Everyone, The DSpace community is pleased to announce the release of DSpace 1.5! This is an important release of DSpace with many new features, including a completely new theme-able Manakin user interface, SWORD integration, many new configurable options, and scalability improvements. Thanks to everyone who participated in the testing of this new release.
DSpace 1.5 can be downloaded directly from SourceForge. The documentation for this release is bundled within the package and will be available shortly on the dspace.org website. http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ New Features: * Maven DSpace 1.5 introduces a new Maven-based build system. Maven is a software tool from Apache that allows developers to compile and distribute software projects. Maven also enables DSpace to be more modular by arranging the software into sub-components. In addition, it makes customizations easier by giving developers the tools to maintain customizations, and provides the ability to manage new features as DSpace continues its accelerating growth rate. For more information: http://maven.apache.org/ http://www.devzuz.com/web/guest/products/resources#BBWM * Manakin Customize your repository look-and-feel with the new Manakin theme- able user interface. Manakin introduces a new modular framework, enabling an institution to customize their interface according to the specific needs of the particular repository, community, or collection. For more information: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november07/phillips/11phillips.html Repositories currently using Manakin: http://repositories.tamu.edu/ http://repositories.tdl.org/ http://www.jobim.org/manakin/ https://www.policyarchive.org/ https://oa.doria.fi/ http://dome.mit.edu/ http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ * Light Network Interface Integrate DSpace with legacy or local systems that need to manage content in the repository through the new Light Network Interface. This interface provides a programmatic mechanism to manage content within the repository through a WebDAV or SOAP based protocol. For more information: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/LightweightNetworkInterface * SWORD Integrate with the new SWORD (Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit) protocol. Based upon the Atom Publishing Protocol, this interface allows for cross-repository deposit of new content. This protocol may enable future tools that will provide for 'one click' deposit. For more information: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/j.allinson/or2007-deposit.pdf http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/repositories/digirep/index/SWORD_APP_Profile_1.2 * Browsing The browsing system has been completely re-implemented to provide improved scalability and configuration. The new browsing system enables administrators to easily create new browse indexes. For more information: http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=116 * Submissions The item submission system is now more configurable by managing the steps a user follows when submitting a new item to the repository. The new submission system allows for these steps to be rearranged, removed, and even allows for new steps to be added. For more information: https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/bitstream/2142/207/3/OR2007-ConfigurableSubmission.ppt.pdf * Events Another under-the-hood improvement introduced in DSpace 1.5 is the event system, which improves scalability and modularity by introducing an event model to the architecture. This feature will allow future add- ons to automatically manage content in the repository based upon when an object has been added, modified, or removed from the system. For more information: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/EventMechanism I thank everyone who participated in testing Dspace throughout the 1.5 release process. Special thanks to Keith Gilbertson, Stuart Lewis, and Claudia Juergen for submitting many quality bug reports that were extremely helpful in polishing this release. Also, I would like to highlight the contributions of several developers: Tim Donohue for closing many bugs, Graham Triggs for his lighting fast response on browsing and database issues, and Mark Diggory for resolving build problems. Scott Phillips Research and Development Coordinator Texas Digital Library and Texas A&M University Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
