We are currently in the process of developing a repository for historic and 
current ecological research. This will not only include tabular data (CSVs, 
Excel), but also information in a wide variety of formats.

In particular we are very interested in DSpace-cris as it seems to meet 
nearly all our requirements. In particular version 7 of the software is 
looking very interesting.

But we have two questions that I have not been able to find suitable 
answers to.


   1. Does the system use any of the commercial Java features and therefore 
   require a licence from Oracle starting in 2019?  Even better would it be 
   possible to use the OpenJDK instead of the standard edition?
   2. We have a requirement for certain entities to be related to one or 
   more spatial layers (points, lines or polygons). This spatial layer will 
   denote the footprint of the research. Of course it is possible to store the 
   spatial data in a Postgres/PostGIS database by enabling the database 
   extension. But we wanted to allow users to perform spatial searches if 
   required. Although I have not programmed in Java for a number of years, I 
   not averse to getting my hands dirty with java code. Searching through the 
   mailing list there does seem to be two question regarding this 
   functionality, but little other information. Is there any known stumbling 
   blocks to us implementing this functionality? 
   
Thanks
Marc

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