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Meeting notes
Contributing to the DSpace 7 user interface overhaul
Tim Donohue clarified that the DSpace community has decided on Angular 2 as the framework for the new UI technology. The most important goals for DSpace 7 are to upgrade/improve the DSpace rest API, and to build a single, new UI on top of this REST API in Angular 2.
The REST API improvement work will be the preliminary back end work to be carried out first, before the entire UI can be built.
The call participants agreed that a separate working group makes more sense than having these discussions in DCAT, which is essentially an interest group. However, the UI/UX group can take the opportunity to report back on their progress or hit the DCAT audience with particular questions as one item on the agenda of a monthly DCAT call.
Several people including the following have expressed interested in joining this UI/UX working group:
(*ED: please add your name or edit this list if I got this wrong)
Timeline for this group: Oktober-November to produce a first analysis and/or mockups for the new UI.
It is advised to leverage the work already done in the Use Case space
Deeper functional and architectural ambitions: (meta)data model, complexity vs simplicity, ...
Community Forum calls: Sharing best practices and challenges in the use of existing DSpace features
Call Attendees
- Maureen Walsh - The Ohio State University
- Bram Luyten (Atmire)
- Tim Donohue
- Benedikt Kroll - Bavarian State Library
- Mariya Maistrovskaya - University of Toronto, TSpace
- Valerie Collins - University of Minnesota, UDC
- Terrence W Brady, Georgetown University
- Monika Mevenkamp, Princeton University
- Susan Borda - Montana State University
- Pauline Ward , University of Edinburgh
- Tiago Guimarães - University of Minho, Portugal
- Filipe Furtado - University of Minho, Portugal