in the February DuraSpace Digest we presented our idea of the Digital Library of the future and the kind of functionalities we should start looking at:

4Science has identified 4 different areas that could be enhanced to better meet the continuously evolving needs of the libraries: entities relationships; image management; video/audio streaming; OCR.

In the article we also show what we are doing to make this vision concrete: we extended the data model starting from DSpace-CRIS and we’re working on the integration with 3 DSpace Add-ons we have already developed (IIIF Image Viewer, Video/Audio Streaming and OCR & Transcription)

The full article is avaiable here.