Ithaca, NY Since the DuraSpace organization released DSpace 1.6 on March 3, 630+ users have downloaded the new version (http://www.dspace.org/current-release/latest-release/) of this popular turn-key open source software to find out how application features might improve their repositories’ ability to manage and provide access to digital content.

•Enhanced statistics

• Embargo facility

• Batch metadata editing

•Delegated administration

•OpenSearch

•Command launcher

•OAI-PMH harvesting of items from remote repositories

•Configurable OAI-PMH dublin core output

•Move item functionality in XMLUI

•If-Modified-Since / Last-Modified header support in XMLUI

•Change to logging behaviour to ensure better log retention and management

•Update to the latest handle server library

•Ability to perform batch imports and exports from zip files of items

•New test scripts to test database and email settings

•Ability to set legal jurisdiction in creative commons licensing

Trinity College Dublin, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and the National University of Singapore are among the early adopters of DSpace 1.6. If you plan to put DSpace 1.6 into early production please let us know by adding your comments or use case to this blog.

Learn More

Stuart Lewis, the DSpace 1.6 community release manager will offer an overview of  the lastest release on March 17. This free DuraSpace/SPARC “All About Repositories” web seminar will highlight new Fedora 3.3 and DSpace 1.6 features on March 17, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. ET. You may register for the web seminar here: http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml.