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• Paulo asked for clarifications on the Entities & Authority control discussion from 2019-08-27 DSpace 7 Entities WG Meeting
  • Tim walked through the PDF Slides presented from Lieven on that day (Slides / Mockups)
  • Q: In the Author search popup, is an author search being performed across all tabs at once?  That seems like it'd be very slow
    
    • A: That is the idea on the mockup, but we also identified that we could not support that behavior if it turned out that searches could not be performed asynchronously (and displayed little by little as results returned). Therefore, we might need to revisit this idea in the final implementation, and only perform a search if you click to the tab (or similar)
  • Q: Are we adding name variants to Authority System?  It looks like there are now dropdowns for names in Authority tabs, etc.
    • A: No, that looks to be a copy & paste error.  The goal is to NOT change the existing Authority System (in DSpace 6.x) functionality.  We are just trying to find a way for Entities & Authorities to live alongside each other in DSpace 7.  Any "merger" or tighter integration would need to be left for DSpace 8 (or some other future release)
      • Sidenote: That said, we did identify a need to transform (or migrate) and Authority record to an Entity....we never figured out how to do so, but it seemed like a use case we might want for DSpace 7, if a site is currently using Authority system and wants to migrate to using Entities
  • Q: Are these mockups final? There's usability issues here (how will users know whether to select an Entity or an Authority Record to import into) 
    • A: No, definitely not final.  In that meeting we noted some of the same usability issues.  The goal of the meeting was more to present a "brainstorm" of how Entities & Authorities could be displayed alongside each other.  Followups to the mockups will be required.   Paulo
    • Paulo noted he will run these by his team for other ideas as well, and bring back to group
  • Other clarifications:  Keep in mind that some of the mockups here may not be necessary if you choose (as a System Admin) to only enable Entities, or to only enable Authorities.   Since both Entities & Authorities are optional, sites may choose to just enable one of them, which would mean users would not have to choose between them.  However, if both are enabled on a specific field, then these mockups show some early ideas of how we could display them side by side  (That said, we all agree there are usability issues, as end users / submitters may not even know or understand the terms "entity" and "authority" and/or know when to select one over the other)