(The chat summary is up on the wiki at <http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Community_Requirements_Gathering_Chat_20_August_2008>; participants, feel free to edit! This summary will go up on the wiki also, and will likewise be editable.)
I received six off-list responses, alongside three onlist ones (including my own). LIKES - Simple to get running, a lot of bang for the buck (3 mentions) - Checksum checker (3 mentions) - HTML display engine (3 mentions) - Search engine: "simple and fast" (2 mentions) - Manakin theming (2 mentions) - Legible displays, easy structuring of data and depositors into communities/collections - Flexible Dublin Core, easy defining and rebuilding of indexes - Storage in SQL database - Easy to showcase and share data - Community spirit and visionary dedication! - Configurable submission workflow, metadata templating - Maven dealing with Java dependencies NEEDS/ISSUES - Complexity of authorization/permissions system, poor fit with real-world workflows, too much work for DSpace admins that can't be delegated (5 mentions) - Communities/collections model confusing and unintuitive for end-users (3 mentions) - Submission process needs streamlining and simplification; input-forms.xml needs to be end-user editable (3 mentions) - Allow bitstream updating/addition after deposit by users and collection administrators (me, George) - Doesn't automatically feed people into user groups based on LDAP group membership - Allow depositors to withdraw their own items - Difficult to customize; also, moving to Manakin costs functionality - Documentation scattered and confusing - Can only use Postgres and Oracle databases - Too-close integration with handles DESIRED NEW FUNCTIONALITY I tried to exclude this from the question, but I got a lot of it anyway! - better i18n (community/collection descriptions, metadata-input forms) (3 mentions) - statistics (per item, per author) (3 mentions) - batch import of citation-only references from a single document - web UI to prompt a reindexing - add "also by" (author) or "see also" (subject) links to item pages - persistent bitstream handles/URLs - HTML in metadata (e.g. abstracts) - embargo support - bulk metadata editing through a web UI The floor is open for discussion! Devs, please feel free to ask for clarification, which I hope participants will provide. Participants, if I have traduced your input, please do say so. Dorothea -- Dorothea Salo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Repository Librarian AIM: mindsatuw University of Wisconsin Rm 218, Memorial Library (608) 262-5493 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech