putting eprints software into the user community user issues : round table discussion soas, london...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Putting EPrints Software into the User Community
User Issues : round table discussion
SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson
Project Manager
TARDis
Jessie Hey
Research Fellow
TARDis
![Page 2: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Southampton University Research Repository
http:/eprints.soton.ac.uk
• Set up with HEFCE/JISC funding• JISC FAIR Programme – Focus on Access
to Institutional Resources – ways in which university research output can be made freely available - more accessible, more rapidly
• Other UK Universities : Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Bristol, London Univs : Imperial, UCL, SOAS, Kings College etc
• Open Access movement
![Page 3: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
User Issues : a tale of two users
• Depositor / Author– Human Computer Interaction: interface and
functionality
• Repository Staff– Interface, functionality, new modules,
administration, maintenance
• “User Issues” – all require technical support and/or development
![Page 4: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Dependency
• Appreciate co-location with Developer
• What do other e-Print software administrators/users do concerning IT support?
• How are issues / requirements / enhancements shared?
![Page 5: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Communication Lines (now)
• Mailing lists– eprints-announce
• Announcements (low volume list)
– eprints-technical http://software.eprints.org/tech.php/– eprints-underground
http://software.eprints.org/underground.php/
![Page 6: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
EPrints Technical
• I am trying to install 2.3.3 on a new server, with the goal to move our existing archive there when everything is working.
• We use Debian Linux with:• apache 1.3.29.0.2-4• mod_perl 1.29.0.2-4• php 4.3.4-4• perl 5.8.3• mysql 4.0.18-5
• Might it be something else in the MySQL setup?
![Page 7: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
EPrints Technical
• Mainly technical questions with shared responses by international community
• Some user questions which may require technical solutions – some simple, some innovative or challenging
• Some user questions which require mainly non-technical discussion
![Page 8: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
EPrints Underground
• More general questions• Small amount of activity• Not many ‘user’ questions perhaps
requiring technical answers yet• Ambiguous name
![Page 9: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Looking back to UK FAIR cluster group meeting Nov 2003: TARDis suggested Software
enhancements
• Development of software should be directed by a Steering Group
• Need a GNU Eprints User Group and email discussion list • File Conversion Tools • Full-Text Searching **• Searching surname/initial/first name** highlight search term/s in
results; quick and dirty include author, • Improved Submission, Navigating the Deposit Process –
progress buttons, post deposit editing for authors• Web-Based Administration and Configuration • Import and Export Utilities to middleware• Statistics- more complex• More complex browse options **• Generic Coding to be re programmed • Authentication - Probity – robust time stamping
** latest version EPrints
![Page 10: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
TARDis suggested Software enhancements (cont)
• Versioning and Linking of versions • Method for the Unique identification of authors• Link to citation analysis tool • Multi Language requirement interface,
diacrytics**• Ability to block registration by non institution
depositors • Views/Skins/Branding ** (filter script by group
and latest)• Rights Metadata fields • Automated QA of metadata • Automated population of metadata fields
including indexing from full text • Automated upload /download to and from
aggregators • OpenURL enabled
![Page 11: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Product Requirements “Wish List”
Highlighting a few examples from our list:• More administrator web interface tools• Statistics package• Easier author editing for correcting
metadata, adding full text• Easy editing of metadata for administrator• Format conversion tools• Branding
![Page 12: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Which routes to development dialogue do we take?
• Need for new model for the enlarged EPrints community with diverse needs?
• Even at Southampton we now also have diverse additional applications e.g. AKT project e-Prints and Crystallography data e-Prints
• Rebadge underground mailing list now more archives on board?
• Example of traditional software – formal user group?
• Regular or irregular User Group meeting?
• Steering Group for Strategic development?
•
![Page 13: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
AKT EPrints – multi-site project
![Page 14: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Crystallographic e-Prints
Note this is a fully rotateable 3D image of the molecule
![Page 15: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
More visible sharing of requirements and
modifications
• Mechanism for prioritising user requirements?
• Proactive evaluation group?– Functionality additions
• e.g. CERN examples………
![Page 16: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
CERN document server alternative - FeedBacq!
![Page 17: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Round Table Discussion
• Assumption: users (all stakeholders) want to input into EPrints development
• What routes do we need to influence the future development?
• Relation to other models?
![Page 18: Putting EPrints Software into the User Community User Issues : round table discussion SOAS, London 23 June 2004 Pauline Simpson Project Manager TARDis](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022070305/5514c5e2550346b0478b49de/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Breakout session – potential questions
• Size and maturity of community signals a need for a more organized environment?
• Leads to questions such as – How can database managers, representing
users share experiences, practical knowledge?– What should be the mechanisms driving
EPrints developments from a user perspective?• Strategic• Day to day
• Then how do user and technical requirements link up together?