Re: [Dspace-devel] [duraspace-gsoc] Re: Regarding DSpace GSoc Project - Improve Submitter User Experience

2011-04-06 Thread Mark Diggory
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:46:26AM -0700, Mark Diggory wrote: >> Recommendations are that a web ui (and specifically the XMLUI is of >> interest in this case) be constructed not on the "Xml files" >> themselves, but utilizing the DSpace Configu

Re: [Dspace-devel] [duraspace-gsoc] Re: Regarding DSpace GSoc Project - Improve Submitter User Experience

2011-04-06 Thread Tim Donohue
Hi Andrea, all... On 4/5/2011 6:44 PM, Andrea Schweer wrote: > Ok, sounds good to me -- I haven't mentored GSoC projects before and so > I'm not entirely sure about what's realistically achievable in one. > Just a few comments on GSoC project scope: In past years, we've often found that more tig

Re: [Dspace-devel] [duraspace-gsoc] Re: Regarding DSpace GSoc Project - Improve Submitter User Experience

2011-04-06 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 09:46:26AM -0700, Mark Diggory wrote: > Recommendations are that a web ui (and specifically the XMLUI is of > interest in this case) be constructed not on the "Xml files" > themselves, but utilizing the DSpace Configuration Service. So is the Configuration Service able to r

Re: [Dspace-devel] [duraspace-gsoc] Re: Regarding DSpace GSoc Project - Improve Submitter User Experience

2011-04-05 Thread Peter Dietz
Hi, >From the usability studies, and like Andrea says, from what repository users in the dspace-general mailing list, submitters have some problems that might be easily fixable. A few that I've heard and seen are: - does the user know what collection they are submitting to - can they find t

Re: [Dspace-devel] [duraspace-gsoc] Re: Regarding DSpace GSoc Project - Improve Submitter User Experience

2011-04-05 Thread Andrea Schweer
Hi Tim, thanks for your comments. On 06/04/11 02:53, Tim Donohue wrote: > On 4/4/2011 11:39 PM, Andrea Schweer wrote: Andrea gave you some > ideas of places to potentially get started. Though, I'll admit, the > idea of making the submission process configurable via the Web > Interface is potentia

Re: [Dspace-devel] [duraspace-gsoc] Re: Regarding DSpace GSoc Project - Improve Submitter User Experience

2011-04-05 Thread Mark Diggory
Recommendations are that a web ui (and specifically the XMLUI is of interest in this case) be constructed not on the "Xml files" themselves, but utilizing the DSpace Configuration Service. http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/modules/dspace-services/trunk/api/src/main/java/org/dspace/services/Configurat

Re: [Dspace-devel] [duraspace-gsoc] Re: Regarding DSpace GSoc Project - Improve Submitter User Experience

2011-04-05 Thread Mark Diggory
Recommendations are that a web ui (and specifically the XMLUI is of interest in this case) be constructed not on the "Xml files" themselves, but utilizing the DSpace Configuration Service. http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/modules/dspace-services/trunk/api/src/main/java/org/dspace/services/Configurat

Re: [Dspace-devel] [duraspace-gsoc] Re: Regarding DSpace GSoc Project - Improve Submitter User Experience

2011-04-05 Thread Vibhaj Rajan
Hello Andrea and Tim, Thank you very much for the support and suggestions for the project idea. With the background provided regarding Web UI for editing XML Configuration Files, I admit on your view regarding its complexities, however I would like to play with that idea and come up with suggesti