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Identified Challenges & Known Issues in DSpace 3.0

Item Level Versioning has a substantial conceptual impact on many DSpace features. Therefor it has been accepted into DSpace 3.0 as an optional feature. Following challenges have been identified in the current implementation. As an early adopter of the Item Level Versioning feature, your input is greatly appreciated on any of these.

Conceptual compatibility with Embargo

Lifting an embargo currently does not interact with Item Level Versioning. Additional implementation would be required to ensure that lifting an embargo actually creates a new version of the item.

Conceptual compatibility with Item Level Statistics

Both on the level of pageviews and downloads, different versions of an item are treated as different items. As a result, an end user will have the impression that the stats are being "reset" once a new version is installed, because the previous downloads and pageviews are allocated to the previous version.

One possible solution would be to present an end user with aggregated statistics across all viewers, and give administrators the possibility to view statistics per version.

Exposing version history

The version history is added on the bottom of a versioned item page. A repository manager can either decide to show this to all users, or restrict it to admins only. If it is shown to admins only, an end user will have no way to find the way to an older version. On the other hand, if a repository administrator does decide to expose version history to all users, the name and email address of the editor are exposed as well. This might actually be useful if the editor account is a generic institutional email address, but may conflict with local privacy laws if any personal details are included in this account.

Therefor, discussion has illustrated that there is a usecase for an intermediate exposure of version history that hides the Editor column.

You can join the discussion or contribute a new code here: JIRA DS-1349 - Item Level Versioning exposes personal data 

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