4Science is glad to announce the availability of the 5.7 version of DSpace-CRIS, built on top of the recent security fix release DSpace JSPUI 5.7: https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/tree/dspace-cris-5.7.0 This version includes the bug fixes from DSpace 5.7 and provides new functionalities to DSpace-CRIS (details below). The official demo of DSpace-CRIS 5.7 can be found here: https://dspace-cris.4science.it/ Please find below […]

In the last years humanities are witnessing a growth of available data.  In this context scholars and cultural heritage professionals have to be able to correlate different data sources to better investigate the articulation of historical phenomena and of the transformation processes that affected human history and culture. In the analysis of the digital data, […]

On July 10th 4Science delivered a COAR Member-Only webinar titled “DSpace-CRIS: How to Bring Repositories and CRIS/RIMS Together”. We introduced the concept of CRIS/RIMS (Current Research Information Systems / Research Information Management Systems), systems that are becoming more and more relevant to monitor research activities and outputs, highlighting strengths and weaknesses of institutional performance and providing […]

We are happy to share with all of you two important announcements: the availability of the 6 RC version of DSpace-CRIS (https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/tree/dspace-cris-6RC) built on top of the upcoming DSpace JSPUI 6.1 and the new version of DSpace-CKAN, a DSpace(-CRIS) add-on module (https://github.com/4Science/dspace-ckan). We kindly invite all of you to work on it and provide tests for this version in order […]

In the past 2 weeks 4Science delivered presentations to both the IIIF and the DSpace community and now the slides are available online for consultation. The first one “DSpace and IIIF” was presented by our CTO Andrea Bollini during the 2017 IIIF Conference in The Vatican. Over 200 people attended the conference from all over […]

The  Hasselt University selected 4Science through an international bid aimed at updating their repository and introducing innovative functionalities to simplify the management and the archiving process. Over the past 10 years,  Document Server, Hasselt University’s repository, has become an invaluable tool for managing the university’s publication output. It contains essential information to support the Research […]

4Science is a proud sponsor of the IIIF Conference this year. The event will be in the Vatican city on June 7-9 and on the first day of the Conference our CTO Andrea Bollini will deliver a Lightning Talk on the Effective use of IIIF with DSpace. Indeed 4Science added IIIF capabilities to DSpace, through […]

On May 24, at 3:30 pm, in the Aula Magna of University of Rome 3, the results of the work carried out in recent years by the Somali Research Center of the University of Rome 3, under the project “Somalia Archive ” will be presented. The “Somalia Archive” project aims at preserving the memory of […]

On May 29th-31st the Dublin Institute of Technology will host the euroCRIS Spring 2017 Membership Meeting. 4Science is a proud sponsor of the event and a great supporter of euroCRIS. We are represented in the euroCRIS Board of Directors and our CTO Andrea Bollini has just been nominated Deputy Leader of the CERIF and Architecture Task […]

Next week 4Science will attend the COAR Annual Meeting hosted by the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice (May 8-10). The major theme for this year’s meeting will be next generation repositories, a topic we consider crucial to be discussed at the international level. Our CTO Andrea Bollini is a member of the COAR Working Group that drafted […]