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Create a standard way such tools and services could be integrated and used. The idea is to define an abstraction called a 'curation task' which operates at the Item level of the DSpace data model (but whose effects may very well be on individual bitstreams, or in the creation of new ones), and have some generic machinery for managing these tasks (running them, reporting on outcomes, etc). |
Issue Addressed
DSpace advertises itself as a preservation-oriented repository, but the default installation contains few tools or services that directly support this claim. Resources do exist, but they are not integrated into the DSpace platform in any straightforward way. Rather, they often live as disconnected code in repositories of research projects and the like.
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