Development Roadmap

This is a list of features and improvements that we are planning for the coming months, based on our users’ needs and feedback from our community. These priorities and timelines are tentative and subject to change, but this is our current working plan.

Is there something you’d like to see in a future release? Let us know at https://support.hcommons.org/contact-us/ or by emailing hello@hcommons.org.

2025 Quarter 2

  • New Features

    • Statistics dashboards for collections and for KCWorks as a whole

    • Mixed-access collections (where some records are restricted-access and some are open)

  • Maintenance and Infrastructure

    • Improvements to search results when looking up users, languages, and subjects

    • Expanding automated test suite

2025 Quarter 3

  • New Features

    • “White label” collection pages for member organizations (using organization-specific branding and theme).

    • Integration with new authentication and identity management system to support single sign-on for member organizations.

    • Child collections (hierarchical sub-collections)

    • Globus integration for very large datasets stored in external data stores

    • Enable Google Scholar indexing for works

    • Bepress migration tool for institutions that are migrating from Bepress to KCWorks

  • Maintenance and Infrastructure

    • Clean up implementation of less common resource types and metadata fields

    • Further expand automated test suite

2025 Quarter 4

  • New Features

    • On-campus access restrictions for member organizations.

    • Notification improvements for collection curators (collected curator inbox, digest email notifications, etc.)

    • Typeahead search for users in the upload form’s creator field

    • Automatically place org members’ uploaded works in their org’s collection

    • Self-serve OAuth token management for API access

  • Maintenance and Infrastructure

    • Upgrade to new version of InvenioRDM (the underlying platform for KCWorks)

    • Further expand automated test suite

2026 Quarter 1

  • New Features

    • Short upload-form path and back-end autosave for draft works

    • Malware scanning of uploaded files

    • Github integration for works

    • Mobile version of upload form

2026 Quarter 2

  • New Features

    • Improved year/volume/issue navigation for journal collections

    • Improved content flagging and moderation

    • COAR Notify support