EPrints Development Roadmap: Evolution Towards Version 4.0

EPrints presents a roadmap outlining the evolution of its software versions, emphasizing stability improvements, new features, and responses to changing repository landscapes. From EPrints 3.3.13 to the upcoming EPrints 4.0, the journey includes enhanced metadata handling, generic data management, and project-specific releases for diverse purposes such as open access publications and education. The roadmap reflects EPrints' commitment to adapt to evolving needs and technologies in the repository domain.

• EPrints
• Development Roadmap
• Software Versions
• Metadata
• Repository Landscape

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1. January 13th, 2015 EPrints User Group Meeting EPrints Development Roadmap

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. EPrints 3.4.0 Coming around Easter 2015 Response to a more diverse repository landscape Stepping Stone towards EPrints 4.0

6. 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

7. 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

8. EPrints 3.4 for Publications Projects / Funder & Rioxx2 Publications Router Metadata Schema ORCID Support WOK / Scopus IRUS Tracker Publications IRStats 2 Base

9. EPrints 3.4 for Open Education EdShare Style User Metadata Schema Bookmarks Collections Education MePrints Interface Base

10. EPrints 3.4 for Open Research Data Metadata Schema Large File Upload Exemplar Simple Storage Plugin Research Data Mechanisms ReCollect DataCite Arkivum Base

11. EPrints for Micro Repositories Bespoke Dataset Renderer Importer Base