| Candidate Feature | Exists?
(in some form) | Core | Non-core | Survey Average Score*
(1 = lowest, 10 = highest) | Use Cases |
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| Create / manage files and metadata (as an Item) | x | x | | 10 | |
| Community and Collection hierarchy (or generic containers) | x | | | 7.36 | |
Create new versions of existing Items | (beta) | | | 5.92 | |
| Support for derivative objects (e.g. thumbnails, coversheets) | x | | | 6.52 | |
| Metadata for all levels of object hierarchy (e.g. for Communities and Collections) | | | | 6.99 | |
| Relationships between objects (e.g. Author items as Authors of an Item rather than textual metadata) | | | | 8.17 | |
| Support for hierarchical metadata formats (e.g. METS / MODS) | | | | 7.10 | |
| Item approval workflows | x | | | 7.88 | |
| Item embargo facility | x | | | 8.64 | |
| Support for flexible licensing, including Creative Commons | x | | | 8.44 | |
CRIS functionality
(Current Research Information System: researcher pages and automated publication feeds from external data providers) | | | | 5.51 | |
| Search and browse for Items | x | | | 9.41 | |
Easy and intuitive deposit mechanism for users | x | | | 8.86 | |
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