DSG DRS Project Toolkit Spec Meeting Minutes

DRS Project Toolkit Spec

• Draft in Google Docs (Edit powers limited to DSG Staff)

June 19, 2015

Attendees: Amanda, Sarah, Eli, Jim

• We decided to meet weekly to discuss necessary revisions to the spec draft and to help answer questions and brainstorm the development of the DRS Project Toolkit pages for projects.
• We agreed that Minamaze was an ideal WordPress theme for the pilot phase.
• We discussed the desire / need users will have to be able to search both items and content elsewhere on a project site (exhibit pages, "About" pages, etc.). We are still discussing the best interface / solution to this issue: a search box that can search everything on the site? A search of DRS items and an "expanded" search that searches pages?
• We also discussed the need to do user testing on the search functionality, and whether it makes sense to do "A/B" testing of two kinds of searches.
• Item views: if not an item from the DRS, WP will create attachment page and item view will be that WP-native page. IF item from DRS, code will override WP route to attachment page and show dynamically retrieved DRS item.
• Option: make uploaded file PID editable so that even images uploaded by hand can automatically link to DRS.
• Who will do the work of creating Arader and Sadow websites? Also need to test the “make an exhibit” scenario.