Improvements

This page is intended to list possible new features, enhancements, and other improvements to any of the code used in an Archivematica based digital preservation system.

Proposed

• AIP Import
  • Import AIPs into Storage Service from filesystem
• Asynchronous Processing in Storage Service
  • Add ability to do work in the background
• Enhance DIP Dissemination Workflows
  • More control over structure of DIPs and more methods for disseminating
• DSpace AIPs
  • Improve how AIPs stored in DSpace are handled
• Email Preservation
  • improve email preservation workflows
• Islandora integration
  • current status of Islandora implementation and proposed improvements
• Developer Focused Documentation
  • improve documentation for developers integrating with Archivematica
• AIP Packaging
  • support alternate physical structures for an aip
• Web Archiving
  • extract metadata and files from WARCs for processing
  • integrate with the Archive-It service
• Appraisal and Arrangement tab
  • Possible enhancements to the Appraisal and Arrangement tab, introduced in v1.6
• Python3
  • Google document with status
• Google document with other proposed projects and status

In Progress

• Search
  • improvements and changes to how AIP's are indexed and discovered
• Reporting
  • add basic functionality to allow a user to search for files across AIPs
• AIP Encryption
  • Encrypt AIP's when storing and decrypt when retrieving
• Disk Image Preservation
  • improve disk image handling to better manage different file systems
• Containerization
  • ability to deploy Archivematica into Containers
• Self Describing AIP
  • add a README file to Archivematica AIP's to make them self-describing

Completed

• Migrations
  • Use Django's migrations instead of custom SQL-based migrations
• CentOS/RedHat support
  • ability to run Archivematica on an rpm based version of linux