The document outlines the roadmap and accomplishments of DSpace, including four releases in 2010-11, major features for upcoming versions, and important projects aimed at enhancing the repository system's flexibility and usability. Future initiatives include improving the REST API, curation task systems, and the Fedora-inside architecture, aimed at enabling user-driven data enhancement and modularization. It emphasizes the need for community engagement and volunteer contributions to open data and facilitate innovative development.

1. DSpace RoadMap
Tim Donohue
DSpace Tech Lead
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License

2. Meet the Committers!
• Andrea Bollini • Gabriela Mircea
• Ben Bosman • Scott Phillips
• Peter Dietz (1.7.x RC) • Richard Rodgers
• Mark Diggory • Kim Shepherd
• Tim Donohue • Robert Tansley
• Sands Fish (Oct 2010) • Robin Taylor (1.8.0 RC)
• Keith Gilbertson • Graham Triggs
• Richard Jones • Jeff Trimble (Docs Guru)
• Claudia Jürgen • Mark Wood
• Stuart Lewis • Aaron Zeckoski
• Brad McLean
Key: 5+ Years, 3-5 Years (as of June 2011)

3. 2010-11 Accomplishments
• Record 4 releases in one year!
– 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.7.0
• Scheduled Releases (yearly in Oct?)
• Documentation to Wiki
• Community Advisory Team (DCAT)
• GSoC bears fruit!
– Unit Testing Project (Pere Villega)
– REST API? (Bojan Suzic)

4. 1.7.x Release
• Release Coordinator: Peter Dietz
• Major New Features include
– Mirage XMLUI Theme
– Discovery (faceted browse/search)
– AIP Backup & Restore
– Curation Task System (Admin UI & CLI)
• Improved Performance & Scalability
– Kudos to Graham Triggs!
• 1.7.2 on May 27th

5. 1.8.0 Release – Oct 2011
• Release Coordinator: Robin Taylor
• Possible Major Features:
– Configurable Reviewer Workflow
– SWORD Client?
– REST API?
– More Curation Tasks (DuraCloud
backup/restore integration, Link
Checker, Format Identification)
Learn More at Robin’s 1.8 Talk!

6. • 4 DSpace Projects
– Submission Enhancements
• Student: Gaurav Kejriwal, Mentors: Mark Diggory, Scott
Phillips
– New UI on RESTful Services
• Student: Vibhaj Rajan, Mentors: Bojan Suzic, Mark Diggory
– WebMVC UI Development
• Student: Robert Qin Zhengquan, Mentors: Graham Triggs,
Peter Dietz, Stuart Lewis
– SKOS Authority Controls
• Student: Yigang Zhou, Mentors: Mark Diggory, Ryan Scherle
Join ‘duraspace-gsoc’ Google Group!

7. ROADMAP 2011 - ?

8. This should come as no surpise!

9. DSpace
is
years
young

10. 19 Stable Software Releases

11. DSpace is a Mature, Stable
Repository System*
• We can store your content
• We can help you disseminate it broadly
• We can help you preserve it
• We can provide you a customizable out-
of-the-box system with a large support
community
* Yes, there are still occasional bugs or ‘quirks’

12. And, yet….
Analogy borrowed
from David Flanders
http://dfflanders.wordpress.com/

13. You put in your
beautiful things…
and we’ll proudly
display & honor them!

14. But, what we still don’t quite support…
is the COMMUNITY GARDEN.

15. Where you and your friends can…
• interact directly with your ‘beautiful thing’
• enhance your ‘beautiful thing’
• in a sense, ‘garden’ your data

16. TCTTDWYDWBTOBSE
Quote/Image Credit:
JISC CRIG (Common Repository Interfaces Group) & David Flanders

17. Providing (Web API) Access to Data
Data.gov.uk
Data.gov.au
Data.gov.ca
Open Knowledge Foundation
Projects

18. We should let them do
the same with DSpace

19. ROADMAP 2011 - ?
Support “Data Gardening” by
opening our DSpace Data & Services

20. How?
5 Very Important Projects (VIPs)
• REST API
• Fedora-Inside
• Common Business Tier
• Further Modularization of DSpace
• Curation Task System

21. REST API
• Mobile app development
• Build more ‘Ajaxy’ UI gadgets
– GSoC “UI on RESTful Services” Project
• Non-Java UIs / Gadgets / Mashups
– E.g. Ruby on Rails, Django, PHP, etc.
Goal:
Enable people to build ‘cool things’

22. Fedora-Inside Initiative
• Enhanced, more flexible architecture
(Fedora)
• Versioning of Objects
• Richer Relationships between Data
Objects
• (Potential: access DSpace objects via
other Fedora-based Apps?)
Goal:
Let users enhance their ‘beautiful things’

23. Curation Task System
• Enables a basic ‘microservices’
approach to curating DSpace objects
• Anyone can build a task & share it.
• Future:
– Support Tasks in other programming
languages: JRuby, Groovy, etc.
– Enhanced Task Management UI?
Goal:
Free ‘curation’ services from command-line &
Let everyone build & share curation tools

24. Common Business Tier
• Stop supporting many UIs with separate
business logic
– ONE API defining workflow/business logic
– ONE (default) UI, preferably
– Various Web Service Interfaces (SWORD, etc)
• Others can build & support more
UIs/Gadgets in any language
– via Common Business Tier and/or REST
Goal:
Free Developer Mindshare &
simplify UI/Gadget Development

25. Further Modularization
• Prepares a more flexible architecture
– Longer lasting, easier to replace/swap
single components in future
• Necessary for Fedora Inside &
Business Tier work to occur.
• Enhanced module/plugin framework?
Goal:
Prepare DSpace for the next 9 years!

26. When?
Little-by-little over coming releases
We need volunteers (get involved!)
We need people who are excited
We need developers & DCAT members

27. Help us to open our data to:
• user ‘gardening’
• external services / cool gadgets
• allow devs to build ‘cool things’

28. Image Credits
• Surprised Kitten: http://www.blog.new-cat.com/cats/surprised-kitten.php
• Walled Garden: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zawtowers/3758680364/
• Nine of Nines: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/65643389/
• 1000 users: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lwr/99351053/
• Single Leaf: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hinkelstone/994941366/
• Community Garden: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jritts/1358205071/
• Praying Mantis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whappen/1366664930/
• Various Website logos: those websites whose logos are displayed
• Keys: http://www.flickr.com/photos/29071316@N06/3555803147/
• Bricks: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joriel/2360038974/
• Lego Block: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/2156907025/
• Puzzle Pieces: http://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4273913228/
• Clock: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27369469@N08/2661018158/
• Open Gardens: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ugardener/2617226159/