the region colonially
known as Montana. View the full Living Land Acknowledgement

.


[image: University of Delaware]

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[EDWIN VINCENT SPERR]

Maybe something like this? 

https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/modules/dspaceconnector/

Edwin V. Sperr, MLIS
Clinical Information Librarian
AU/UGA Medical Partnership
Office of Graduate Medical Education
 
St. Mary's Hospital
1230 Baxter Street
Athens, GA 30606
 
(706) 389-3864
esp...@uga.edu | esp...@stmarysathens.org

>>>From:Kayla Abner 
Subject: DSpace multiple frontends?

Hello all,

I have a question about possibly using DSpace as a "database" / server and 
whether or not we could design multiple frontends that draw from it. Here's the 
ideal situation I have in mind:

   1. A faculty member wants to build a "digital archive" for their stuff
   2. We upload their stuff into our DSpace instance
   3. We or they design a unique frontend for people to interact with the
   stuff in DSpace.

For step 3, could this be done in Omeka? Wordpress? Something else? This would 
enable each "archive" to have its own plane of existence on the internet, and 
allow for customization if someone wants a map, or drop-down menus to search 
the archive, etc., depending on their needs.

I usually recommend things like Airtable, Omeka, and eHive for this type of 
project, but more and more these platforms don't meet the needs of academics. I 
have an intermediate understanding of hosting and websites, so I appreciate any 
ideas you all have!

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm)]

We are experimenting with the DSpace Connector for “exhibits” in Omeka S. We 
don’t have any live ones to show yet, but we are moving in that direction. We 
did get the connector to work and are reviewing guidelines for it’s use here.

Lisa Haitz
UC Libraries
University of Cincinnati Libraries

From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of David Dean 

Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 3:18 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG 
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?
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I'd also be interested in what others have done, since even with DSpace 7.x 
sites the frontend configuration can only change so much!

We did some work a few years ago to connect Blacklight to the Solr instance on 
one of our DSpace systems. I'm not a Ruby dev by any means, but it still only 
took about two weeks to get a basic interface set up with thumbnails and custom 
facets.

Omeka S also has a DSpace connector that can import metadata from targeted 
collections. That could be a more approachable option.

Thanks!

-David

David Dean (he/him)
Associate Director - IT
New Jersey State Library
dd...@njstatelib.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[David Dean]

I'd also be interested in what others have done, since even with DSpace 7.x 
sites the frontend configuration can only change so much!

We did some work a few years ago to connect Blacklight to the Solr instance on 
one of our DSpace systems. I'm not a Ruby dev by any means, but it still only 
took about two weeks to get a basic interface set up with thumbnails and custom 
facets.

Omeka S also has a DSpace connector that can import metadata from targeted 
collections. That could be a more approachable option.

Thanks!

-David

David Dean (he/him)
Associate Director - IT
New Jersey State Library
dd...@njstatelib.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Pennington, Buddy D.]

Kayla,

I don't know about Omeka Classic but Omeka S has a DSpace Connector module that 
might be able to be utilized for your use case.

https://omeka.org/s/modules/DspaceConnector/
https://omeka.org/s/docs/user-manual/modules/dspaceconnector/

We do not use it here so I can't speak to its functionality in practical terms.

Buddy Pennington (He/him)
Head of Systems & Technology
Miller Nichols Library, 308D
800 East 51st Street

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Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2023 2:00 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
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Hi, Kayla.

This is certainly possible, and we did something like this at Princeton 
University Library, but it was not an out of the box solution. We set up a 
Blacklight site to index only the research data from our legacy DSpace site, 
which you can see here: https://datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery/

This required creating a list of the collections we consider research data:
https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery/blob/main/config/collections.csv

Then for each collection, we used the DSpace API to get the metadata in XML and 
index it to solr with traject:
https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery/blob/main/app/lib/dspace_research_data_harvester.rb#L30

So, I don't know if it's possible with Omeka or Wordpress, but it's definitely 
possible with Blacklight (but does require custom development).
Presumably you could also get it working with Spotlight if you wanted more of a 
custom exhibit site.

I hope this helps!
Bess Sadler
Princeton University Library

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:14 AM Kayla Abner  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a question about possibly using DSpace as a "database" / server
> and whether or not we could design multiple frontends that draw from
> it. Here's the ideal situation I have in mind:
>
>1. A faculty member wants to build a "digital archive" for their stuff
>2. We upload their stuff into our DSpace instance
>3. We or they design a unique frontend for people to interact with the
>stuff in DSpace.
>
> For step 3, could this be done in Omeka? Wordpress? Something else?
> This would enable each "archive" to have its own plane of existence on
> the internet, and allow for customization if someone wants a map, or
> drop-down menus to search the archive, etc., depending on their needs.
>
> I usually recommend things like Airtable, Omeka, and eHive for this
> type of project, but more and more these platforms don't meet the
> needs of academics. I have an intermediate understanding of hosting
> and websites, so I appreciate any ideas you all have!
>
> Stay well,
>
> 
>
> Kayla Abner
>
> (she/her)
>
> *Digital Scholarship Librarian*
>
> Digital Initiatives and Preservation
>
> Library, Museums and Press
>
> University of Delaware
>
> kab...@udel.edu
>
>
> ***The **University of Delaware, a land grant institution, is located
> on land that was and continues to be vital to the web of life of the
> Nanticoke and Lenni-Lenape people. We express gratitude and honor the
> people who have inhabited, cultivated, and nourished this land for
> thousands of years, even after their attempted forced removal during
> the colonial era and early federal period*. The University of Delaware
> also financially benefitted from the expropriation of Indigenous
> territories in the region colonially known as Montana. View the full
> Living Land Acknowledgement <
> https://site/
> s.udel.edu%2Fantiracism-initiative%2Fcommittees%2Famerican-indian-and-
> indigenous-relations%2Fliving-land-acknowledgement%2F%23Living_Land_Ac
> knowledgement=05%7C01%7Cpenningtonb%40UMKC.EDU%7C5fc5d41fc0ea4c47
> d99e08dbbec2fa5f%7Ce3fefdbef7e9401ba51a355e01b05a89%7C0%7C0%7C63831351
> 6862647375%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzI
> iLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C=%2B21E7r%2BJn723
> ImY4hLWRU7Wik0JwAiauSqVzY0cZM8E%3D=0
> >
> .
>
>
> [image: University of Delaware]
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Bess Sadler]

Hi, Kayla.

