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The first open-source release of DSpace-CRIS was based on DSpace 1.8.2. Current releases of DSpace-CRIS are based on current DSpace ones.

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titleCurrent release

The latest release is DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.0405 dated MayJuly, 3111st 2024, based on DSpace 7.6.1.

This version provides minor improvements and bug fixing.

For previous DSpace-CRIS versions the latest available tags are 5.11 and 6.4 both released on August, 30th 2022 just after the release of the corresponding DSpace 5.11 and 6.4.  Please note that all DSpace-CRIS versions based on DSpace versions older than 7.0 are End of Life (EOL) according to the community announcement: Support for DSpace 5 and 6 is ending in 2023

Below there is a detailed release plan covering all the known features contributed by 4Science and other community members who support the enhancement of this open-source extension of DSpace (see: DSpace-CRIS Working Group). 

A visit to the community page maintained by DSpace-CRIS users is also recommended: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRIS/New+Features

New functionalities are only developed for the next version of DSpace-CRIS.


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  • Processes tailored to the entity types
  • Many additional data providers
  • Support for structured metadata, ternary relationships and nested metadata
  • Configurable layout for entities in tabs and boxes
  • ORCID v3 complete integration (pull and push of profile information, publications, projects, employments, qualification)
  • Management of personal profiles
  • Granular permissions at metadata level
  • Enhanced statistics visualization, reports, export capabilities including CVs in PDF, citation lists according to the CSL, and much more.

Please check the release notes of each DSpace-CRIS version and the technical documentation for more details.

A presentation of the newly released DSpace-CRIS was given at Open Repositories:

slides: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4923701. Video: https://youtu.be/8jgn0h38Zr8?t=3857 (starting at: 1h 03' 55").

Next releases

DSpace-CRIS 2023.02.05 is 06 is expected by late summer of 2024 if no urgent issues are reported first.

  • Update the correction and suggestion services with the result of the Openaire ELD Advanced project https://eosc-dih.eu/eld-advance/​ (postponed from 2023.02.00 to wait for review of the corresponding plain DSpace PRs)
  • Enhanced Signpostinghttps://signposting.org/ support for DSpace-CRIS
  • Improved Audit System: who, what, when with details up to which metadata has been changed from which value to which value​

  • Support for multilanguage hierarchical metadata: currently metadata within a nested (i.e. Orgunit name of an affiliation, role, etc.) are not shown according to the current UI language

  • Mechanism to track check / timestamp outside of metadata: several features need to store a timestamp as a technical metadata on the item to allow incremental processing. This is the case for example for bibliometric update, bibliographic scan, sync procedures. We will introduce a dedicated mechanism outside of metadata to avoid "update" of the item when no strictly needed​

  • Administer mode to edit metadata of any DSpace Object (Community, Collection, Bundle, Bitstream, EPerson, Group)​

  • Expose relation over the SPARQL/RDF endpoint​

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  • Authorship Claim: provide a way for an user to claim its role over a publication, project, etc. (previously named publication/item claim in DSpace-CRIS 5 renamed as it collides with a different feature introduced in DSpace 8)
  • FAIRiCat https://signposting.org/FAIRiCat/
  • Resourcesync
  • collecting the contributor Roles (CredIT support)​

  • Enforce validation and management of hierarchical metadata via an application profile also in the administer mode and over the API (PUT)​

  • Collect metrics from the OpenCitation​

  • Integrate OpenAlex as a live and suggestion provider ​

2024


DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.05 July, 11st

This version, released on the 11st July 2024, provides minor improvements and bug fixing.

Key Enhancements

  • New configuration introduces identifier subtypes, allowing customization of the name, icon, icon position, and link for each subtype. This includes the update for identifier subtype ROR with identifier.ror rendering type. ROR ID on the OrgUnit details page is displayed following the guidelines
  • Improved visualization of related items (crisref rendering) by creating a new view for the crisref link rendering type that displays metadata in a popup when hovering and closes it automatically when moving away
  • Improved the item poller org.dspace.app.rest.enhancer.RelatedItemEnhancerUpdatePoller to use its own consumers list. This allows to configure specific consumers for the item poller or add/remove not needed ones
  • Implement Domino for Server-Side Rendering stability
  • The validation of patch requests against Edit Item, i.e. request generated by the edit of the deposited item via the Edit “submission like” modes, is now using a more relaxed check accepting to update the item also if the resulting item results in a number of validation error not greater than before the patch. Indeed, it is important to note that a deposited item could have existing validation errors under some scenarios. The most common one is that the deposited item has been created in bulk importing data from a legacy system (migration) or has become “invalid” due to changes in the configuration where more validation criteria have been enforced. In all these scenarios, the updated logic allows editing the item without having to solve all the validation errors at the same time, as long as each edit improves the validation status of the item (i.e. reduces the amount of JSON path involved in validation errors)

Minor changes

  • Set the alphabetic order in the “Entity type“ dropdown menu during the creation of a Collection
  • Reload the page automatically if loading hangs up
  • The visibility on the homepage of the AddToAny social sharing bar has been improved
  • The user_id field of processes is now set to null when an EPerson is deleted to fix errors in process retrieval
  • The search box now dynamically adapts to screen dimensions, ensuring it respects screen borders. On viewports with width less than or equal to medium-sized screens (including tablets and smartphones), the search box width is limited to the lesser of 250px or 40% of the viewport's width
  • Removed old occurrence to cris.owner metadata in the Person entity input form
  • Improvements of import for bulk file operations

Bug fixes

  • CC License step, if mandatory, is now working correctly
  • Fixed issue with export process fails when run 2 times on the same item
  • Fixed the error of removal of inputs of type “link“ in submission forms
  • Fixed Region Name issues with S3 storage configuration
  • Resolved the issue of thumbnails not visible in search page by adding a missing check for the default configuration on thumbnails
  • Fixed the wrong layout for the item administration page
  • Fixes the behaviour of the Altmetric label. It will now only be displayed when the badge is available and contains data
  • Fixed search when using directly an ORCID ID instead of the person’s name
  • Deleted the z-index rule to make the Export button stay in the background of the dropdown menu in MyDspace
  • Fixed an issue where, by pasting a DSpace URL in the address bar, the current page (e.g. in search results) was not retrieved correctly.

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.04 May, 31st

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