Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Date
Attendees
- Carol Minton Morris (chair, DuraSpace)
Wouter Janssens (Atmire)- Bram Luyten (Atmire) (may occasionally sit in)
- 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>- Pauline Ward (University of Edinburgh)
Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London)
Goals
- Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development.
- Next meeting April 12: 12:00 PM EDT on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace
Discussion items
Item | Who |
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Catch-up, Announcements | All |
Content review
| Carol |
Regarding UI Sketches/mock-ups
| Carol |
New DSpace logo • process • All DSpace community 99Designs poll open until 3/30: https://99designs.com/contests/poll/qjhizd
• DSpace Steering Group chair David Lewis, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Tim Donohue and Carol to select final and ask for final adjustments from winning designer • To do: create logo use guidelines, develop "Ask me about DSpace 7" or "Ask me about the new DSpace" pin with new logo, and write press release with information about where to download the new logo • tentative timeline • Mar 29-31: Final selection, adjustments • April 10-14: Guidelines, press release | Carol |
Review use cases related to authentication and authorization (completed?) Authentication:
Permissions & access rights: | |
Question via Slack from Pierre Lasou: Are there any discussions in the outreach group on the addition of Streaming features to DSpace 7? There are several uses cases that are related to this on the DSpace Wiki: Integrations - Streaming Image Server Is it something that may qualify for the first DSpace 7 release? | |
Other |
Notes
Catch-up, Announcements
- None reported
Content review
- Discussion focused on how to characterize examples of XMLUI and JSPUI functionality improvement
- Past couple of meetings focus has been on search and browse
- Commitment to recreate current DSpace functionality
- Review of use cases does not mean that they will be in the new release
- Recent webinars may be a source of information to communicate out more broadly
- Reach out to the developer team and ask for plain English advantages to angular 2 like, "The main "cool" thing about this prototype is the in-page loading, e.g. no page refreshes, if you click something the content updates on the page." (Bram Luyten)
- Ask for more examples in Slack channel
How to "show" advantages of new UI?
- Establish a wiki page to collect examples of what we like out there on the Web
- Add your examples here: UI examples of inspirational design and functionality
New DSpace logo
- See agenda above
- If you voted in the first poll don't forget to vote in the second poll by COB 3/30: https://99designs.com/contests/poll/qjhizd
Review use cases related to authentication and authorization (completed?)
- Tabled until April 12
Other
- There are some missing use cases; discussion that has come up in DCAT
- Example: Implement and then review batch changes
- Felicity to add this new use case
- Uuse cases discussion on this call have been helpful in focusing on use cases and related issues
- Slack question (in agenda regarding streaming); send to developer group
- Add a "Make or Break" wiki page to track features/functionality that are critical:
- Mariya Maistrovskaya to begin draft of update community expectation management article focused on search and browse functionalities (2-3 weeks)
- Wouter Janssens (Atmire) feedback from UI group regarding requirements for non-functional UI "sketches" to be used in discussing/presenting DSpace 7 development
- Carol Minton Morris share information about 99Designs poll distribution
- Carol Minton MorrisAdd UI examples of inspirational design and functionality and Make or Break wiki pages
- ALL, add examples to UI examples of inspirational design and functionality
- ALL, add use cases to Make or Break
- ALL, very important, continue to work on/comment on use cases