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• 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>
• Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London)
  
• Agustina Martinez-Garcia
• Arthur Smith

Goals

• Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development. 
• Next meeting July 12: 12:00 PM EDT on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace

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• October 

Notes

Catch-up, Announcements

• Wouter reports that it was surprisingly hot for OAI in Geneva where 20-25 DSpace workshop attendees learned more about DSpace 7 development.
• Good contacts with http://www.who.int/en/, may be interested in using DSpace
• OR2017 workshop was well-attended
• Some discussion of DSpace 7 Outreach group work

Review action items

Sarah has provided a one-page DSpace 7 summary sheet (link above)

• Useful hand-out for conferences and meetings particularly for repository managers
• This is enough of a summary coupled with recent materials provided at conferences

Add links to current DSpace 7 use cases from make or break features wiki page--Felicity

Current development plan is already pretty ambitious—should be mindful about being too ambitious

• Emphasis on including current features, not new ones, to keep current user base
• Likely this will be the first of 7.–releases; there will be evolution to further releases
• Adequate development resources would make it possible to make faster progress; capacity of the development team is key
• Should this group develop an outreach campaign to encourage institutions to participate in hands-on DSpace 7 development?
  • Need for more people from the community to participate and work directly on DSpace 7
  • Not easy as an institution or a group to take on OS development tasks
  • Suggestion to work through national projects, networks of repositories, to get a call for participation out
  • Carol to reach out to COAR, Kathleen Shear
• DSpace 7.0 is planned for release in 2018, taking into account the timeline and the progress
• It was announced that at OR there would be a prototype that would include all current features
• Early expectations too high?
• Difficult in one year to transfer all the work that has been done over the years on DSpace
• The "make or break" list is helpful in maintaining the view of what we want in the future

Ranking the make or break list of use cases

• Some institutions have already done this

1.) Take use case overview sheet to DCAT2 for comment and review: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qUD_lU8i727n6s6pfbvJOs_hjOFFEGnXC_9VBpCgB

2.) Subsequently add columns for "nice to have", "must have", easiest for the development team to interact with

Current DSpace functionality

• Don’t understand all current functionality that has been migrated from the 2 UIs
• What am I going to get on top of the basic functionality—looking at it as an administrator
• What are the  key enhancements?
• Where is the overview of current complete functionality?
  • No overview at this time
  • "Tall order"
• Having a full functional description is important; this group is moving towards that documentation with review of use cases
• Suggestion to meet next week to continue discussing use cases

We will review the changes that have been made to use cases on 7/12

Action Items

Have tech group meet with outreach, need to have an understanding of design decisions - how they were made and how they were communicated.

UK - unclear as to how user groups info feeds into tech work, need a status update.

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Use+Cases

Collection of use cases, links to admin - login functionality

For each functionality, field, title, primary actor, scope, or level, description of action

For each new use case, specific tag created, analysis needed

If issues, questions, Tim or other will take notes, ask for additional feedback

https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/UI+examples+of+inspirational+design+and+functionality

What this group thinks is very useful/needed for DSpace

Organize/prioritize based on use cases

Now list of topics and links to each use cases, e.g., ORCiD

Feedback from Technical group - need follow up on Use Cases

September, more people, solicit agenda items,

Action Items