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3) Enhancing the metadata available for Community, Collections and Files (bitstreams)
4) Simplify/make local customizations more accessible though user interface
Improvements in the UI - simplifying where/how things are done and bring more functionality to the UI, some examples include:user interface or metadata registry
- create more educational/tutorials on how/where to do things (i.e. how to plug in metadata schemas)
- import/export to metadata other than DC (like in Eprints where you pick a format for export)
- how to plug in metadata schemas- expose RDF triples
5) Explore how to create hierarchal metadata - should be approached with great care. Any new work shouldn't contradict future plans or approaches to move DSpace closer to the Fedora model (in which metadata is not stored in the DB but rather in files).
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