DSG DRS Project Toolkit Spec Meeting Minutes

DRS Project Toolkit Spec

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

*July 1,2015

• Eli has disabled comments on attachment pages. Unless requested, we don't really want comments on anything
• Discussion of searching: solution to have the DRS search be the main search, and then have a "Related Content" search bar in the sidebar

Eli has come up with a "Related Content" sidebar (the name can be easily changed later, and most likely should be, given that "content" is a term broadly applied to all content on the site)

• The "Browse" page doesn't currently show "Related Content," and we're going to keep that off that page for now, given the desire to make distinctions between "Search" and "Browse.'
• Facets aren't in conversation with the related search: Eli will make sure that Related Content will update when users modify search results using facets so that relevant content will also materialize.
• Jim has also updated the content on facets in the spec to discuss the modeling of the DRS when it comes to displaying more than 5 facets
• We've modified the spec to finalize the "Sort By" parameters on Search and Browse pages to: Relevance, Date (earliest to latest), Date (latest to earliest), Title A-Z, Title Z-A, Creator A-Z, Creator Z-A. We're scrubbing references to "Date Uploaded."
• We've decided to display the Date and Creator info in "Search" results pages but not on "Browse" results pages (which are more designed to function as a mosaic).
• We're going to create a section of the spec that briefly discussed branding: where to put "Northeastern University Library" and where to put "Digital Scholarship Group" documentation, etc.
• Discussion of Image download options: we're going to remove the current option for "Thumbnail Images."
• Discussion of "Zoom" function on images in items: works on items, doesn't work on exhibits (i.e., images taken from the WordPress Media Library and added to exhibit pages). We discussed the fact that exhibit-builders could have the option of zoom functionality via Shortcodes.
• Eli has used code to create video playlists on video items.
• Future discussions at meetings: what do we want to be configurable (by project managers) on the WordPress pages? More on Exhibits / sample exhibits for new Toolkit projects. User testing. Page-turning functionality and how that impacts discussions of page-turning availability during project development (ideally a discussion that happens at the DRS ingest stage).

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.