"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:
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).
Which features can be reasonably implemented in DSpace 7?
Which features are better implemented as hierarchical metadata (e.g. in DSpace 8)?
All
4
5mins
Wrap-up and Next Meeting Reminder
Any topics of concentration for our next meeting?
Next Meeting: Tues, December 18 at 16:00 UTC
The Dec 18 meeting WILL BE THE FINAL MEETING OF 2018.
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
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"