Page Comparison

• Project Name
• Project Goals
• Problem and Value Statements
  • Problem Statement
  • Solution Business Value
  • Alignment with Harvard Library Multi-Year Goals and Objectives
  • Alignment with HUIT Objectives
• Vision
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  • Approach
• In Scope/Out of Scope
  • In Scope
  • Out of Scope
• Deliverables and Work Products
  • Key Tasks and Outcomes
• Definition of Done
• Stakeholders
• Project Team
• Cost and Estimated Schedule
• Assumptions, Constraints, Dependencies, and Risks
  • Project Assumptions
  • Project Constraints
  • Project Dependencies
  • Project Risks
• Acceptance

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Problem and Value Statements

Problem Statement

Since its founding, Harvard Library has been a guardian of the University’s memory and a gateway to the world's knowledge. We currently host an array of discovery systems that use different design approaches, organizational priorities, and technology standards. This can make searching our materials difficult and confusing. 

Solution Business Value

Working with a new Hosting and Services partner (4Science), we will target desirable local customizations to the DSpace 8 release, and modify local practices (where necessary) in order to reduce or eliminate true local customizations. DSpace versions 7.2 and higher are being designed to WCAG 2.0 AA and AAA standards and these versions would also enable the Harvard Libraries to use the new Entities functionality to provide improved services for journal hosting and overlay journals. There are also ongoing opportunities to collaborate with peer institutions on mutual open source development projects, most immediately around quantitative and qualitative metrics modules, researcher profiles, and metadata harvesting. These solutions will allow OSRDS and LTS to position DASH as a service that will be able to meet current and future sustainability goals for advancing open access to knowledgeBy enabling rich cross-collection search, this project will offer end users intuitive, contextual discovery of special collections, archives and digital collections, through a mix of conversational interfaces, browsing that emphasizes the visual nature of materials when appropriate, and recommendations for similar or related resources, all informed by ongoing user research.

Alignment with Harvard Library Multi-Year Goals and Objectives

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• Identify 20 candidate services that are “at risk” or “unsustainable” and produce action and/or remediation plans

Vision

Position DASH as an exemplary and collaborative next generation repository that supports Harvard Library initiatives in advancing open knowledge. DASH must evolve to become a more interoperable, collaborative, and accessible next-generation repository. With a more sustainable infrastructure and improvements to its workflow, metadata, metrics, and preservation, the Harvard Library can broaden DASH’s services in order to cooperate with Harvard research lifecycle, data repositories, digital asset management, and digital scholarship systems. 

Goals:

• Enhance DASH interoperability 
• Advance repository collaboration 
• Establish a sustainable infrastructure  
• Improve workflow, refine metadata, and diversify repository content 

In Scope/Out of Scope

In Scope

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Out of Scope

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Deliverables and Work Products

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Definition of Done

Stakeholders

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