2017-12-06, DSpace 7 Outreach Agenda/notes

• Carol Minton Morris (chair, DuraSpace)
  
  • Bram Luyten (Atmire) (may occasionally sit in)
• Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto)
• Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri)
• Jose Carvalho (University of Minho)
• Nelson Torres (University of Minho)
• Tom Hutchinson <thutchi1@swarthmore.edu>
• Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London)
  
• Agustina Martinez-Garcia
• Arthur Smith
• Tim Donohue
• Andrea Bollini (4Science)

Meeting Details

• Dec 6 at 11:00 AM ET on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace

Goals

• Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development. 
• Next meeting Jan 3, 2018 11:00 AM ET on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace
  
  

Discussion items

Notes

DSpace 7 Update

• The small DSpace 7 development team is making good progress on 4 aspects of the new user interface:
• https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues (demo web site is updated auto each time code is committed)
• Bridge between what has been done and outreach group—please add your comments
• new search features and visualizations coming by early Q1 2018
• There is a focus on backwards compatibiility to DSpace 6 in submission process—end of year, going well
• Authentication and authorization, my DSpace page also are in process

OR2018 submissions by Jan 5

• 2 workshops planned: rest api and UI customizations (for developers, technical ease with html would be helpful) plus update preso in general conference track
• promoting the new UI for repository managers 
• Send OR workshop/presentation feedback to Tim

Communicating about What's In DSpace 7

• Yes this group will develop a general message (not documentation)—focus not only what is new but what are main features
• series of topics with focus on specific DSpace 7 features—fact sheet
• core features focus
• Process: Fact sheet for DSpace 6—list, and then map into 7
• Jan 3, Jose Carvalho will develop Dspace 6 list for review by Jan. 3