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This page is the homepage for discussions taking place around DSpace 3-5 Vision and Roadmap, begun in May 2013 but continuing into 2014 and beyond

Who is involved?

The DSpace Vision work is really a collaboration between several groups, and requires approval / feedback from all of them at various stages:

The DSpace Steering Committee
The DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT)
The DSpace Committers Team
DuraSpace
The ad hoc "DSpace Vision Team"
- This is really just a informal team comprising anyone on the 'dspace-vision' mailing list. It includes members of all the above groups.

Next Steps / Planning

What follows is an outline of the next steps in developing a vision and ultimately a technology roadmap for DSpace software. Please keep in mind that many of these steps may involve differing and sometimes overlapping groups (e.g. initial planning and use case gathering may involve DCAT or Vision Team members, while technical implementation discussions/decisions will highly involve Committers).

Develop a high level "Vision" for DSpace software. (ACTION: DSpace Vision Team)
- Completed: http://duraspace.org/sites/duraspace.org/files/u3/DSpace%20vision.pdf (see also DSpace 2013 Vision Document)
Survey the DSpace Community around the perceived "use cases/features" which may achieve that Vision. (ACTION: DSpace Vision Team)
- Completed: http://duraspace.org/dspace-vision-survey-help-define-future
Summarize & analyze Vision Survey results (e.g. what does our community find most important about DSpace?). (ACTION: DSpace Vision Team or subset)
Develop a high level "DSpace Technology Plan" which brings together the Vision with perceived core use cases and feature sets (ACTION: Small group. Requires approval/feedback from all groups)
Investigate implementation options based on finalized core use cases and feature sets (while keeping in mind extendability for non-core use cases), (ACTION: Small group of Committers / Tech savvy folks. Approval/feedback from all groups)
Develop an Implementation Roadmap to achieve our Technology Plan & Vision (ACTION: Small group of Committers / Tech savvy folks. Approval/feedback from all groups.)

Working Documents / Drafts

DSpace 2013 Vision Document - An early draft of a proposed 3-5 year Vision for DSpace software.
- Finalized Vision is at: http://duraspace.org/sites/duraspace.org/files/u3/DSpace%20vision.pdf

Vision Meeting Notes

(Note: at this time, only a subset of the meeting notes are actually copied to the wiki...more meeting notes can be found in the archives of the 'dspace-vision' mailing list below)

2013-05-09 - Two-day Kickoff Meeting (face-to-face) in Chicago: DSpace 2013 Vision and Roadmap Meeting
2013-06-19 - Conference Call: Vision Mtg 2013-06-19
2013-07-08 - Draft Vision was discussed during the OR13 DSpace Developers Meeting (notes linked at bottom of that agenda page)
- Vision was also presented at OR13 and a call for community feedback was released after OR13: http://duraspace.org/dspace-2013-roadmap-and-3-5-year-vision

Mailing List

'dspace-vision' Google Group : This is a public list (archives are publicly available/searchable) which is just meant for organizing this group's work / activities / meetings.