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
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:
An OAI-PMH harvester exists but other options might be considered:
The ReDBox/Mint queue interface is useful for integration
ReDBox and Mint: Loading data
Description of ingest architecture: https://sites.google.com/site/fascinatorhome/home/documentation/technical/details/tool-chain/basics
Description of object life-cycle: https://sites.google.com/site/fascinatorhome/home/documentation/technical/details/object-life-cycle
Harvester plug-ins: https://sites.google.com/site/fascinatorhome/home/documentation/technical/documents/common-library/plugins/harvester