supported community development bridging expertise gaps
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Supported Community Development
Bridging Expertise Gaps
Case Study: ETDMS Export Plugin
• Geographically important standard, not supported by EPrints.
MetadataRequirement
Usability
PerlEPrints API
Expertise
What Happened…Plugin updated on files.eprints.org
Advice on refactoring for generic deployment
Question about perl and implementation
Unparsable code type into email
Questions about creating a bazaar package
Bazaar package training video
Bazaar Package
Request for documentation
Documentation on wiki.eprints.org
No com
munity benefit
Outcomes
• Stable bazaar package• Documentation– Bazaar Package Documentation– Process Documentation (bazaar package video)
• Increased expertise in a community member
A Model for Community Support• Community experts provide:– Advice and support– Pseudo-code / Code– Pointers to documentation– Reviewing new documentation– (all in a low-time-cost way)
• Community members provide:– Documentation of their learning for the next person– Stable Packages– A willingness to provide community expertise
How do we achieve this across the community?