This is an overview of the DRS Futures project updates as of the end of February 2023. For the full update, please visit the Monthly Reports page.
Current Project Status:
- The stakeholder survey is now complete, and analysis of results will be soon available. 85 participants completed the survey and 45 unique Harvard departments participated.
- Stakeholders’ current DRS workflow interviews, facilitated by Senior BA, Miriam Leigh and Project Architect Stefano Cossu are ongoing through end of March 2023. These are resulting in documents diagramming future basic workflows for the new solution, and use cases, that will be added to functional and business requirements.
- Work continues on abstract content model design for the new solution, incorporating user feedback from Open Meeting, Stakeholder Survey, and stakeholder interviews.
- The team is holding DRS Futures Focus Groups through the months of March and April. There are five topics for focus groups: Curatorial topic: Curators and Administrators; Functional Topic: Deposit; Functional Topic: Managing content; Functional Topic: Reporting; Functional Topic: Access Policies. The results of this engagement will be codified into use case which will inform functional and business requirements.
Next Up:
- Continue meeting of Focus Groups through end of April 2023
- Additional office hours will be held in April 2023
- Finalize Foundational Technical Principles for the future DRS repository
- Continue work on abstract content modeling for the future DRS repository
- Tabulate and prioritize collected use cases to prepare for transforming into functional requirements document