1. Munispace: Masaryk University reading room Mgr. Radek Gomola
MUST Week, 4th September 2018

2. Munispace or the online reading room is a virtual space enabling readers to study, do research, browse and download books. Munispace offers academic as well as popular science e-books published by Masaryk University.
Masaryk University Press gathers information on all Open Access e-books published by Masaryk University. In Munispace readers can search these records and browse through them. Digital libraries, such as Munispace, provide access to full versions of the books.
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3. Overview of the presentation
Major challenges in the past
Every beginning is difficult
Munispace v1 – first steps and my contribution
Breaking point – 2017
Munispace v2 – we are further
Some statistics
Future
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4. History of Munispace
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5. History of Munispace Beginnings and development
February 2014 – joining Munipress
March 2014 – launching OJS (Open Journal Systems)
April 2014 – first steps with OMP (Open Monograph Press)
May 2014 – pilot version of Munispace
2014 – 2017 – aiming to make Munispace work better
June 2017 – setting off Munispace v2
October 2017 – Munispace changed core to OMP 3 and got new visual style
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6. First things first Every beginning is difficult
First stable version of OMP – bugs and problems
Our expectations / reality
No Czech localization
No sorting and filtering functions
Created for small presses – problems with large volume of books
Poor design
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7. https://opensi.si.edu/index.php/smithsonian (example of OMP 1)
Munispace v1
(example of OMP 1)
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8. Munispace v1 – first steps and my contribution
Translation – Petr Dvořák
Visual style – Pavel Křepela
Sorting, filtering and paging functions added
Showing books by author
Upgrading SQL queries for faster page response
New panels for categories
Better page menu and landing pages for books
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9. 2017 – milestone
Masaryk University – new web templates and visual style
Public Knowledge Project (PKP) came with OMP 3 (to compare with OJS 3 core)
Munipress starts using FlipBooks
Increasing number of readers using Munispace
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10. Munispace v2
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11. Munispace v2 – everything changes
New visual style = new work (design does not fit OMP 3)
Mobile friendly responsive design
OMP 3 – new system core = new work (older plugins are incompatible)
Completely new work on SQL queries – processes a large amount of data in under 1s
Add FlipBook for better reading
Add SlickSlider for news
New catalogue browsing and searching by ISBN
And much more: Landing pages for Crossref, short links, similar publications …
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12. Statistics About 1.800 visitors and over 4.500 pageviews every month
605 titles from 8 faculties and other institutes
More than 400 books by data
About visitors and over pageviews every month
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13. Statistics - graphs
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14. Future What is ahead of us OMP 3.1
Heidelberg Sprint (personal invitation)
Masaryk University new visual style
Compare to Journals page
Connecting to databases by OAI-PMH
HTML galleys
and many more books … 
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15. Thank you for your attention
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16. Some useful links PKP: https://pkp.sfu.ca/
OMP:
Munispace:
Munipress:
Digital libraries of Masaryk University:
SlickSlider:
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