2017-07-05, DSpace 7 Outreach Agenda

Attendees

• Carol Minton Morris (chair, DuraSpace)
  
  • Bram Luyten (Atmire) (may occasionally sit in)
• 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>
• Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London)
  
• Agustina Martinez-Garcia
• Arthur Smith
• Tim Donohue
• Andrea Bollini (4Science)
• debra hanken kurtz
• James Evans (Atmire)
  
  

Goals

• Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development. 
• Next meeting October 11, 2017

Notes

Catch-up, Announcements

• We welcome Tim Donohue and Andrea Bollini from the DSpace 7 tech team who provided us with a greater understanding of design decisions and development process along with a status update.
  • Jose gave an overview of what this group has been working on including a review of use cases and requirements Use Cases , a collection of inspirational UI elements for reference, and external communications/messages.
  • Key discussions have been around the collection of use cases: functionality, field, title, primary actor, scope, or level, description of action
  • For each new use case, specific tag created, analysis needed

Update

• Tim provided an overview of technical progress and process:
• The DSpace 7 tech team meets weekly
  • They review and discuss mock-ups of key features and functionality (here): DSpace 7 UI Mockups
  • Aim is to make DSpsce 7  UI backwards compatible–config files will still be usable
  • Group agrees that collaborative development (with tech team) of a communication for the community at-large articulating features/functions of what will be included in DSpace 7 is needed
  • Users are working with many different versions of DSpace so its not enough to say that functionality from the 2 UIs will be included in the single UI, and developers are still working toward that goal.

    • DSpace 6 JSPUI test script: http://bit.ly/jspui-test-plan

    • DSpace 6 XMLUI test script: http://bit.ly//xmlui-test-plan

  • This group will review current mock-ups at future meetings to provide timely feedback for developers.
  • If issues, questions from developers Tim or other will take notes, and ask for additional specific feedback
  • https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/UI+examples+of+inspirational+design+and+functionality
  • What this group thinks is very useful/needed for DSpace, Tim will remind developers of this resource
• DCAT has created a spreadsheet of functionality

Action Items