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- For the quickest way to get Administrative or Submitter access, visit our chat room (visit http://dspace.testathon.net/
, give yourself a nickname and click "Login"). Someone is usually able to give you access immediately. You will need to register your email with one of the below sites first.
- Otherwise, register with the site you want access to, and send an email to the contact listed below.
sitesCode Block tspacetest.library.utoronto.ca
- Contact Gabriela Mircea (tspace [AT] tspace.library.utoronto.ca) or Tim Donohue (tdonohue [AT] duraspace.org)
XMLUI test instances (all are updated to 1.6.0 RC2)
JSPUI test instances (all are updated to 1.6.0 RC2)
OAI-PMH test instances (all are updated to 1.6.0 RC2)
SWORD test instances (all are updated to 1.6.0 RC2)
Download DSpace+1.6.0-RC2
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Zipped up versions of DSpace+1.6.0-RC2 are available on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/ . Download one of the Zip files under the "DSpace Release Candidate / 1.6.0-rc2" folder. Two releases are available:
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The full DSpace+1.6.0-RC2 source code can also be downloaded from Subversion:
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svn checkout http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/tags/dspace-1.6.0-rc2/ |
Providing Feedback / Reporting Bugs
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- To report bugs, please feel free to use our bug tracking software JIRA: http://jira.dspace.org/
- If you don't yet have an account, visit the JIRA Signup page to set one up.
- Alternatively, you can email bug reports to the dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net dspace-devel mailing list - Please begin your email subject with "1.6RC2 Bug" (or something similar). NOTE: You must sign up for the dspace-devel mailing list in order to post messages.
- For additional support or to talk about bugs or issues, please feel free to join us in the DSpace IRC channel (#dspace). The channel can be found at #dspace on chat.freenode.net. The easiest way to login is to visit our DSpace Testathon webpage (http://dspace.testathon.net/
), fill out a nickname (of your choice) and click Login.
- Alternative way to login to #dspace
- Visit http://webchat.freenode.net/
- Enter in a Nickname (of your choice)
- In the "Channels" field enter "#dspace" (without the quotes)
- Leave "Auth to Services" unselected
- Click Login
- Visit http://webchat.freenode.net/
- Alternative way to login to #dspace
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There are substantial upgrades to the DSpace documentation for version 1.6. Volunteers are needed to review it for clarity and accuracy. Visit the 1.6 Documentation page for more info: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace+1.6+Documentation
Issues Fixed between 1.6.0RC1 and 1.6.0RC2
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- Communities and collections
- Create new community
- Create new sub-community
- Create new collection
- Create collection with template (Known Issue: http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-397
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- Create collection with own license
- Create collection with one ore more workflow steps
- Create collection with collection-admin
- Create collection with template (Known Issue: http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-397
- Epersons and groups
- Create new e-person (Known Issue http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-403
)
- Create new group
- Edit existing eperson
- Edit existing group
- Delete existing eperson
- Delete existing group
- Change groups which have been added to groups
- Create new e-person (Known Issue http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-403
- Items
- Edit item
- Withdraw and reinstate item as an admin
- Withdraw and reinstate item as an collection admim
- withdraw
- reinstantiate - the collection administrator has no possibility to reinstantiate an item as he got no access to the admin withdrawn items or other possibility to get a list of his withdrawn items (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
- Move Items
- Expunge item
- Registries
- Metadata registry
- edit schema
- create new schema
- edit field
- create field
- delete field
- move field
- Bitstream format registry
- create new - note newly created bitstream formats not applied to existing bitstreams with this format(2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
- edit existing
- edit metadata
- change internal flag
- delete existing - wonder whether the license formats (default and CC) should be deletable at all (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
- Metadata registry
- Admin tasks
- Abort a workflow via admin UI -the admin should enter a reason and the submitter and workflow responsible should be notified (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
- Authorisation (see Authorisation below)
- Edit top news on front page (test UTF-8 characters)
- Edit side news on front page (test UTF-8 characters)
- Edit License
- Supervisors - wonder who really uses this feature, it has such a small scope, maybe we should ask via the lists. Some other admin tool to view in general unfinished submissions and lingering workflow tasks might be more useful (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
- Statistics (see statistics below)
- Delete collection
- on deleting the collection there should be more information about it's content for the admin. Maybe an automated export of the collection for the admin would be usefull too
- items in the collection
- items in submission
- items in workflow
- anything in progress should be deleted with notifications
- ongoing submission
- workflow task
- on deleting the collection there should be more information about it's content for the admin. Maybe an automated export of the collection for the admin would be usefull too
- Delete community - (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen) see comments above on collection deletion same for community deletion
- Metadata import (see Batch import below)
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- Item Display
- Community and Collection Home Pages
- Elements of the Home Page
- Recent Submissions
