Sufia Contributors Meeting 2012 02 04

Sufia Development/Design

Feb 4, 2013 1:30 EST

Attendees: Notre Dame, PSU, Curation Experts Agenda:

Design Boundries of Sufia

• Notre Dame – is looking to provide the general deposit service
• Penn State – will use Scholarsphere for the “general case” of deposit until more customized deposit services are “identified”
• Curation Experts (on behalf of WGBH) – video repository, generic file with modifications, different forms
• Self-deposit is going by the wayside as we discuss proxy/delegate deposits
• Authentication/Authorization needs greater abstraction

Response:

• Goal: Stay as simple as possible; One model in the app
• Initial boundaries will be discussed iteratively
• Proposed regular conference calls, discussions (monthly check-ins)
• Add “proof of concepts” into institutional instances of Sufia and propose/discuss merging into “master” Sufia
• http://github.com/curationexperts/sufia is the “canonical” repository
• Deposit information as “soon as possible” is the design goal

Plugin new content models

• Working with a bunch of different institutions, each institution has different model needs;
• Can we provide format specific stacks of code that plugin to the

CSS hooks for JS & Look and Feel

• Javascript removed from the views and place them in the asset pipeline
• Turn off blacklight styles and life is better
• http://railslove.com/blog/2012/03/28/smacss-and-sass-the-future-of-stylesheets/

Adding types of workers / Plugin workers

• Will be done via proof of concept

Proxy deposit design

• Notre Dame – Before I begin uploads I get permission from the professor to upload on their behalf; Then at upload I do it on their behalf.
• Penn State – When I upload, I can select a professor that I am uploading for; Then I upload; Then professor agrees to the content.
• Sticky authorization - I allow X to upload on my behalf ; Twitter AuthN/AuthZ
• Configuration option to turn off delegate contribution