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Annie- Elements as a deposit platform may not be available to faculty
It would be better to
The primary users and readers of IR materials are not going to TU faculty or students; they’re not going to discover it via library search.
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Annie’s concerns about launching mid summer: 1) No faculty, not a lot of student work is in scope. 2) Shouldn’t our repository look as nice as our website and new building? Why launch with something that doesn’t look good. ? Why not just take as long as we need?
Chad agrees that we should take more time to develop something that fits the stylistic theme of everything else we’re launching.
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What already exists? Spotlight?[blacklight add on that allows better curation and customization] Christina can advise the group on it, however don’t confuse it with a repo. bc of spotlights limitations DSpace would still be needed as an admin interface.
Chad is leaning towords a single Spotlight codebase for all of our projects (Oral history site, dspace, etc…). This nice part about this setup is that sub-repos can be customized.
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David asks
Christina worked on the blacklight based Columbia IR… implementation was local, and not simple
Chin- customizing DSpace w/ Gabe has been a hacky and time consuming process. Taking it further will require a dev to evaluate it systemically.
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Cornell has Blacklight on top of DSpace… christina DSpace according to Christina
Action item:
Spruce up product requirements matrix
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