4Science Presentations

We are always at the forefront of Open Science making our content & knowledge available for all through the DSpace and 4Science official channels.

As leaders in the DSpace community, we are always active with presentations to share our knowledge and give our support.

We believe that together we can shape the future of Open Science and Open Knowledge

Conference presentations

We always engage in conferences with many different presentations to share our knowledge wih the audience. Afterwards, when available we share the recording for all to enjoy and learn.

Webinars

We engage in online and hybrid webinars both for conferences and community events where we always give our support presenting  cutting-edge technologies solutions and services to enable open science.

Community meetings

As Platinum Certified Providers of DSpace and leaders in the community, we play a crucial role in the community meetings where we share our ideals, and the latest Open-Science trends.

Live demonstrations

At events and webinars, we also share live demonstration of cutting-edge technologies to show the audience why we are recognized as DSpace community leaders and how 4Science can help your institution enabling the best service or solution tailored to your needs.

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Slide Presentations

2024 Presentations

2023 DSpace Slide Presentations

 

 

  • IIIF and DSpace 7 – IIIF Conference 2023.pdf (IIIF and DSpace 7 – IIIF Conference 2023.pdf (slideshare.net) We will analyze and share our approach and standard workflows for managing cultural heritage documents in DSpace using IIIF, starting with images submission and describing the operations required to make images available to the Mirador Image Viewer, the ones for extracting the text via OCR and for visualizing PDFs through the Image Viewer. 

 

  • DSpace 7 ORCID Integration (DSpace 7 ORCID Integration | PPT (slideshare.net) The presentation will show in detail the functionalities now available, the requirements to enable them in terms of ORCID membership and DSpace configuration, and the plans to bring more ORCID-related features to DSpace. 

 

  • Modeling Digital Cultural Landscapes with DSpace (Modeling Digital Cultural Landscapes with DSpace (zenodo.org)  Extending the DSpace data model by means of the Configurable Entities and enriching the platform with new features, indeed, it is possible to go beyond the traditional boundaries of the Digital libraries, structuring a complex system of relationships between entities, to be explored through networks and structured paths, building new narratives thanks to interdisciplinarity and the coexistence of different domains.

 

 

  • What’s new at DSpace & DSpace-CRIS (What’s new at DSpace & DSpace-CRIS (zenodo.org) 4Science and The Library Code, two Certified Platinum DSpace Service Providers, will provide an overview of the current developments of DSpace 7 and the next version DSpace 8 due in April 2024. 

 

  • Adopting the DSpace 7 platform: challenges, gaps, problematics, and solution formulas from real migration experiences (Adopting the DSpace 7 platform: challenges, gaps, problematics, and solution formulas from real migration experiences (zenodo.org) provides a detailed examination of the challenges, gaps, and problems that institutions may face in moving to the DSpace 7 platform from previous versions or from different and various platforms such as EPrints, Invenio, etc., and the implementation solutions already successfully rolled out in such instances. Through the use of live examples, the presentation aims to illustrate the complexities and nuances of migrating repositories to DSpace 7. 

 

    2022 DSpace slide presentations

     

    • Implementing the Notify protocol and standard practices in DSpace (Implementing the Notify protocol and standard practices in DSpace | PPT (slideshare.net) The implementation has been made available as a patch for DSpace 5 and 6 in February 2022 and it is proposed for official inclusion in DSpace 7 [4, 5, 6]. This first implementation is based on the definition of a Minimum Viable Product reviewed with the COAR Notify Working Group, funded by U. Minho and developed by 4Science focused on the open peer-review scenarios. The Harvard University is currently updating their digital services and has adopted the Notify protocol to better integrate their DSpace Institution Repository with their Dataverse Data Repository. 

     

     

    • 4Science & ORCID: the DSpace* ORCID integration (4Science & ORCID: the DSpace* ORCID integration (zenodo.org) This presentation was delivered during the ORCID Team Retreat meeting in Italy (October 2022) to present the activities done by 4Science to benefit ORCID Members adopting the DSpace platform. 

    2023 DSpace-CRIS slide presentations

    • DSpace CRIS EFS Miami.pdf (DSpace CRIS EFS Miami.pdf (slideshare.net) Presentation of DSpace-CRIS for the Forum on Expert Finder System. DSpace-CRIS is the only fully open-source Expert Finder System in the world. 

     

    • Using the ORCID integration of DSpace-CRIS in TORE (Using the ORCID integration of DSpace-CRIS in TORE (zenodo.org) These are the slides of a presentation within the context of the ORCID Webinar “Enabling Value featuring 4Science: Showcasing ORCID-enabled scholarly service providers”, which was held online on Oct 11, 2023. This presentation shows the usage of the ORCID integration of DSpace-CRIS on TUHH Open Research (TORE, https://tore.tuhh.de), which is the Research Information System and Repository of Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). 

     

    • What’s new at DSpace & DSpace-CRIS (What’s new at DSpace & DSpace-CRIS (zenodo.org) 4Science and The Library Code, two Certified Platinum DSpace Service Providers, will provide an overview of the current developments of DSpace 7 and the next version DSpace 8 due in April 2024. 

    2022 DSpace-CRIS Slide presentations

    DSpace-CRIS, anticipating innovation (DSpace-CRIS, anticipating innovation | PPT (slideshare.net) The presentation will summarize unique features and characteristics of DSpace-CRIS over DSpace