2019-04-25 Meeting minutes

Date

Apr 25, 2019

Participants

  • @David Walker

  • Alfredo Lafarga

  • Alyssa Loera

  • Steven Orr

  • Tessa Withorn

Goals

  • Review background research, if available

Discussion topics

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

10m

Example repositories

Alfredo

  • Examples taken from the top repositories out there

    • Many other sites were just stock DSpace, Digital Commons, etc.

  • Group will pick out the elements we like

  • David will create document

  • Next meeting: pair down the list to features that are desirable, accessible, and feasible to implement.

10m

Audiences

Tessa

  • User stories

  • Tie facets and other search features back to these stories

10m

Accessibility

Steven

  • Ran an initial check on ScholarWorks using compliance Sheriff.

  • Out of the box has pretty good numbers.

  • Top problems on public site (sans any content) involve contrast issues

  • Still need to re-evaluate the site with content, as well as the back-end

5min

Demo system

@David Walker

  • Can be a useful alternative to the main production site.

  • Running a slightly older version (2.1) to production (2.4). The production site includes a number of accessibility improvements that came in v. 2.2 and 2.3.

Action items

David will give Steven login credentials so he can run CS on the back-end Apr 29, 2019
UI group will include elements they like in example sites in shared doc May 9, 2019
UI group will determine which fields from Metadata recommendation should be links, advanced search, or facets May 9, 2019
David will fix initial color contrast problems from CS scan. May 8, 2019

Decisions