2017-02-22, DSpace 7 Outreach Agenda

Date

01 Feb 2017 

Attendees

• Carol Minton Morris (chair, DuraSpace)
• Wouter Janssens (Atmire)
  
  • Bram Luyten (Atmire) (may occasionally sit in)
• Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London) (apologies)
• Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto)
• Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri)
• Jose Carvalho (University of Minho)
• Nelson Torres (University of Minho)
• Tom Hutchinson <thutchi1@swarthmore.edu>

Apologies

• Pauline Ward (University of Edinburgh)

Goals

• Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development. 
• Next meeting Mar 1: 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00, on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace

Discussion items

Notes

Catch-up, Announcements

Wouter will share slides from recent presentation

Request from tech team: SWAG suggestions for upcoming meetings and demos–pens, stickers, other?

• Looking at small, inexpensive, easy to mail items; must be simple to produce; no capacity for complex items
• An investment in marketing; which objects will generate greatest visibility
• City maps of city that meeting/conference is in; great idea, no capacity for that degree of one-off production
• Like backlight stickers (something over the apple light on computers—not all people have the same computer
• Regular stickers are often put on backs of computers–good visibility
• Content: logo is dated; alternative? 
• Wouter will look into what open source projects are doing by next meeting
• Image over the back of cell phone; maybe too personal?

Resume review use cases related to browse and search

• One more comment on End User - Search for items - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
• Specifications are correct and everyone agrees with the use case; valid and desirable function; "jump to lists" are not as intuitive as they might be; change "jump by" that filters list as user would expect
• Admin UI - Configure and manage custom facets - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki, not included in DSpace 6; not a good idea to include in DSpace 7; more of admin functionality
• Admin UI - Rebuild the discovery index - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki not included in DSpace 6; not a good idea to include in DSpace 7; more of admin functionality “nice to have”
• Admin UI - Move a collection and trigger a re-index - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki May/may not be included; solr index changes accordingly; functionally one requires the other (previous 2 UCs)
• Admin UI - Trigger the re-index of a collection - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki Duplicate of above; more specific version of above; not included in DSpace 6; desired at the moment; not sure about priority; move collections and trigger re-index would be preferable; triggering a re-index should only be possible for the repo admin; auto re-index controlled by admin
• Admin UI - Manage Indexes/Indexing - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki summary of previously discussed use cases, not included in DSpace 6, “nice to have”
• Stats/Metrics - Distinguish full-text searches from faceted navigation - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki  search stats from repo as a whole, a community or collection; http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/31/statistics user stats; http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/30/search-statistics admin stats; current functionality is only for JSPUI; XMLUI is more sophisticated–would be good to have this; to analyze behavior of users
• Stats/Metrics - Clarify “Page Views per Search” - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
• End User - Enhanced access to related items - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki

General comments

• Is there other functionality that is higher on the list?
• Stats need to be more robust; having only a number of views per page is not meaningful
• Virtual stats include by default?
• Not currently in development
• Some of these use cases seem out of context
• Note: next meeting be aware that we are moving on to review authorization and authentication use cases
• Divide the work and compile new use cases; re-work the use cases that need to be re-worked
• Mariya to compile a list of use cases related authorization and authentication–logging on, collection authorization and groups
• Would be good to provide feedback to the community on how these use cases are morphing into functionality
• Visuals on transformations would be good
• Mariya had a questions from a repo manager—concerned about preservation of core functionality; will we be losing something that we are used to without getting something back?

Action Items

• Carol Minton Morris draft community message regarding attendance at targeted meetings/conferences
• Wouter Janssens (@mire) to meet with tech team rep to align with Outreach work
  
• Wouter Janssens (Atmire) to re-write relevant search and browse use cases for review
• Mariya Maistrovskaya to compile a list of use cases related authorization and authentication for review by Outreach
  
• Mariya Maistrovskaya to begin draft of update community expectation management article focused on search and browse functionalities (2-3 weeks)