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An initial, higher level proposal for this Curation System is available at CurationTaskProposal.

Code Availability

The curation system as described here has been implemented in a branch (roughly 1.7 compatible) at:

http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/branches/dspace-curation

This code includes a few demonstration tasks: one to tabulate and display bitstream formats and support-levels thereof, and one that checks whether items have all required metadata fields (as defined by input-forms.xml). You should be able to check out and build this branch to take curation for a test drive, or begin to design and test new tasks.

Tasks

The goal of the curation system ('CS') is to provide a simple, extensible, way to manage routine content operations on a repository. These operations are known to CS as 'tasks', and they can operate on any DSpaceObject (i.e. subclasses of DSpaceObject) - although the first incarnation will only understand Communities, Collections, and Items - viz. core data model objects. Tasks may essentially work on only one type of DSpace object - typically an item - and in this case they may simply ignore other data types (tasks have the ability to 'skip' objects for any reason). The DSpace core distribution ought to provide a number of useful tasks, but the system is designed to encourage local extension - tasks can be written for any purpose, and placed in any java package. What sorts of things are appropriate tasks?

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