Date & Time
- Main call Tuesday, August 12 2014, 15:00 UTC/GMT - 11:00 ET
- Satellite call Wednesday, August 13th 2014 07:00 UTC/GMT - 03:00 ET
What is the difference between the "main call" and satellite call? (TODO: link to be added to a separate page with info about this)
Dial-in
We will use the international conference call dial-in. Please follow directions below.
- U.S.A/Canada toll free: 866-740-1260, participant code: 2257295
- International toll free: http://www.readytalk.com/intl
- Use the above link and input 2257295 and the country you are calling from to get your country's toll-free dial in #
- Once on the call, enter participant code 2257295
2014 Meeting objectives
From August until December 2014, the monthly DCAT meetings are centered around defining, refining and prioritizing DSpace use cases.
These use cases are expected to have an important impact on the medium and long term roadmap of DSpace, starting with DSpace 6 in 2015.
August Meeting Agenda: End user use cases
During the august meeting we will be discussing use cases that affect users who use DSpace:
- as anonymous, non-logged in users
- as registered, logged-in users who do not have any specific administrative rights or responsibilities. For such users, submission can fall under the use cases.
For each of the needs that emerge, we will try to qualify those needs as:
- Supported: the use case is being addressed and that the bulk of configuration associated with it (if any) can happen through the UI.
- Partially supported: there is room for improvement in the support for the use case. It also covers the cases where specific server configuration or small customizations to the code are required in order to properly support the use case.
- Unsupported: if at all possible with DSpace, addressing the use case requires substantial modifications to the DSpace sourcecode.
We rather want to cover more use cases than to stick to a limited number, allowing to dig deeper in detail. This is why we will be asking the participants in the call for their institutions or personal priority after devoting ~5 minutes to a explanation and discussion about the actual use case. This means we hope to cover at least 10 use cases during the call.
Read more about certain use cases that were already identified: Use Cases
The best way to participate and contribute
If you have some time to spare to prepare for this meeting, it would be great if you could briefly list the most important end user use cases for you or your institution, especially if they fall in the category unsupported.
Examples
Here are some tentative end user use case examples, just to get your brain juices flowing. Again, these are just made up examples, albeit realistic ones.
- Accessing a video stored as a bitstream in DSpace, on a mobile phone (HTML5). It's important that the user doesn't need to wait until the whole video is loaded before starting playback.
- Unsupported
- Priority: nice to have
- Creating a new item in DSpace should be as easy as a filling out a single, simple form/page, comparable to Youtube, Scribd or Slideshare.
- Partially supported: The number of submission steps can be limited due to configuration, but you can't get it lower than ... without extensive customization
- Priority: some attendees don't mind an extensive form (nice to have), while it was a huge deal for at least 2 call attendees.
- DSpace should be easily accessible to the visually impaired (e.g. WCAG compliance)
- Partially supported: There are few compliants on WCAG compliance but it's not perfect.
- Priority: ...
Discussed use cases
Main Call Attendees
Satellite Call Attendees
Action Items