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DSpace-CRIS

An open-source extension of the DSpace repository platform, developed by 4Science and the DSpace community, that adds CRIS-style entity management for researchers, projects, organisational units, journals, and other research-information entities alongside the existing repository content.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board

· Last updated 21 May 2026

Examples

Worked examples

Is an instance
An Italian university running DSpace-CRIS as its combined repository and CRIS, publishing researcher profile pages.
Is an instance
A Latin American national research aggregator built on DSpace-CRIS instances harvested by OpenAIRE.

Counter-examples

Looks similar, but isn't

Not an instance
A vanilla DSpace deployment is not DSpace-CRIS unless the CRIS module is installed.
Not an instance
Pure or Elements are not DSpace-CRIS — they are separate commercial CRIS products.

Editorial commentary

DSpace-CRIS extends DSpace’s data model so that, in addition to items (repository content), the system manages people, projects, and organisations as first-class entities with their own metadata schemas, displays, and relationships. This lets a single platform act as both institutional repository and CRIS, with researcher profile pages that aggregate the researcher’s deposited works, projects, and CV details. DSpace-CRIS is widely deployed at universities in southern Europe and Latin America and integrates with ORCID, CERIF, OpenAIRE, and OAI-PMH.

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Machine-readable encodings

Use in your systems

JATS XML <role> element

xml

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      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="DSpace-CRIS"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/dspace-cris" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

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