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Please add your suggestions for GSoC 2013 2014 projects related to DSpace! If you are interested in mentoring, please let us know! Also, be sure to visit the listing of Past GSoC Project Ideas below, to see if anything there is still relevant. |
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Project Title / Summary | Relevant DSpace component(s) | Detailed Description / Links | Mentor volunteer(s) |
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TranslateWiki Integration | dspace-xmlui dspace-jspui dspace-lang | The DSpace community has approached TranslateWiki.net (TWN), the mediawikibased platform for interface translation of open source projects. The initial discussions are promising and the TWN community is currently building support for the Apache Cocoon message format that is used by XMLUI. We need an ambitious GSOC student to connect the dots, working with both communities in extending the integration and ensuring that in the end, the threshold is lowered for external translators to provide interface translations for DSpace. Related Links: | Bram Luyten |
Virtual Sets: Separate the internal repository structure from the navigation structure | dspace-xmlui | Currently, Dspace’s hierarchical structure allows to share items between collections by explicitly declaring these relations on each item. However, DSpace does not allow to relate a collection or sub-community between two or more communities. Virtual Sets are arbitrary aggregations of Dspace Objects and criterias, composed of:
Virtual Sets in DSpace would allow the creation of complex navigation structures regardless of the hierarchical (perhaps administrative) structure of communities and collections. Structures, as described above, are supported in at least another repository software such as Fedora-based Hydra due to its generic object model. The initial implementation would affect the dspace-xmlui component. However, further extensions of this implementation would at least involve the modification of the dspace-api component too, possibly implementing the Virtual Sets as DSpace Objects to offer more orthogonal features like Virtual Sets backup, export and exposure through OAI-PMH. | |
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