Kotlin Multiplatform & Compose Multiplatform - Starter kit for pragmatics
DSpace 5.0 Feature Preview
1. DSpace 5.0 Feature
Preview
DSpace 4.2 Advanced Training (including the DSpace 5.0 preview ) by
James Creel is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License. Special thanks to the DuraSpace Foundation and
the Texas Digital Library for making this course possible.
2. 5.0’s Fabulous Features
• Automation of data migration with upgrades
• Batch Import Improvements
• PDF Enhancements
• Machine Interfaces
• ORCID Integration
• Google Analytics
• Metadata on All DSpace Objects
• Mirage 2 Responsive Theme
3. Automation for Upgrades
• DSpace will automatically upgrade an older database
whenever Tomcat is restarted on an instance with the older
database.
• If you want to be more careful and avoid a long Tomcat startup
time, take some time to ensure success at the command line
• [dspace-install-dir]/bin/dspace database info
• make sure DSpace thinks your database is the version it truly is
• [dspace]/bin/dspace database migrate
• Does the migration chain without stress on your Tomcat
• Ant will also automatically upgrade your Solr indexes
4. Batch Imports
• SAF Package ingest through the Web UIs
• Import script allows item target collection specification in the
SAF with a “collections” file in the item directory
• Bibliographic Format ingest with the import script
• Leverages the Biblio-Transformation-Engine (BTE), a framework
for translating between various record formats
• Use the –b flag on the script and you can import BibTex, CSV, TSV,
RIS, EndNote, OAI-PMH, arXiv, PubMed, CrossRef and CiNii
5. PDF Enhancements
• Citation cover pages (XMLUI)
• Generates a new first page for PDF downloads with
some selected Dublin Core metadata
• Can be generated on the fly or with a curation task
ahead of time
• Improved thumbnails from Media Filter
• Leverages ImageMagick and Ghostscript (Image
thumbnails can be improved too with ImageMagick)
6. Machine Interfaces
• REST API now enables CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and
Delete)
• OAI Improvements
• Respects Item Read Access
• Lists Contexts
• RDF webapp
7. ORCID Integration
• Lookup during Item Submission and Metadata Editing
• Lookup button will search for existing authority records in repo
• ORCID:dc.contributor.author column heading for batch
metadata editing (CSV)
• Local caching of authority records facilitates lookups
9. Metadata on All DSpace
Objects
• Holds promise for some very creative use cases, but it not yet
leveraged in the UIs
10. Mirage 2 Responsive Theme by
Atmire
• State of the art web development tools –
• Bootstrap for responsiveness
• SASS to facilitate styling
• Bower to manage dependencies
• Grunt to automate deployment tasks
11. Please keep in touch -
• Your course provider intends that everyone learns as much as
they hoped from this course.
• Contact me at jamescreel@jamescreel.net if you want to
suggest any amendments to the materials or would like to
further discuss any of the topics.
• Thank you for your kind attention!