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• End User Use Cases
• Admin UI Use Cases
• DSpace UI Prototype Challenge
  
  • Prototyping a Future UI (superseded/replaced by Prototype Challenge)
  • Brainstorms on a Future UI(includes some notes on possible platforms for a UI)
• DSpace Functionality Mapping (Google Spreadsheet, begun by Claire Knowles and Kim Shepherd)

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Timeframe: 3rd and 4th Quarters of 2015. The UI platform will be selected before the end of 2015.

•  [August] Establish a DSpace UI Working Group, which will manage the process of establishing prototypes and helping us select a UI platform
•  [September] Establish UI piloting process / guidelines
  
  •  Establish one or more team(s) to prototype potential platforms for a UI. These team(s) will likely consist of volunteer or "donated" development resources
•  [August - October] : Prototyping a Future UI - Begin prototyping at least 2-3 different UI platforms. (Recommended that at least one of the prototyped UI platforms is Java-based, and at least one is non-Java based.)
  
  •  This early prototyping may be less structured, allowing teams to work at their own pace (within the given requirements and deadlines)
  •  A standard prototype will be defined in terms of simple feature sets it should try to achieve (e.g. be able to display an existing DSpace hierarchy, providing browse, search and basic editing capabilities).  All prototypes will be scoped such that they are achievable in a short amount of time (i.e. weeks, ideally not months), in smaller teams.
  •  Each platform should also be analyzed for how we might achieve other UI features on the RoadMap (e.g. configs in Admin UI, easy theming, etc) which are not within the scope of the prototype
  •  Each prototype much be kept transparent (on GitHub)
•  [October: see DSpace UI Prototype Challenge
•  [September - November] : DSpace UI Prototype Challenge - Announce and run the Prototyping Challenge to test out a variety of UI platforms (ideally some non-Java and some Java-based)
  
  •  Each prototype much be kept transparent and public(on GitHub)
  •  Prototypes due by November 6
  •  Signup and full guidelines are at DSpace UI Prototype Challenge
•  [November]  : The prototypes, their code, and initial notes/analysis will be made publicly available for community-wide feedback. See signup at DSpace UI Prototype Challenge
  
  •  Reviewed more formally by Committers (and optionally DCAT members) DSpace UI Working Group based on the DSpace UI Criteria
•  [December] : A single UI platform will be selected from feedback and analysis of prototypes
  
  •  The selection must should be approved by Committers
  •  The selection should be approved by DCAT
  •  The selection must be approved by Steering Group
  •  The selection must be approved by Leadership Group

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