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The first open-source release of DSpace-CRIS was based on DSpace 1.8.2. Current releases of DSpace-CRIS are based on current DSpace ones.

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titleCurrent release

The latest release is DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.0405 dated MayJuly, 31st 11th 2024, based on DSpace 7.6.1.

This version provides minor improvements and bug fixing.

For the latest releases we thank for their contributions: Universität Bern, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, California Digital Library, Universität Bamberg, Universität St.Gallen,and COAR - Confederation of Open Access Repositories for funding the integration with the Notify protocol. 

For previous DSpace-CRIS versions the latest available tags are 5.11 and 6.4 both released on August, 30th 2022 just after the release of the corresponding DSpace 5.11 and 6.4.  Please note that all DSpace-CRIS versions based on DSpace versions older than 7.0 are End of Life (EOL) according to the community announcement: Support for DSpace 5 and 6 is ending in 2023

Below there is a detailed release plan covering all the known features contributed by 4Science and other community members who support the enhancement of this open-source extension of DSpace (see: DSpace-CRIS Working Group). 

A visit to the community page maintained by DSpace-CRIS users is also recommended: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACECRIS/New+Features. 

New functionalities are only developed for the next version of DSpace-CRIS.


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  • Processes tailored to the entity types
  • Many additional data providers
  • Support for structured metadata, ternary relationships and nested metadata
  • Configurable layout for entities in tabs and boxes
  • ORCID v3 complete integration (pull and push of profile information, publications, projects, employments, qualification)
  • Management of personal profiles
  • Granular permissions at metadata level
  • Enhanced statistics visualization, reports, export capabilities including CVs in PDF, citation lists according to the CSL, and much more.

Please check the release notes of each DSpace-CRIS version and the technical documentation for more details.

A presentation of the newly released DSpace-CRIS was given at Open Repositories:

slides: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4923701. Video: https://youtu.be/8jgn0h38Zr8?t=3857 (starting at: 1h 03' 55").

Next releases

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.05 is 06 is expected by late summer of 2024 if no urgent issues are reported first.

  • Update the correction and suggestion services with the result of the Openaire ELD Advanced project https://eosc-dih.eu/eld-advance/​ (postponed from 2023.02.00 to wait for review of the corresponding plain DSpace PRs)
  • Enhanced Signposting​ https://signposting.org/ support for DSpace-CRIS

  • Improved Audit System: who, what, when with details up to which metadata has been changed from which value to which value​

  • Support for multilanguage hierarchical metadata: currently metadata within a nested (i.e. Orgunit name of an affiliation, role, etc.) are not shown according to the current UI language

  • Mechanism to track check / timestamp outside of metadata: several features need to store a timestamp as a technical metadata on the item to allow incremental processing. This is the case for example for bibliometric update, bibliographic scan, sync procedures. We will introduce a dedicated mechanism outside of metadata to avoid "update" of the item when no strictly needed​

  • Administer mode to edit metadata of any DSpace Object (Community, Collection, Bundle, Bitstream, EPerson, Group)​

  • Expose relation over the SPARQL/RDF endpoint​


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DSpace-CRIS 2024.01.00 by July (not to use in production)

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DSpace-CRIS 2024.02.00 by Sept (stable and production ready)

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  • Authorship Claim: provide a way for an user to claim its role over a publication, project, etc. (previously named publication/item claim in DSpace-CRIS 5 renamed as it collides with a different feature introduced in DSpace 8)
  • FAIRiCat https://signposting.org/FAIRiCat/
  • Resourcesync

  • collecting the contributor Roles (CredIT support)​

  • Enforce validation and management of hierarchical metadata via an application profile also in the administer mode and over the API (PUT)​

  • Collect metrics from the OpenCitation​

  • Integrate OpenAlex as a live and suggestion provider ​


2024

DSpace-CRIS 8 2024.01.00 July, 22nd (not to use in production, only for test purpose)

This version, released on the 22nd July 2024,  provides alignment with DSpace 8.0-snapshot
New User Features

 

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.05 July, 11st

This version, released on the 11st July 2024, provides minor improvements and bug fixing.

