Presentation Type
Presentation
Date
2022-11-17
Description
4Science is designing a repository for a multi-institutional health system dedicated to medical research. The idea, promoted by a consortium of healthcare and health research institutions, will operate on the initial basis of the library network of these institutions. The idea of the project, which draws its foundations from the DSpace-CRIS platform, is to create a repository in which the libraries are interconnected and can thus share the repository infrastructure.
With this presentation, 4Science intends to expose and share the issues and opportunities that have arisen from working with such a large and complicated infrastructure as the Italian health system and the documentation it contains. We will describe the potential of the platform and consider how these can be implemented, generating benefit, in the U.S. health system and how individual institutions can use these platforms as their own digital repository increasing its flexibility, visibility, dissemination and prestige.
DSpace-CRIS is the world's first open-source CRIS/RIMS platform, based on the widely adopted DSpace, to which 4Science is a leading contributor. The DSpace-CRIS extension offers advanced, unique and extremely user-friendly functionality. Our ambition, at 4Science, is to continue to invest resources in co-creating a global infrastructure that supports research and innovation at its best.
Keywords
Repository, Italy
Open Access
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Repository Citation
Mornati, Susanna; Buso, Irene; Verlicchi, Federico; and Bollini, Andrea, "Case Study: The Challenge of Building an Italian National Repository Dedicated to the Field of Medical Research" (2022). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL). 5.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/mirl/2022/program/5
Case Study: The Challenge of Building an Italian National Repository Dedicated to the Field of Medical Research
4Science is designing a repository for a multi-institutional health system dedicated to medical research. The idea, promoted by a consortium of healthcare and health research institutions, will operate on the initial basis of the library network of these institutions. The idea of the project, which draws its foundations from the DSpace-CRIS platform, is to create a repository in which the libraries are interconnected and can thus share the repository infrastructure.
With this presentation, 4Science intends to expose and share the issues and opportunities that have arisen from working with such a large and complicated infrastructure as the Italian health system and the documentation it contains. We will describe the potential of the platform and consider how these can be implemented, generating benefit, in the U.S. health system and how individual institutions can use these platforms as their own digital repository increasing its flexibility, visibility, dissemination and prestige.
DSpace-CRIS is the world's first open-source CRIS/RIMS platform, based on the widely adopted DSpace, to which 4Science is a leading contributor. The DSpace-CRIS extension offers advanced, unique and extremely user-friendly functionality. Our ambition, at 4Science, is to continue to invest resources in co-creating a global infrastructure that supports research and innovation at its best.