Implementing the Notify protocol and standard practices in DSpace

We will present the Notify implementation that is currently proposed for the official adoption in DSpace.

A technical introduction about the COAR Notify project [1] will be provided, showing how the use of the Linked Data Notification protocol [2], standard messages and patterns allow to integrate the repository with relevant services in a distributed, resilient and web-native architecture.

The implementation has been made available as a patch for DSpace 5 and 6 in February 2022 and it is proposed for official inclusion in DSpace 7 [4, 5, 6]. This first implementation is based on the definition of a Minimum Viable Product reviewed with the COAR Notify Working Group, funded by U. Minho and developed by 4Science focused on the open peer-review scenarios. The Harvard University is currently updating their digital services and has adopted the Notify protocol to better integrate their DSpace Institution Repository with their Dataverse Data Repository.

The Open Peer-review and IR – Data Repository integration scenarios will be demonstrated.

[1] COAR Notify Project https://www.coar-repositories.org/notify/
[2] Linked Data Notification Protocol https://www.w3.org/TR/ldn/
[3] COAR Notify implementation website https://notify.coar-repositories.org/
[4] DSpace 5 patch, https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/tree/coar-notify-5
[5] DSpace 6 patch, https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/tree/coar-notify-6
[6] Proposal for inclusion in DSpace 7, https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8120