Hello, it's good to see that you're interested in this project. As you may have seen, I indicated that I'd be happy to co-mentor the project.
On 05/04/11 16:13, Vibhaj Rajan wrote: > In addition, I would like to know whether the project shall be > targeted to making changes to the UI level only, or whether well > planned modifications to underlying logic, without interfering with > the workflow process but only to improve the UI will be allowed ? I assume that modifications to the underlying logic will also be acceptable, as long as there is a good reason for the change. I expect that this is something that would be worked out between the student, the mentor(s) and the DSpace committers during the project. > I would be happy to get suggestions regarding this project idea. What I would really like to see in proposals for this project are answers to the following questions: Where do you see the biggest problems at the moment? How do these problems impact the experience of a submitter? Do you have concrete suggestions for improvements? You may also have seen my comment on https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/GSOC/DSpace+Summer+of+Code+Ideas about making the submission process configurable via the web interface. At the moment, the submission forms are defined using a couple of XML files (see https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC/Submission+User+Interface if you haven't found that page already). Only someone with shell access to the DSpace server can change these files, and changes to the files typically require DSpace to be restarted. Consequently, the people who know best what metadata fields etc should be populated during submission can't actually customise the submission process at all. The EasyDeposit (http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2010/02/03/easydeposit-sword-deposit-tool-creator/) administrator interface is a good example for a more user-friendly variant, I think. cheers, Andrea -- Andrea Schweer IRR Technical Specialist, ITS Information Systems The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
