JIRA Reference: https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-560
Proposed: The original JIRA ticket advocates to put the frontpage news in the dspace.cfg and remove the requirement to restart DSpace to see it in effect. In fact, the news feature in XMLUI is a lot less user friendly than the (albeit basic) web interface for editing news in the JSPUI. If you look at it even more broadly you could state that a DSpace frontpage is by far not as customizable as modern web portal frontpages.
Examples of changes or improvements in the community: Many XMLUI instances out there have nice frontpages and might also have customized the way to edit them. Some code might already be out there. Their developers might be motivated to contribute or work on this.
- Harvard DASH
- Frontpage look? Very large news section with images, regularly being updated
- Backend edit features? Unknown, requesting information
- Implemented by: inhouse
- African Virtual University OER
- Frontpage look? Different newsblocks, each with a title
- Backend edit features? Each newsblock is a different xml file that should be edited in DRI. Each new block requires a change in the sitemap
- Implemented by @mire
DGOC/DCAT review: ToDo
DCAT initial assessment: ToDo
Next steps: We would like to hear the community's opinions and thoughts on this, and we'd like to try using the DSpace code committers' method for indicating your level of support, since that will help make it easy for them to understand where we're coming from on these:
- If you agree with the above assessment and have no additional comments, you can simply respond with a +1.
- If you disagree but have no comments, a -1 works, and if you have no opinion at all, 0 is fine. (And encouraged, since that means we know you've had a chance to weigh in.)
- If you do have comments or other ideas, you're not limited to the numbers, of course. So please do share your thoughts!
