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• the e-mail subscription feature that alerts users of new items being deposited;
• the 'media filter' tool, that generates thumbnails of images and extracts the full-text of documents for indexing;
• the 'checksum checker' that tests the bitstreams in your repository for corruption;
• the sitemap generator, which enhances the ability of major search engines to index your content and make it findable;
• the curation system queueing feature, which allows administrators to "queue" tasks (to run at a later time) from the Admin UI;
• the Discovery (search & browse), OAI-PMH and Usage Statistics all receive performance benefits from regular re-optimization
• and the registration of DOIs using DataCite as registration agency.

There are some optional periodic tasks as well:

• Updating the geolocation database used to enrich usage statistics.  At this writing, the database publisher issues monthly updates.

These regularly scheduled tasks should be setup via either cron (for Linux/Mac OSX) or Windows Task Scheduler (for Windows).

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