At the request of the DSpace Committers and Developers, the DSpace Community Advisory Team\ (DCAT) has begun an effort to build a community consensus on improving the metadata support in future DSpace releases. Last month this process began with a community survey to collect feedback on what improvements organizations would like to see relative to metadata support in DSpace.
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3) Enhancing the metadata available for Community, Collections and Files (bitstreams)
4) Improvements in the UI - simplfying where/how things are done and bring more functionality to the UI