Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Date & Location
at 16:00 UTC (11:00am EST)
Location:
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040)
Additional connection information at: DSpace Meeting Room
Attendees
Actual attendee list will be updated after meeting.
- Tim Donohue - DuraSpace
- Michele Mennielli - DuraSpace (unavailable)
- Pascal-Nicolas Becker - The Library Code (unavailable)
- Alexander Sulfrian - Freie Universität Berlin
- Lieven Droogmans - Atmire
- Andrea Bollini (4Science)
- Paulo Lopes - FCT|FCCN
- Mark H. Wood - IUPUI
- Paulo Graça- FCT|FCCN
Agenda
# | Time | Item | Information | Who |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 5mins | Quick reminder of DSpace 7 release schedule/goals | Just a reminder of our goals. We'd want to see an Entities PR to "master" by late Dec / early January to stay on target.
All dates are goals/estimates. For later dates to make sense, we need to meet the first goal. | Tim |
2 | 20mins | Feedback/updates on the Entities Pull Requests | Feedback on the Angular UI PR? Any other testers/approvers?
Follow-up Entities PRs for additional REST API functionality / improvements:
Volunteer Reviewers (additional reviewers are encouraged/welcome!) | All |
3 | 30mins | "Author Profiles" Use Case vs Initial Implementation | (Continued Discussion) In Nov 20 meeting, we began discussing how the initial Author Profiles implementation currently aligns or does not align with the "Author Profiles" use case as described: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J1YFWheoT0xmEvXwwefLqYcnzcWVMWvcVRMg3Jr3aIo During the Discussion on Nov 20, we began to realize that some of these features may be better implemented if we wait for hierarchical metadata (in DSpace 8).
| All |
4 | 5mins | Wrap-up and Next Meeting Reminder | Any topics of concentration for our next meeting?
| Tim |
Notes
All meetings will be recorded. Recordings and brief/summary notes will appear here after the meeting
- Reminder of our target dates. See agenda item #1 above
- PR updates/feedback
- Angular PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/315
- Waiting on a second review
- Paulo & Mark both plan to give it a review in next week or so
- Entities CSV Import: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2269
- Has initial feedback. Waiting on updates from Atmire
- Entities Virtual Metadata Update: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/2270
- Has initial feedback. Waiting on updates from Atmire
- NOTE: Virtual metadata PR for Angular (coming soon)
- Angular PR: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/pull/315
- Tim Donohue TODO: Resync: Need to update "configurable_entities" branch with latest "master".
Other Entities tickets still open. Work started within Atmire, but no PR yet.
Author Profiles discussion
- Went over "Discussion Points" on the last two pages of Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1J1YFWheoT0xmEvXwwefLqYcnzcWVMWvcVRMg3Jr3aIo/edit#heading=h.jzsdps27gzhh
- Mixing plain text, entities, and Authority Control for a metadata field (eg. author)
- No real objections. Would like to see how this works in code/practice. Unsure how this affects the code
- As noted by Lieven, some possible analysis of how it'd work for Submission UI is necessary, once the Angular Submission PR is done.
- Additional data for relations (to support name variants, and similar)
- Lieven went over two options for adding metadata/data on relationships
- Tim questioned whether we actually need to have metadata on relationships. Why not keep metadata on individual Entities and use Virtual Metadata? For example, use Virtual Metadata for name variants
- While this works for many relationships, there are performance concerns for large amounts of virtual metadata
- E.g. if you have hundreds of articles with different name variants, would performance suffer if you pull in virtual metadata from all articles.
- Tim notes that we could use Solr to improve performance instead of storing metadata on the relationship.
- DECISION: After a lot of discussion, the four of us (Lieven, Tim, Mark & Paulo) felt that we may want to delay any decision on name variants until after the Preview Release.
- After Preview Release, we can have a more focused discussion on how Name Variants (and similar) can be implemented simply into DSpace 7.
- We don't want to over engineer this, and a simple solution for DSpace 7 may be best.
Action Items
Any assigned actions will appear here, along with details of who they are assigned to.
- Tim Donohuewill resync "configurable_entities" branch with latest "master"