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See: DSpace 6 Testathon Testplan Working group for further information.

 

Meeting notes

During this meeting we discussed personal interests in other institution's repositories as well as use cases to manage. We did this in the form of a repository manager Q&A session.

What do you do with archival materials? Do you preserve these in DSpace?

Most members participating in the call use DSpace for both archival materials as special collections.

DSpace 5.4 has been released on November 9th and the DSpace 6 will be available early 2016. (When) will you upgrade your DSpace?

Both the University of Missouri and Ohio State University indicated interest in upgrading their institutional repository to the official DSpace 5.4 release in the near future. The University of Missouri is currently already running a snapshot version of DSpace 5.4 on their production environment.

The latest DSpace release (version 5.4) includes bugfixes to solr. Did anyone notice issues with solr before?

The participant generally agree solr to be an improvement over Lucene. Search functionality improved after switching to solr.

Would you consider giving up certain customizations to facilitate future upgrades?

The University of Missouri already gave up on some customizations when upgrading to their snapshot version of DSpace 5.4.

Montana State university is currently developing some customizations. At the moment they are not sure whether or not they will keep on porting all of their customizations when upgrading. Porting features to DSpace 5 & 6 is not impossible. Porting those to subsequent versions could be more labor intensive due to structural changes in DSpace 7.

How do you execute upgrades? Are you doing everything in-house or do you rely on third party services?

Both the University of Georgetown and the Ohio State University are currently relying on in-house resources. Ohio State University is looking at other options for future upgrades.

Which User Interface are you using?

All of the participants are using the XML User Interface. None are using JSPUI. Mirage 2 is a popular theme across participants. This is mainly due to its responsiveness.

What is Archivespace?

The University of Michigan wanted to bring together metadata from all platforms and softwares they use. For this reason they created their Archivespace as an umbrella project. They have writing a blog on how they managed to do so Michigan DSpace/ArchivesSpace/Archivematica integration blog is at http://archival-integration.blogspot.com/.

What are you using for Statistics?

There are several tools & technologies which can be used:

  • SOLR
  • Elasticsearch
  • Google analytics
  • ...

Google analytics is found to be lacking a certain granularity. Most IR managers would like to segmentate on the communities and collection levels and create separate statistics for those. This functionality is not supported by google analytics. A way overcoming this issue is by integrating google tag manager into analytics. More info on tag manager can be obtained from https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager

DSpace 6 test plan

The XMLUI test plan needs some further improvement. The key question remains if we should break some of the current categories further down into subcategories.

At the moment we do not have a JSPUI test plan. This is something that still has to be accounted for.

The DSpace 6 testathon will start on January 6th.

More information on the testplan can be found at https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DSpace+6+Testathon+Testplan+Working+group

Call Attendees