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This is a very rough draft of a DSpace 2013 Vision Document. It is being developed as part of the output of the DSpace 2013 Vision and Roadmap Meeting, which took place in Chicago in May 2013. The vision described in this document is still a work-in-progress, and is open to community-wide feedback. |
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In case it is not evident, this Vision Document describes a longer-term vision for the DSpace platform. It does NOT have any relationship to the DSpace 4.0 Release in 2013 or the DSpace 5.0 release scheduled for end of 20132014. Both DSpace 4.0 and 5.0 will just involve improvements to the existing DSpace platform. This Vision Document describes a (potentially) new, modernized DSpace platform, which could only be implemented should we be able to locate necessary resources from our community or elsewhere.DSpace software's "aspirations" or the overarching goals which DSpace will strive to achieve. |
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The latest Vision-related work (as of June 2014) is occurring at:
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DSpace 3-5 Year Vision Statement
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A presentation version of this Vision Statement is also available at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ioj3j77iuit0hlk/DSpace%20vision.pdf |
The following statements describe, at a high level, what goals the DSpace open source product should strive to meet.
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An overview of the draft DSpace 3-5 Year Vision (as presented at the Open Repositories 2013 conference) is provided in the following "DSpace 2013 RoadMap & 3-5 Year Vision" screencast by Tim Donohue of DuraSpace.
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The slides from the screencast and the OR13 talk are also available at: http://www.slideshare.net/tdonohue/dspace-roadmap-vision-2013-or13
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DSpace Use Cases / Features (Very Rough Draft / Notes)
What follows is a (rough) listing of core use cases & features that DSpace should strive to meet, based on the "3-5 year vision statement" detailed above.
These lists are by no means final, they are just an initial brainstorm of organizing use cases and features into three main categories: "Primary / Core Features", "Possible Extension/Plugins", "Likely Extensions/Plugins". The goals are to generate discussion and attempt to determine which use cases/features are fundamental to all DSpace users and which could be provided by a (third party or centrally maintained) plugin/extension.
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Recently, other repository systems have done some similar Use Case / Requirements lists. There may be some overlap in these use cases that could be helpful in our brainstorms / analysis.
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Primary / Core Features
The following features seem to be primary use cases of DSpace. Therefore, these features should likely be immediately available in "out-of-the-box" DSpace and should require no extra installation/setup:
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