July 5, DSpace 7 Outreach Agenda

Attendees

• 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

Discussion items

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