This is certainly possible, and we did something like this at Princeton
University Library, but it was not an out of the box solution. We set up a
Blacklight site to index only the research data from our legacy DSpace
site, which you can see here: https://datacommons.princeton.edu/discovery/

This required creating a list of the collections we consider research data:
https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery/blob/main/config/collections.csv

Then for each collection, we used the DSpace API to get the metadata in XML
and index it to solr with traject:
https://github.com/pulibrary/pdc_discovery/blob/main/app/lib/dspace_research_data_harvester.rb#L30

So, I don't know if it's possible with Omeka or Wordpress, but it's
definitely possible with Blacklight (but does require custom development).
Presumably you could also get it working with Spotlight if you wanted more
of a custom exhibit site.

I hope this helps!
Bess Sadler
Princeton University Library

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:14 AM Kayla Abner  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a question about possibly using DSpace as a "database" / server and
> whether or not we could design multiple frontends that draw from it. Here's
> the ideal situation I have in mind:
>
>1. A faculty member wants to build a "digital archive" for their stuff
>2. We upload their stuff into our DSpace instance
>3. We or they design a unique frontend for people to interact with the
>stuff in DSpace.
>
> For step 3, could this be done in Omeka? Wordpress? Something else? This
> would enable each "archive" to have its own plane of existence on the
> internet, and allow for customization if someone wants a map, or drop-down
> menus to search the archive, etc., depending on their needs.
>
> I usually recommend things like Airtable, Omeka, and eHive for this type of
> project, but more and more these platforms don't meet the needs of
> academics. I have an intermediate understanding of hosting and websites, so
> I appreciate any ideas you all have!
>
> Stay well,
>
> 
>
> Kayla Abner
>
> (she/her)
>
> *Digital Scholarship Librarian*
>
> Digital Initiatives and Preservation
>
> Library, Museums and Press
>
> University of Delaware
>
> kab...@udel.edu
>
>
> ***The **University of Delaware, a land grant institution, is located on
> land that was and continues to be vital to the web of life of the Nanticoke
> and Lenni-Lenape people. We express gratitude and honor the people who have
> inhabited, cultivated, and nourished this land for thousands of years, even
> after their attempted forced removal during the colonial era and early
> federal period*. The University of Delaware also financially benefitted
> from the expropriation of Indigenous territories in the region colonially
> known as Montana. View the full Living Land Acknowledgement
> <
> https://sites.udel.edu/antiracism-initiative/committees/american-indian-and-indigenous-relations/living-land-acknowledgement/#Living_Land_Acknowledgement
> >
> .
>
>
> [image: University of Delaware]
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace multiple frontends?

[Hugh Cayless]

From the perspective of someone currently wrestling with a DSpace upgrade: It 
will certainly support multiple front ends—its basic setup (for v7+ anyway) is 
as a REST API plus a front end written in Angular. The front end is pretty 
customizable, but it is not as easy to work with as WordPress or Omeka, and 
while technically you could get either of those to talk to DSpace’s API, in 
practice that would be a lot of quite technical development. DSpace also 
expects a fairly consistent data model for items stored within it and that 
might not be flexible enough for what you’re describing.

Honestly, these days I usually recommend something static with data sources in 
XML or JSON, depending on what they are. Platforms are generally too unwieldy / 
too restrictive and you often don’t really need an RDBMS backend or a search 
engine for an individual scholarly project.

All the best,
Hugh

> On Sep 26, 2023, at 11:13 AM, Kayla Abner  wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a question about possibly using DSpace as a "database" / server and
> whether or not we could design multiple frontends that draw from it. Here's
> the ideal situation I have in mind:
> 
>   1. A faculty member wants to build a "digital archive" for their stuff
>   2. We upload their stuff into our DSpace instance
>   3. We or they design a unique frontend for people to interact with the
>   stuff in DSpace.
> 
> For step 3, could this be done in Omeka? Wordpress? Something else? This
> would enable each "archive" to have its own plane of existence on the
> internet, and allow for customization if someone wants a map, or drop-down
> menus to search the archive, etc., depending on their needs.
> 
> I usually recommend things like Airtable, Omeka, and eHive for this type of
> project, but more and more these platforms don't meet the needs of
> academics. I have an intermediate understanding of hosting and websites, so
> I appreciate any ideas you all have!
> 
> Stay well,
> 
> 
> 
> Kayla Abner
> 
> (she/her)
> 
> *Digital Scholarship Librarian*
> 
> Digital Initiatives and Preservation
> 
> Library, Museums and Press
> 
> University of Delaware
> 
> kab...@udel.edu
> 
> 
> ***The **University of Delaware, a land grant institution, is located on
> land that was and continues to be vital to the web of life of the Nanticoke
> and Lenni-Lenape people. We express gratitude and honor the people who have
> inhabited, cultivated, and nourished this land for thousands of years, even
> after their attempted forced removal during the colonial era and early
> federal period*. The University of Delaware also financially benefitted
> from the expropriation of Indigenous territories in the region colonially
> known as Montana. View the full Living Land Acknowledgement
> 
> .
> 
> 
> [image: University of Delaware]