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.

In Progress

• Performance Improvements
  • Make indexing configurable
  • Make capture output configurable
  • Make performance metrics accessible via the API
• Searching and Reporting
  • Add basic functionality to allow a user to search for files across AIPs
  • Performance Metrics Reporting API
  • Standard Framework for all API's in Archivematica
• Containerization
  • ability to deploy Archivematica into Containers
• Asynchronous Processing in Storage Service
  • Add ability to do work in the background
• DSpace AIPs
  • Improve how AIPs stored in DSpace are handled
• Dataverse Integration
  • Dataverse to Archivematica integration

Proposed

• Validation check micro-service
  • Check for valid ArchivesSpace / DSpace identifiers
• DSpace REST API version check
  • Ensure that Archivematica is configurable to a new version of the DSpace REST API
• AIP Import
  • Import AIPs into Storage Service from filesystem
• Enhance DIP Dissemination Workflows
  • More control over structure of DIPs and more methods for disseminating
• 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
  • changes required to run all of Archivematica using Python3 instead of Python2
  • Google document with status
• EPrints Integration
  • suggestions for workflows to connect EPrints repositories to Archivematica
• Disk Image Preservation
  • improve disk image handling to better manage different file systems
• Google document with other proposed projects and status

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
• AIP Encryption
  • Encrypt AIP's when storing and decrypt when retrieving
• Self Describing AIP
  • add a README file to Archivematica AIP's to make them self-describing