Attendees

• Andrea Bollini (4Science)
• Claudio Cortese (4Science)
• Fernando Ribeiro
• Jordan (UniTs)
• José Carvalho
• Lieven Droogmans
• Nelson Torres
• Pascal-Nicolas Becker
• Paulo Lopes
• Paulo Graça
• Tim Donohue

Agenda/ Notes

• Discuss the trade-off between the powerfull versus complex DSpace
• What's the simple DSpace Data Model proposal and analyse DSpace-CRIS based on that, and how can we tweak it to reach it.
  • The following document was used as a base point for the discussion: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1thC_w834OBZGn8fPCtvi3TuYWE58EWf9NEAM1DFubEY
  • and also the following Google Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-oE7DIy9o_l3FmQ4UoFG0s7rvYnoELFoG07vc1mQq3U

Discussion

• Meeting recorded session: 
  
• Some of the outlines during this meeting:
  • The presented slides and data model were only focus on one specific use case - a CRIS system. DSpace has other Use Cases that also should be considered.
    • Pascal: There are some particularities in Institutional Repositories, like local fields
  • Lieven: We should have a configurable solution, one that could extend entities, relationships and fields
  • Andrea: The datamodel flexibility is a must have. We need other Use Cases.
  • Tim: we should have in default DSpace Data Model People and perhaps Organization Entities. And the model could be extended to have Project and Funding for a CRIS setup. We should think if they should be out-of-the-box extensions.
  • Lieven: each entity can have fixed and extended properties. What do we want as part of the DSpace Core and how to configure it?
  • José: Refers the example of Drupal as a software that can be extended without the developers having to make changes to the Core.
  • Tim: agrees that the future DSpace will have a base Core and each use case can set as a Distribution
  • Lieven: How do we do it? How far can we go in terms of configurations? How do we build relationships and how they are expressed? How the system deals with it?
  • Tim: How do we create relationships in the actual core datamodel? Is there a way to extend the model without having to extend the Core? People and Organizations on Core DSpace.
  • Lieven: People and Organizations, how? Should we prototype and make some tests along the course, like scalability.
  • Tim: Firstly we should do a technical analysis, using diagrams and documents.
• Paulo Graça is responsible for appointing our next meeting and to create a base document for the technical analysis.