Key Enhancements

  • New configuration introduces identifier subtypes, allowing customization of the name, icon, icon position, and link for each subtype. This includes the update for identifier subtype ROR with identifier.ror rendering type. ROR ID on the OrgUnit details page is displayed following the guidelines
  • Improved visualization of related items (crisref rendering) by creating a new view for the crisref link rendering type that displays metadata in a popup when hovering and closes it automatically when moving away
  • Improved the item poller org.dspace.app.rest.enhancer.RelatedItemEnhancerUpdatePoller to use its own consumers list. This allows to configure specific consumers for the item poller or add/remove not needed ones
  • Implement Domino for Server-Side Rendering stability
  • The validation of patch requests against Edit Item, i.e. request generated by the edit of the deposited item via the Edit “submission like” modes, is now using a more relaxed check accepting to update the item also if the resulting item results in a number of validation error not greater than before the patch. Indeed, it is important to note that a deposited item could have existing validation errors under some scenarios. The most common one is that the deposited item has been created in bulk importing data from a legacy system (migration) or has become “invalid” due to changes in the configuration where more validation criteria have been enforced. In all these scenarios, the updated logic allows editing the item without having to solve all the validation errors at the same time, as long as each edit improves the validation status of the item (i.e. reduces the amount of JSON path involved in validation errors)

Minor changes

  • Set the alphabetic order in the “Entity type“ dropdown menu during the creation of a Collection
  • Reload the page automatically if loading hangs up
  • The visibility on the homepage of the AddToAny social sharing bar has been improved
  • The user_id field of processes is now set to null when an EPerson is deleted to fix errors in process retrieval
  • The search box now dynamically adapts to screen dimensions, ensuring it respects screen borders. On viewports with width less than or equal to medium-sized screens (including tablets and smartphones), the search box width is limited to the lesser of 250px or 40% of the viewport's width
  • Removed old occurrence to cris.owner metadata in the Person entity input form
  • Improvements of import for bulk file operations

Bug fixes

  • CC License step, if mandatory, is now working correctly
  • Fixed issue with export process fails when run 2 times on the same item
  • Fixed the error of removal of inputs of type “link“ in submission forms
  • Fixed Region Name issues with S3 storage configuration
  • Resolved the issue of thumbnails not visible in search page by adding a missing check for the default configuration on thumbnails
  • Fixed the wrong layout for the item administration page
  • Fixes the behaviour of the Altmetric label. It will now only be displayed when the badge is available and contains data
  • Fixed search when using directly an ORCID ID instead of the person’s name
  • Deleted the z-index rule to make the Export button stay in the background of the dropdown menu in MyDspace
  • Fixed an issue where, by pasting a DSpace URL in the address bar, the current page (e.g. in search results) was not retrieved correctly.

DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.02.04 May, 31st

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Version released on 9th of june, provides alignment with DSpace 7.5 tag. See DSpace 7.5 release notes

Key Enhancements

  • Alignment with DSpace 7.5. See DSpace 7.5 release notes.
  • Replace AddThis as social plugin manager with AddToAny
  • Export of the current cris layout configuration as a reusable xls​
  • Ability to configure the explore sections under hierarchical menu
  • bug fixing

Major improvements areas / bug fixes

  • Fixed a bug affecting special groups membership evaluation during CRIS security checks

  • Added a new LimitedMetadataContributor to Live Import Framework, to limit number of metadata of the same type to be imported

  • Improved Line chart visualization in statistics page reflecting the selected time interval

  • AuthorityImportFiller for fundings gathering data from OpenAIRE added, Fundings related to other DSpace-CRIS Objects can be created with those gathered data

  • Restored subject in sent email

  • Hidden Relationships tab in Edit item page

  • CMS metadata admin section improved

  • Submission: dropdown values associated to blank metadata value are not stored

  • Migration: fixed missing relationship values​

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This version, released on the 21st April 2023, provides alignment with DSpace 7.4 tag. See DSpace 7.4 release notes.

Key Enhancements

  • Support for the viewer framework: to allow developer to plug viewer specialized in rendering of specific file types
  • Configurable item brief view
  • Increased flexibility for the Edit item configuration​: support for multiple security policies, link the edit modes to the original submission form name to differentiate edit inside the same entity (i.e. edit options for a publication, a thesis, etc could be different)
  • Scopus live import update​
  • Use the Sherpa Romeo database as an authority for journal relationship​
  • Automatic guessing of linked entities during import ​
  • Advanced Attachment: cleaner visualization of the bitstreams, possibility to configure which bitstream's metadata are shown in the item page

Major improvements areas / bug fixes

  • General improvements on Angular side
  • Google Scholar cannot index PDF
  • Fixed migration steps from DSpace CRIS 5
  • Fixed errors in metadata extraction step
  • LDAP Authentication box not displayed when Password Authentication is disabled

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2021

DSpace-CRIS 7 2021.03.00 December, 30th 

This version, released on the 30th Dec 2021, provides a new way of rendering an Item detail page, possibility of adding custom html fragments in home page, share functionality. Search and browsing performances have been improved, and further checks have been added to improve security and prevent the saving of Items in an invalid state when edited. Details of this release are reported below.

