Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Scope & Objectives
The DSpace Strategy and Roadmap Working Group recommended that the highest priority and first project for the new DSpace roadmap should be the creation of a single UI for DSpace. There is already wide support from stakeholders and DSpace Steering for a project to identify an architecture and technology that would replace the existing XMLUI and JSPUI interfaces with a new, modern UI.
The method for evaluating and recommending the alternative architecture will be defined and managed by this working group. It is assumed that community volunteers will work on minimal pilot applications that provide demonstrable alternatives for consideration. Working Group members may contribute/lead one of these pilots, but this is not a requirement for serving on the Working Group.
It is expected that the work of this group will be completed within a twelve-to-sixteen week timespan.
Deliverables & Timeframe
| Deliverable | Timeframe |
|---|---|
| 1. Document the method for evaluating and recommending alternate architectures/technologies | August |
| 2. Document pilot application expectations and requirements - Draft | August |
| 3. Define criteria for evaluation - Draft | August - September |
| 4. Recruit and manage pilot teams | August |
| 5. Review and evaluate work of the pilot teams | September - October |
| 6. Recommend a target architecture/technology for the new UI to the DSpace Steering Group | November |
Note that the development of the new UI is not a deliverable of this Working Group.
Meeting Times & Communication Channels
Frequency of meetings will be every other week, unless modified by the facilitator. Initial meetings may be more frequent.
The group will use the standard DSpace lists to communicate. When using a shared channel, start the subject line with “[new-UI]” or something similar to distinguish content.
Meeting agendas are sent to the dspace-community and dspace-devel mailing lists.
Meeting Notes are posted to the wiki below.
Next Meeting
Thursday, 10th September at 14:30 UTC (world clock)
Members
Tim Donohue, co-facilitator, DuraSpace
Jonathan Markow, co-facilitator, DuraSpace
- Andrea Bollini (4Science), Cineca
- Terrence W Brady, Georgetown University
- Pascal Calarco, University of Waterloo
- Peter Dietz, Longsight
- Lieven Droogmans, @mire
- Amanda French, Virginia Tech
- Chris Gray, University of Waterloo
- Claire Knowles, University of Edinburgh
- Monika Mevenkamp, Princeton University
- Yifei Zhao, University of Waterloo
- (Additional members welcome, just show up to a meeting or get in touch!)
Resources
Refer to the following preliminary planning documents from Tim Donohue:
Meeting Notes
10th August 2015 - Initial DSpace UI Working Group Meeting
25th August 2015 - Second meeting of the DSpace UI Working Group
- 31st August 2015 - Third meeting of the DSpace UI Working Group
Overview
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