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

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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?