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This page is the homepage for all yearly DSpace strategic planning activities led by the DSpace Steering Group in conjunction with other Project Teams, including but not limited to: DSpace Committers, DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT), and the DSpace Leadership Group.

Table of Contents

2016 Strategic Planning Activities

Summary

In early 2016, the DSpace UI Working Group has been working with UI prototype developers (from DSpace UI Prototype Challenge) and DSpace Committers to analyze User Interface platforms and recommend a single platform to build the next DSpace UI (as a replacement to both the XMLUI and JSPUI). This new User Interface is planned to be initially released in DSpace 7.0 (timelines TBD).

Upcoming Schedule

  •  January / early February
    •  UI developers each presented their prototypes to the DSpace UI Working Group. These presentations were recorded and made publicly available off the DSpace UI Prototype Challenge page.
    •  Began gathering public feedback (on mailing lists, etc) on the Prototypes and their underlying technology / platform
  •   February
  •   March
    •  Select a UI architecture for recommendation (to DSpace Steering); validate it against our criteria (see evaluation form)
    •  March 16-17: Presentation of selected UI architecture to DSpace Steering & Leadership Groups at the DuraSpace Summit in Washington DC
    •  Late March / Early April: Final decision and announcement of next UI platform 
  •   June 
    •  June 13-16 (Open Repositories in Dublin) : Presentation / Discussion on the new UI platform (and possible demo of the work so far).

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Deliverables

  • DSpace UI Prototype Challenge : Details the UI Prototype Challenge entries (including documentation and code/project links). Video demonstrations and Q&A with all developers is also available.

  • DSpace UI Prototype Evaluation Form: Public feedback form which was used to gather feedback from Working Group members, Committers and anyone on mailing lists (who offered feedback)
  • DSpace UI Working Group Summary: Summary of the UI prototype discussions and analysis (based on Evaluation Form and Video demos, etc), along with details about the potential UI platforms.

2015 Strategic Planning Activities

Summary

In 2015, the DSpace Steering Group established an ad hoc "DSpace RoadMap Working Group" (made up of members of Steering, Committers, and DCAT) to develop a 3-5 year Strategic Plan for Technology along with a shorter term (1-2 year) Technical Roadmap detailing how we can immediately improve the software towards achieving our Strategic Plan.   Early drafts of these documents will be presented at the OR2015 conference.

Upcoming Weekly Schedule

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  •  (Continued) A nalyze & prioritize "Administrative" Use Cases : Use Case Analysis
  •   NOTE: Tim will be traveling much of this week

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  •  Draft of Strategic Plan ready for initial review/feedback (by Steering, DCAT, Committers)  
  •  NOTE: Steering Group meeting on Weds, May 6  
  •  Initial Use Case Analysis is NOW COMPLETE

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  •   Early (very rough) draft of Technical Roadmap begun
  •   NOTE: DCAT meeting on Tues, May 12

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  •   Draft of Technical Roadmap ready for initial review/feedback (by Steering, DCAT, Committers)

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  •  Write OR15 Presentation of Strategic Plan and Technical Roadmap. Finalize the OR15 session details.
  •  Strategic Plan and Technical Roadmap are both ready for community feedback
  •   NOTE: Steering Group meeting on Weds, June 3

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Out of that work, a new User Interface was deemed the highest priority, near-term need on the DSpace RoadMap

In late 2015, an ad hoc DSpace UI Working Group was established (by DSpace Steering Group), and they organized a DSpace UI Prototype Challenge, to begin the process of prototyping / selecting a new User Interface platform

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Deliverables

2014 Strategic Planning Activities

Summary

In 2014, the DSpace project teams concentrated on establishing a formalized Governance model, ran a  "Vision Survey" to gather needs/use cases from the user community, and compiled an early list of Use Cases based on the survey responses. We also began work on an early "Product Plan" which detailed feature/use case priorities based on the survey results. The survey results, an early Product Plan, and the Governance model were all presented at OR2014 in a session titled "The Future of DSpace"

Deliverables

  • Project Governance : DSpace formalized its Project Governance model, establishing a DSpace Steering Group and a DSpace Leadership Group, while also formalizing existing Working Groups such as DCAT and Committers. For more details of the roles/responsibilities of each group, also see Project Teams.

  • DSpace 2014 Product Plan : An initial, high level plan of use cases / features that DSpace should strive to achieve. This Product Plan was based on the results of the (early 2014) "Vision Survey". It was developed by an temporary Product Planning Group, made up of representatives of DCAT, Committers and the Steering Group.

  • Use Cases : Based on the 2014 Vision Survey, and Product Plan, the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) held a series of meetings to gather community Use Cases
  • "The Future of DSpace" session at OR2014 summarized the above documents as well as the Vision Survey results.

2013 Visioning Activities

Summary

In 2013, an ad-hoc "Vision Team" began discussions and brainstorms around what the goals and priorities of the DSpace platform should be in the coming years. This resulted in a high-level, five point Vision Document, which was presented at OR2013 and developed into a Vision Survey in late 2013 / early 2014.

Deliverables