Roadmap

Biblio Roadmap

Infrastructure and Design Overhaul November 2022

We are going for feature parity in November 2022 – which means what was possible in the original Biblio is possible too in the new Biblio interface. It might not work in the same way, but you'll be able to accomplish what you did before.

Architecture Status: In progress

The invisible parts that make all the visible parts possible. We're restructuring the architecture in a sustainable way, to be able to adapt better to our audiences in the future.

Feature		Category	Status
💾 Snapshot database	Creating a minimal database for publications and datasets.	Development architecture	DONE(BETA)
🏗 Nomad	Makes running different environments and roll out features for different audiences possible.	Development architecture	Learning
🏗 Temporal workflow engine	Makes long-lasting tasks possible in the background, so you an leave the page without worrying and visible to anyone using Biblio.	Development architecture	Development
💻 GRPC API and remote client	In the long, this interface will enable people (internal in the first place, external in the second place) to use, improve and reuse the data inside Biblio.	Development architecture	Development
🏃🏼‍♀️ Data migration & clean-up 🧼	We have to migrate the data from the old to the new architecture. Since we have a new interface with some new assumptions, the data has to be cleaned along the way.	Development architecture	Development

Features Status: Building, testing and adapting

🤝 Reaching feature parity for researchers & librarians 🤝

Feature		Category	Status	Audience
📖 New publication policy	There's a new policy for publications at UGent, Biblio needs to allow and reflect this.	Policy	DONE(TESTING)	Everyone
💬 Setting up communication flow	Allow for primary communication between researchers and librarians with statuses & message fields.	Communication	DONE(TESTING)	Everyone
✍️ Adding authors, editors, creators	Restructure the way creators, editors and authors are added, in a more transparent way.	Publication and dataset details	DONE(TESTING)	Everyone
☕️ Filter & Sort	Enable librarians and researchers to filter and sort in Biblio in various ways so they can do their work accordingly.	Overview	Development	Everyone
🔭 Dashboard	Give librarians a way to get overview on all the records to be reviewed & curated, so they can do their work accordingly.	Overview	DONE(TESTING)	Librarians
📤 Export	Enable librarians to export data.	Overview	DONE(TESTING)	Librarians
🖼 First version for data curation	Make sure data curators are supported in their job.	Redesign Biblio interface	DONE(TESTING)	Librarians
🧪 Testing	Testing for the involved librarians during the month of October and November	Quality assurance	Progress	Librarians
🪲 Bug fixing	Hunting for bugs & UX crashes	Quality assurance	Progress	Everyone
🦮 Accessibility strategy	Make sure where we need to improve, and plan for the future.	Accessibility	Analysis	Everyone
💬 Improve communication	"You don't have to sound smart, you have to make them feel smart". Make copy more accessible, and the steps more manageable.	Accessibility	Progress	Researchers

View everything we've already done.

Further developments

Starting after November, we'll focus on continuous development. This means changes will not have a big launch, but rather implemented and shared whenever they are ready.

Feature		Category
💬 In-app messaging functionality & notifications	Make interaction with researchers and administrative manageable	Collaboration and integration
💭 External messaging infrastructure	This infrastructure would make features possible such as data exchange through push notifications	Collaboration and integration
📝 MutantDB database	A database thats tracks changes to a publication on a more detailed level.	Development architecture
🆔 Importing records with other persistent identifiers	For example, we need to be able to ingest datasets with other identifiers than we already have, that are industry standard.	Data ingestion
🆔 Use ROR ID for Collaborative research units (SVOs)	Use this standardised way to refer to Collaborative research units to be able to integrate with other organisations such as GISMO	Collaboration and integration
🍽 Table view	View records in Biblio in a table view next to the list view	Development architecture