Welcome to the latest DSpace Committer: Alan Orth (ILRI)

[Tim Donohue]

Dear DSpace Community,

  

The DSpace Committers are delighted to announce a new member to the team: Alan Orth from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Please join us in welcoming him!

  

Alan is a systems administrator at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Nairobi, Kenya[1]. In this role he has been responsible for managing a large institutional repository[2] using DSpace versions 1.5 to 6.3. Since 2009 he has been actively engaged with the DSpace community: contributing code, reviewing patches, participating in discussions, and providing support on the dspace-tech mailing list, and documenting his day-to-day work within the institutional repository ecosystem[3].

Alan is a strong believer in open-source software, open-access publishing, and metadata standards. As part of his work, he has developed a pipeline for cleaning and validating CSV metadata[4], a DSpace Statistics API to expose DSpace's Solr statistics via a REST API[5], a repository harvester/explorer[6], and several other tools.

  

We are always on the lookout for new developers, contributors, and committers within the DSpace community. Anyone who would like to get more involved is encouraged to join our weekly developer meetings.

 

Contributions can take many forms, from writing code to editing documentation, or testing new releases, to improving the theme/usability of our user interface. For more information, see our guide to contributing to DSpace:

 

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/How+to+Contribute+to+DSpace

 

If you or someone you know has been an active DSpace contributor for some time, you can also nominate that person to become our next committer! Nomination details are available at:

  

https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Committer+Nominations

 

Thanks,

  

Tim Donohue, on behalf of the DSpace Committers Group

[1] https://www.ilri.org 

[2] https://cgspace.cgiar.org 

[3] https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes 

[4] https://github.com/ilri/csv-metadata-quality 

[5] https://github.com/ilri/dspace-statistics-api 

[6] https://github.com/ilri/OpenRXV

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Tim Donohue

Technical Lead, DSpace

tim.d...@lyrasis.org

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