DSpace and Dome UI - Darcy's page
DSpace 1.7 contains several new features, numerous bug fixes and performance improvements, including:
* Mirage XMLUI Theme: a new clean, professional looking theme for XMLUI with increased browser compatability, easier customization and enhanced performance.
* DSpace Discovery: a faceted browse/search interface for XMLUI that gives a deeper and more intuitive look at repository content with auto completion for search and context sensitive browse suggestions.
* Archival Information Package (AIP) Backup & Restore process: allows for a backup of DSpace into a generic METS-based structure, that can be used to migrate DSpace content to another system that supports AIPs (DSpace or non-DSpace). This is required for DuraCloud implementation.
* Curation Administration User Interface: allows for a series of curation tasks (profile bitstream formats, virus scan, check for required metadata) to be performed on objects in DSpace.
Some examples:
- apply a virus scan to item bitstreams (this will be our example below)
- profile a collection based on format types - good for identifying format migrations
- ensure a given set of metadata fields are present in every item, or even that they have particular values
- call a network service to enhance/replace/normalize an item's metadata or content
- ensure all item bitstreams are readable and their checksums agree with the ingest values
* PowerPoint text extraction, for searching within PowerPoint slides
* Improved Google Scholar indexing on metadata and PDF content
* Improved performance and scalability of DSpace: the code has been thoroughly analyzed by a suite of code quality tools and there have been considerable performance gains with regard to item ingestion and indexing speed
* Automated Unit Testing of core code: helps the developers ensure the core code of DSpace is as bug free and stable as possible
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