Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-22 Thread MacKenzie Smith
Dorothea, I think there's an additional issue that may prove even more difficult to address: the problem of a technical infrastructure widely adopted by non-technical people. We should establish that this is actually the norm (as you point out later) and in every industry, not just

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-22 Thread MacKenzie Smith
Hi Mark, I've been saying for some time that, nice as the DSpace user interface is in many respects, it is not and should not be the only way to plumb a DSpace archive. If it is (currently) difficult to get a particular search style put into DSpace, may I suggest trying a different approach.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-19 Thread Dorothea Salo
It's not hard to argue that plenty of innovation and contribution has been stillborn -- a quick look at the patch queue is enough for that. It's tempting and easy to lay the blame solely at the doorstop of the technology, however there are many other issues: (snipping excellent list) I think

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-16 Thread Christophe Dupriez
Dear Michele (copy to the community), May be I am basically wrong seing DSpace as a community of practice making a tool to promote the dissemination of the good Open Repositories practices. If I understand correctly your plans, DSpace is primarly a community of developpers where users

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-16 Thread Mark Diggory
On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:40 AM, Christophe Dupriez wrote: Dear Michele (copy to the community), May be I am basically wrong seing DSpace as a community of practice making a tool to promote the dissemination of the good Open Repositories practices. No. I think your right on in this regard,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-15 Thread Michele Kimpton
Dear Christophe and DSpace community, One of the main projects the Foundation ( not federation, and I point this out as they are completely different) has taken on is to put together a team from the community and get funding for DSpace 2.0. The work to be done will involve core

[Dspace-tech] Development goals (was: ETDs Dspace - Best Practices)

2007-11-14 Thread Christophe Dupriez
Hi ! At PoisonCentre.be, we use DSpace for scientific (medical) information collection, organisation and internal re-publication, e.g. Knowledge sharing (not ETDs)! I find rather funny that this discussion occurs in the technical thread and not the general one. The technicities are the

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals

2007-11-14 Thread Tim Donohue
All, As a Committer, I'm going to go ahead and step out on limb here, and admit that I agree with most of what has been put forth by both Dorothea and Christophe. That being said, I'm not claiming to speak on behalf of all the Committers :) I would *love* a more beautified DSpace...a clean,

Re: [Dspace-tech] Development goals (was: ETDs Dspace - BestPractices)

2007-11-13 Thread Stuart Lewis [sdl]
On 13/11/07 23:52, Christian Voelker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appreciate your comment written with the deep knowledge of a long term user but I have a hard time to google all the external references to technologies such as Tapir, Researcher Pages, Sword an everything else you mention. I