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If you have some time to spare to prepare for this meeting, it would be great if you could briefly list the most important end user administrative use cases for you or your institution, especially if they fall in the category unsupported.

1. Sign up for an account on this wiki and log in.
2. Put your use cases in the comment section of this page. 
   
3. Join either the main call or satellite call and tell us about your use cases

Examples

Here are some tentative end user use case examples, just to get your brain juices flowing. Again, these are just made up examples, albeit realistic ones.

• Accessing a video stored as a bitstream in DSpace, on a mobile phone (HTML5). It's important that the user doesn't need to wait until the whole video is loaded before starting playback.
  
  • Unsupported 
  • Priority: nice to have
• Creating a new item in DSpace should be as easy as a filling out a single, simple form/page, comparable to Youtube, Scribd or Slideshare.
  • Partially supported: The number of submission steps can be limited due to configuration, but you can't get it lower than ... without extensive customization
    
  • Priority: some attendees don't mind an extensive form (nice to have), while it was a huge deal for at least 2 call attendees.
    
• DSpace should be easily accessible to the visually impaired (e.g. WCAG compliance)
  • Partially supported: There are few compliants on WCAG compliance but it's not perfect.
    
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Discussed use cases

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Discussed use cases

• Workflow use cases - Bram Luyten
• Undo a bulk import from the User Interface - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe - Sarah Potvin
• Trigger the re-index of a collection - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe - Sarah Potvin
• Move a collection and trigger a re-index - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Move a community - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Allow collection administrators to perform bulk metadata import - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Rebuild the discovery index - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Rebuild the OAI index - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe - Sarah Potvin
• Clear the OAI Cache - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Quality Control Reports - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe - Sarah Potvin
• Collection Admin can construct a Quality Control report - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• More robust and configurable statistics reports  - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe - Sarah Potvin
• Configure and manage custom facets - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Collection Admin can select fields to include in metadata export - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Admin can cleanup an normalize language attribute for metadata fields - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Configuration overlay solution - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Re-read configuration files without restart - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Re-read xslt files without restart - Terry Brady & Kate Dohe
• Managing controlled vocabularies - Sarah Potvin
• Managing input forms - Sarah Potvin
• Managing home page - Sarah Potvin - Peter Dietz
• Managing themes - Sarah Potvin
• Managing browse indexes - Sarah Potvin
• Changing/editing OAI crosswalks - Sarah Potvin
• Configure and Manage changes during an update - Peter Dietz
• Alter messages easier - Peter Dietz
• Configure the Admin UI - Peter Dietz
• Apply an existing theme to a collection or community through the GUI - Peter Dietz
• Apply an input-form to the collection through the GUI - Peter Dietz
• Ability to specify the emphasis of a collection through GUI - Peter Dietz
• Repo Admin documentation - Peter Dietz
• End to end solution for users who wish to batch deposit - Peter Dietz
• Customise which metadata fields to facet upon, search upon - Peter Dietz - Sarah Potvin
• Permissions of a new user in an eperson group - Peter Dietz

Call Attendees (main+satellite)

• Bram Luyten (@mire) - @mire
• Maureen Walsh - Ohio State University

• Sabine Grinsven - @mire

• Terry Brady - Georgetown

• Kathleen Schweitzberger - University of Missouri-Kansas City

• Monica Rivera - Rice University 

• Scott Carlson - Rice University

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• Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net

• Sarah Potvin - Texas A&M 

• Peter Dietz - Longsight

• Kate Dohe - Georgetown 

• Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace

• Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
• Mark Diggory - @mire