Building an All-in-one Service: Extending an existing Open Access Repository to a complete Research Information System

Abstract

The single-system approach taken by the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) to the implementation of a CRIS system, an Open Access repository and a system to support RDM is explained together with the challenges it poses in terms of the different focus that content-based vs institution-based systems have. TUHH have chosen a DSpace-CRIS platform at https://tore.tuhh.de to perform the various scholarly communications and research information management functions. The entities required to support all these features are examined, as well as the data curation and validation workflows aimed to ensure the maximum data quality.