<aside> 🗣 Enhancements and standardization activities for CGSpace links have been completed. These have facilitated a new functionality in the PRMS Reporting Tool — the PRMS Reporting Tool now automatically converts any saved CGSpace link to its permanent link version. This development ensures that all CGSpace links reported in the PRMS Reporting Tool will consistently appear in their permanent link version, providing stability and reliability.
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In early January 2024, CGSpace conducted a major upgrade on its framework (DSpace), which also changed how it manages public links to resources. This upgrade also impacted the PRMS Reporting Tool and the way users indicate knowledge product links and results evidence links in the PRMS.
With the migration to DSpace 7, CGSpace adopted new URL formats, such as https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/883a1ba9-2979-49ba-b0db-e263da6193a7, following a request from Google Scholar. This change had an immediate impact on the creation of knowledge products in the PRMS Reporting Tool. Unfortunately, this URL type was not initially supported by M-QAP, the tool used in PRMS-CLARISA to extract publication metadata using handles as an entry point.
More details on M-QAP:
<aside> ➡️ The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Quality Assurance Processor (M-QAP) is a publications metadata extractor that employs Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from Web of Science™, Scopus®, Unpaywall, Altmetric, and F.A.I.R metric from GARDIAN. The tool, M-QAP-API for short, is designed to support CGIAR results reporting, including the CGIAR Results Dashboard, and ensure that publications with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) are validated against the above-mentioned databases. The M-QAP tool supports the quality assessment of peer-reviewed publications.
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More info on the M-QAP tool is available here.
With this CGSpace migration, the system, specifically M-QAP, has been adjusted to support the new CGSpace URLs, ensuring proper metadata harvesting and enabling the reporting of new knowledge products in the PRMS Reporting Tool.
'Legacy' URLs: Older versions, e.g., https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/134963, now redirect to the new ones, which follow the URL format like this: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/883a1ba9-2979-49ba-b0db-e263da6193a7.
This is the most common CGSpace URL type provided in the PRMS.
Handle URLs (Preferred): Stable and persistent, e.g., https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134963.
The prefix ‘10568’ in the URL is exclusively used by CGIAR, so this information can be validated in the PRMS, allowing acceptance of handles with this prefix, as well as CGSpace links.
This version is the one recommended for use in the PRMS and the Results Dashboard.
Handle Prefix 10568 rule applied to the PDF version of results - DONE - Implemented on 1 February, 2024. Since the Handle prefix 10568 is exclusive to CGSpace, a rule has been implemented in the PRMS Reporting Tool to make the Handle URLs with this prefix visible in the PDF version of results, along with other CGSpace URL types (for now).
In the Results Dashboard, no adjustments were necessary, as this rule was considered during the official release for the 2022 data.
Migration of URLs in the PRMS - DONE - Implemented on 1 February, 2024. All old and new CGSpace URLs recorded in PRMS will be migrated to Handle URL types before the release of the 2023 Results Dashboard.
Automatic conversion of CGSpace links to their permanent link version - DONE - Released on 25 July, 2024. A functionality between the PRMS Reporting Tool and M-QAP was developed to allow users to input any CGSpace URL as evidence, and the system will immediately transform and record it in the permanent handle version. This functionality has also been applied for the creation of knowledge products.
As seen in the video below, any CGSpace links added as evidence are automatically converted to their permanent link versions after saving the section: