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
Attendees
- Carol Minton Morris (chair, DuraSpace)
Wouter Janssens (Atmire)- Bram Luyten (Atmire) (may occasionally sit in)
- Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London) (apologies)
- Pauline Ward (University of Edinburgh)
- Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto)
- Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri)
- Jose Carvalho (University of Minho)
- Nelson Torres (University of Minho)
Goals
- Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development.
- Next meeting Feb 1: 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00, on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace
Discussion items
Item | Who |
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Welcome and introductions | All |
Determine ongoing meeting time/date | |
Brainstorm ideas for what this group should work on in support of DSpace 7 | All |
Discuss how the current collection of Use Cases can be split up into:
Things that are more long term and that are not yet marked for (definite) inclusion in DSpace 7
| |
Other? |
Notes
Welcome and introductions
- Thanks to everyone for joining!
Determine ongoing meeting time/date
- Bi-weekly, Wednesdays, 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00
- Next meeting Feb 1
- Please note tasks to be completed by Feb 1 (below)
Brainstorm ideas for what this group should work on in support of DSpace 7
- Communicate with the community
- Use email lists, updates at DCAT
- Conferences where DSpace 7 work should be highlighted
- OAI 10
- Repository Fringe
- Open Repositories
- Establish conferences of note for DSpace 7 wiki page (Carol)
- Compiling a list of list serves to reflect DSpace 7 messages out through
- Establish list of lists for DSpace 7 messages wiki page (Carol)
- Blog post updates
- Write update (Carol)
- Review update (All)
- Do we have lists of specific types of DSpace repository implementors?
- No
- Should we develop/distribute a short repository implementors survey to the DSpace community?
- Aim is to determine how the DSpace market is segmented, or get an idea of features that are used now
- How many are IRs, or other types?
- Develop questions for review/discussion (Jose)
Discuss how the current collection of Use Cases can be split etc.
- BIG topic!
- Will share initial thoughts that are in this direction
- We have a basic set of use cases that describe DSpace at the moment
- Do not cover 100% of potential functionality of DSpace 7
- Not all are translated into system functionality—need to be careful of evolution
- We currently have 2 UIs that will be translated into to a common UI; not all features are implemented in the same way
- This group will be helpful in:
- Reviewing all the use cases and identifying gaps
- Reaching out to the community to ask for feedback that can be used it in different ways
- Provide differentiation in design
- Process of going from requirements to system will be designed
- Development of DSpace 7 has begun; in order not to block we need to know that development will happen in a particular order
- We start with core functionality; focus on search/browse, authorization
- Useful to focus on browse and search first
- identity use cases that relate to browse and search—identified 12 use cases that relate—will share after meeting (Wouter)
- We are talking about use cases in developers meetings, behavior of the system; non-functional requirements could be discussed such as accessibility standards and others
- Can we have access to priorities, timeline, JIRA board?
- Yes, fleshing out the roadmap, will be available on the wiki
Use cases related to browse and search
Currently, the following use cases describe the search and browse functionalities of DSpace.
- End User - Browse - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- End User - Search for items - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Admin UI - DSpace should accommodate basic index normalisation - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Admin UI - Customise which metadata fields to facet upon, search upon - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Admin UI - Configure and manage custom facets - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Admin UI - Rebuild the discovery index - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Admin UI - Move a collection and trigger a re-index - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Admin UI - Trigger the re-index of a collection - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Admin UI - Manage Indexes/Indexing - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Stats/Metrics - Distinguish full-text searches from faceted navigation - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Stats/Metrics - Configure the number of top searches to display - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- Stats/Metrics - Clarify “Page Views per Search” - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
- End User - Enhanced access to related items - DSpace - DuraSpace Wiki
Action Items
- Carol Minton Morris Establish DSpace 7 conferences and list of lists wiki pages
- Carol Minton Morris Write DSpace 7 Update blog post for review by this group
- Jose Carvalho develop a short repository implementors survey for the DSpace community for review by this group
- Wouter Janssens (Atmire) share use cases that relate to browse and search