Jan 18, DSpace 7 Outreach Agenda/Notes

Date

18 Jan 2017

Attendees

• Carol Minton Morris (chair, DuraSpace)
  Wouter Janssens (Atmire)
  
  • Bram Luyten (Atmire) (may occasionally sit in)
• Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London) (apologies)
• Pauline Ward (University of Edinburgh)
• Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto)
• Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri)
• Jose Carvalho (University of Minho)
• Nelson Torres (University of Minho)

Goals

• Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development. 
• Next meeting Feb 1: 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00, on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace

Discussion items

Notes

Welcome and introductions

• Thanks to everyone for joining!

Determine ongoing meeting time/date

• Bi-weekly, Wednesdays, 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00
• Next meeting Feb 1
• Please note tasks to be completed by Feb 1 (below)

Brainstorm ideas for what this group should work on in support of DSpace 7

• Communicate with the community
  • Use email lists, updates at DCAT
  • Conferences where DSpace 7 work should be highlighted
    • OAI 10
    • Repository Fringe
    • Open Repositories
  • Establish conferences of note for DSpace 7 wiki page (Carol)
  • Compiling a list of list serves to reflect DSpace 7 messages out through
  • Establish list of lists for DSpace 7 messages wiki page (Carol)
  • Blog post updates
    • Write update (Carol)
    • Review update (All)
  • Do we have lists of specific types of DSpace repository implementors?
    • No
    • Should we develop/distribute a short repository implementors survey to the DSpace community?
      • Aim is to determine how the DSpace market is segmented, or get an idea of features that are used now
      • How many are IRs, or other types?
  • Develop questions for review/discussion (Jose)

Discuss how the current collection of Use Cases can be split etc.

• BIG topic!
•  Will share initial thoughts that are in this direction
  • We have a basic set of use cases that describe DSpace at the moment
  • Do not cover 100% of potential functionality of DSpace 7
  • Not all are translated into system functionality—need to be careful of evolution
  • We currently have 2 UIs that will be translated into to a common UI; not all features are implemented in the same way
• This group will be helpful in:
  • Reviewing all the use cases and identifying gaps
  • Reaching out to the community to ask for feedback that can be used it in different ways
  • Provide differentiation in design
  • Process of going from requirements to system will be designed
• Development of DSpace 7 has begun; in order not to block we need to know that development will happen in a particular order
  • We start with core functionality; focus on search/browse, authorization
  • Useful to focus on browse and search first
  • identity use cases that relate to browse and search—identified 12 use cases that relate—will share after meeting (Wouter)
• We are talking about use cases in developers meetings, behavior of the system; non-functional requirements could be discussed such as accessibility standards and others
• Can we have access to priorities, timeline, JIRA board?
  • Yes, fleshing out the roadmap, will be available on the wiki

Action Items

• Carol Minton Morris Establish DSpace 7 conferences and list of lists wiki pages
• Carol Minton Morris Write DSpace 7 Update blog post for review by this group
• Jose Carvalho develop a short repository implementors survey for the DSpace community for review by this group
• Wouter Janssens (Atmire) share use cases that relate to browse and search