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titleOnline Version of Documentation also available

This documentation was produced with Confluence software. HTML and PDF versions were A PDF version was generated directly from Confluence. An online, updated version of this Documentation is also available at: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC

Preface

Welcome to Release 1.8.70. 1! The committers developers have volunteered many hours to fix, re-write and contribute new software code for this release. Documentation has also been updated. The 1.7.1 bug fix release includes all the new features of 1.7.0 but fixes many known issues discovered since the release of 1.7.0.

Bug Fixes in 1.7.1 include (but not exhaustive):

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Improvements in 1.7.1 include (but not exhaustive):

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The following is a list of the new features included for release 1.78.0 (not an exhaustive list):

  • Mirage: a new clean, professional looking theme for XMLUI that eases theme development
  • DSpace Discovery: a faceted browse/search interface for XMLUI that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository content
  • Archival Information Package (AIP) Backup & Restore process: allows for a backup of DSpace into a generic METS-based structure, that can be used to migrate DSpace content to another system that supports AIP's (DSpace or non-DSpace)
  • Curation System User Interface: allows for a series of curation tasks (profile bitstream formats, virus scan, check for required metadata) to be performed on objects in DSpace
  • PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides
  • Improved Google Scholar indexing on metadata and PDF content
  • Improved performance and scalability of DSpace: the code has been thoroughly analyzed to provide major performance gains with regard to item ingestion and indexing speed to support larger repositories
  • Automated Unit Testing of core code: helps the developers ensure the core code of DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible
  • Improvemenst to the upgrade and configuration process.
  • More Curation Tools/Plugins
  • Configurable Reviewer Workflow
  • SWORD Client for DSpace
  • SWORDv2 Server Module
  • RSS feeds will support richer features, such as iTunes podcast and publishing to iTunesU.
  • Enhancements to Discovery.
  • Rewrite of Creative Commons licensing for XMLUI.
  • Reordering of bitstreams.
  • Enable virus checking during submission.
  • Ability to Withdraw/Reinstate/Delete Items in Bulk, via Batch Metadata Editing.

A full list of all changes / bug fixes in 1.78.0 is available in the History section.

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