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  • For the quickest way to get Administrative or Submitter access, visit our chat room (visit http://dspace.testathon.net/Image Removed , give yourself a nickname and click "Login"). Someone is usually able to give you access immediately. You will need to register your email with one of the below sites first.
  • Otherwise, register with the site you want access to, and send an email to the contact listed below.
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      tspacetest.library.utoronto.ca
      sites
      • Contact Gabriela Mircea (tspace AT tspace.library.utoronto.ca) or Tim Donohue (tdonohue AT duraspace.org)

XMLUI test instances (all are updated to 1.6.0 RC2)

JSPUI test instances (all are updated to 1.6.0 RC2)

OAI-PMH test instances (all are updated to 1.6.0 RC2)

SWORD test instances (all are updated to 1.6.0 RC2)

Download DSpace+1.6.0-RC2

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Zipped up versions of DSpace+1.6.0-RC2 are available on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/files/Image Removed . Download one of the Zip files under the "DSpace Release Candidate / 1.6.0-rc2" folder. Two releases are available:

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The full DSpace+1.6.0-RC2 source code can also be downloaded from Subversion:

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svn checkout http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/tags/dspace-1.6.0-rc2/Image Removed

Providing Feedback / Reporting Bugs

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  • To report bugs, please feel free to use our bug tracking software JIRA: http://jira.dspace.org/
    • If you don't yet have an account, visit the JIRA Signup page to set one up.
  • Alternatively, you can email bug reports to the dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net dspace-devel mailing list - Please begin your email subject with "1.6RC2 Bug" (or something similar). NOTE: You must sign up for the dspace-devel mailing list in order to post messages.
  • For additional support or to talk about bugs or issues, please feel free to join us in the DSpace IRC channel (#dspace). The channel can be found at #dspace on chat.freenode.net. The easiest way to login is to visit our DSpace Testathon webpage (http://dspace.testathon.net/Image Removed), fill out a nickname (of your choice) and click Login.
    • Alternative way to login to #dspace
      • Visit http://webchat.freenode.net/Image Removed
      • Enter in a Nickname (of your choice)
      • In the "Channels" field enter "#dspace" (without the quotes)
      • Leave "Auth to Services" unselected
      • Click Login

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There are substantial upgrades to the DSpace documentation for version 1.6. Volunteers are needed to review it for clarity and accuracy. Visit the 1.6 Documentation page for more info: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace+1.6+DocumentationImage Removed

Issues Fixed between 1.6.0RC1 and 1.6.0RC2

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  • Communities and collections
    • Create new community
    • Create new sub-community
    • Create new collection
      • Create collection with template (Known Issue: http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-397Image Removed)
      • Create collection with own license
      • Create collection with one ore more workflow steps
      • Create collection with collection-admin
  • Epersons and groups
    • Create new e-person (Known Issue http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-403Image Removed)
    • Create new group
    • Edit existing eperson
    • Edit existing group
    • Delete existing eperson
    • Delete existing group
    • Change groups which have been added to groups
  • Items
    • Edit item
    • Withdraw and reinstate item as an admin
    • Withdraw and reinstate item as an collection admim
      • withdraw
      • reinstantiate - the collection administrator has no possibility to reinstantiate an item as he got no access to the admin withdrawn items or other possibility to get a list of his withdrawn items (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
    • Move Items
    • Expunge item
  • Registries
    • Metadata registry
      • edit schema
      • create new schema
      • edit field
      • create field
      • delete field
      • move field
    • Bitstream format registry
      • create new - note newly created bitstream formats not applied to existing bitstreams with this format(2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
      • edit existing
        • edit metadata
        • change internal flag
      • delete existing - wonder whether the license formats (default and CC) should be deletable at all (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
  • Admin tasks
    • Abort a workflow via admin UI -the admin should enter a reason and the submitter and workflow responsible should be notified (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
    • Authorisation (see Authorisation below)
    • Edit top news on front page (test UTF-8 characters)
    • Edit side news on front page (test UTF-8 characters)
    • Edit License
    • Supervisors - wonder who really uses this feature, it has such a small scope, maybe we should ask via the lists. Some other admin tool to view in general unfinished submissions and lingering workflow tasks might be more useful (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
    • Statistics (see statistics below)
    • Delete collection
      • on deleting the collection there should be more information about it's content for the admin. Maybe an automated export of the collection for the admin would be usefull too
        • items in the collection
        • items in submission
        • items in workflow
      • anything in progress should be deleted with notifications
        • ongoing submission
        • workflow task
    • Delete community - (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen) see comments above on collection deletion same for community deletion
    • Metadata import (see Batch import below)

