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:

Statistics - FIXED IN 1.6.0

\[last updated: 16 Apr 2010\]

DSpace 1.6.0 now includes an improved Statistics engine based on Apache Solr. These statistics are gathered by a new "solr" webapp, and displayed for Communities, Collections and Items in either the XMLUI or JSPUI. For more details see the DSpace 1.6.0 Documentation.

In addition to the supported Statistics in DSpace 1.6.0, there are various unsupported statistics "plugins" or "addons" that you can install in DSpace. The following Wiki pages describe these unsupported addons:

• 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• DspaceStatistics - Out of date proposals for various statistical packages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

\[last updated: 15 Apr 2008\]

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 - FIXED IN 1.6.0

\[last updated: 16 Apr 2010\]

DSpace 1.6.0 now allows for Delegated Community and Collection Management. For more details see the DSpace 1.6.0 Documentation.

Please approach Frequently Asked For IDeas as separate Sub-Pages under this space

Please migrate the following to separate pages so they can be consolidated under completed projects when completed.

Embargo - FIXED IN 1.6.0

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\[last updated: 15 Apr 2008\]

DSpace 1.6.0 now comes with an Embargo Facility. For more details see the DSpace 1.6.0 Documentation.

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• Embargo on Bitstream (JSP)
• Embargo on Bitstream v2 (JSP)

Streaming Media

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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.

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Electronic Theses & Dissertations (ETDs)

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\[last updated: 15 Apr 2008\]

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

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The LDAP support currently in DSpace only supports a flat authentication structure. Many institutions use a hierarchical strcture which is slightly more complex.

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Better Windows O/S support - FIXED IN 1.6.0

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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.

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)

Wiki Markup\[last updated: 15 Apr 2008\]

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

\[last updated: 15 Apr 2008\]

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

\[last updated: 6-Aug-2009\]

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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