DSpace 7 Roadmap &

Community Updates

By

Tim Donohue, DSpace Tech Lead

Michele Mennielli, Senior Global Strategist

OR2022

June 6-9, 2022 - Denver

Not-for-Profit

Open Source

About LYRASIS

• Software built by, for and with communities
• Identify with common needs
• Affordable

Open Source Community Supported

OpenDOAR Statistics https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/view/repository_visualisations/1.html

• The most widely adopted repository
• Not just a software, but a global community
• It evolves with its users

About DSpace

*Based on the DSpace Registry

>3,500 Installations

>120 Countries

>20 Languages

The DSpace Community

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Miembros contribuyentes

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DSpace Members

Dspace Service Providers

DSpace is a platform built by and for its community.

Governance is based on a representative, community-based membership model incrementally rewarding members who have made the greatest commitments to the program

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More at: https://duraspace.org/dspace/community/governance/

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DSpace Governance

�23 National User Groups

• Slack channel: #dspace-XX
• UG WIKI pages
• Mailing list

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Engagement and Participation

Country webinars and in-person events

• >30 webinars
• +3000 people
• 16 countries
• 5 languages
• 5 in-person meetings

�Get Involved!

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• Contribute code, review or test in DSpace 7 Working Group
• Contribute to “Learning DSpace” / discussions in DCAT
• Help market DSpace in DSpace Marketing Interest Group

Why DSpace 7

Aligning with COAR Next Generation Repositories

DSpace 7 Development per Year

Bigger than last 4 major releases combined!

(Roughly 7 times larger than an average release)

DSpace 7 - the largest release in History

Removal of JSPUI & XMLUI

Funded dev began 2020

(2012-16) 134K lines changed / year

Recent Releases

• 7.0 (Aug 2021)
• New User Interface (redesigned search, deposit & admin tools)
• New REST API (all data/features available for integrations)
• OpenAIRE v4 support
• Configurable Entities (Person, Project, Publication, etc)

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• 7.1 (Nov 2021)
• IIIF Support, Request a Copy, Item Versioning, OAI Harvesting

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• 7.2 (Feb 2022)
• Runtime configs for User Interface, Item embargoes, Feedback form, OpenID Connect Auth

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• 7.3 (by June 27, 2022) (tentative feature list)
• Importing data from 10+ new sources (CrossRef, Scopus, etc)
• Admin Control Panel
• Deposit: Sherpa/Romeo & type based submission
• ORCID authentication & syncing with a Person Profile

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• 7.4 (Oct 2022) (features to be decided from priority ranking)

DSpace 7.3 (tentative) Features

• ORCID authentication & sync to Researcher Profile
• Login via ORCID, and easily create (or claim) a Researcher Profile page in DSpace.
• Optionally sync that Profile with your ORCID account.
• Admin Control panel
• “Health” reports which let you know if any parts of DSpace are not functioning properly
• Import content from any of the following systems
• CrossRef, Scopus, CiNii, NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS), Web of Science, VuFind.org, PubMed Europe, SciELO.org, European Patent Office (EPO)
• Features migrated from 6.x (all new to 7.x)
• Preview / Validate Batch Metadata CSV changes during upload
• Submission forms support display of SHERPA/RoMEO publisher policies when an ISSN is entered.
• Submission forms support type-based fields. Based on selected “Type” (dc.type), the form may dynamically add/change metadata fields.
• Preview items during workflow approval
• RSS / Atom feeds for Site, Community, Collection
• Withdrawn Item tombstone page
• Configurable Entities support Versioning
• Performance improvements : initial page load is much quicker!
• And a lot of bug fixes…

Admin Control Panel - “Health”

Diagnose possible issues in your DSpace.

Import from External Sources - CrossRef

Quickly import metadata from external sites!

Support for Type-based Fields

Based on the Type selected, other fields may appear!

DSpace 5 & 6 “end of life” in 2023

DSpace 5.x support will end on Jan 1, 2023

DSpace 6.x support will end on July 1, 2023

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Why?

• 5.x was released in 2015. 6.x was released in 2016.
• Both platforms have become difficult to support/maintain - many underlying libraries are “end of life”, and cannot be upgraded safely.
• Concerns that future security vulnerabilities may not be fixable.

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Questions? Visit Support for DSpace 5 and 6 is ending in 2023

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We recommend all institutions upgrade to DSpace 7 as soon as possible.

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What’s next? The Product Visioning WG

Working Group’s primary recommendations for DSpace’s governance groups to consider:

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1. Modularize the DSpace architecture

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2. Empower users

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3. Explicitly conform to selected standards and international initiatives

DSpace Product Visioning WG Report

*Most data come from the DuraSpace Registry, not complete

>3,000 known instances

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95 Members

Open Technologies need your support and contribution: development and membership

The Community needs you

• Become a Member of DSpace
• DSpace Development Fund
• Trusted service providers funded to do development for community
• Priorities decided by Steering/Leadership
• Contribute code, review or test in DSpace 7 Working Group
• Contribute to “Learning DSpace” / discussions in DCAT
• Help market DSpace in DSpace Marketing Interest Group
• Join (or create) your local DSpace User Group
• Try out DSpace 7 : https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/Try+out+DSpace+7

How can you help?

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Sustainability

Redundancy

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Collaboration

Systems

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Why does DSpace need you?

A Repository is a strategic tool that supports the institutional mission of an organization

A repository is not a static archive but a dynamic “data agorà”

We need to globally support interoperability to allow data flow

Open Source is not free, it is a collective responsibility

We need to think about the big picture, the ecosystem we’re serving, and build an Open Ecosystem

We need to adopt global standards for exchange, share and access information globally

It is Our Responsibility

DSpace 7 Q&A Webinar: July 13, 2022

DSpace 7 Q&A Webinar

Weds, July 13, 2022 at 14:00 UTC (10:00am ET)

Registration required (Free to attend)

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• Common questions will be answered
• Additional live questions will be welcome
• Free opportunity to ask questions to Tim Donohue, DSpace Tech Lead

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Questions for webinar can be added immediately to https://tinyurl.com/2022-dspace7-QA

Thanks!�Time for questions

Tim Donohue - tim.donohue@lyrasis.org

Michele Mennielli - michele.mennielli@lyrasis.org