These slides were presented as part of a breakout session at the DuraSpace 2015 Summit. See: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSP/2015+Membership+Summit+Meeting%2C+March+11-12%2C+2015 Since then, more discussion has taken place both on the DSpace wiki and within the DSpace Steering Group. See this DSpace wiki page for more details: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Brainstorms+on+a+Future+UI

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DSpace has Two UIs:
Should we converge?
Tim Donohue
DSpace Tech Lead
tdonohue@duraspace.org
2015 DuraSpace Sponsor Summit

2. 2015 DSpace UI Usage
• March 2015: crawled/searched for
likely DSpace sites in..
– DSpace.org registry
– OpenDOAR.org registry
– ROAR.eprints.org Registry
– OpenArchives.org OAI-PMH Registry
– U of Illinois OAI-PMH Registry
– Google (searches “unique” to DSpace)
• Validated each site & deduplicated
Scripts at: https://github.com/tdonohue/dspace-site-parser

3. Two UIs: Global Adoption
NOTE: While each site URL was unique, it’s possible
multiple URLs could point to the same DSpace installation.

4. JSPUI Locations
Largest by country: Japan (127), USA (79), Brazil (60),
Taiwan (58), India (55)

5. XMLUI Locations
Largest by country: USA (255), Turkey (58), Norway
(45), Spain (44), Brazil (43)

6. JSPUI Version Distribution
~30% (300) of JSPUI users are
“up-to-date” (3.x, 4.x, 5.x)

7. XMLUI Version Distribution
~60% (537) of XMLUI users are
“up-to-date” (3.x, 4.x, 5.x)

8. JSPUI vs XMLUI
• JSPUI
– Underlying codebase is 12.5 years old
– Modern (Bootstrap) theme in 4.0
• XMLUI
– Underlying codebase is 7 years old
– UI based on a (nearly) obsolete platform
(Apache Cocoon)
– Modern (Bootstrap) theme in 5.0

9. Two Platforms in One
• Committers rarely work on both UIs
– Neither UI gets “full attention”
• Very little of UI codebase is “shared”
• Features come out in one UI first,
get “ported” to the other later
– UI feature lists are hard to track /
document

10. Two UIs: Committer Split

11. Where do we go from here?
• One UI or keep two UIs?
• What is of interest to you in a UI?
(use cases / features / needs)
• What do we keep? What can we do
better?
• What would your ideal UI look like?