DSpace at Queen Mary University of London: UAT
https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/Interoperability
OAI-PMH The OAI-PMH protocol is enabled and has content indexed.
REST API The REST API is enabled and has content available.
Robots file The Robots.txt file is available.
Sitemaps file The DSpace's Sitemaps feature is not enabled. This feature should be enabled to boost access to the Repository's content.
Custom Handle Prefix
The Handle Prefix wasn't customized. DSpace comes with a default Handle Prefix of 123456789
. It is a good practice to customize it.
Information Security
DSpace version The Repository's DSpace version is 5.8, which is outdated or not supported . A version upgrade should be performed as soon as possible.
Cryptography The HTTPS protocol is enabled, the minimum version of TLS accepted is 1.2 and the HTTP protocol is forwarding to HTTPS.
Security Headers
The Headers X-Frame-Options
and X-Content-Type-Options
are properly set up.
Tomcat exposed Apache Tomcat does not seem to be the Web Server exposed to the Internet.
Standard Ports Standard HTTP/HTTPS ports are used and no port is exposed in the URL.
Performance
Subsecond Response Time The following pages: Homepage, Community List, Search Result, had an average response time higher than 1 second. It is important to keep the response time lower than 1 second .
HTTP/2 Protocol The HTTP/2 Protocol is not implemented in the Web Server. HTTP/2 offers many enhancements over HTTP/1.1 such as Multiplexing of requests, Flow control and Prioritization.
Usability
Mobile Ready Something is preventing the test to be run by the Google's Mobile-Friendly Test tool. Usually this is due to a firewall or Robots.txt configuration.
Single Web Interface More than one User Interface is active. DSpace (up to version 6.X) is shipped with two User Interfaces: XMLUI and JSPUI. It is a good practice to have only one of these active.
Content in Communities and Collections Some Communities and Collections don't have content. According to the REST API, there are 1 empty Community and 2 empty Collections in the Repository. The total number of Communities is 26 and Collections is 131.
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Repository Insights™ analyzes 16 metrics in Institutional Repositories (IR) built in DSpace for improvements.
We aim to help institutions foster their IR solution by providing a comprehensive report into four categories: Interoperability, Information Security, Performance and Usability.