***apologies for cross-posting***

Dear all,
I'm glad to announce the availability of the 6 RC version of DSpace-CRIS built 
on top of the upcoming DSpace JSPUI 6.1:
https://github.com/4Science/DSpace/tree/dspace-cris-6RC
together with the new version of DSpace-CKAN, a DSpace(-CRIS) add-on module:
https://github.com/4Science/dspace-ckan
We have updated the testdrive website that now runs the latest available code 
of DSpace-CRIS and the DSpace-CKAN integration module:
https://test.dspace-cris.4science.it/
We kindly invite all of you to work on it and provide tests for this version in 
order for us to solve any critical issue we find before the final release, 
which is expected to be shortly after the official release of DSpace 6.1 (see 
DSpace 6.1 Status).
The release, which is the first one on the 6 version, includes all the fixes 
that will also be available in DSpace JSPUI 6.1.

Please find below the list of the new features and improvements that are now 
available:
- The CORE Recommender Engine integration: Display documents that are 
semantically similar. Powered by CORE https://core.ac.uk/. You can take a look 
at our example here: https://dspace-cris.4science.it/handle/123456789/102
- Authority Lookup based on Getty Vocabularies: For more information about 
Getty Vocabularies please check 
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/index.html; DSpace-CRIS 
implementation involves both the "Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names Online" 
(https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/index.html) and "The 
Union List of Artist Names" (ULAN - 
https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/ulan/index.html)
- Authority Lookup based on Viaf service: The VIAF® (Virtual International 
Authority File) combines multiple name authority files into a single 
OCLC-hosted name authority service. More info at https://viaf.org/
- Import ORCiD publications via Submission Data Loader: During the submission 
process, users can choose an ORCiD and check which publication to import
- Cookies Policy Popup: this feature allows easy compliance with the EU 
legislation on cookies
- Other minor improvements: it's now possible to clean Solr statistics entries 
via WebUI; to upgrade Hibernate and Spring to the minor version; we have 
improved the automatic calculation of derived metrics and the creation of CRIS 
objects as part of the submission process
- Other minor fixes: the out-of-box DSpace OAI Harvesting in DSpace-CRIS; the 
DSpace-CRIS SOAP web-services; the DSpace-CRIS Network when users try to show 
many graphs

As for DSpace 6, the most important things we worked on are "behind the scene" 
and they are technical changes in preparation of DSpace(-CRIS) 7.
Our goal was to make this release as stable as possible but it is undisputable 
that the underline persistent layer of DSpace 6 is too young and not 
intensively tested on and optimized for large site yet. We suggest developers 
to use version 6 either if they need to make extensive customizations on the 
business layer or if they want to contribute to DSpace(-CRIS) 7. For standard 
use of DSpace-CRIS, the version 5.x will be a more solid choice. For these 
reasons we are also working on a new DSpace-CRIS 5.7 release that will be 
finalized just after the cut of the official DSpace 5.7 (DSpace 5.7 Status). 
The DSpace-CRIS 5.7 version will include all of the above mentioned new 
features & improvements.

As mentioned above, we have also updated the DSpace-CKAN Integration module to 
work with the new version. DSpace-CKAN allows an in-depth integration between 
DSpace and CKAN. Tabular data (CSV, XLS, etc.) are deposited in a CKAN instance 
through a curation task. The preview of the dataset content is provided by 
DSpace that serves as a proxy for the CKAN Datastore API respecting the defined 
access conditions (Open Access, embargo, etc.). The dataset preview allows 
filtering, pagination and sorting and, in addition to that, all the operation 
are performed on the server side so to save bandwidth overload. An example is 
available here: https://dspace-cris.4science.it/handle/123456789/31

A special thanks to Andrea Pascarelli, DSpace Committer and lead Engineer at 
4Science, who put a lot of effort on this new release making it possible.


Best regards,

Andrea

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