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Customizing DSpace
Goal: an online digital publications library.
Current Solution
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
Process of Upgrading Solution
- Install latest DSpace code
- Requires web app server and Postgresql DB
- 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/Bug Fixes
- “Viewing accepted publications” seems to have a one-off error in the publications links
- 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
Problems to Address
- 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 (1.5)
- Testing
- After migration: regression testing