Improvements for curators, administrators and depositing agents:

• A newly designed, easier-to-use management interface
• New and improved collection management features such as:
• Powerful and advanced searching on more than 200 metadata fields
• Ability to manage objects and batches as well as files
• View the history of key changes to content and metadata
• Initial support for rights management activities and deposit of rights documentation
• Integration with WordShack - a new central vocabulary registry
• Archived billing reports
• Automated notification of extensive deletion activity
• Ability to restore deleted content within a 2 month window of the deletion
• Drag-and-drop structure editor for page-turned objects
• Custom image captions
• Ability to import descriptive metadata from the central catalog
• Adoption of community and standard metadata schemas for provenance and rights management
• Improvements for audio collections:
• Support for modern audio formats and playlists
• A new web-based audio player with an improved user interface
• Additional loaders running in parallel to increase deposit throughput

Improvements for preservation staff:

• A more modular and scalable storage back-end on new hardware
• Improved file deletion and recovery processes
• Advanced format identification and automated technical metadata extraction
• Validation that content conforms to object types ("content models") known to the DRS
• Links to format registries
• Virus checking and monitoring
• Richer preservation and technical metadata for use in preservation monitoring and planning
• Identification and flagging of content needing preservation attention
• Tracking and documentation of changes to content
• Versioning of key metadata
• Adoption of community-standard metadata schemas and packaging formats
• Metadata replicated and preserved to the same standards as content in the DRS

Following launch in October 2013, these additional features have been added:

• Ability to edit metadata in bulk
• Ability to delete and restore content in bulk
• Ability to create a custom download set of objects/files
• Improved support for linking to and searching within serials
• Faceted search for collection and preservation management
• Ability to deposit sensitive content into a separate secure storage area that meets Harvard's requirements for systems hosting high risk confidential information
• Integration with the Electronic Archiving Service (EAS) to support DRS-archiving of email collections
• Integration with DASH/ETD to support DRS-archiving of theses