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CINECA. Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus. Topics. CINECA: a brief overview. Three innovative open-source technologies applied to SURplus CRIS platform: Dspace SOLR/Carrot2 Saiku. Solutions for Higher Education & Research Institutions. The Company.

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  1. CINECA Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus

  2. Topics • CINECA: a briefoverview • Three innovative open-source technologies applied to SURplus CRIS platform: • Dspace • SOLR/Carrot2 • Saiku • SolutionsforHigherEducation & ResearchInstitutions www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  3. The Company just fortwo more months!!! • InteruniversityConsortium • No-Profit • Founded in 1969 • Headquarter in Bologna • 57 Members • 54 Universities • 2 Researchinstitutes • MIUR • Owned companies: Kion, SCS. • Employees: 400 (+150 Kion) • Total turnover:  70M€ www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  4. The Merge • The “mergingprocess” of the threeItalianConsortiahasstarted in September2012 • Itwill end in July2013… • 67 Members • More than 700 employees • The onlyItalianInteruniversityConsortium 2.0 www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  5. What CINECA does www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  6. Howwe work withUniversities • CinecaBoardofDirectors • UniversityCustomers • Focus Groups • UniversityCustomers • CinecaTechnicalBoard Tech Road Map Apps Road Map U-GOV & SURplusRestrictedBoard Requirements Requirements ProductManagers Board CustomerService Board Technical& Delivery Board www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  7. Solutionsfor HE = ERP = Best ofBreed www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  8. SURplus • An interoperableinfrastructuremadeofdifferentcomponents • Ingestion of data from any legacy systems adopted by an institution • Data warehouse and Business Intelligence tools to facilitate aggregations of data and the application of measurement parameters and algorithms www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  9. SURplus: supporting the World ofResearch • Collect institutional research output for evaluation and assessment purposes • Measure research results for benchmarking Preserve ICT investments and maximizeROI • Disseminate data to enhance impact and visibility www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  10. SURplus: ResearchChainValue Skills Assets and activities management Outputs and assessments Exploitation Dissemination Operative planning Strategic Planning Resources Assets www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  11. SURplus: Dimension • Beginningofactivities: 2004 • 9 institutions • 22 institutionalrepositories • Total modules: 77 www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  12. SURplus: the Open Source philosophy DSpace, SOLR/Carrot2 and Saiku offer advanced solutions to submit, manage and retrieve data that are crucial to research governance in the context of CRIS applications. www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  13. Dspace:SURplus’ Open ArchiveModule CINECA is a registered service provider at DuraSpace Long-termcollaborationwithDSpace community (Committer Group) The OA Module, developed on Dspace: • Managescollection and disseminationofresearchresults • Simplifies data collection’s processes • Service Integration Upgrades are periodicallyreleasedto the open source community www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  14. Case Study: The Hong Kong University Dspace-CRIS: designedtogetherwith the Hong Kong University & releasedasopen-source “disseminationofentities’ descriptions in the researchenvironmentwhich go beyondpublications” www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  15. HKU: The Network www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  16. HKU: The Researcher www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  17. HKU: The Publication www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  18. Apache SOLR & Carrot2: SURplus Expertise & Skills • A scalable solution for indexing and searching millions of documents • It offers a REST interface (XML , JSON), to allow loose coupling of applications • It is carried out by means of the open source project Apache Lucene, in charge of: • splitting data into tokens • extracting radixes (stemming) • drop stop words and index them according to the analyzers chosen • Allows runtime clustering of search results obtained through SOLR searches • Organizes results in category and makes it easy for users to spot the ones of interest • Different algorithms based on Space Vector Models available • Clusters are displayed graphically with Foam Trees or Circle www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  19. Apache SOLR & Carrot2 at work www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  20. Apache SOLR:FacetedBrowsing www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  21. Apache SOLR: SimilarItems www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  22. SAIKU:SURplus’ Business Intelligence User-friendly OLAP analysis of datamarts within a datawarehouse Modification of MDX language behind the OLAP analysis Operations in drag&dropmodality Interface based on front-end JQuery Interaction with OLAP systems such as… • An open-source ROLAP (relational online analytical processing) • Translates MDX query into SQL query on multi-dimensional model • Permits to catch results for optimizing performances • It can be configured to restrict visibility www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  23. SAIKU: some functionalities www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  24. SAIKU: some functionalities www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  25. SAIKU: some functionalities www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  26. SAIKU: some functionalities www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  27. Why Open Source? The adoption of open-source solutions allows the SURplus team to customize and enhance the source code depending on the Institutions’ needs. The OS community provides innovative, high-quality and safe software and it is challenging to work with & for them www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  28. What Open Source? www.cineca.it | Innovative Open Source Technologies for a CRIS: SURplus | EUNIS | June 2013

  29. Thank you! surplus@cineca.it f.ferrario@cineca.it m.mennielli@cineca.it

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