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| Achievement | More details |
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 (2014-15) Governance creates a Strategic Plan for modernizing & refreshing DSpace for the future. A key goal of this plan is a "single, out of the box user interface" to replace the aging XMLUI and JSPUI. | DSpace 2015-18 Strategic Plan |
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| (2016) Formal selection of Angular as new UI framework, replacing both the XMLUI and JSPUI. New Angular UI that is modern, responsive, and built using a Bootstrap theme for easy customization. | |
| (2017) Adoption of a standards based REST API to maximize exposure of all DSpace features for integration purposes: A completely redesigned REST API that is self-documenting and human browsable. | |
| (2017-19) Redesigned submissions and workflows featuring a one page submission process with a drag-and-drop interface & a searchable MyDSpace. | Configuration changes in the submission process |
| (2017-19) Configurable entities, an optional new item type inspired by the DSpace-CRIS project that allows for complex linked relationships between items. For example, Items can now represent a Person (Entity) to provide a way to support "researcher profiles", and link that person to the works they authored. | Initial Investigation WG: DSpace Entities Working Group Implementation WG: DSpace 7 Entities Working Group |
| (May 2019) Preview release, including Entity demonstrator and associated data set | DSpace 7 Preview Release |
| (2019-20) Docker installation and deployment procedures | Try out DSpace 7 ("Install via Docker" section) |
| (Jan 2020) Established a new Staged Beta Release Process for 7.0, spacing out major features over a series of smaller Beta releases & delaying some low priority features for 7.1 or 7.2. Paid/funded development began. | DSpace 7 Release Goals |
| Beta 1 Release Notes |
| (April 2020) Beta 2 released | Beta 2 Release Notes |
| (July 2020) Beta 3 released | Beta 3 Release Notes |
| (Oct 2020) Beta 4 released | Beta 4 Release Notes |
| Beta 5 is under development. It will be the final Beta before Testathon | See DSpace 7 Release Goals |
| Testathon | TBA (Q1 2021) |
| 7.0 release (see "What will be included in DSpace 7.0?" below) | TBA (After Testathon) |
| 7.1 release (see "What will be included in DSpace 7.1?" below) | TBA (After 7.0 release) |
| 7.2 release (see "What will be included in DSpace 7.2?" below) | TBA (After 7.1 release) |
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- A new User Interface based on Angular (to replace XMLUI and JSPUI). This work is going on in the "main" branch of https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular
- The goal of the new UI is to implement all major features of both XMLUI and JSPUI in a single, modern UI.
- An exhaustive list of all major features already in 7.0 can be found in the 7.0 Release Notes (for each Beta).
- NOTE: Some, lower-priority, minor DSpace 6 XMLUI or JSPUI features have been delayed for either 7.1 or 7.2 release (see sections below). This decision was made to make 7.0 available as soon as possible.
- A refactored/enhanced REST API (using modern REST best practices). This work is going on in the "main" branch of https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace
- Additionally, a new REST Contract (describing all API interactions) is being written at https://github.com/DSpace/RestContract
- Redesigned submissions and workflows featuring a one page submission process with a drag-and-drop interface and newly redesigned MyDSpace.
- A new Configurable Entities object model, which allows for the creation of new "typed" Items, and storing relationships between Items. This feature will allow for tighter integration with external identifier systems (e.g. ORCID), current research information systems (CRIS), journal publishing systems, etc. This work was completed by the DSpace 7 Entities Working Group.
- Early technical documentation is available at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wEmHirFzrY3qgGtRr2YBQwGOvH1IuTVGmxDIdnqvwxM/edit
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