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DSpace 1.5 Release Now Available
March 24, 2008
DSpace Foundation 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 themeable Manakin user interface, SWORD integration, lots of new configurable options, and scalability improvements.
DSpace 1.5 can be downloaded directly from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?groupˍid=19984
The documentation for this release is bundled within the package and will shortly be available on the dspace.org website.
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 allows DSpace to be more modular by arranging the software into sub-components, makes customizations easier by giving developers the tools to maintain customizations, and provides the ability to manage new features as DSpace continues it's accelerating growth rate.
For more information:
http://maven.apache.org/
http://www.devzuz.com/web/guest/products/resources#BBWM
http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=comˍcontent&task=view&id=546&Itemid=171
Manakin
Customize your repository look-and-feel with the new Manakin themeable 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
http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=comˍcontent&task=view&id=512&Itemid=171
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 programatic 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
Integration 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/SWORDˍAPPˍProfileˍ1.2
Browsing
The browsing system has been completely re-implemented to provide improved scalability and configurability. The new browsing system enables administrators to easily create new browse indexes.
For more information:
http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=comˍcontent&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 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 improving scalability and modularity by introducing an event model to the architecture. This feature will allow future addons 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
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