Customizing DSpace

Goal: an online digital publications library.

Customized version of DSpace

Our Customized Functionality:

• easier to use browse and search publications
• project field
• simplified addition of new publications

Problems with Current Version:

• Others can't update their uploaded publications, just the admins can do that (permissions problems? Can't seem to solve in current version of DSpace)
• Older code requires older versions of web application servers

• Install latest DSpace code
  • Requires web app server and Postgresql DB
  • May require user to have root privileges on machine

• 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

• Migrating
  • Need to migrate our DB/state (1.2.2) to the current version's state

• “Viewing accepted publications” seems to have a one-off error in the publications links
• ERROR: In viewing submissions, it doesn't seem like pubs-handle is working. If you use the same document number with handle instead of pubs-handle, it works.
• Usability: Need to have “more than one file” at beginning of submission dialog? Can that wait until later?
  • Hard to add additional files later
• “Quick links” to publications, generating results pages
• External links
• Discovery search results
• abstract: replace line breaks with <p>

• Best way to customize DSpace
  • Don't want to do this every couple of years!
• Migrating our database/publications (our version: 1.2.2) to latest version (1.6)
• Testing
• After migration: regression testing

• Hook into ACM Digital library's Authorizer service