- Configure metadata fields to appear in simple item display
- Default
- collection specific
- show strength of communities and collections
- cached
- not cached
- HTML documents (see also: Submission UI)
- RSS Feeds (not completely testable without a real handle server running)
- For the top level
- For a community
- For a collection
- OpenSearch
- My DSpace
- View and manage subscriptions (see also E-mail below)
- View accepted submissions
- View uthorization groups I am member of
- Unifinished Submissions
- Delete
- View
- Resume
- Usability - could do with a bit of tidying up, not very concise (2009-12-08 Claudia Juergen)
- Password forgotten
- standard registered user
- Register
- Edit profile
- User data
- Change password
- OpenURL links - we need a neutral Logo not the MIT Links one (2009-12-08 Claudia Juergen)
- Suggest an item
- without login restriction
- without login restriction
- Map an item from one collection to another
- mapping - the mapping itself works, but the search for items to map is case sensitive in the jspui (Known bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-402
) (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
- collection, item was mapped to, browse indices
- parent communities of this collection, browse indices
- unmapping
- collection, browse indices
- parent communities, browse indices
- mapping - the mapping itself works, but the search for items to map is case sensitive in the jspui (Known bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-402
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- Configure columns in item lists (search results etc) using webui.itemlist.columns in dspace.cfg
- Browse communities and collections (1.6.0 RC2 has fix for bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-400
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- Browse titles, authors, subjects, by date
- With scope 'All of DSpace'
- in a community
- in a sub-community
- in a collection
Configure date, author, title, subject by using `webui.browse.index.` properties in `dspace.cfg` - add a new browse index
- change order and properties
- Search
- simple search
- advanced search
- change default search operator
- configure search indices
- Controlled vocabulary subject search
- Try configuring a different analyzer (e.g. for Chinese)
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- UI - (1.6.0 RC2 has a fix for bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-418
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- emails
Web UI - XML
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- Create new community
- Create new sub-community
- Create new collection (1.6.0 RC2 has fix for bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-398
)
- Create collection with template - (Known bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-397
)
- Create collection with own license - (1.6.0 RC2 has fix for bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-398
and http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-399
)
- Create collection with one ore more workflow steps
- Create collection with collection-admin
- Create collection with template - (Known bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-397
- Epersons and groups
- Create new e-person
- Create new group (1.6.0 RC2 has fix for bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-415
)
- Edit existing eperson
- Edit existing group
- Delete existing eperson
- Delete existing group
- Change groups which have been added to groups
*Items - Edit item
- Withdraw and reinstate item as an admin
- Withdraw and reinstate item as an collection admim
- Expunge item - ok, but should the collection administrator be able to expunge items? At the moment he is (2009-12-09 Claudia Juergen)
*Registries - Edit metadata registry - new DC fields
- Move metadata fields between schemas
- Edit metadata registry - new schema
- Edit bitstream format registry
- Admin tasks
- Abort a workflow via admin UI
- Authorisation (see Authorisation below)
- Edit top news on front page (test UTF-8 characters)
- Edit side news on front page (test UTF-8 characters)
- Edit License
- Supervisors
- Statistics (see statistics below)
- Delete collection
- Delete community
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- Item Display *
- default display
- full display
- Community and Collection Home Pages *
- Elements of the Home Page - (1.6.0 RC2 has fix for bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-398
)
- Recent Submissions
- ** Recent Submissions list is different in xmlui from jspui
*Configure metadata fields to appear in simple item display - Default (`webui.itemdisplay.default = ...`
- Per-collection (`webui.itemdisplay.style = ...` and `webui.itemdisplay.style.collections = ...`
- show strength of communities and collections
- HTML documents (see also: Submission UI)
- RSS Feeds
- FOr the top level
- For a community
- For a collection
- Translations
- My DSpace
- View and manage subscriptions (see also E-mail below)
- View accepted submissions
- View uthorization groups I am member of
- Unifinished Submissions
- Delete
- View
- Resume
- Usability
- Password forgotten
- standard registered user
- not registered user, inactive user account
- Register
- Edit profile
- User data
- Change password
- OpenURL links
- Suggest an item
- Map an item from one collection to another
- mapping
- collection, item was mapped to, browse indices
- parent communities of this collection, browse indices
- unmapping
- collection, browse indices
- parent communities, browse indices
- mapping
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OAI-PMH
*Validate:
- Validate using http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html
- see http://www.openarchives.org/Register/ValidateSite?log=3442
for details (2009-12-08 Claudia Juergen)
- Validate using Repository Explorer
- Extract METS, DIDL; ensure valid XML
- Validate using http://www.openarchives.org/data/registerasprovider.html
- Ensure correct exposure of items when restriction setting in dspace.cfg is enabled
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- Request a service document, ensure it matches the collection deposit authorizations for that user
- Deposit an item
- (See: http://testathon.net/EasyDeposit/
for help)
- (See: http://testathon.net/EasyDeposit/
OAI-ORE Harvesting
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