Key Enhancements

  • New Item Detail page based on the concept of matrix layout (see notes and presentations from the WG meetings in December and November)

  • Enforced metadata profile in no-administrative edit screens (prevent to save change to item with invalid or missing mandatory metadata)

  • Edit of html fragments in the home page

  • Share on social networks via addthis

  • Several minor bugs fixed

Architecture

  • Aligned with DSpace 7 community last improvement, with a preview of several features of 7.2 tag

  • performance improvements in browsing and search listing

Data presentation

  • new Item Detail page, with matrix layout

  • Hide the bitstream list in the item page when no bitstreams are available

  • Provided a standard and semi automatic way to define i18n keys for item layout pages

  • Filters and facets can be built using display value for metadata set using lists or controlled vocabularies

  • Extended valuepair rendering to metadata defined via a controlled vocabulary

  • Layout configuration performed via DSpace-CRIS 7 process or CLI command

Data security

  • Items cannot be saved in an invalid state

  • Item security evaluation when exporting in csv or xls.

Other

  • Invitation to join groups


Release based on DSpace commits dbede2b (backend) and 7abdceb (front-end)


DSpace-CRIS 7 2021.02.02 December, 14th

The key changes in this version, released on the 14th Dec 2021, relate to alignment with DSpace 7.1.1

This is an updated version of the dspace-cris-2021.02.01, aligned with DSpace 7.1.1 release, which includes a security update for CVE-2021-44228 (log4j v2 critical vulnerability). It is fully compatible with the DSpace-CRIS 7 Frontend dspace-cris-2021.02.01 release.

We highly recommend ALL users of DSpace-CRIS 2021.01.x or 2021.02.x upgrade to cris-2021.02.02 to resolve CVE-2021-44228.

To fully protect your DSpace-CRIS 2021.x site from CVE-2021-44228, three steps are required:

  1. Upgrade your DSpace-CRIS backend to 2021.02.02 OR manually install #8065, rebuild and redeploy your DSpace-CRIS backend. Make sure to restart your Tomcat after the update.

  2. Upgrade to Apache Solr v8.11.1 (or above), OR ensure that -Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true is specified in your SOLR_OPTS environment variable. For more information, see Solr™ Security News

  3. If you use the Handle.Net Registry Support in DSpace-CRIS 2021.x, make sure to restart your Handle Server (after performing step 1), so that it uses the new (secure) version of log4j as well.

For the technical documentation please refers to the dspace-cris 2021.02.01 release notes

DSpace-CRIS 7 2021.02.01 November, 11th

The key changes in this release relate to alignment with DSpace 7.1 tag. Some additional nice features have been also introduced, see below for details

Key Enhancements
  • Alignement with DSpace 7.1 tag
  • Performance improvements
Architecture
  • Aligned with DSpace 7.1 tag, several bugs have been resolved
Data migration
  • Added redirection from the legacy CRIS 5 details page to the new CRIS 7 details page
Data presentation
  • MyDSpace is now updated when a task is claimed
  • Allowed to use of graphical facets in home page and explore sections
  • Added PlumX widget for publication and person metrics
  • Hide relations box if the content is empty
  • Provided a valuepair rendering type for the item detail
Data quality & accuracy
  • Added the possibility to replace metadata value when item reference is resolved
Data security
  • Metrics boxes does not appear if the current user has no rights to see them
  • Allowed to turnoff completely the end user agreement
  • Prevented patch and put of item metadata if user is not allowed
Other
  • Fixed the partially breaking of the reset password feature when usage terms are not yet accepted
  • Admin is now able to reset other user's password

DSpace-CRIS 7 2021.02.00 October, 27th

This version is aligned with DSpace 7.0 tag. It improves the stability of the platform and provide a better support for users migrating from DSpace-CRIS 5. Some additional nice features have been also introduced, see below for details

Key Enhancements
  • Subscription feature: functionality that allows you to receive updates on specific dspace objects
  • Introduced lucky search
  • Migration from DSpace-CRIS 5 improved (migrate ORCID tokens, metadata values language and boolean values)
  • Allow anonymous user to export items and search results

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DSpace-CRIS 7 2021.01.01 August, 11th

This is a minor release, no breaking changes have been introduced. This version is aligned with DSpace 7.0 tag, which carries several fixes of bugs present in previous SNAPSHOT version.

