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Communication Improvement

Improvements can be made in the communication between clients and server leading to better performance in terms of both response time and data transferral.

Additional Features

New features could be added to assist curators in managing collections by providing more tools and functionality. User evaluations indicated that a search function, as well as a more efficient way of editing the metadata should be implemented. The inclusion of these features, as well as others (such as workflow submission and integrity checks), may lead to a more user-friendly experience as well as a more effective digital repository management system.

Data Formats

Currently, the system only has the ability to display .jpg images and the metadata associated with them. The system does allow other data types to be stored online, however it does not allow users to view them. Further development of the system could allow users to view a much wider set of data types online.

File Structure

Although the system can display any file hierarchy to the user, it is most effective when the files follow the simplyCT framework. Future work could extend the framework to provide the same degree of control to other file hierarchy structures.

Security

To ensure that sensitive items in the collections are only viewed by authorised users, a more effective means of access control could be implemented.

Experienced User Evaluation

Performing additional user evaluations with experienced users would provide valuable feedback on how well the system performs compared to existing digital repository systems.

XML Editing

An investigation into an online GUI-based XML editor that does not require the user to have a knowledge of XML documents would be beneficial to a number of projects.

Exporting to different formats

To aid in the preservation of the digital objects within the collections, a means of exporting collections to different formats could be developed.

Pre-processing

The performance and flexibility of the Curator Interface could be improved through the pre-processing of directories containing a number of files over a certain threshold.