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.
Candidate Features for DSpace
| Candidate Feature | Exists? (in some form) | Core | Non-core | Survey Average Score* (10 = highest, 1 = lowest) | Use Cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Create / manage files and metadata (as an Item) | x | x | 10 | ||
| Community and Collection hierarchy (or generic containers) | x | 7.37 | |||
Create new versions of existing Items | x (disabled by default) | 5.92 | |||
| Support for derivative objects (e.g. thumbnails, coversheets) | x | 6.52 | |||
| Metadata for all levels of object hierarchy (e.g. for Communities and Collections) | 6.99 | ||||
| Relationships between objects (e.g. Author items as Authors of an Item rather than textual metadata) | 8.17 | ||||
| Support for hierarchical metadata formats (e.g. METS / MODS) | 7.10 | ||||
| Item approval workflows | x | 7.88 | |||
| Item embargo facility | x | 8.64 | |||
| Support for flexible licensing, including Creative Commons | x | 8.44 | |||
| CRIS functionality (Current Research Information System: researcher pages and automated publication feeds from external data providers) | (add-on available) | 5.51 | |||
| Search and browse for Items | x | 9.41 | |||
Easy and intuitive deposit mechanism for users | x | 8.86 | |||
Batch deposit (multiple item deposit via the user interface) | 8.59 | ||||
Batch download (multiple item download as a single file) | 6.91 | ||||
Authentication with common single-sign-on systems (e.g. LDAP, Shibboleth) | x | 8.52 | |||
Most configuration takes place via the administrative user interface | 7.61 | ||||
Template-driven user interface for easy branding | 7.53 | ||||
User interface and theme management takes place via user interface | 6.47 | ||||
Search Engine crawler-friendly user interface | x | 8.91 | |||
Specialised content delivery mechanisms (media players, page turners, document viewers) | 6.83 | ||||
| Content streaming (video player) | 6.92 | ||||
| Basic preservation (fixity checks) | x | 8.33 | |||
| Format identification and reporting | (simplistic) | 7.00 | |||
| Advanced preservation services (e.g. format migration) | 6.61 | ||||
| Persistent identifiers: handles | x | 8.32 | |||
| Additional external persistent identifiers: DOIs, DataCite | x | 7.56 | |||
| Other external identifiers: ORCID | 7.22 | ||||
| Basic statistics (item access counts, file downloads) | x | 9.03 | |||
| Advanced statistics (search terms, geographical locations) | x | 8.13 | |||
| Altmetrics | 7.30 | ||||
| Open Access status tracking and compliance checking | 7.27 | ||||
| Standard repository machine interfaces (e.g. OAI-PMH, SWORDv2, ResourceSync) | x | 8.11 | |||
| REST API for building external applications | x | 7.56 |
Formula for "Survey Average Score"
The "Survey Average Score" represents average score of all respondents for a single feature from the Vision Survey
- Very Important = 10 points
- Moderately important = 5 points
- Not important = 0 points
So, for example, "Community and Collection Hierarchy" had 50 respondents rank it "Very important" (10 points each), 37 rank it "Moderately important" (5 points each), and 6 rank it "Not important" (0 points).
This is an average score of ((10 x 50) + (5 x 37)) / (50 + 37 + 6) = 7.36 average
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