DSpace 7 Entities Working Group

Scope & Objectives

The goal of this technical working group is to design and implement DSpace 7 Configurable Entities, per the statement from the DSpace Steering Group regarding the DSpace 7 data model and proposal #3 of the DSpace Entities Working Group summary document.  (A high level overview of "Configurable Entities" was also presented during the DSpace 7 Update at OR2018.)

This working group is expected to complete and/or scope the effort within the DSpace 7 release timeline, which will require close coordination with the DSpace 7 Working Group.

Deliverables

This working group will

1. (Before end of September) Assess the early prototype of Configurable Entities and its alignment with guidelines/needs. 
2. (Before end of October) Define an implementation roadmap for DSpace 7 Configurable Entities (based on the assessment of early prototype)
3. (Before end of November) Implement Configurable Entities, per defined roadmap (by creating a Pull Request & documentation, to be reviewed by DSpace 7 Working Group and DSpace Committers)
4. Draft a post-DSpace 7 roadmap for Configurable Entities (to be reviewed by Steering and Leadership)

Once the above deliverables have been completed, this working group will merge with the DSpace 7 Working Group.  At that point, the Configurable Entities feature (and any further enhancements/improvements) will be managed by the combined DSpace 7 Working Group, where it will be stewarded into DSpace 7.

Resources

• Documentation for early prototype of Configurable Entities: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wEmHirFzrY3qgGtRr2YBQwGOvH1IuTVGmxDIdnqvwxM/edit
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Contributing

Anyone is welcome to join this working group at any time. If you plan to join/contribute to this working group, we ask that you please join Slack, as (day-to-day) work between meetings occurs via Slack.

• Join one of our weekly meetings. Meetings will be publicly announced and notes publicly posted (see below).
  
• Get in touch with the team via Slack. Please join the #entities-wg channel in Slack. We'd be glad to talk about other ways to contribute

Meeting Schedule

• The DSpace 7 Entities Working Group meets every other week on Tuesday at 16:00-17:00 UTC (11:00am-12:00am EST).  The next meeting is listed below.
  

Next Meeting

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, November 6 at 16:00-17:00 UTC (11:00am-12:00am EST)

• Agenda & Connection Information: (coming soon)
• This meeting will be recorded, and video/audio made available off the meeting page.

Meeting Notes / Recordings

• 2018-10-23 DSpace 7 Entities WG Meeting
• 2018-10-09 DSpace 7 Entities WG Meeting
• 2018-09-25 DSpace 7 Entities WG Meeting
• 2018-09-11 DSpace 7 Entities WG Meeting
• 2018-09-04 DSpace 7 Entities WG Meeting