Thursday, September 11, 2014

DSpace Additions: Author page and Altmetric statistics badge

It's a mixture of big things and little things that can add additional value to your DSpace site. Two interesting additions that I've recently stumbled upon are: Researcher Pages, and Altmetric statistics badge.

Researcher Pages

A project between @Mire and The World Bank's Open Knowledge Repository is to add author pages to DSpace. Thus far, it appears that it shows the author's name, a photo of the author, their biography, and a list of their item's in DSpace that they are an author of.
This is in use at: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/author-page?author=Abras%2C+Ana+Luisa


Altmetrics Statistics Badge

For articles that have a DOI, you can integrate with the Altmetrics statistics service to display a badge of alternative usage of that article. Altmetrics are things like people citing the paper, mentioning them in a social network or blog, or adding it to your Mendeley library. I've seen this integrated into DSpace by Longsight's Sam Ottenhoff for Marine Biology Laboratory / Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Open Access Server.


See DSpace and Altmetric's in use at: https://darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org/handle/1912/6598

3 comments:

  1. Are these dspace plugins? or are modifications to the code?

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  2. Hi Claudio,

    Modifications to the code.
    The Author Profiles was seriously being considered for being included in DSpace 5, but will involve further debate, but the code is available at: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/668

    The AltMetrics badge will be included in the upcoming DSpace 5. The code for altmetrics badge is: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/685

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  3. Thanks for your answer.. I'll try to implement these functions in my repositories

    :)

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