<div dir="ltr">Dear Ina,<div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>Nason</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 August 2017 at 13:46, Nason Bimbe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nasonbimbe@gmail.com" target="_blank">nasonbimbe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Ina,<div>The latest version is 6.1 (<a href="http://dspace.org/latest-release" target="_blank">http://dspace.org/latest-<wbr>release</a>) 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.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Nason</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 August 2017 at 13:30, Ina Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3887068035231109837m_7401951989371658704WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Dear Nason<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Ina<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Nason Bimbe [mailto:<a href="mailto:nasonbimbe@gmail.com" target="_blank">nasonbimbe@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 31, 2017 1:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za" target="_blank">irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [IRTalk] IR Software comparison by Unesco<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div class="m_-3887068035231109837h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Ina for the link.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">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.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Regards<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Nason<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 27 August 2017 at 17:48, Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">A comparison of the 5 top IR software solutions by Unesco (2014)</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/news/institutional_repository_software.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.unesco.org/new/file<wbr>admin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/<wbr>news/institutional_repository_<wbr>software.pdf</a> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">DSpace service providers: <a href="http://www.dspace.org/service-providers/" target="_blank">http://www.dspace.org/service-<wbr>providers/</a> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">DSpace hosted option: <a href="http://dspacedirect.org/" target="_blank">http://dspacedirect.org/</a> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Bepress Digital Commons <a href="https://www.bepress.com/" target="_blank">https://www.bepress.com/</a> (Elsevier) – not Open Source</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">If you know of any more resent comparisons, please share …</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p 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