DCAT Meeting topics for the second half of 2016 - please give your input by July 7th

[Bram Luyten]

Hi,

the Open Repositories conference was an invigorating week with plenty of excitement about the potential to improve DSpace in many different ways. Several folks made it clear that they are eager to roll up their sleeves and really improve DSpace in the months ahead.

From what people have suggested to me so far, I can see three broad categories of discussion and work that have emerged. Maybe our group is big enough to work on all three fronts at the same time, maybe not. 

It's time to figure this out and put some topics together for the calls of the next months.

1. Contributing to the DSpace 7 user interface overhaul 

OR16 marked the point where the community agreed on Angular 2 as the one direction forward for DSpace UI development.

There are several interesting angles where DCAT could help out, just to name a few:

- Requirements refinement

- User Experience (UX)

- Testing

- ...

With ~18 exciting months ahead of us, there is a lot we can do, but we'd need to find the appropriate activities & milestones (in time) we should hit.

2. Deeper functional and architectural ambitions: (meta)data model, complexity vs simplicity, ...

Fired up by the advances made in the DSpace-CRIS work, the DSpace 5 ORCID functionality, and the already existing ambition to bring the "Community" and "Collection" objects in DSpace closer together, many people are interested in revisiting some of the more fundamental questions:

- which conceptual data objects/entities do we represent in DSpace & how do we represent them?

- are there drivers to make certain aspects more flexible or more complex?

Andrea Bollini made a plea to put our heads together and align on a more elaborate representation of:

- authors

- affiliations/departments

- funders & projects

This has certain ties to the UI work as well, but we first need an approach on if and how we could represent this information, before putting these into the UI.

3. Sharing best practices and challenges in the use of existing DSpace features

Many people expressed their appreciation for the March call on OAI-PMH where we had Friedrich Summann from BASE. There seems to be demand and interest for calls that have more immediate benefits for repository managers, allowing to share experiences in areas like:

- Managing your DSpace community & collection structure

- Submission forms and workflow

- Dealing with content or metadata 100% open to the public: Authorization, embargo's and request a copy

- Optimizing DSpace performance

- Understanding DSpace statistics and identifying robot traffic, ...

While area #1 and #2 are more geared at building the future, area #3 really covers what you can do with DSpace today and how you can significantly improve your processes just by picking up the learnings & best practices from other institutions.

In any case: lots of possibilities, lots of food for thought. The key question is: to which of these (or others) would you like to devote DCAT time in the second half of 2016?

Let's have this discussion on the mailing list until July 7th, after which Maureen and I will try to reconcile the feedback & pick a topic for our next call, on July 12th.

Bram

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[Pauline Simpson]

Within 3 - my vote for priority is

Submissions and Workflows
DSpace statistics (which are woefully inadequate)

thanks  Pauline

[Sarah Molloy]

Hi all,

I have had several conversations over the course of OR about providing an opportunity for non-technical repository managers to become more familiar with parts of the system that they may not use that much (or at all); in particular, I was approached with ideas around:

Demonstrating/workshopping what Curation Tasks is for 

Setting up and managing administration access to collections (what the roles allow and how to set these up efficiently)

Getting the best out of statistics - and capturing requirements for enhancements/improvements

Regards

Sarah 

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[susan borda]

I would like to "second" Pauline's note about "DSpace statistics (which are woefully inadequate)". It seems that people are coming up with workarounds for the lack of reporting tools, is this really the best way to go? 

At the very least it would be great if the Google Stats downloads showing as "0" would be resolved.

Thanks,

susan

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[Elias Tzoc]

Hi DCAT team,

As probably the newest addition to this group, let me add a couple of comments in here ... hopefully I’m not completely lost with my ideas :-)

- DSpace 7 UI overhaul +1 ... a single UI based on Angular 2 sounds promising.
- DSpace statistics -and any metrics for reporting- is always important.
- Also, more elaborate representation of authors, affiliations/departments +1 ... maybe author profiles?
- Sharing best practices and challenges in the use of existing DSpace features +1 ... especially for “new admin” people like me :-(

Thanks,

Elias

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[M M]

Hello DCAT,

Thank you, Bram, for putting the list together. In order of priority/interest for me:

- (3) statistics (both at item level and repository-wide) - voting with both hands!

- (3) submissions/workflows

- (2) bringing DSpace-Cris features such as authors, affiliations, etc. into mainstream DSpace functionality

- I would also like to propose search engine indexing discussions and best practices for that

Thank you,

Mariya Maistrovskaya

Institutional Repositories Librarian

University or Toronto

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[ajdab...@tamu.edu]

Hi Everyone,

I'm also a new addition, Anna Dabrowski at Texas A&M University. My (not within 3) votes are for the following:

- DSpace 7 User Interface: Talking over requirements refinement, User Experience (UX)

- Statistics: I'm interested in discussing the kinds of statistics other repository managers find that they need, improving accuracy and access to stats, and general discussions of their value 

- Metadata model: Particularly how authors/contributors/creators as represented

- Repository managers sharing experiences and best practices for submission forms and workflow, and permissions

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