Transcript EPrints Development Roadmap

January 13th, 2015
EPrints User Group Meeting
EPrints Development Roadmap
Roadmap
Milestone
Date
EPrints 3.3.13
January 2015
EPrints 3.3.14
Early 2015
EPrints 3.4
Easter 2015
EPrints 4
End of 2015
EPrints 3.3.13
• Released January 8th, 2015
• Minor release
– 150 Commits
– 88 files changed
• General Stability and Security Improvements
• Improvements to
– DOI handling, Multilingual support, Search Indexing,
Embargo Handling, Filetypes, Metatdata Normalisation,
Abstract Page Rendering, CC Licenses, Subject Trees,
Database Layer, Unicode Ordering, reCAPCHA, Audio
Handling, OAI Exports, RSS, EndNote Imports, ISI Imports,
List Rendering, EPScript, LaTeX handling, Automated Tests,
Apache 2.4 Support
EPrints 3.3.14
• To be released early 2015
• Minor Release
– Stability Improvements
• New Bazaar Features
– Channels and Badges
– Assigned Wiki Pages for Documentation
• Xapian Faceted Search by default
EPrints 3.4.0
• Coming around Easter 2015
• Response to a more diverse repository
landscape
• Stepping Stone towards EPrints 4.0
EPrints 4 / 3.4.0 Key Philosophy
• “Base” EPrints storing and handling of generic
data and objects
• “Layers” to handle specific metadata schema,
import/export, rendering, search, etc. for
specific domains
3.4 Releases
• Collections of metadata schemas, renderers,
plugins and packages tested together for a
specific purpose (the pizza model)
• Initial Releases for:
– Open Access Publications
– Open Education
– Open Data
Base
IRStats 2
Projects / Funder & Rioxx2
WOK / Scopus
ORCID Support
Publications Router
IRUS Tracker
Publications
Metadata Schema
EPrints 3.4 for Publications
Base
EdShare Style User
Interface
Collections
Bookmarks
MePrints
Education
Metadata Schema
EPrints 3.4 for Open Education
Base
Large File Upload
Mechanisms
Exemplar Simple
Storage Plugin
Arkivum
DataCite
ReCollect
Research Data
Metadata Schema
EPrints 3.4 for Open Research Data
Base
Renderer
Importer
Bespoke Dataset
EPrints for Micro Repositories