DSpace 3.0 ships with a number of new features. Certain features are automatically enabled by default while others require deliberate activation. The following non-exhaustive list contains the major new features in 3.0 that are enabled by default: |
| Completely rewritten OAI-PMH Interface - Driver and Open-AIRE compatible
- Allows for multiple contexts (URL endpoints), each with a different configuration
- 12 default metadata export formats and easy way to write new ones using XSLT
- Runs on Solr for great performance, legacy mode over DSpace database supported
- Even faster thanks to caching
Kindly contributed by Lyncode |
| Improvements to Solr-based Statistics - Workflow statistics
- Search Query statistics
- Solr version upgrade and performance optimization
Kindly contributed by @mire |
| Batch import for Bibliographic formats - Support for Endnote, BibTex, RIS, TSV, CSV
- Enhanced batch import routines
Kindly contributed by the Greek National Documentation Centre/EKT |
| Controlled Vocabulary Support for XMLUI - Submission form vocabulary lookup
- Includes The Norwegian Science Index and the Swedish Research Subject Categories
Kindly contributed by @mire's Kevin Van de Velde |
| Google Analytics support for JSPUI - support for statistics collection by entering the GA key into dspace.cfg
Kindly contributed by Denys Slipetskyy |
| Improvements to Authentication by Password - now stores salted hashes
- old passwords will continue to work and will be automatically converted to salted hashes on next user login
Kindly contributed by Mark H. Wood with the support of IUPUI University Library |
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The following list contains all features that are included in the DSpace 3.0 release, but need to be enabled manually. Review the documentation for these features carefully, especially if you are upgrading from an older version of DSpace. |
| Discovery: Search & Browse Kindly contributed by @mire with the support of the World Bank Kindly contributed by CILEA |
| Item Level Versioning - Create and preserve different item versions
- Enhanced identifiers
- XMLUI only
Kindly contributed by @mire with the support of MBLWHOI Library and Dryad |
| Advanced Embargo Kindly contributed by @mire with the support of the University of Michigan Libraries |
| Mobile Theme for XMLUI (beta) Kindly contributed by Miami University Ohio |
| Type-based submissions - Show or hide metadata fields in the submission forms, based on the type of content submitted
Kindly contributed by Nestor Oviedo and SeDiCI |
| ElasticSearch-based Usage Statistics - scalable ElasticSearch backend, runs on embedded node by default
- uses Google Chart API for graphs and maps
- export to CSV available
- displaying can be either public or restricted
Kindly contributed by Peter Dietz with the support of Ohio State University Libraries |
| Improvements to LDAP Authentication Kindly contributed by Samuel Ottenhoff |