Development roadmap: Archivematica

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Archivematica development roadmap

This roadmap describes what Artefactual is working on for the Archivematica system. Sponsored work, that is development of features and enhancements which is funded by our development partners, is prioritized. On our wishlist, we have also included enhancements and features that we would like to see or that the community has shown interest in; however, without development resources allocated to us or contributions from developers outside of Artefactual, we cannot guarantee their inclusion.

Reflecting the bounty business model for open source development, each feature is developed in partnership with an institution or group of institutions with unique workflow needs. Despite our best efforts to keep features as generic as possible, some extra development may be necessary for a feature to function well in your own environment. Please see the Archivematica services offered on Artefactual's website to find out more about how to become a development partner, get training and support, or take advantage of installation services.

We will issue public releases incrementally upon completion and testing of the sponsored features and enhancements listed below. All features are subject to code review and QA, the results of which may result in any feature being pushed to a future release.

Features by release number

Storage Service 0.3.0

Includes backend enhancements and API-level changes only, with no direct user facing changes

• Improved unicode support
• v2 of internal REST API (the API used by the Dashboard)
• Sponsored (University of Saskatchewan) Islandora integration. See also: Sword_API, #5796 #5837
  • v1 of Sword API (the API used by external applications like Islandora)

Archivematica 1.1

• Sponsored (University of Alberta) Dataset preservation
  • Sponsored creation and management of AICs #5802
  • Sponsored AIP pointer file #5159
  • Sponsored pointer file includes compression information and other metadata required to find and process (e.g. open) AIP
  • Sponsored pointer file tracks multi-AIP relationships
• Sponsored (University of Alberta) Enhancements to manual normalization workflow
  • Sponsored ability to add PREMIS event detail information for manually normalized files via the dashboard #5216
• Backend/Not user-facing:
  • Improved unicode support
  • Better handling of preconfigured choices (processingMCP.xml)
  • More choices in processing archive file formats (extra preconfigured choices)
  • Improved handling of unit variables (passing parameters between micro-services)
  • Update to FITS 0.8.0 (or newer if available)
  • Update to Elasticsearch 0.90.11

Storage Service 0.4.0

• Sponsored (SFU Library) LOCKSS available as an AIP storage location using PLN Manager "LOCKSS-o-MATIC" (AIP storage / API plugin)
• Bug fixes and GUI changes depending on resources available
• Sponsored (COPPUL) Any changes required for COPPUL hosting

Archivematica 1.2

• Sponsored (Yale University Libraries) Forensic disk image ingest #5037, #5356, #5900
  • Sponsored includes identification and flagging of personal information in transfers, as well as other bulk extractor reporting functions
• Sponsored (COPPUL) Any changes required for COPPUL hosting
• Improvements to transfer start #6220
• Add nailgun (improve performance of java tools like FITS)
• may include changes to packaging
• Bug fixes
• Improvements to e-mail ingest workflow (maildir)
• METS refactoring and METS generation improvements
  • develop standalone Python METS writer application and distribute separately from and integrated with Archivematica
• Improvements to file identification metadata in METS #
• Include TIKA #5027 and DROID in packages so FPR can be configured to use them as identification tools
• Include MediaInfo for characterization and metadata extraction instead of FITS #5034

Storage Service 0.5.0

• Backend/Not user-facing:
  • Sponsored (SFU Archives) Changes to support SIP creation panel (see below, Archivematica 1.3)

Archivematica 1.3

• Sponsored (SFU Archives) SIP Arrangement - Create one or more SIPs from one or more transfers in the Ingest tab Transfer and SIP creation - #1726, #1571, #1713, #1035, #6022
  • does not support taking content out of a SIP once it's been moved to the SIP arrangement panel

Storage Service 0.6.0

• Backend/Not user-facing:
  • Supported (Zuse Institut) Changes to support AIP re-ingest (See below, Archivematica 1.4)

Archivematica 1.4

• Sponsored (Zuse Institute) AIP Re-ingest
  • Sponsored supports AIP versioning (METS file updates) #1564
  • Sponsored generate DIP from AIP after processing is complete - Issue #1843
  • does not support re-normalization

Wish list

1. DIP generation/upload info logged to pointer file
2. Re-index AIPs and DIPs (storage service)
3. Persistent data about stored AIPs and DIPs
4. Ability to upgrade rather than re-install
5. SAMBA plugin for Storage API
6. Format Policy Registry (FPR) public site UI
7. Ability to send local format policy changes to the FPR public site #5074
8. Visualization of transfer contents - #1578, Transfer and SIP creation#File visualization reporting page
9. Field validation in rights templates - #1519
10. Hydra (AIP storage / API plugin)
11. Fedora (AIP storage / API plugin)
12. Dspace (DIP upload)
13. BitCurator integration: how much functionality/data can be integrated/re-used prior to Archivematica ingest. - #1869
14. Develop ability and end-user documentation to add other identification tools as selections from the drop-down menu in the Ingest tab of the dashboard to base normalization workflows on #5077 #5078
15. Administrative dashboard interface for system monitoring, including status and restart services
16. Status indicator to show current status of transfer/job
17. Better documentation