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DSpace and Google Summer of Code
Student applications are accepted Mon, March 28, 12pm PDT – Fri, April 8, 12pm PDT.
Please spread awareness of this program and DSpace among your best students! Point them to:
- Google Summer of Code Documentation Site
- Google Summer of Code Application Site
- DSpace Summer of Code – visit here for a list of interested mentors, information about our IRC channel, mailing lists, etc.
Accepted DSpace Summer of Code 2011 projects
Summary |
Relevant DSpace component(s) |
Detailed Description |
Student |
Mentor(s) |
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SKOS Authority Controls |
Authority Control |
@Mire has prototyped a Solr driven Authority Control capable of caching and mixing together authority sources so that they can utilized for super fast term completion and lookup. Solr is quite effective for quickly retrieving lists of values that a field should be restricted to. Likewise, when the original DSpace metadata is indexed into the Solr based authority control, the Submitter is also presented with an ad-hoc authority of existing values already contained within the repository. However, it is recognized that Authority Controls Sources are not just lists and have structural components as well. SKOS applies quite well to expressing the structured relationships between taxonomies and hierarchical vocabularies that are often relied on for Authority Control. Recent research in publishing Library of Congress Subject Authorities, Getty TGN Vocabularies etcetera confirms that SKOS is the predominant form to capture these resources for placement on the web.
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Mark Diggory (lead) |
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WebMVC (Freemarker) UI development |
modules/webmvc |
WebMVC is currently under development, and is creating a new user interface based on Spring's WebMVC framework. This has the same goals as the JSPUI rewrite project in providing a clean technical implementation with business logic removed from the presentation layer. |
Robert Qin Zhengquan |
Graham Triggs (lead) |
Submission Enhancements in DSpace |
dspace-api |
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Guarave Kejriwal |
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New UI built over RESTful services |
dspace-api |
Currently, DSpace functionality could be accessed using JSP and XML user interfaces. As in the meantime many other technologies arrived which could provide different way of user experience and UI customization, the idea is to create a new interfaces using some of the following technologies:
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Bojan Suzic (lead) |
Ideas for Potential Future DSpace Summer of Code projects
Add your ideas here!
Please add your suggestions for GSoC 2011 projects related to DSpace! If you are interested in mentoring, please let us know! Also, be sure to visit the listing of Past GSoC Project Ideas below, to see if anything there is still relevant.
Ideas List has Changed since March 30, 2011
In our DSpace Developers Meeting on March 30, 2011, the developers in attendance voted up/down various project ideas listed here. Based on general lack of interest & support, the following projects were REMOVED:
- "JSPUI Rewrite" project – This project idea has been replaced by the "WebMVC (Freemarker) UI" project (see below), which has the same goals.
- "Modular Configuration" project – it was determined this involved too many core infrastructure changes, which should be done by a core committer
- "MySQL Support" project – Although most are in favor of this project, it has a dependency on Refactoring the DSpace Domain Model (which is not yet completed)
- "Pluggable bitstream storage" project – concerns that this had too many dependencies. Also, Richard Rodgers is working on something similar which is almost ready to commit.
The full discussion of this meeting is logged in our IRC logs at: http://irclogs.duraspace.org/index.php?date=2011-03-30
Please add your own ideas to the table below, and feel free to volunteer as a mentor for any existing idea
Summary |
Relevant DSpace component(s) |
Detailed Description |
Mentor volunteer(s) |
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GFDAO (Generic Fedora Data Access Objects) |
storage-triplestore |
Bring together the storage-fedora and storage-triplestore projects to produce a Fedora store based persistence tier that includes use of SPARQL to retrieve "Related and/or Contained" Fedora Objects. Objective is: That once DSpace Communties, Collections, and Items are represented as Fedora Objects with relationships captured in RELS-EXT, then a data persistence and mapping layer will need to be engineered for DSpace / Fedora interaction. Such a Data Access tier will provide a suite of Domain Model Centric Data Access Objects that will provide a DOFM (DSpace Object Fedora Mapping). Semantic Queries will be utilized to acquire sub collections, sub-communities, Items and parent objects. Further thought can be placed into creating a generic Fedora Data Access Object that is capable of resolving any RELS-EXT (or other rdf based relation for that matter). |
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Disseminator Framework |
ItemView |
A Disseminator Framework will associate Disseminators with Items and/or Bitstreams, Disseminators will combine METS file description and behavior sections to supply the user interface with a standard representation of the dissemination services that can be applied to a content bitstream in DSpace. See for further background:
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Extend Metadata Framework to Support Stronger Typing and Validation |
MetadataValue |
Extend the DSpace Metadata Domain Model to support the following features:
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Rewrite Packager Framework |
dspace-api |
Refactor Packagers to support Chain of Command |
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DSpace Core Domain Model |
dspace-api |
Domain Model |
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Enhanced RESTful API |
dspace-api |
Building on previous years' REST projects, this project is to result in:
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Usage statistics reports |
dspace-xmlui |
The new solr statistics engine in DSpace needs to generate more reports, replace the legacy "site-wide" statistics report that is still in use, and make use of
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RTMP A/V streaming integration |
dspace-api |
Integrate DSpace authentication, authorization and bitstream dissemination with an open source RTMP streaming server such as RED5.
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New UI built over DSpace API, based on popular frameworks |
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Currently, DSpace functionality could be accessed using JSP and XML user interfaces. As in the meantime many other technologies arrived which could provide different way of user experience and UI customization, the idea is to create a new interfaces using some of the following technologies:
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Accessibility |
dspace-api |
DSpace is selected as an institutional repository platform for one special library for the blind (details come later). Its implementation/adaptation for institutional use is currently in progress (near end-stage). The institution would be willing to share some ideas, requirements and code already done in order to make solution widely available for institutions of similar type.
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Scriptable Curation Tasks |
dspace-xmlui |
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Improve Submitter User Experience |
dspace-xmlui |
Generally clean up submission process, especially at UI level, and provide a more user friendly submitter experience. (Need to brainstorm out exactly what changes to make obviously)
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Peter Dietz |
Past DSpace GSoC Projects
Please visit Past DSpace Summer of Code Projects for a full listing of all past DSpace GSoC projects.
Past Ideas for Potential DSpace GSoC projects
We have archives of all our Past GSoC Ideas Pages still available for reference/ideas. However, you should check with the available mentors before suggesting any of these older project descriptions. In many cases these projects may no longer be applicable, or may require rethinking to bring them up to date.