On Monday 2nd June we had our second meeting with our developers, which happens at the end of each development cycle (typically lasting 2 weeks). At the beginning of this cycle we agreed that the basic deliverables were:

  • Improved functionality around searching for documents, including use of search results lists
  • Improvements to the management interface regarding metadata add/edit
  • New functionality for inserting documents into the repository

The functionality was delivered on Friday 30th May and most was signed-off by the OARS team at the meeting. There are some outstanding issues to be resolved for the second development cycle, and this will be included in the next cycle of development, due to be completed on Monday 16th June. This will be followed by a development meeting on Tuesday 17th June. The priorities and deliverables for this next cycle were agreed, and briefly are:

  • Index full text and metadata of stored items for search engines
  • Improved functionality with regard to search results lists
  • New functionality to allow view and download of full text for a document
  • New functionality for inserting journal issues into the repository and indexing their full text