Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Potential Volunteers / Institutional Partners
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REST API Use Cases
| General Use Case | Description / Specific Examples | Institutions Interested in this Use Case |
|---|---|---|
| Repurpose / Reuse information elsewhere | Generally would be nice to be able to more easily repurpose DSpace information into other services and websites (without resorting to SQL calls or Java calls) | Delaware |
More easily embed DSpace content into other websites (via Javascript widgets or similar) | Harvard, University of Cincinnati | |
| Data visualization / Data mining tools integration. Pull out data from DSpace and visualize elsewhere. Could help in managing data that is in DSpace | University of Cincinnati, Virginia Tech | |
| Direct integrations with web platforms / CMSes. Drupal was of particular interest | Harvard, Virginia Tech, @mire | |
| Connect DSpace information up with other data sources (for example LC data) | ||
| Create additional User Interfaces | Create a more "flashy" / sexty interface in a non-Java language (Ruby on Rails, PHP, or whatever) | |
| Possible connection to Hydra framework? | ||
| REST API as a Repository Abstraction Layer | REST API could be the underlying API for many existing and future DSpace services. For example, RSS feeds or OAI-PMH (or SWORD) could potentially be rewritten to just use the REST API for communication | |
| Way to "modularize" DSpace. Third party tools & services could be built external to DSpace (and even in non-Java languages) and use the REST API layer for interactions with DSpace. DSpace need not "do it all" out-of-the-box. More external tools could be built to perform actions on DSpace content. | ||
| Needs to be Highly Scalable | A REST API would likely have higher loads. It needs to undergo some scalability testing and perhaps use caching to support many concurrent requests. | Virginia Tech |
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