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DSpace 1.8.0 (Oct 2011)

The following features modifications should be higher high priority for this release:

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DSpace 1.9.0 (TBD - Oct 2012?)

The following modifications should be high priority for this release:

• Additional Refactoring & Modularization (especially in preparation for "DSpace with Fedora Inside"). This may include:
  • Any refactoring that didn't happen in time for 1.8.0
  • Refactor Packagers to support Chain of Command (if it doesn't make it in 1.8.0)
  • Metadata For All - begin to enable metadata on all DSpace Objects
• Improvements / simplification to Configuration of DSpace (perhaps even moving some configs to a DB). Minimally, this needs to simplify the 'dspace.cfg'.
• Change which Interfaces come "out-of-the-box", and allow others to be optionally installed at a later time (The following is only meant as an example.)
  • Default install may only include: XMLUI, SOLR, possibly SWORD?
  • Change LNI, OAI-PMH, REST and JSPUI to "optional". Potentially even 'deprecate' LNI (or locate external, third-party support for it).
  • Encourage the community to develop / share / support their own third-party UIs (which potentially could communicate with DSpace via REST API, or via a refactored DSpace Domain Model API).
• Asynchronous Job Scheduler? (would replace the need to schedule jobs via 'cron' or similar)

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