EPrints Community Activities Community Activities
Community Engagement New Role in EPrints Services – To understand and promote community agendas – To support community members – To facilitate community contributions – Collaborating with other stakeholders Recent Activities – Supported development – Training videos – Wiki Improvements – EP-tech interaction – Nagging for documentation
Community Activities
Training Videos Minimal Effort (Hey, Look What I Can Do), Warts and All 20 minute video, 1.5 Hours in total Covering the Whole Technical Spectrum The Goal: Full YouTube EPrints Training Courses Everyone CAN Help
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Documentation – The Problem What Documentation is Missing? Who Knows The Answers? Who Has Time? Who Has Willingness? QA (Peer Review)?
Case Study: ETDMS Export Plugin Geographically important standard, not supported by EPrints. Metadata Requirement Usability Metadata Requirement Usability Perl EPrints API Expertise
What Happened… Plugin updated on files.eprints.org Advice on refactoring for generic deployment Question about perl and implementation Unparsable code type into Questions about creating a bazaar package Bazaar package training video Bazaar Package Request for documentation Documentation on wiki.eprints.org No community benefit
Development Ideas Ideas for EPrints Improvements wZeb7eN wZeb7eN – Add Ideas – Vote on Ideas I will build the most popular if it’s ‘Friday Afternoon’ scale
Ask Not What EPrints Can Do For You…