IGeLU 2025

LIUC University Library adopted Esploro as Institutional Research Portal and PHD student final dissertation repository in 2019.

According to Italian Law, all PHD dissertations have to be deposited and preserved in the National Library of Florence (BNCF) archives, called “Magazzini Digitali”.

Before 2019 LIUC managed PHD dissertations using DSpace: the dissertations were harvested directly by BNCF using OAI-PMH protocol. After LIUC Esploro adoption, the OAI-PMH data exposure was different, so BNCF and LIUC, supported by ExLibris professionals, had to solve some issues.

In July 2024, the National Library of Florence launched a new deposit service that required a REST API solution. LIUC developed a program using Java: we used the REST API calls for both products, Esploro as data supplier and BNCF archive as the storer. Our solution is a web-based program using JSP as representation layer. The most relevant issues will be explained.