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 7 snapshot, DSpace .5.11 and DSpace 6.4 versions.
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The latest release is DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.03.01 dated April, 21st 2023 This version, released on the 21st April 2023, provides alignment with DSpace 7.4 tag, and includes improvements in advanced attachment, item presentation, workspace item management and many bug fixes |
For previous DSpace versions the latest available tags are 5.11 and 6.4 both released on the August, 30th 2022 just after the release of the corresponding DSpace 6.4 and/or 5.11. Please note that all the DSpace-CRIS versions based on DSpace versions older than 7.0 are End of Life (EOL) according to the corresponding DSpace 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 preferably developed for DSpace-CRIS 7 but support for all versions accepted by the DSpace Community is provided. Institutions interested in enhancements for DSpace-CRIS 6.x and DSpace-CRIS 5.x are still welcome to contribute but a plan to implement or support the same use case with version 7 should be providedonly developed for DSpace-CRIS 7.
Versioning & support model
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The first production-ready DSpace-CRIS 7.0 was released on 2nd June 2021. The version supports the key use cases and the most demanded features of DSpace-CRIS according to the priorities defined by the community of users (DSpace-CRIS User Group). The first version of DSpace-CRIS 7.0 addressed priorities 1 and 2 with contributions from supporting institutions (resource effort and/or funding) and volunteer work by 4Science (more than 3,000 hours in 2020 and 2021 on top of what 4Science provided for the plain DSpace 7). The original development plan is available here , where tasks in lower priorities can still be found with estimation.
Current development
but it is not longer used to track progress and future plan that are instead described in the Product RoadMap and agreed within the DSpace-CRIS User Group.
Current development
With regard to the roadmaps of DSpace and DSpace-CRIS they are As 7.0 version is based on DSpace 7 that is still under development (see: DSpace Release 7.0 Status), changes are being periodically merged from the upstream. With regard to version 7, the two roadmaps will be still separated due to the significant amount of extra functionalities of DSpace-CRIS that is not possible to quickly give back to plain DSpace yet (possibly proposed for DSpace 8). From time to time features are contributed back / ported to DSpace and the DSpace-CRIS community aims to keep the two projects as closer as possible eventually rejoining them.
DSpace-CRIS 7 is developed in the branches named dspace-cris-7 in the REST API, Angular and Rest contract repositories maintained by 4Science. The development of DSpace-CRIS closely follows the deploy of the official DSpace 7 and new developments from the mainstream are generally merged in DSpace-CRIS within 1-2 weeks. The code is now very stable and there are many projects already running on this codebase that are expected to go in production in the coming months.
DSpace-CRIS 7 moves the CRIS objects to the DSpace items with the extended concept of Configurable Entities, maintaining the Authority Framework as an efficient, flexible, performant way to manage relations among objects, successfully used in hundreds of real installations around the world since more than 10 years.
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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, qualitifications)
- 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 2023.01.00 is expected by End of April 2023
DSpace-CRIS 2023.02.00 LTS is expected by July / August September 2023
- sync with DSpace 7.6
- Reorder of attachments
- Signposting https://signposting.org/
- ROR Integration
- Update the correction and suggestion services with the result of the Openaire ELD Advanced project https://eosc-dih.eu/eld-advance/
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- COAR Notify
- ORCID Login Improvements from the GPF project
- Item Claim (looking for funders / contributors)
- Resourcesync (looking for funders / contributors)
2023
DSpace-CRIS 7 2023.01.00 June, 9th
- 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
DSpace-CRIS 7 2022.03.01 April, 21st
This version, released on the 21st April 2023, provides alignment with DSpace 7.4 tag. See DSpace 7.4 release notes.
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- 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 differenciate 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
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