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+ | ====== Customizing DSpace ====== | ||
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+ | **Goal:** an online digital publications library. | ||
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+ | ===== Current Solution ===== | ||
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+ | Customized version of [[http:// | ||
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+ | **Our Customized Functionality: | ||
+ | * easier to use browse and search publications | ||
+ | * project field | ||
+ | * simplified addition of new publications | ||
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+ | **Problems with Current Version:** | ||
+ | * Others can't update their uploaded publications, | ||
+ | * Older code requires older versions of web application servers | ||
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+ | ===== Process of Upgrading Solution ===== | ||
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+ | * Install latest [[http:// | ||
+ | * Requires web app server and Postgresql DB | ||
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+ | * Customize DSpace to allow us to upload and view documents easily | ||
+ | * May want to look over DSpace code and see what kind of new customizing functionality they have. It may be easier than it was before | ||
+ | ===== Additional Functionality/ | ||
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+ | * " | ||
+ | * ERROR: In viewing submissions, | ||
+ | * Usability: Need to have "more than one file" at beginning of submission dialog? | ||
+ | * Hard to add additional files later | ||
+ | * "Quick links" to publications, | ||
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+ | ===== Problems to Address ===== | ||
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+ | * Best way to customize DSpace | ||
+ | * Don't want to do this every couple of years! | ||
+ | * Migrating our database/ | ||
+ | * Testing | ||
+ | * After migration: regression testing | ||
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