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-        <h1 class="display-3">Welcome to DSpace</h1>
-        <p class="lead">DSpace is an open source software platform that enables organisations to:</p>
+        <h1 class="display-3">Welcome to DSpace 7 Alpha</h1>
+        <p class="lead">DSpace is the world leading open source repository platform that enables organisations to:</p>
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-      <li>capture and describe digital material using a submission workflow module, or a variety of programmatic ingest options
+      <li>easily ingest documents, audio, video, datasets and their corresponding Dublin Core metadata
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-      <li>distribute an organisation's digital assets over the web through a search and retrieval system
+      <li>open up this content to local and global audiences, thanks to the OAI-PMH interface and Google Scholar optimizations
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-      <li>preserve digital assets over the long term</li>
+      <li>issue permanent urls and trustworthy identifiers, including optional integrations with handle.net and DataCite DOI</li>
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+    <p>Join a vibrant community of DSpace enthusiasts including <A HREF="https://dash.harvard.edu" TARGET="_NEW">Harvard University</A>, <A HREF="https://openknowledge.worldbank.org">The World Bank</A>, <A HREF="https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/" TARGET="_NEW">Cambridge University</A>, <A HREF="http://apps.who.int/iris/" TARGET="_NEW">The World Health Organization</A>, <A HREF="https://dspace.mit.edu/" TARGET="_NEW">MIT</A> and many more.</p>
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