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E-LIS. E-prints in Library and Information Science >

CILEA supports E-LIS since 2003, when the repository was born, providing technical services, first under the leadership of Zeno Tajoli on EPrints software, and since December 2010 under the leadership of Andrea Bollini on DSpace.

CILEA has always supported and sponsored economically the hardware and software maintenance, currently hosting E-LIS in its server farm, one of the largest and most advanced in Europe.

In 2009 CILEA proposed the migration from EPrints to DSpace to provide better support due to CILEA's more extensive knowledge and experience with DSpace software. EPrints and DSpace are both excellent digital assets management systems. Nonetheless, EPrints and DSpace are different and their features are not completely overlapping. E-LIS community may miss some old features but these are compensated by other new ones. Migration from EPrints to DSpace [1] implied many complex activities, including:

setup of the repository, customization of layout, structure, communities, collections, workflows, indexes, search options;
migration of contents, metadata and full-text (nearly 11,000 items, all with full-text) ;
migration of related statistical data (nearly 13 million records);
migration of users accounts;
management of redirect from old URLs (previous software had no persistent item ID).

Migration was a challenging process and conclusion of some tricky pending issues has to be compliant with CILEA's budgeted resources. CILEA welcomes any qualified participation (see conditions below) to make E-LIS a better tool.

CILEA is part of the DuraSpace community and part of the DSpace committer group. CILEA, the only Italian registered Service Provider of DuraSpace, is strongly committed to DSpace software development. As an example, E-LIS version 1.0.1 (released on Dec. 16th, 2010) benefits of new features, that have not appeared in the standard version yet, including:

bibliographic export;
integration with the most popular social networks;
CMS with FTP area for the management of static pages;
automatic mapping for JITA classification and for country names;
automatic generation of metadata (citation, format, type);
AJAX selection of communities and collections to start a submission;
advanced management of Lucene indexes, dedicated full-text indexing and special; indexes for controlled lists (language, country, etc.);
integration with IRAlis for authority file (authors) management.

CILEA agreed with CIEPI, the scientific organization responsible for E-LIS contents, and E-LIS Executive Chiefs to provide, on a year-by-year basis, the following among other conditions: keep and maintain the E-LIS repository running with DSpace software on CILEA's machines, providing facilities for its continuous maintenance for the duration of the agreement.

Since the migration to DSpace, the DuraSpace Foundation started to contribute as well to hardware and software maintenance. CIEPI and CILEA welcomes more sponsors and supporters to help with a continuously growing and resource consuming repository.

Since it is CILEA's interest that E-LIS maintains its high quality as an open access repository, several new developments are foreseen. CILEA is working to make new features available for free to E-LIS community in the future, among which:

simplified submission of items through metadata import from external databases or bibliographic formats, e.g. BibTeX, Crossref (via DOI), PubMed, ArXiv;
faceted browsing of search results, and
graphical representation of statistical data on items usage.

Moreover, CILEA welcomes ideas for new features and improvements choosing to directly implement some of them for free, otherwise E-LIS community can address volunteer DSpace developers under some conditions. Conditions to contribute to E-LIS code are:

code must be compliant with the out-of-box DSpace installation implemented by E-LIS, presently 1.6.2;
code must be available as open source; and
code must be accepted by the DSpace community to be included in future releases or maintained as added module by its original developers or third parties that are sufficiently referenced in the community (i.e. present for > 2 years, other features or modules adopted by DSpace or maintained for > 1 year).

Customer relationship management and user assistance is provided through an automated professional trouble-ticketing system and is presently coordinated by Andrea Marchitelli, who was from 2004 to 2010 E-LIS editor for Italy.

On top of all this (hardware and software maintenance, new features and improvements, coordination of external software contributions, CRM and user assistance, participation in E-LIS advisory board, all provided by numerous CILEA's specialists) CILEA is also devoting 40 hrs/year for exclusive software development that may be needed to address residual issues not covered by the aforesaid activities.

CILEA wishes a long and fruitful collaboration with E-LIS community, DSpace community and DuraSpace Foundation.

[1] engaging more than 300 hrs by hw/sw specialists: system administrators, database administrators, data model designers, software architects, software developers, software analysts, testers and assistants, besides extensive and intensive coordination activities between community needs and technical work

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