Key Enhancements
Data collection
  • Added possibility of setting submission form's panels opened / closed when submission form is rendered
  • Inline metadata groups are sortable
Architecture
  • Aligned with DSpace 7.0 tag, several bugs have been resolved
Data presentation
  • Added possibility of having icons in box headers
  • Orcid identifier links to profile on ORCID registry
  • Updated profile picture export
  • OAI: Fixed list records in cerif format
  • Statistic accessible via contextual menu
  • Improved navigation out of statistics page
  • Profile management
  •  When a researcher profile is created, data are enriched with target collection's template item (if present)
Data quality & accuracy
  • Updated deduplication checks: item type and target community and collection are evaluated while detecting duplicates.
Interoperability
  • Added support for Orcid Funded-By during synchronization
  • Improved handling of special characters during ORCID synchronization
  • More crosswalk export formats available for Patent entity
  • Virtual field to print a date in different formats during crosswalk dissemination
  • Virtual field to explore and print part of the controlled vocabulary hierarchy during crosswalk dissemination
Data security
  • If user belongs to a special group during process scheduling, this group is taken into account while running the process.
  • Nested metadata groups are displayed only if security defined for their parent metadata allows their display
  • Added security rule “CUSTOM DATA & ADMINISTRATOR” to make data available to Administrators or depending on some custom user defined rules.

based on DSpace version 7.0 tag Rest commit 3d9df39 and Angular commit  9fc7b57 

Documentation at https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/releases/download/dspace-cris-2021.01.01/dspace-cris7-2021_01_01-technical-documentation.pdf

DSpace-CRIS 7 2021.01.00 June, 2nd

This version fully supports all key use cases for a modern repository and RIMS / CRIS system. It is designed for new users, as migration from previous versions still requires some custom data extraction and transformation.

With DSpace-CRIS 7, 4Science is delighted to announce a number of key enhancements which improve the flexibility, integration, data quality and accuracy of DSpace-CRIS: 

  • Full ORCID v3 integration (push/pull information)
  • Integration with dozen external data sources, including commercial ones, to retrieve bibliographic and bibliometric data
  • Support for decentralised management, self-service researcher profile management and approval workflows
  • Aligned to the latest OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories, Data Archives and CRIS Managers
  • Data quality tools ensure that your information is always complete and accurate

These enhancements with DSpace-CRIS 7 build on the new DSpace 7 architecture, featuring a new Angular UI and a fully-featured REST API. 

