Date & Time

Dial-in

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Agenda

As the outcome of our January 2015 call, we are dedicating this months call to a prioritization of the use cases we approached thematically in the second half of 2014.

Preparing for the call

If you want to prepare your participation to the call or if you just want to leave your opinion in the comments below please:

  1. Revisit the list of Use Cases or your own personal list of use cases.
  2. Try to decide for yourself or your stakeholders what your TOP priority (yes, a SINGLE usecase) would be
  3. If you have more time, try to think about your TOP 5 of use cases.

Discussed use cases and identified priorities

Early in the meeting, the DCAT group noticed that it would not be easy to prioritize the use cases discussed during last year's meetings. Before we can argue which use cases are most important or which are the biggest pain-points at the moment, we have to prioritize persona's. For example; usability flaws in the submission forms might be a big issue for end users, but a lesser one for repository administrators.

The DCAT group decided it would be important to keep the scope on the long term development of DSpace. Meanwhile use cases should be considered both on high (more abstract) level, as on a very specific (concrete) level. We do not want to focus on use cases that could be developed by a service provider on a short therm, or that could be included in DSpace 6. Instead we want to address use cases that give direction to DSpace's core.

We should also lay focus on use cases that we 'have to have' rather than those that are 'nice to have'. These 'have to have' use cases could be enhancements of existing features as well as the development of new ones.

During this meeting we did not decide a fixed prioritization of use cases. We did however agree that we could discuss the way we as the DCAT group could help in the development of the DSpace roadmap. This will be subject of our next meeting in March.

At the moment there is a discussion going on about the future of the user interface. Currently the angle is rather technical. Maybe we should contribute our findings so this discussion would include a mixture of technical and practical issues.

Call Attendees