Integration into institutional systems

Overview

ReDBox and Mint are designed to integrate with existing institutional systems. This is a broad feature descriptor aimed at capturing requirements across many types of systems. Substantial feature development aimed at a specific platform may be described within a separate feature descriptor.

At the ReDBox Community Day the following numbers were determined regarding system usage:

    • Research management systems:

      • ResearchMaster: 11

      • Callisto: 1

      • In hous: 2

    • HR Systems:

      • Talent2 Alesco: 4

      • Peoplesoft: 2

    • Institutional repository:

      • VITAL: 6

      • DSpace: 4

      • ePrints: 1

Functional requirements

    • Database harvest:

      • Rather than harvesting a CSV/XML file, work could be undertaken to create an SQL Harvester

    • Normalisation of feeds:

      • Data is often drawn from a variety of systems and require cleaning before import

      • The harvester rules file and transformers can undertake some aspects of data cleaning/munging

      • The ALA Filing Rules may provide a guideline for this work

    • Alert scenarios:

      • A number of triggers should alert ReDBox/Mint:

        • Research project starting/completing

        • Someone (researcher) leaving

        • Resources allocated to a project: e.g. research storage

    • Submission interfaces:

Design

Resources