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  • Item Display
  • Community and Collection Home Pages
    • Elements of the Home Page
    • Recent Submissions
  • Configure metadata fields to appear in simple item display
    • Default
    • collection specific
  • show strength of communities and collections
    • cached
    • not cached
  • HTML documents (see also: Submission UI)
  • RSS Feeds (not completely testable without a real handle server running)
    • For the top level
    • For a community
    • For a collection
  • OpenSearch
  • My DSpace
    • View and manage subscriptions (see also E-mail below)
    • View accepted submissions
    • View uthorization groups I am member of
    • Unifinished Submissions
      • Delete
      • View
      • Resume
    • Usability - could do with a bit of tidying up, not very concise (2009-12-08 Claudia Juergen)
    • Password forgotten
      • standard registered user
    • Register
    • Edit profile
      • User data
      • Change password
    • OpenURL links - we need a neutral Logo not the MIT Links one (2009-12-08 Claudia Juergen)
  • Suggest an item
    • without login restriction
    • without login restriction
  • Map an item from one collection to another
    • mapping - the mapping itself works, but the search for items to map is case sensitive in the jspui (Known bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-402Image Removed) (2009-12-07 Claudia Juergen)
      • collection, item was mapped to, browse indices
      • parent communities of this collection, browse indices
    • unmapping
      • collection, browse indices
      • parent communities, browse indices

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  • Configure columns in item lists (search results etc) using webui.itemlist.columns in dspace.cfg
  • Browse communities and collections (1.6.0 RC2 has fix for bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-400Image Removed)
  • Browse titles, authors, subjects, by date
    • With scope 'All of DSpace'
    • in a community
    • in a sub-community
    • in a collection
      Configure date, author, title, subject by using `webui.browse.index.` properties in `dspace.cfg`
    • add a new browse index
    • change order and properties
  • Search
    • simple search
    • advanced search
    • change default search operator
    • configure search indices
    • Controlled vocabulary subject search
    • Try configuring a different analyzer (e.g. for Chinese)

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Web UI - XML

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  • Epersons and groups
    • Create new e-person
    • Create new group (1.6.0 RC2 has fix for bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-415Image Removed)
    • Edit existing eperson
    • Edit existing group
    • Delete existing eperson
    • Delete existing group
    • Change groups which have been added to groups
      *Items
    • Edit item
    • Withdraw and reinstate item as an admin
    • Withdraw and reinstate item as an collection admim
    • Expunge item - ok, but should the collection administrator be able to expunge items? At the moment he is (2009-12-09 Claudia Juergen)
      *Registries
    • Edit metadata registry - new DC fields
    • Move metadata fields between schemas
    • Edit metadata registry - new schema
    • Edit bitstream format registry
  • Admin tasks
    • Abort a workflow via admin UI
    • Authorisation (see Authorisation below)
    • Edit top news on front page (test UTF-8 characters)
    • Edit side news on front page (test UTF-8 characters)
    • Edit License
    • Supervisors
    • Statistics (see statistics below)
    • Delete collection
    • Delete community

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    • Item Display *
    • default display
    • full display
    • Community and Collection Home Pages *
    • Elements of the Home Page - (1.6.0 RC2 has fix for bug http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-398Image Removed)
    • Recent Submissions
    • ** Recent Submissions list is different in xmlui from jspui
      *Configure metadata fields to appear in simple item display
    • Default (`webui.itemdisplay.default = ...`
    • Per-collection (`webui.itemdisplay.style = ...` and `webui.itemdisplay.style.collections = ...`
  • show strength of communities and collections
  • HTML documents (see also: Submission UI)
  • RSS Feeds
    • FOr the top level
    • For a community
    • For a collection
  • Translations
  • My DSpace
    • View and manage subscriptions (see also E-mail below)
    • View accepted submissions
    • View uthorization groups I am member of
    • Unifinished Submissions
      • Delete
      • View
      • Resume
    • Usability
    • Password forgotten
      • standard registered user
      • not registered user, inactive user account
    • Register
    • Edit profile
      • User data
      • Change password
    • OpenURL links
  • Suggest an item
  • Map an item from one collection to another
    • mapping
      • collection, item was mapped to, browse indices
      • parent communities of this collection, browse indices
    • unmapping
      • collection, browse indices
      • parent communities, browse indices

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OAI-PMH

*Validate:

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  • Request a service document, ensure it matches the collection deposit authorizations for that user
  • Deposit an item

OAI-ORE Harvesting

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