Possible enhancements for a new version of Fedora Ingestion Service

Definition specs which are not implemented yet

Failure ingestion reload. If the ingest process have been interrupted, the ingest should be reload from this restart point, in order to avoid unnecessary re-ingest of a large amount of objects. This feature will be implemented the the third level of application development.
Failure in creation of thumbnails. If a digital resource is not any longer available, the current implementation simply skip it. It would be necessary to reconsider this feature and to implement a interactive management interface. See bellow.

During the development, other possible enhancements highlights as following:

Using schema validation and schematron rules for input xml files;
Support for (see, e. g., MRTG Schema v0.8 as of 2009-09) and other schema in order to exchange metadata. A very simple XSLT-based transformation or other transformation will allow to import metadata from several sources;
Possibility to harvest other wiki, MediaWiki or Wikipedia, using DBPedia or other Semantic extensions;
Exposing Ingestion service as a RESTful based Web Service in order to expose a functionality for a single collection ingestion. This service will be used from other applications that need it.
Database working tasks management should be replaced by Mediawiki based task management;
A Garbage Collector Service having the mission to erase alive services which seems to not responding from a long period of time;
An administrative interface meant to easily accomplish admin services;
An interactive Mediawiki based report for Thumbnails Generator.
A MediaWiki Service Garbage Collector that are looking periodically in Mediawiki and triggers a clean up process in K2N Fedora Repository for collection which are not any longer available (have been removed) from MediaWiki.