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DRAFT outline of user-facing documentation, where users may be:

Administrators (the DSpace administrator role, as opposed to a system adminstrator)
Submitters
End user (e.g. readers)

Some caveats:

This quite likely has some unnecessary items, items that can be combined, or missing items.
Different instances will have different features enabled, and these may impact what roles have access to them. Versioning and embargoes may be actions that users can take, or actions that only admins can take, depending on an instance's configuration.
List compiled on basis of knowledge of DSpace 6, beta 1-3 release notes, quick exploration of demo site and Atmire videos. May require updating to better align with DSpace 7.
List NOT checked against existing technical documentation for redundancy.

DSpace administrator role

Community and collection management
- Create and edit a community (Create a top level community, Create a subcommunity, Edit the metadata associated with a Community; Upload a new image to a Community page);
- Create, edit and delete a collection; Edit the metadata associated with a Collection
- Manage permissions for a community or collection
Content management
- Edit an item
  - Metadata
  - Bitstreams
- Manage access to an item
- Version an item
- Move an item
- Map an item from one collection to another
- Withdraw and reinstate an item
- Delete an item
- Embargo an item
- Lease an item
- Export collection
- Export metadata as csv, reimport
- Batch edit metadata
- Batch import (think this is documented in technical?) (Upload a batch through the web interface, Upload a metadata batch (CSV only, no file zip) through the web interface)
- Import metadata (from file, from external source)
- Batch administration of authorization policies for items
User management
- Add or update an eperson
- Create or update a group
- Impersonate a user
Registry management
- Metadata
- Format
Other admin functions
- Administrative search
- Perform curation tasks
- Create new workflow / edit existing workflow
- Manage active workflows
- Access / manage processes

Use "MyDSpace" to

Create and manage account, log in
Contact service administrators
Subscribe to content updates (RSS, email)
Search DSpace
Browse DSpace
View an item
Special cases readers may encounter
- Restricted item (embargo or lease)
- Restricted item (permissions)
- Versioned item
View usage statistics (for an item, collection, community or entire repository)
Link to DSpace content (hint: use the handle)