| Candidate Feature | CategoryStatus*
(see category descrip. below) | DSpace Product Plan*
 = mostly met,
 = partially met,
 = not met | Survey Average Importance*
10 = very,
5 = moderately,
0 = not imp.important | Use Cases |
|---|
| Create / manage files and metadata (as an Item) | Structure | | 10.00 | |
| Community and Collection hierarchy (or generic containers) | Structure | / (no generic containers) | 7.37 | |
Create new versions of existing Items | Structure | (disabled by default, limited) | 5.92 | |
| Support for derivative objects (e.g. thumbnails, coversheets) | Structure | (thumbnails & text extraction only) | 6.52 | |
| Metadata for all levels of object hierarchy (e.g. for Communities and Collections) | Structure | | 6.99 | |
| Relationships between objects (e.g. Author items as Authors of an Item rather than textual metadata) | Structure | | 8.17 | |
| Support for hierarchical metadata formats (e.g. METS / MODS) | Structure | | 7.10 | |
| Item approval workflows | Administrative | | 7.88 | |
| Item embargo facility | End User / Administrative | | 8.64 | |
| Support for flexible licensing, including Creative Commons | End User | | 8.44 | |
CRIS functionality
(Current Research Information System: researcher pages and automated publication feeds from external data providers) | End User | (though, DSpace-CRIS is available) | 5.51 | |
| Search and browse for Items | End User | | 9.41 | |
Easy and intuitive deposit mechanism for users | End User | (arguable) | 8.86 | |
Batch deposit (multiple item deposit via the user interface) | End User | | 8.59 | |
Batch download (multiple item download as a single file) | End User | | 6.91 | |
Authentication with common single-sign-on systems (e.g. LDAP, Shibboleth) | Integrations | | 8.52 | |
Most configuration takes place via the administrative user interface | Administrative | | 7.61 | |
Template-driven user interface for easy branding | Administrative | | 7.53 | |
User interface and theme management takes place via user interface | Administrative | | 6.47 | |
Search Engine crawler-friendly user interface | Integrations | | 8.91 | |
Specialized content delivery mechanisms (media players, page turners, document viewers) | End User | | 6.83 | |
| Content streaming (video player) | End User | | 6.92 | |
| Basic preservation (fixity checks) | Administrative | | 8.33 | |
| Format identification and reporting | Administrative | (simplistic identification, no reporting) | 7.00 | |
| Advanced preservation services (e.g. format migration) | Administrative | | 6.61 | |
| Persistent identifiers: handles | Integrations | | 8.32 | |
| Additional external persistent identifiers: DOIs, DataCite | Integrations | (basic support only) | 7.56 | |
| Other external identifiers: ORCID | Integrations | (some current funding / development) | 7.22 | |
| Basic statistics (item access counts, file downloads) | Stats/Metrics | (limited reporting) | 9.03 | |
| Advanced statistics (search terms, geographical locations) | Stats/Metrics | (limited reporting) | 8.13 | |
| Altmetrics | Stats/Metrics | | 7.30 | |
| Open Access status tracking and compliance checking | Stats/Metrics /
Integrations | | 7.27 | |
| Standard repository machine interfaces (e.g. OAI-PMH, SWORDv2, ResourceSync) | Integrations | (but, no ResourceSync yet) | 8.11 | |
| REST API for building external applications | Integrations | (beta) | 7.56 | |