MOspace news
Digital Services is working on two new MOspace collections:
Global Journalist. Working with Journalism, we will be adding about 200 shows in the Global Journalism series to MOspace. https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/72322
LIS radio. The Library School hosted a radio show from 2003-2015 in which librarians, state and national leaders, and others were interviewed about topics of interest to the library community. Radio show series included: On the job, Voice of literacy, and EDgeTech (K-12). In conjunction with SISLT, we are creating an archive of the shows in MOspace. We have uploaded many files already and more are pending. Metadata will be added next. It isn’t much to look at now, but check back in a month or two. https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/68701
Other MOspace work
We are continuing to process and add other items to MOspace, too. For example, before Ellis closed, we quickly digitized Extension guides that were easy to do and which could be added to MOspace remotely. This was a project we were working on, but WFH gave us a jump on the project. We added 250+ in March. https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/49797
DSpace news: DSpace 7 coming soon!
MOspace uses the DSpace software platform. DSpace code is undergoing a major rewrite and is scheduled to be released this summer as DSpace 7. The is an update we have been waiting for. The major advantage to DSpace 7 is that it will provide it is a more flexible system and will allow improvements to the design and functionality of the system. Right away, two changes will benefit MOspace.
- New “entity” records. We will be able to create records for people, granting agencies, corporate bodies, etc. Creating records for our authors will enable us (and them) to see all the works they have in MOspace in one place.
- We will be able to use these entity records to create records for collections, too. We use collections to organize material in MOspace now, but this new way pulling together related articles, presentations, etc., will provide a lot more flexibility.
We use Atmire (a company that manages DSpace sites) to do some of our MOspace programming work and we are working with them to evaluate MOspace and to plan for our upgrade to DSpace 7. Optimistically, the upgrade could happen late this fall.
A demonstration version of DSpace 7 is available. Note that it is still being developed, with a new beta version coming out each month through June. After June, outstanding issues will be addressed with a goal of having it ready for implementation by the end of the summer.
More information, including technical information, from a recent email to the DSpace community:
New features to look for
- A completely new User Interface. This is the new Javascript-based frontend, built on Angular.io (with support for SEO provided by Angular Universal). This new interface is themable via HTML and CSS (SCSS). For early theme building training, see the “Getting Started with DSpace 7 Workshop” from the North American User Group meeting: slides or video recording.
- A completely new, fully featured REST API (provided via a single webapp backend). This new backend is not only a REST API, but also still supports OAI-PMH, SWORD (v1 or v2) and RDF.
- A newly designed search box. Search from the header of any page (click the magnifying glass). The search results page now features automatic search highlight, expandable & searchable filters, and optional thumbnail-based results (click on the “grid” view).
- A new MyDSpace area, including a new, one-page, drag & drop submission form, a new workflow approval process, and searchable past submissions. (Login, click on the profile icon, click “MyDSpace”). Find workflow tasks to claim by selecting “All tasks” in the “Show” dropdown.
- Dynamic user interface translations (Click the globe, and select a language)
- A new Admin sidebar. Login as an Administrator, and an administrative sidebar appears. Use this to create a new Community/Collection/Item, edit existing ones, and manage registries. (NOTE: A number of Administrative tools are still missing or greyed out. They will be coming in future Beta releases.)
- Optional, Configurable Entities feature. DSpace now supports “entities”, which are Items of a specific ‘type’ which may have relationships to other entities. These entity types and relationships are configurable, with two examples coming out-of-the-box: a set of Journal hierarchy entities (Journal, Volume, Issue, Publication) and a set of Research entities (Publication, Project, Person, OrgUnit). For more information see “The Power of Configurable Entities” from OR2019: slides or video recording. Additionally, a test data set featuring both out-of-the-box examples can be used when trying out DSpace 7 via Docker.
- Support for OpenAIREv4 Guidelines for Literature Repositories in OAI-PMH (See the new “openaire4” context in OAI-PMH).
