DSpace 7 Entities Working Group

Scope & Objectives

The goal of this technical working group is to design and implement DSpace 7 Configurable Entities, per the statement from the DSpace Steering Group regarding the DSpace 7 data model and proposal #3 of the DSpace Entities Working Group summary document.  (A high level overview of "Configurable Entities" was also presented at OR2019 and during the DSpace 7 Update at OR2018)

This working group is expected to complete and/or scope the effort within the DSpace 7 release timeline, which will require close coordination with the DSpace 7 Working Group.

Deliverables

This working group will

1. Assess the early prototype of Configurable Entities and its alignment with guidelines/needs. 
2. Define an implementation roadmap for DSpace 7 Configurable Entities (based on the assessment of early prototype)
3. Implement Configurable Entities, per defined roadmap (by creating a Pull Request & documentation, to be reviewed by DSpace 7 Working Group and DSpace Committers)
4. Draft a post-DSpace 7 roadmap for Configurable Entities (to be reviewed by Steering and Leadership)

Once the above deliverables have been completed, this working group will merge with the DSpace 7 Working Group.  At that point, the Configurable Entities feature (and any further enhancements/improvements) will be managed by the combined DSpace 7 Working Group, where it will be stewarded into DSpace 7.

Resources

• Documentation for early prototype of Configurable Entities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wEmHirFzrY3qgGtRr2YBQwGOvH1IuTVGmxDIdnqvwxM/edit
  • Public commenting is turned "on", you are welcome to add inline comments/questions to this document.
• Mockups for the Submission process with support for the Author (Person Entity) first version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wRIsDJr3A7AHrrLqNHlSGGBphPryhd-l

Contributing

Anyone is welcome to join this working group at any time. If you plan to join/contribute to this working group, we ask that you please join Slack, as (day-to-day) work between meetings occurs via Slack.

• Join one of our weekly meetings. Meetings will be publicly announced and notes publicly posted (see below).
  
• Get in touch with the team via Slack. Please join the #entities-wg channel in Slack. We'd be glad to talk about other ways to contribute

Meeting Schedule

• The DSpace 7 Entities Working Group meets every week on Tuesday at 15:00-16:00 UTC (11:00am-12:00am EDT).  The next meeting is listed below.
  

Next Meeting

• The DSpace 7 Entities Working Group is on indefinite hiatus and has merged with the DSpace 7 Working Group.  Please join that working group for any DSpace 7 related meetings.

Meeting Notes / Recordings