Scope & Objectives

The Sufia User Interface (“SUI”) Working Group will work together to define the requirements necessary to improve the Sufia user interface, particularly with regard to the Sufia 7 domain model which is oriented around the concept of multi-file works rather than around files themselves. SUI will:

• Review the existing Sufia UI and proposed Sufia 7 wireframes

• Generate a list of UI desiderata and errata

• Agree upon a set of fixes and upgrades which will be reflected in a set of new or updated wireframes and GitHub issues

• Communicate the above to the hydra-community and hydra-tech lists to ensure broad agreement with the proposed changes to the Sufia UI

Deliverables & Timeframe

SUI’s deliverables will include:

• A list of desired changes to the Sufia user interface, minimally covering the changes necessary to accommodate nestable, orderable multi-file works and nestable collections

• GitHub issues representing the changes recommended by SUI

• A set of wireframes visually demonstrating the recommended changes, so that developers have a target to build towards as development of Sufia 7 continues

SUI will begin its work in late October, 2015 and wrap up in advance of January 15th, 2016.

Members

To be a member of a Hydra Working Group, you must consent to release documentation under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License and you must have Contributor License Agreements in place if and only if you are committing code (which is not anticipated for SUI).

• Michael Tribone, facilitator (Penn State)

• Mike Giarlo (Stanford)

• Anna Headley (Chemical Heritage Foundation)

• Sonya Betz (Alberta)

• David Trujillo (UC San Diego)

• Sue Richeson (University of Virginia)
• E. Lynette Rayle (Cornell)
• Linda Newman (Cincinnati)
• Simone Sacchi (Columbia)
  
• segutierrez (El Colegio de México)
  

Resources

• Sufia codebase: https://github.com/projecthydra/sufia

• UI Wireframes (organization table)

• Personas
• SUI Agreed-upon assumptions, decisions, and guiding principles
• Mockup page for Sufia - UI for Creating Works and Uploading Files - potential workflow diagrams and wireframes
• Sufia 7 draft wireframes (OUTDATED): https://wiki.duraspace.org/x/HqQOB
  
  

Meeting Times & Communication Channels

SUI will communicate via the hydra-community and hydra-tech mailing lists, using “[sui]” as a subject prefix. The main collaborative channel is the Slack channel for discussion. The group will meet:

Time: Every Friday at 11am-12pm Eastern / 8am-9am Pacific

Collaborative Channel: https://code4lib.slack.com/messages/hydra-sufia-ui-wg/

• • Slack invite generator for code4lib org: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/120Dw1JjLxPJB9VTGl0mUY7Ot6yg6YNY1RZUISJFzdwk/viewform?c=0&w=1

Call: Google Hangout [or http://bit.ly/SUFIA-UI-HANGOUT]

Meeting Notes