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This page details features that are frequently asked for out of DSpace, but are not yet implemented (at least in a stable, out-of-the-box fashion). Anyone should feel free to to add features requests, content or references to this page. Developers should feel free to tackle any of these features and link to other pages to describe your plans/work in more detail.
In no particular order, some frequently requested features:
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Statistics
The DSpace JSPUI has some very basic statistics available out-of-the-box. However, they are lacking in many ways, and do not have any means of filtering out web-spiders, etc.
There are various statistics "plugins" or "addons" that you can install in DSpace, but nothing that has been truly accepted at this time. The following Wiki pages describe ongoing Statistics work:
- StatisticsAddOn - Developed by Universidade of Minho, and seems to be one of best available
- Google+Summer+of+Code+2007+Statistics - Work by Federico Paparoni out of Google+Summer+of+Code '07
- DspaceStatistics - Out of date proposals for various statistical packages
- Modular+Usage+Statistics - Proposal for a general view event "tap" usable for gathering statistics
- Statistical+Improvements+for+v1.6 - Ideas for short-term improvement.
Versioning
DSpace currently does not support versioning of items. However, there are some general plans in place to hopefully implement this feature for a 2.0 release, based on the work that came out of Google+Summer+of+Code+2007_Versioning
Distributed Community / Collection Management
DSpace currently only supports minimal distributed management at a Collection level, in the form of Collection Administrators. However, at this point in time, there is no such thing as a Community Administrator to allow for distributed management of individual Communities.
The closest anyone has gotten to implement this feature is in the now out-of-date patch:
Authorization System: Delegate Admins (SF#13736513) by Andrea Bollini
Embargo
Please approach Frequently Asked For IDeas as separate Sub-Pages under this space
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Embargo - FIXED IN 1.6.0
[last updated: 15 Apr 2008]
DSpace 1.6.0 now comes with an Embargo Facility. For more details see the DSpace 1.6.0 Documentation.
There are also numerous unsupported addons and plugins for previous versions of DSpaceThere have been numerous attempts at implementing simple embargo functionality into the DSpace Submission process. Among them, including:
However, perhaps the most substantial embargo work has come from Elliot Metsger (JHU), who is working on an Embargo module for DSpace 1.5+:
Streaming Media
[last updated: 8 July 2008_]
There have been many requests for hints/tips on integrating streaming audio/video into DSpace (on listservs). But, as of yet, there have been no references written up.
- The + Challenge + of + Audio + and + Video - Collection point for thoughts on approaching the problem.
- http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2009/05/27/easy-pseudo-video-streaming-for-dspace-repositories
Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs)
[last updated: 15 Apr 2008_]
There are a few projects which have attempted (or are attempting) a theses & dissertation workflow within DSpace:
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Support for hierarchical LDAP servers - FIXED IN 1.5.2
[last updated: 8 July 2009_]
The LDAP support currently in DSpace only supports a flat authentication structure. Many institutions use a hierarchical strcture which is slightly more complex.
- There is a patch on the queue that addresses this, but also tries to do a few other things so this needs teasing out
- Robin from Edinburgh has also written a patch for this.
- Stuart Lewis will volunteer to look into this.
Some LDAP-enabled applications also allow the setting of multiple LDAP servers with different settings. Is this a requirement for DSpace?
Better Windows O/S support
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- FIXED IN 1.6.0
[last updated: 16 Apr 2010]
DSpace 1.6.0 now comes with a new 'dspace' command shell. All commands can be run identically on Unix or Windows systems using this new [dspace]/bin/dspace
commandline tool.15 Apr 2008_
DSpace runs fine on Windows, but is still a little bit Unix oriented. Most of the scripts that come bundled are unix shell scripts.
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Branding (name of service)
[last updated: 15 Apr 2008_]
Most installations of DSpace brand their service, so 'MyDSpace' becomes 'MyXYZ'. At present to do this you have to do a lot of search and replacing in messages.properties. It would be good if a service name could be set in dspace.cfg.
One approach introduces parameter substitution into message texts from dspace.cfg.
Hit highlighting in search results
Highlight hits of searched-for words in search results. I think Lucene has a package for this and there is a patch of the queue that uses that.
OAI
The DSpace OAI offers only very basic sets out-of-the-box. Sets are always directly linked to DSpace collections. If customized sets are required, these can only be offered through collection mapping or (core) code changes. This requirement is essential for the DRIVER OAI harvester and some other OAI harvesters
The following Wiki page describes potential solutions for making OAI sets more customizable:
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