[Dspace-general] DSpace 2.0 development

[Michele Kimpton]

Dear members of the community,

As many of you know the Foundation received funding from JISC, Hewlett  
Packard, and M.I.T to bring together a group of developers to work on  
a re-architecture of DSpace.  The need for this work was informed by a  
DSpace architecture review board that assembled and made  
recommendations. The output and recommendations made can be found  at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/ArchReviewReport 
.

A small team has been assembled, working close to full time, on re- 
architecting the core of DSpace based on the recommendations outlined  
in the above report.  The end goal is to have a more flexible, modular  
architecture that can handle a wider diversity of data and associated  
metadata and their relationships.  The team is being led by Brad  
McLean, the Technical Director of the Foundation.  The development  
team working on the core are: Mark Diggory(MIT), Aaron Zeckoski( U of  
Cambridge), Graham Triggs( Biomed Central) and Jim Rutherford (HP  
Labs).  This team began to meet this summer to start initial  
discussions and began work on the project in September.  The first  
meeting of the team was held mid October at MIT, and output from that  
meeting can be found at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace_2.0.

At this time we would like anyone in the community interested in  
following the work, participating in the discussion, and possibly  
volunteering to code later in the project please join in at the  
following locations:

-Join the dspace-architecture at lists.sourceforge.net, register at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-architecture

-Follow the work being assigned to developers, their progress and be  
able to comment and vote in jira at:  jira.dspace.org  You will need  
to sign up, by supplying username and password.

- View the code in the sourceforge repository: http://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dspace/dspace2/

-Come see us at PASIG(http://www.sun-pasig.org/), Wednesday afternoon  
November 19 in Baltimore, when Brad will give a presentation of the  
2.0 work. (we also hope to video this for broader distribution)

-watch for Brads weekly email on latest 2.0 developments

The team will make a broader call for coding participation after the  
first release candidate of the core DSpace.  We expect this to happen  
in January 09.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact myself(michele at dspace.org 
) or Brad (brad at dspace.org).

Michele Kimpton
DSpace Executive Director

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