Hello Dorothea, 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 would need to know them to really understand where you are heading to. Can you gimme a link or a hint?
Although it does not sound especially polite to call DSpace a spaghetti dinner and provided that your judgement is right, I totally agree on the importance of user driven development and the requirement of a usable and stable API. There are far more places where a digital archive software such as DSpace could be useful besides the academic area but where it is hard to adapt to. It takes advanced skills to leverage the power of this tool but the audience does not necessarily be either on the same level of education nor as homogenous as an academic campus community. There is a page in the wiki which lists projects that use DSpace. Until now I saw this page targeted to the potential user to make him or her trust in the project. Would it be useful to add some two or three lines about the goal of each project to improve the picture for the next time the developers decide on what they will do next? Or do we need formal processes with a review board and so on?. I am sure that this is an important discussion and that it can help to sharpen the profile of the project and make it even more compelling. I feel there is some room for improvement left in that regard. Bye, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
