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The DSpace 7 UI Outreach Group is collecting screen shot examples of inspirational UI design and functionality for homepage design, search design, browse/content discovery design and item pagesfor the different pages of DSpace as a resource for development of the DSpace 7 UI. The overall goal is that DSpace 7 will represent "the best of both worlds" when it comes to unifying XMLUI and JSPUI.
But if BOTH JSPUI and XMLUI are lacking in important areas, we're also looking outwards to other systems to see how we can pick low hanging improvement fruit.
UI Aspects visible on EVERY PAGES
This includes headers, footers and navs (IF navs are present everywhere)
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Homepage
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Main pane
Right nav
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News => KEEP Community listing + Discover facets next to eachothers
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DSpace-CRIS out-of-box and typical "customization"
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browse/discovery
item pages
Typically insitutions use the html editable section to put
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Homepage with animated "carousel" / "discovery thingy |
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- The fact that a single item can have its own header to make it more visual is really nice.
2017 June 7 interesting but not enthusiastic about this viewer |
simple but powerful works for all types of content and repos with mixed content. Princeton has for example no pretty images, lots of journal articles, ETDs, some datasets, ... low maintenance: no manual grooming of featured items - no worries that arithmetically chosen featured items step on anybodies feelings this will live and die with the SEARCH and Filter capabilities on the search results page
| 2017 June 7 would be a very good customizable option |
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| 2017 June 7 like how it highlights new items like as an option, but not a default would like it customizable |
Felicity Dykas (Missouri) Dynamic map; dots appear to show items being downloaded. Eye-catching. Shows users (and administrators) that this is a site that is being used. "This map shows recent readership activitiy ..." | 2017 June 7 homepage should be simple; useful to have option to add to selected pages; e.g., statistics view; make available for repository, community, collection, and items nice, interactive feature shows records being accessed would be of interest to faculty | |
Felicity Dykas (Missouri) Slide show - as an option feature. Knowledge Bank at OSU has this feature: https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/ | 2017 June 6 Would like homepage design options that add appealing visuals | |
Focus on institucional Repository context Image highlight, general stats, last deposits, administrative information regarding the repository use | ||
Institutional repository with banner slideshow of the institution + action buttons to deposit, login,.. + information regarding policy, helpdesk... |
Item Listing & Search Results Page
Is search results & item listing completely the same or should we have different designs?
In other words, are there different requirements for let's say, listing items in a "Recently Added" list or a "Browse By" list, compared to how they should be listed as search results?
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| 2017 June 7 would like display of the pdf as a customizable option for collections and search results takes up a lot of the screen, reducing space for side bars |
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So much awesomeness don't know where to begin
Digital Commons at Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dynamic map; dots appear to show items being downloaded. Eye-catching. Shows users (and administrators) that this is a site that is being used.
"This map shows recent readership activitiy ..."
2017 June 7
homepage should be simple; useful to have option to add to selected pages; e.g., statistics view; make available for repository, community, collection, and items
nice, interactive feature
shows records being accessed
would be of interest to faculty
https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu/umsl/
Islandora at University of Missouri–St. Louis
Slide show - as an option feature.
Knowledge Bank at OSU has this feature: https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/
2017 June 6
Would like homepage design options that add appealing visuals
Felicity Dykas (Missouri) Different options for viewing search results:
Users get to choose; plus manager can set default. I like how the metadata is displayed in the List view. Clearly labeled and simple. | 2017 June 6 Like ability to offer users different view options: condensed/expanded, and the options here Not sure if users use such options |
Simple and clean with the possibility to refine search | ||
https://www.rcaap.pt/ (search for "DSpace") | List of items with preview of abstract, type of access, date... + possibility to filter results | |
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Item page
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So much awesomeness don't know where to begin |
Felicity Dykas (Missouri) Like the drop down box from which users can choose an issue. Once an issue is chosen, the pdfs are organized under categories - which vary from issue to issue Examples:
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Focus on institucional Repository context
Image highlight, general stats, last deposits, administrative information regarding the repository use
Figshare clearly takes the angle that the actual file/pdf is the most important thing the user wants. Above the fold, they only show the file (rendered), with an option to download below. You have to scroll below the fold to get to the metadata. |
Submission forms
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Submitters should not lose information: explicit or implicit saving
Compatible with the current definition of input-forms.xml, meaning that:
- Different form configurations per collection should remain supported
- Type-bind showing of particular fields should remain supported
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| Standard DSpace 6 XMLUI submission forms | ||
Standard DSpace 6 JSPUI submission forms |
Community page, Collection page, overview
Because a community in DSpace can have many subcommunities, every community can be a tree in itself.
So the challenge to represent ONE community (and its sub communities) is actually very similar to representing ALL top level communities.
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Felicity Dykas (Missouri): Like the drop down box from which users can choose an issue. Once an issue is chosen, the pdfs are organized under categories - which vary from issue to issue Examples:
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Arthur Smith: Simple categories, visually easy to browse. |
Author profile
Author profiles are NOT a default feature of DSpace 6 JSPUI or XMLUI. Maybe we should remove this section as a whole, if we're not adding author profiles in DSpace 7.
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Bram Luyten (Atmire): So much awesomeness don't know where to begin |
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