[IRTalk] IR Software comparison by Unesco

[Nason Bimbe]

Dear Ina,
Another thing to think about is the move to DSpace 7 which has a complete
rewrite of the UI (only one UI using Angular JS will  be available). DSpace
7 uses a lot of improvements made in DSpace 6+ in terms of the back-end and
Application layers  which may make upgrading to 7 a little bit better.

Best
Nason

On 31 August 2017 at 13:46, Nason Bimbe <nasonbimbe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Ina,
> The latest version is 6.1 (http://dspace.org/latest-release) but if you
> are 5.5/6 or later, it is advisable to go to 5.7 that is if you can not go
> to 6.1 straight away. 5.7 and 6.1 has a security fix for a vulnerability
> that was discovered in the earlier versions of DSpace including 6.0. in
> February 2017. 6.1 also uses the latest ORCID API ver.2 as the ver.1 which
> is in 5.x has been retired by ORCID.
>
> Regards
> Nason
>
> On 31 August 2017 at 13:30, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:
>
>> Dear Nason
>>
>>
>>
>> Many thanks for pointing out. Good to take note. Btw – what version of
>> DSpace is the most recent and stable at this stage? And if one wants to
>> have ORCID ID as a meteadata field, which version do you recommend? ASSAf
>> IR is on 5.5. Would appreciate your advise so much.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Ina
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Nason Bimbe [mailto:nasonbimbe at gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 31, 2017 1:33 PM
>> *To:* Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za>
>> *Cc:* irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za
>> *Subject:* Re: [IRTalk] IR Software comparison by Unesco
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Ina for the link.
>>
>>
>>
>> The report seems rather old as they are comparing a DSpace 3+. For
>> example where they say it is not mobile friendly but as of DSpace 5+ it is
>> one can use Mirage2 UI (XMLUI) and a Bootstrap based UI (JSPUI) - just to
>> pick one of the attributes the report uses for comparison.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Nason
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27 August 2017 at 17:48, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:
>>
>> A comparison of the 5 top IR software solutions by Unesco (2014)
>>
>> http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/
>> news/institutional_repository_software.pdf
>>
>>
>>
>> DSpace service providers: http://www.dspace.org/service-providers/
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>> DSpace hosted option: http://dspacedirect.org/
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>> Bepress Digital Commons https://www.bepress.com/ (Elsevier) – not Open
>> Source
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>>
>> If you know of any more resent comparisons, please share …
>>
>>
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>>
>> *Ina Smith*
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