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

• Disk Image Preservation
  • improve disk image handling to better manage different file systems
• Containerization
  • ability to deploy Archivematica into Containers
• 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
• CentOS/RedHat support
  • ability to run Archivematica on an rpm based version of linux
• Developer Focused Documentation
  • improve documentation for developers integrating with Archivematica
• AIP Packaging
  • support alternate physical structures for an aip
• Self Describing AIP
  • add a README file to Archivematica AIP's to make them self-describing
• Web Archiving
  • extract metadata and files from WARCs for processing
  • integrate with the Archive-It service
• Search
  • improvements and changes to how AIP's are indexed and discovered
• 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

Completed

• Migrations
  • Use Django's migrations instead of custom SQL-based migrations