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Summary (Very Rough)
Technology Goals
Over the last few years, the Steering Group along with various strategic working groups have validated the following vision statements which describe the goals of the DSpace open source product:
- DSpace will focus on the fundamentals of the modern "Institutional Repository" use case. We are striving to meet the IR needs of the next 5-10 years.
- DSpace will be "lean", with agility and flexibility as primary goals.
- DSpace will include a "core" set of functionality that can be "extended" (think plugins) or have "hooks" (integration points) to complimentary services/tools
- DSpace will be designed in such a way that it can be easily/quickly configured to integrate with new & future tools/services in the larger digital scholarship "ecosystem"
- DSpace will support low-cost, hosted solutions and deployments (by featuring an easy, "just works" setup)
These five statements lead us to a possible "value proposition" for the DSpace platform (DRAFT)
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Assumptions
It is worth being aware that several assumptions are made in the drafting of this strategic plan for technology:
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