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Good experience with making the user personas within our organizations
What’s a PI? (Principal Investigator) The person who is in charge of the grant project, not necessarily the one doing the research.
The vision for Sufia is that it would function for a wide variety of users
Different dashboards for different users (configurable or modular dashboard elements)
Possible plugins for added functionality within an institution
Wish for control of metadata form fields with works and collections (admin?)
Lesson Learned from traditional content management systems: Users often have different roles and administrative privileges and the system should be general or configurable enough to accommodate those differences in roles and needs.
What is the dream for PCDM functionality?
Figshare - http://figshare.com/ - Displays a core set of metadata for general users
Is is possible to mitigate or get rid of lengthy forms in the upload process? (It could be a pain point for users)
What if uploads automatically harvested file data and created metadata?
Common fields in metadata that are auto-suggested
Common Metadata
- Title
- Creator
- Etc.
Specialized Metadata
- Institutional based fields
- Project based fields
We can have data remediation and process metadata completion over time
Interface could incorporate feedback about the completeness of metadata

Although our institutions have many kinds of users, for the purposes of our group charter, it would be good to come up with 5 or 6 personas
What is the overlap in the Sufia UI personas and the conversations about users on slack?
Personas may include an intelligent agent executing large batch uploads
Institutional customization of uploads, dashboard, etc.
What is the general or basic user’s experience of the Sufia Interface?
Sue would like to have the administrator persona in the mix (someone who can oversee content & collections within an institution)
The proxy depositor is important, often the person interacting with the interface
Faculty and Graduate Depositors are closely linked to each other
Are there other overlaps in the personas?
For users that create small objects the current design is good
Users that may create very complex objects might not have an easy time with the current interface
Need for a matrix showing interactive roles and affiliation with the institution
The deposit section is a critical part of Sufia
The admin or user dashboard is another critical part of Sufia
admin and casual user dashboards could be very different in scope and intention (viewing viewer statistics only to complex permissions and multiple proxy authorizations)
Our clients are those who care deeply about the details in their data but they need to be able to add that data when and where they want