[Dspace-general] Two suggested features for next release of Dspace

[Tansley, Robert]

Hi Stevan,

Thanks for the suggestions.  It's not really up to me whether they get implemented or not, because DSpace has a very different development model than more centralised projects like Eprints or FEDORA.  I don't have a team of developers who I can direct to work on particular features; people develop features to fit their local needs (hopefully in a way that can be generalised to help others), and contribute them back to DSpace.  So what you need to do is find someone who shares this need and who has developer resources to make the necessary changes (or find developer resources yourself!).  (Before starting implementation, it's strongly advised to run the design by the DSpace developer list, to make sure no one is already working on the feature, and to maximise the chances that the design can be fitted into the main DSpace code).

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dspace-general-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Stevan Harnad
> Sent: 14 March 2006 08:13
> To: dspace-general at mit.edu
> Subject: [Dspace-general] Two suggested features for next 
> release of Dspace
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> Can I make two suggestions for features that would be useful for the 
> next release of Dspace?
> 
>     (1) The first you may have already: Can you have a separate tag
>     for the depositor and for the author(s) of each deposited item,
>     *together with the email addresses of each*?
> 
> There are many reasons why this will be useful, but a big one is the
> second suggestion, below.
> 
> Every deposited dspace document presumably has a deposit field for
> setting access privileges for the full-text, the three main 
> ones being:
> 
>         (i) Open Access [ie, public access web-wide] 
>         (ii) Restricted Access, Institution-Internal only 
>         (iii) Restricted Access, author/depositor and Archive 
> staff only.
> 
> Alongside the deposit field for the two Restricted Access 
> fields (ii, iii), 
> may I suggest that dspace add the following: 
> 
>          "Metadata will be visible web-wide and eprint-requesters will
>          be able to send the author an automated email request."
> 
> That is the second suggested feature:
> 
>     (2) For every published paper that is in Restricted Access,
>     a box should appear alongside the metadata, into which any
>     eprint-requester can paste his name (optional) and email address
>     (mandatory) if he wishes to receive an email of the eprints. The
>     message is automatically sent to the *author* (not the depositor),
>     who receives an email with a URL on which he can click to have his
>     full-text automatically emailed to that requester.
> 
> This feature will be critically important in the next phase 
> of institutional
> self-archiving policy, in which immediate deposit will be 
> mandatory but
> access-setting will be left up to the author: 
> 
>     GENERIC MODEL FOR UNIVERSITY OPEN ACCESS SELF-ARCHIVING MANDATE
>     http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/71-guid.html
> 
> For deposits that the author may elect to set as Restricted Access
> for some period (e.g., if he wishes to abide by a journal's 6-month
> embargo on public self-archiving -- a foolish move, on both sides,
> but a contingency that will crop up for a while in the next phase),
> the access-gap can be bridged meanwhile through this inconvenient and
> indirect (but effective for OA) automated eprint email 
> request-and-send
> feature.
> 
> I hope this feature can be implemented quickly in dspace, as 
> institutional
> self-archiving policies will be drafted that are contingent on this
> feature. 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Stevan Harnad
> American Scientist Open Access Forum
> http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-
> Access-Forum.html
> 
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