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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.

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Work in Progress

This analysis and prioritization is a work in progress. Therefore, the categorization, complexity and prioritization of individual use cases is NOT finalized and may change as we receive additional feedback, suggestions.

This page provides an analysis and prioritization for the Use Cases gathered via the 2014 Vision Survey and later DCAT Use Case gathering meetings. A few notes on this analysis:

Priorities are in "draft" form, but have been assigned based on a combination of three factors

  • "Votes" (likes or comments) on the Use Case page itself
  • The average ranking from the 2014 Vision Survey (if it was included in that survey). These average rankings appear in table on the DSpace 2014 Product Plan page
  • The Working Group's guess as to the likely priority of this use case

Complexity is also in "draft" form and is based on the current state of the codebase. As such, it may change drastically for some use cases based on the eventual 2015-16 Technical RoadMap document. For example, a use case which already exists or "mostly" exists may be ranked as "Low". But if the RoadMap recommends rebuilding/refactoring related features/dependencies, its complexity may increase to "Medium" or "High".

CategoryUse Case NamePrimary ActorExisting/Related Feature(s)Related Technical Strategic Goal(s)ComplexityPriority
DepositBatch Deposit (via UI / uploading spreadsheet)End User / AdministratorGoal 5: Low cost, "just works"MediumHigh
Browse/SearchBrowseEnd UserGoal 1: Fundamentals of IRLowHigh
Browse/SearchClear distinction between different types of contributor involvementEnd User
  • Discovery (controls browse/search facets)
  • "Author Profiles" concept / DSpace-CRIS
 LowMedium?
AccessConfigure hidden communities that will not be visible to users without accessAdministrator
  • Discovery
  • Authorization / Access rights in general
Goal 5: Low cost, "just works"MediumMedium
EditingCrowdsourcing metadata for archived itemsEnd UserGoal 5: Low cost, "just works"MediumMedium?
DepositCurated thumbnailsEnd User
  • Media Filters
  • Submission UI
 LowLow
Browse/SearchDiscovery and retrieval of content on mobile devicesEnd User
  • Discovery
  • Themes (especially Mirage2 / JSPUI on bootstrap)
Goal 1: Fundamentals of IRLowHigh
DepositEasy and Intuitive Deposit InterfaceEnd User
  • Submission UI

Goal 1: Fundamentals of IR,
Goal 4: Integration with external services

HighHigh
Browse/SearchEnhanced access to related itemsEnd UserGoal 1: Fundamentals of IR?LowHigh?
DepositFlexible licensingEnd User
  • Submission UI (especially CC licensing step)
Goal 4: Integration with external servicesLowHigh
User ExperienceIn-browser page turner for accessing text based materialsEnd User Goal 5: Low cost, "just works"MediumMedium
Browse/SearchIntelligent rendering of URL's in item MetadataEnd UserGoal 1: Fundamentals of IR?,
Goal 4: Integration with external services
LowHigh?
EditingItem editing by original submittersEnd User HighLow
Browse/SearchSearch for itemsEnd UserGoal 1: Fundamentals of IRLowHigh
User ExperienceStreaming Video ContentEnd UserGoal 5: Low cost, "just works"HighMedium?
User ExperienceVisitor can play media hosted on an external streaming media serverEnd UserGoal 5: Low cost, "just works"HighMedium?
User ExperienceVisual collection browsingEnd User
  • Discovery
  • Media Filters (Thumbnail generation)
 MediumLow?
       
       
       
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