2017-03-01, DSpace 7 Outreach Agenda

Date

01 Mar 2017 

Attendees

• Carol Minton Morris (chair, DuraSpace)
• Wouter Janssens (Atmire)
  
  • Bram Luyten (Atmire) (may occasionally sit in)
• Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London)
• 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 Mar 15: 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00, on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace

Discussion items

Notes

Catch-up, Announcements

• This is an opportunity to share news and information of interest to this or other community groups
• UI team progress—search and browse development progress has been slow which offers additional time to review use cases
• No deadline
• Team is building governance for development
• No visuals or mock-ups yet; focus on "plumbing"
• Development order remains unchanged

What are the requirements for creating 3-5 non-functional UI "sketches" to be used in discussing/presenting DSpace 7 development?

• Would like to establish a spec, what to instruct a designer, in order for them to develop 3-5 sketches-mock-ups-non-working visual designs of screens that would represent aspects of the new UI for use in upcoming presentations and marketing materials.
  • DSpace steering group has approved a small budget for this purpose
• OR presentation from 2016—working demo presented by Tim Donohue; can this be repurposed?
• Wouter will ask UI team for requirements
• Functionality and structure should be shown
• Clean, well-designed basic template—what would be installed by default
• Show how use cases are reflected in aspects of visual design
• Show broad functionality–search page, should be enticing
• New UI–some of the user base is afraid of losing features, mock-up of homepage could reassure users that features would be there
• Is there a way to use this process (roll out iterative sketches) to engage the community?
• We have heard from the community that they are hoping to see
• 1-2 mock-ups at a time with a feedback loop?
• Will someone from this group manage a complex communications-feedback-design loop process?
• Channels for feedback would be the same as those we use to get the word out–lists, social media
• We need a timeline for this project, Carol

SWAG/logo discussion

• Last meeting we talked about need for a new logo/DSpace brand before developing SWAG
  • group agreement on need for a new logo
• Several related aspects
  • web site
  • branding campaign
• image of DSpace would be renewed along with new UI
• https://99designs.com is a system for distributed development of logo designs–voting, feedback, iterative design
  
  • Carol to provide more information
• How will the review/feedback group be comprised?
• Final approval by the DSpace steering group

Review draft blog post: Message regarding attendance at targeted meetings/conferences

• Some of these conferences in table have name of presos, all–please update; establish a way to identify people at events
• "ask me about DSpace 7"—sticker or pin?
• Carol to develop options
• Blog post ok to publish

Review use cases related to authentication and authorization

CALL to action: feedback and comments wanted on browse and search edited use cases—add comments anytime

• Integration - Integration with external authentication / authorisation system
  • single sign-on service integration, how does the user start their sign-on story? clicks login button and should get options;
  • use of parameters regarding the LDAP or shibboleth authentication that could include “role of person” or ORCiD —use of specific parameters, this is a relevant system admin use case
  • more flexibility in the fields we want to see in describing the “ePerson”
  • Add another use case—if we come up with UC that are not currently defined and are not in scope, we can revisit later

Integrations - Authentication through Multiple Mechanisms

• No comments
• Comment on process of authentication; how it should be managed in the future—authentication presentation for end users is important—difficult to chose among techie-kind of options for many users, should be more user friendly, non-tech

Action Items

• Mariya Maistrovskaya to begin draft of update community expectation management article focused on search and browse functionalities (2-3 weeks)
• Carol Minton Morris add timelines for various outreach initiiatives to wiki
• Wouter Janssens (Atmire) feedback from UI group regarding requirements for non-functional UI "sketches" to be used in discussing/presenting DSpace 7 development
• Carol Minton Morris provide more information/logo redesign process strawman for discussion
• Carol Minton Morris simple design options for "Ask me about DSpace 7" stickers or pins
• Carol Minton Morris publish blog post from group
• ALL, very important, continue to work on/comment on use cases