Architecture
  • Aligned with DSpace 7
  • full REST API with a documented contract
  • modern Angular SPA UI
Authentication
  • DSpace-CRIS can be integrated with several Identity Provider ranging from Shibboleth, LDAP, OpenID Connect, ORCID to a local username/password (encrypted) database
Data collection
  • Submission process for all the entities in the OpenAIRE CRIS information space (Publications, Patents, Products, People, OrgUnits, Projects, Fundings, Equipments, Journals)
  • Import from external sources available for most entity types: Fundings from OpenAIRE, Patents from the European Patent Office, OrgUnits from Sherpa/RoMEO (publisher), People from ORCID, Publications from ORCID, PubMed, CrossRef, Scopus, Web of Science, OpenAIRE, arXiv, NASA/ADS, CiNii, Scielo, VuFind, PubMed Europe), Journals from Sherpa/RoMEO
  • Automatic enrichment of manual submission looking up to the external providers by identifiers
  • Bulk operations (creation, update, delete) via xls on all the entities with easy cross-linking (any identifier can be used to link any kind of entities, i.e. publications to a person via an ORCID, staffno, etc) and future reference (link to an entity that is not yet in the system via an identifier that will be resolved later). Bulk operations are validated against your data model, submission configuration and security (mandatory and available fields, relations, etc.)
  • Publication Metadata extraction from Scholarly PDF via machine vision (based on the Grobid project)
  • Receive automatic alert from compatible providers (OpenAIRE, ORCID) about missing publications or wrong/incomplete data on existing records
  • Automatically import new publications for your researcher from Scopus and Web of Science
  • Grab bibliometrics data for your publications and authors from Scopus and Web of Science
  • Manage complex structured data as nested metadata and ternary relations
Data presentation
  • define sections and entry points to explore your repository composing configurable widget such as sorted list of objects (Most viewed, Most cited, Recent additions, etc.), infographics for key indicators (number of publications, researchers, etc.), search facets, browse indexes, advanced search form and branding messages
  • easily organise your data without code change in tabs and boxes
  • include references to linked entities in any entity page (i.e. the list of publications of a researcher, the list of funding received by a project, etc.)
  • present search results and linked entities in a graphical way with pie, line, bar charts
  • export your researchers information in professional looking PDF/RDF CV
  • export details about your other entities (Funding, Projects, Organisations, etc.) in PDF/RDF fact sheets
  • export publications data in citation formats (APA, Chicago, MLA, etc.) via CSL
  • show the bibliometrics collected for your publications and authors
  • include alternative metrics information for your publication from AltMetric and/or Dimension
  • ORCID and authenticated ORCID are properly displayed in researcher profiles and linked records (publications, projects, etc.)
  • granular visibility at metadata level based on contextual rules (financial data of a funding visible only to the investigators involved in the project, personal contact data only to HR people, etc.)
  • rich and extensible usage reports are available for all the entities including direct data (visualization and download) and aggregated data about the linked objects (visualization of researcher's publications, etc.). Data can be visualized in tabular and graphical form with maps and exportable charts (pie, line, bar). Reports can be produced for a specific time frame or since the system setup
Profile management
  • Researchers can manage directly selected information in their profiles and linked records
  • List of linked objects in the profile can be amended, hiding unwanted objects (old research) and forcing a preferred visualization order (selected publications, projects, etc.)
  • ORCID Synchronisation: the researcher can connect/disconect her local profile with ORCID to received suggestion about missing publication and push update to the ORCID registry
  • ORCID preferences: it is possible to configure which details are synchronised (biographic information, affiliation, qualification, education, publications, funding) setting a manual or automatic (over the night) push
Data quality & accuracy
  • Identify potential duplicate during the submission and approval workflow
  • get flags for unrelated entities or uncertain matches (i.e. not identified authors in a publication, investigator in a project, etc.). Option to automatically create new records for specific entity types or manual curate the authorities
  • configurable lookup authorities both internals than externals, such as the personal staff, the ORCID registries, the recorded fundings, the OpenAIRE project database and more
  • default to international approved data model (CERIF / OpenAIRE) and controlled vocabularies (COAR)
  • retains identifier for external entities for future use and automatic match (i.e. ORCID of external authors)
  • enforced validation in bulk operation to guarantee that the record structure always match your definition (i.e. the proper metadata are used according to the entity definition)
  • Receive automatic alert from compatible providers (OpenAIRE, ORCID) about missing publications or wrong/incomplete data on existing records
  • Automatically ingest publications for your researchers from Scopus and Web of Science
  • Configurable workflows by collection and entity types to involve librarians, research officer, legal, ethical and financial department in data input and verification
  • Correction workflow to be used by less privileged user to request correction on existing record that need to be moderated
  • Easily to monitor and organise tasks queue for approvals, changes in correction requests are highlighted 
Data security
  • enforced granular security at the metadata level across the whole platform: REST API, export and import tool, visualization
  • support for partial editing so that researcher can edit some (configurable) information in their profile and their related records without touching master data coming from external systems or under the Institution responsibility
  • easily access to an audit log of all the operations performed on a record 
  • REST API are protected using JWT, SSL, CSRF Token
Interoperability
  • Connectors to retrieve records (Publication, Person, Funding, OrgUnit, Journal) from 17 external data sources
  • Connectors to retrieve bibliometrics data for your publications and authors from Scopus and Web of Science
  • Full integration (push/pull) with ORCID via v3 API and support for WebHook (Premium API)
  • Aligned to the latest OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories (v4, v3), Data Archives (v4 unreleased) and CRIS Managers (v1.1.1)
  • Full REST API
  • export options in XML, CERIF XML, XLS for all the entities

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