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For the UI platform to be fully analyzed, we ask that you describe how you would achieve the following RoadMap features in this UI platform. (You need not actually achieve any of these features in the prototype itself, just describe how you think they might be achieved by developers in the future.)
- Authorization: Would this UI platform be able to use the existing DSpace authorization scheme, or is there other means for AuthZ in this platform?
- Internationalization: How does this UI platform support/handle Internationalization?
- Theming: How does this UI platform support/handle theming? Is it possible to theme portions of the site (e.g. individual Communities/Collections) differently? Is there any mechanism for selecting between multiple themes (e.g. shipping DSpace will multiple themes, but selecting the one you'd like to use)? Is there any mechanism for dynamically changing a theme (even just header/footer/color scheme)? See also "Theme management in Admin UI" feature in RoadMap.
- Configurations in the Admin UI: Does this UI platform support the idea of dynamic configuration (without requiring a Tomcat restart/reload or similar)? If so, any ideas/resources for how to achieve this within this platform (e.g. would configs need to be added to the database, or is there another mechanism for dynamically loading/changing configurations)? See also "Configurations in Admin User Interface" feature in RoadMap
- Configurable Deposit Process: How would one reconfigure deposit screens in this UI platform? Would it be easy to tweak the UI templates to add new fields into the deposit process? Any ideas for how difficult adding custom metadata fields or reordering "steps" would be? What about enabling/disabling Creative Commons licensing and/or Embargo functionality? (Keep in mind we are NOT requiring a new UI to use the existing Configurable Submission APIs/configs to do this, but that is still an option available. So, please describe whether or not you'd use the existing Configurable Submission APIs, and, if so, how you think that would work in this UI platform.) See also Submission User Interface documentation.
- Configurable Workflow Process: Similar to the previous question, how would you anticipate allowing for tweaks to the Workflow Approval process? Would this Platform just use the existing APIs in DSpace for configuring this, or is there any other means available? See also Configurable Workflow documentation, as well as the "Single Approval Workflow system" and "Enhance Approval Workflow capabilities" in RoadMap
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