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Wishlist for DSpace

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7.0

The following is an (unordered) list of changes / new features that we'd like to see added to DSpace 6.0. If you have additional features to add, please feel free. We also NEED volunteers to make these features happen, so please do volunteer if you are willing to work on a particular change! Please note that we reserve the right to reschedule/reject any feature that may not align well with the longer term RoadMap.

Search / Browse System (SOLR)

See the wiki page: DSpace Service based api

Codebase is in this branch: https://github.com/KevinVdV/DSpace/tree/dspace-service-api

The dspace-api refactor is essentially complete (just a few outstanding Unit Tests). But additional support will be needed to refactor/fix the various other modules to properly utilize the newly refactored API

If this is generally approved, @mire has promised to develop even more documentation & training materials to allow other developers to get up to speed quickly.

Note: this work also looks like it will resolve the following tickets as "byproducts" of the refactor:

Feature

Notes / Tickets

Priority

Volunteer(s)

Single

Lucene and old DB browse system are already deprecated. Just need removal. DB Browse is being removed by Services API
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High

Kim Shepherd for Lucene

Single Embargo system

We have two ways of managing embargos, when we only need one
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Medium

Single built-in Statistical Engine (SOLR Statistics)

Move Elasticsearch Usage Statistics to external "module"?
May be dependent on finding a better way to support optional add-ons/modules (which is on the RoadMap, but is unlikely to happen in time for 6.0)

Low

Service Based API / Hibernate

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Allows for support of additional Database types (e.g. MySQL) via Hibernate. This comes up as an occasional request

Begins the development of a true "Business Logic Layer" (an often discussed topic in DSpace Developer Meetings)

Medium/HighKevin Van de Velde (Atmire)

DSpace needs local object identifiersUUIDs are provided as part of the Service Based API refactor (see above)MediumMark H. WoodEnhance DSpace testing framework
(for integration / acceptance testing)

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Medium Enhanced Solr Statistical Reports

For example, the nice work by Andrea Schweer at http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/stats
Other suggestions or code contributions welcome!

Medium

AWS S3 Bitstream Storage

A refactor of the Bitstream Storage Manager to allow different implementations for file/bitstream storage. The primary motivation is leverage a cloud service, such as Amazon S3, which offers easy management, infinite scalability, and low pricing. Other storage implementations could be built off of this work. This follows the DSpace 2.0 goal of having a Pluggable Assetstore.

JiraserverDuraSpace JIRAcolumnskey,summary,type,created,updated,due,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolutionserverIdc815ca92-fd23-34c2-8fe3-956808caf8c5keyDS-1117 Peter DietzEnhancing Item Level Versioning

There was some discussion about the Item Level Versioning since it was introduced. This let to disable it by default (

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). The discussion went on and we finally have PRs waiting for review and merge regarding the following tickets:

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(at least for JSPUI)
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(for JSPUI again)
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MediumPascal-Nicolas BeckerMake configurable which PI to show in JSPUI item view

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LowPascal-Nicolas BeckerFramework to better support metadata import from external sources

Jira

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@mire

Pubmed integration into XMLUI submission

Jira

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Netherlands Cancer InstituteImport of ScienceDirect metadata including embargo and linking to or embedding of the final version

Jira

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Letitia Mukherjee

Extensible Control Panel

JiraserverDuraSpace JIRAserverIdc815ca92-fd23-34c2-8fe3-956808caf8c5keyDS-2625 Easier way to add custom tabs to control panel Oauth authentication pluginDryad (a fork of DSpace) has already implemented this, and reportedly is interested in contributing it to DSpace 6High

Reloadable / Dynamic Configurations

Jira

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(Would also need a resolution to

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)

Tim Donohue

Metadata registry via REST API

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https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1239

Terrence W Brady

REST API extensions to support interactive reports

Jira

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https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/1239 Terrence W Brady

Move LNI into a separate project

As LNI is not in wide use anymore, and it was disabled by default in 5.0, it probably would be best to migrate it to a separate GitHub Project. Anyone who wishes to still use LNI can still install it separately. But, it would no longer be provided out-of-the-box.

Jira

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Robin TaylorREST API needs versioning

Jira

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Peter Dietz

Default search to boolean AND

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Andrea Schweer

Indexing of right-to-left text in PDFs

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Pull Requests to review for possible inclusion

New features in DSpace

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General Improvements in

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Bug Fixes in

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7.0

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Instead of a single "Release Coordinator", the DSpace 67.0 release will be managed by a "Release Team".

Release Team Leader

TBD

Release Team Members

Please volunteer (by emailing Tim Donohue), if you are interested in joining the team!

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Please note that the dates below are estimates of when particular activities may occur. As there are many factors involved in a major release, these are subject to change.

Date	Milestone	What it means
November 12October 06	Deadline for feature pull requests	If you wish to contribute features to DSpace 65.0, you must submit a pull request by this date.
November 18October 08	Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 65.0	The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
November 25October 15	Weekly developers' meeting devoted to review of feature pull requests for 65.0	The entire hour's meeting will be used to discuss proposed features submitted by the deadline.
January 8, 2016 (tentative)October 31	Feature freeze	DSpace 65.0 is considered feature-complete on this date. Only bugfixes will be pulled between this date and final release.
January 21November 6	Release Candidate 1 tagged	A DSpace 65.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
November 10	Release Candidate 2 tagged	5.0-rc2 was released to address missing optional artifacts from 5.0-rc1 (Mirage2 and LNI)
November 10-21	Testathon	January 25-February 5	Testathon	Intensive public testing of the 65.0 Release Candidate is invited. The Release Team will focus on getting problems resolved.
February 10December 19	Release Candidate 2 3 tagged	An updated DSpace 65.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing.
February/MarchJanuary 15	DSpace 65.0 is publicly released	DSpace 65.0 is released for download and general use.

Release Process needs to proceed according to the following Maven release process: Release Procedure

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