Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Date
Attendees
- Tal Ayalon
- Kimberly Chapman
- Scott Hanrath
Barbara Hirschmann
- Agustina Martínez-García
- Beate Rajski
Discussion items
Time | Item | Who | Notes |
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5 min | Working Group Meeting and Communication | All |
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10 min | Review resource list | All |
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30 min | Dspace 7 Gap Analysis | All |
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15 min | Next steps | All |
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Notes
Meetings and Communications
- Sarah Swanz switched jobs and has left the group.
- Meeting notes to be posted on the working group’s wiki.
- The working group will communicate via wiki notes and e-mails. The DSpace Slack channel can be used for outreach purposes.
Resource List
Suggestions for addition to the resource list:
- NISO Migrations Recs https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/content-platform-migrations
- Adding resource data
- Other repository software roadmaps (Fedora? Invenio? https://inveniosoftware.org/products/rdm/roadmap/)
The DSpace development roadmap should be reviewed to assure that its content is still relevant for the DSpace community.
Dspace 7 Gap Analysis
The work group began identifying areas that could be important to include a post-DSpace 7.2 release.
- Full ORCID-Integration
- Automated content enrichment and support of identifiers and services (Scholix, Citations, OpenAIRE, ROR ...) – Overall concept for identifier integration. Tracking citations has been mentioned as an especially important requirement
- Better support of persistent identifiers / PIDs - For example: DOI integration with CrossRef
- Licensing and rights (https://writemd.rz.tuhh.de/FjBJ09zJTGKjbQX03P6PNA?both) – Adding more licensing and rights options other than Creative Commons, supporting different rights for different items / files
- Digital preservation integration and better functionality for preservation preparation, integration with preservation tools
- Standard (e.g. COUNTER) compliant statistics
- Integrated viewer/s, data visualization tools (IIIF, CKAN, etc.)
- Better large size / structured file management – e.g. “Request a copy” functionality
- Support for depositing files in folder / hierarchical structure and hierarchical data
- S3 / cloud support (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/) – For easier migration when moving away from DSpace – Separating DSpace content from hosting
- Module framework and registry / “customization catalog” – Easier way to contribute and add specific customizations (from a previous DSpace roadmap: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Design+-+Module+Framework+and+Registry)
- Accessibility: Compatibility with international standards (for platform and content)
- Simplified theming management for institutions
Next Steps
Engaging stakeholders: Discussing the future road map ideas, at first with DSpace service providers and then with the larger DSpace community – Scott will come up with a couple of options to share information / get feedback from DSpace service providers.
Looking at road maps of other repository tools / services (All).