If your work on DSpace involved any of the aspects below, please go to the relevant page to see what's going on, and add yourself to the list of interested parties! (Just add your name to the bottom of the page.) The goal of the DSpace Community Process is to establish an organizational process to the creation of new Proposals, Special topic Meetings, and their eventual "graduation" into DSpace Development Projects with scheduled integration timeframes to get into DSpace.

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Please work through these idea pages (children of the DevelopmentAreas page) and the rest of the hardcoded list below to consolidate the sections of this page into labels for above grouping.

Everything Under this Point needs to get reorganized and labeled. Use appropriate labels so that project proposals and active work areas show up where they should above.

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• EventMechanism - Adding event mechanism to the data model
• EventSystemPrototype - prototype implementation (for DSpace 1.5) of an event driver
• ScalabilityIssues1.4
• CleanupTasks - General tasks to ensure the architecture/code is robust and consistent
• PersistentIdentifiers - making DSpace less dependent on the Handle system.
• BitstreamFormat Renovation - new design and implementation of data format technical metadata for Bitstreams, to better support digital preservation.

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Features/functionality

• DspaceStatisticsDSpaceStatistics
• PersistentIdentifiers - Making identifiers 'pluggable' (Handles, ARKs...)
• NetworkInterfaces - e.g. Web Services, WebDAV etc.
• HistorySystem
• Item Versioning Support - approaches to supporting multiple versions over time (i.e. editions, as opposed to multiple formats of the same version)
• BitstreamRelationships - proposal to encode relationships between bitstreams explicitly in the data model.

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• MetadataSupport for non-Dublin Core schemas
• XmlNamespaces
• DspaceIntermediateMetadata DSpaceIntermediateMetadata - XML format for metadata tables for XSLT transforms
• CrosswalkPlugins
• PackagerPlugins
• MetadataDiscovery
• Attaching "policy" metadata to objects, SIPs (experimental)
• DSpaceMETSSIPProfile (for use with the Packager Plugin, via the Lightweight Network Interface and other package-based applications)
• DSpaceMETSAIPProfile (used by AIP Prototype)
• ItemBatchUpdate

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• Installer Prototype - Prototype for a new "easy" installer, which will better automate the Installation/Upgrade processes for DSpace.

Big Data

• Ingesting Large Bitstreams - uploading big data sets via HTTP

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Other planned/possible work

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