Ideas for Potential DSpace Summer of Code projects
Add your ideas here!
Please add your suggestions for GSoC 2014 projects related to DSpace! If you are interested in mentoring, please let us know! Also, be sure to visit the listing of Past GSoC Project Ideas below, to see if anything there is still relevant.
Please add your own ideas to the table below, and feel free to volunteer as a mentor for any existing idea
Project Title / Summary | Relevant DSpace component(s) | Detailed Description / Links | Mentor volunteer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| TranslateWiki Integration | dspace-xmlui dspace-jspui dspace-lang | The DSpace community has approached TranslateWiki.net (TWN), the mediawikibased platform for interface translation of open source projects. The initial discussions are promising and the TWN community is currently building support for the Apache Cocoon message format that is used by XMLUI. We need an ambitious GSOC student to connect the dots, working with both communities in extending the integration and ensuring that in the end, the threshold is lowered for external translators to provide interface translations for DSpace. Related Links: | Bram Luyten |
Virtual Sets: Separate the internal repository structure from the navigation structure | dspace-xmlui | Currently, the hierarchical structure used in DSpace allows sharing items between collections by explicitly declaring these relations on each item. However, DSpace does not allow to relate a collection or a sub-community between two or more communities. Virtual Sets are arbitrary aggregations of DSpace Objects and criteria, composed of:
Virtual Sets in DSpace would allow the creation of complex navigation structures regardless of the hierarchical (perhaps administrative) structure of communities and collections. Structures, as described above, are supported in at least another repository software such as Fedora-based Hydra due to its generic object model. The initial implementation would affect the dspace-api component and either of the web UIs, since both now use Discovery (Solr) by default. Virtual Sets should be implemented at the dspace-api level for DSpace Objects to offer more orthogonal features like Virtual Sets backup, export and exposure through OAI-PMH. Stretch goals would include making use of Virtual Sets in other interfaces like REST and/or OAI. Related links: | Ivan Masár |
| create a DSpace-Puppet module | vagrant-dspace | Develop a DSpace-Puppet module for deploying DSpace, and provisioning DSpace-related services. The goal would be to deploy on at least one popular Linux OS, and likely the target will be Debian/Ubuntu since testing will be done with Vagrant-DSpace, which currently uses only Ubuntu. The final product should be useful for deploying DSpace to a cloud infrastructure, or really any server configured to run Puppet (in other words, the module should make no assumptions that rely upon paths used by Vagrant). A stretch goal for this project will be to make the puppet module OS-agnostic, and have it run on both Debian/Ubuntu as well as CentOS/RHEL. But just meeting the Ubuntu target would be sufficient for this project. The puppet module already built for use in Vagrant-DSpace would be a great starting point. The module, when complete, should enable an operator to go from a standard OS base image to a running instance of DSpace, complete with a container to host the application, and (optionally) a PostgreSQL database for metadata. | Hardy Pottinger |
| Next-gen UI | kernel webapi | MDS is an experimental offshoot of DSpace in which new ideas may be prototyped and examined. Recently a REST API (with CRUD operations, etc) has been added. A valuable 'proof of adequacy' is building an entire functional web UI backed only by the API. The goal of this project is to construct such an admin UI for MDS, using a modern, agile web application framework. A proof of concept using AngularJS already begun could serve as a basis for further work. | Richard Rodgers |
Past Ideas for Potential DSpace GSoC projects
We have archives of all our Past GSoC Ideas Pages still available for reference/ideas. However, you should check with the available mentors before suggesting any of these older project descriptions. In some cases these projects may require rethinking to bring them up to date.
- DSpace Summer of Code Ideas 2012
- DSpace Summer of Code Ideas 2011
- DSpace Summer of Code Ideas 2010
- DSpace Summer of Code Ideas 2009
- DSpace Summer of Code Ideas 2008
Past DSpace GSoC Projects
- 2011 Projects listed on GSoC 2011 Projects page.
- For years prior to 2011, please visit Past DSpace Summer of Code Projects.
