UniSA Customised portal for ReDBox

Features added by the University of South Australia to the ReDBox metadata registry application are as follows:

• Custom fields for Collections:
  • Abbreviated Title
  • Alternative Title
  • Electronic Address
  • Physical Address
• Provision to add multiple instances of the following elements:
  • Description
  • Electronic Location
  • Physical Location
  • Date Coverage
  • Time Period
  • Access/Rights and Licensing
• Provision to add external collaborators (e.g. from other universities) and their associated National Library Australia (NLA) identifiers to allow resolution of this collaboration on the Research Data Australia (RDA) site.
• Provision to add related activities to a collection using the existing lookup functionality.
• Provision to enter any of the following values for collections: full citation, citation metadata or no citation.
• Addition of a confirmation message when deleting a collection record.
• Addition of help text for each tab.

Prerequisites

To use this customised portal you need to have ReDBox (the base product) installed on a local machine. The customised portal has been tested with ReDBox version 1.6.

Deployment

As the customisations are specific to UniSA, all required customisations are in the 'unisa' portal folder. After installing ReDBox extract the unisa.zip file inside the ..\redbox\portal\default\ directory and change the ReDBox system-config.json file to include the 'unisa' portal as the first value in the 'order' element of the 'skins' section as shown below:

"skins": {

"default": "default",

"order": [

"unisa",

"local",

"dashboard",

"redbox"

]

}

Credits

This project is funded by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) and by the University of South Australia. The system uses the open source RedBox/Mint solution which is supported by Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF).

Licence

This code is available under a CC BY-SA license - see license terms for details.