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)- Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto)
Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri)- Jose Carvalho (University of Minho)
- Nelson Torres (University of Minho)
- Tom Hutchinson <thutchi1@swarthmore.edu>
Apologies
- Pauline Ward (University of Edinburgh)
Goals
- Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development.
- Next meeting Feb 22: 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00, on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace
Discussion items
Notes
Catch-up, Announcements
- Note items in agenda
- DCAT providing feedback: "COAR Seeks Comments on Vision for Next Generation Repositories"; support for alignment with needs of the COAR community
Review new resources
- DSpace 7 related list of email lists
- Limited to English only?
- No, but requires volunteers to translate messages into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and other languages
- Jose offers to reach out to repo managers in Portugal, currently creates summary statement in Portuguese
- Do not have a DSpace list in Portugal but a strong repo manager community
- Can also translate for Brazil and reach out there
- Review of communications process
- Outreach group develops message/communication
- Those who sign up next to a list on DSpace 7 related list of email lists translate message/communication into appropriate language; a name should be included with each list
- Send the message through lists or through individual emails
- Add your initials and date to DSpace 7 related list of email lists in last column to indicate that it was sent
- This works if group takes individual responsibility for distributing messages/communications
- Develop message to community regarding attendance at indicated meetings/conferences
- Wouter attending OAI10 and will give a DSpace workshop the day before–some DSpace 7 info
- Maureen attending CNI—30 minute preso, April 3-4; Carol to reach out to Maureen
- Jose attending IDCC
- Add OA week as target for a presentation; by October will have more to show
- Also a meeting in Brazil; Jose to share information about this
Short repository implementors survey update
- To be effective would have to be in multiple languages
- Aim is to provide an overview of the use of repos with DSpace, may influence or justify why there are certain functionalities in DSpace 7
- Key questions are 1, 3, 4
- Wondering about the timeline for the survey and how/if we can use it to influence current development objectives?
- Current roadmap specifies overall major improvements; question of which functionalities you prefer
- No capacity to get new features based on this data into the scope for DSpace 7 alpha release
- Management of community expectations is a consideration
- First question—what types of DSpace repos do we have?
- Carol to distribute 2014 DSpace Vision Survey (note: this page also includes information on all previous community surveys) to this group
- Some answers about type of repositories available from this survey
- Perhaps devising an ongoing line of communication/method for all future technical development where community can provide continuous updates/feedback–registry, other system, regular surveys–would be a useful task for this group?
- Discussion tabled for next meeting
Review use cases related to browse and search
- Important to have a clear goal for use case review
- Urgent that approved use cases be cleared for implementation
- Need consensus by the end of the month on the use cases listed here
- 1—marked approved by outreach group
- 2—comments: be mindful of permissions, this is seen as a basic behavioral requirement; many users are accustomed to filters on the side, not on top. Noted that this is solved later on in use cases; recently 2 institutions asked to have advanced search functionality made clearer from homepage—advanced search is too hard to get to; this use case does not cover visualization of search results—search snippets or not?? Different views on this; wherever you list items is a single rendering style is helpful or different renderings on different pages?
- Add a separate use case for single rendering, consistent—search and browse
- Search results or listings—should express type of object and associated rights and type of document
- Mixed case of metadata only records versus records that have a file
- Examples: https://bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt/simple-search?query=rcaap https://bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt/browse?type=author&value=Pais%2C+Clarisse
- Because we ran out of time and this review is critical, the group will meet again next week Feb 22: 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00 to complete the review.
Action Items
- Carol Minton Morris reach out to Maureen regarding CNI presentation
- Carol Minton Morris draft community message regarding attendance at targeted meetings/conferences
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