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.
This page provides an analysis and prioritization for the Use Cases gathered via the 2014 Vision Survey and later DCAT Use Case gathering meetings.
Use Case Category | Use Case Name | Primary Actor | Notes | Existing/Related Feature(s) | Related Technical Strategic Goal(s) | Complexity | Priority |
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End User | Batch Deposit (via UI / uploading spreadsheet) | End User / Administrator | Goal 5: Low cost, hosted solutions and deployments | Medium | High | ||
End User | Browse | End User | Goal 5: Low cost, hosted solutions and deployments | Low | High | ||
End User | Clear distinction between different types of contributor involvement | End User | May be a "subfunction" of Browse or a "Author Profiles" use case? |
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Admin | Configure hidden communities that will not be visible to users without access | Administrator | May be a "subfunction" (of a more general access rights use case) |
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End User | Crowdsourcing metadata for archived items | End User | Variation on End User - Item editing by original submitters |
| Medium | Medium? | |
End User | Curated thumbnails | ||||||
End User | Discovery and retrieval of content on mobile devices | ||||||
End User | Easy and Intuitive Deposit Interface | ||||||
End User | Enhanced access to related items | ||||||
End User | Flexible licensing | ||||||
End User | In-browser page turner for accessing text based materials | ||||||
End User | Intelligent rendering of URL's in item Metadata | ||||||
End User | Item editing by original submitters | End User | Seems controversial. A more acceptable version at Crowdsourcing metadata for archived items |
| High | Low | |
End User | Search for items | ||||||
End User | Streaming Video Content | ||||||
End User | Visitor can play media hosted on an external streaming media server | ||||||
End User | Visual collection browsing | ||||||
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