“Agile” as Key to Collaboration on NYU Digital Collections Discovery Initiative

“Agile” as Key to Collaboration on NYU Digital Collections Discovery Initiative

Daniel LovinsJune 26, 2016

Intro

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Top Down?

Intro

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Collaboration Across Subcultures

Overview• Agile Development

• Implementing a Strategic Initiative

• Hydra Project

• From User Stories to Features

• Next Steps

Overview

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Background

Background

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Case Studies

Background

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My Case Study

Background

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Goal 4: “Establish processes and support structures that ensure we can select, acquire, preserve, and provide access to the full spectrum of research materials”

Initiative 4.3: “a plan to provide intellectual access to NYU-curated digital collections via the library's primary discovery-and-access interfaces”

Background

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Background

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Web Archives

Faculty Digital Repo

Spatial Data Repo

Lib Guides

BobCat (discovery Portal)

Hydra/ Fedora

Digital Library Pub.

Patrons

credit: http://rones.su/

Hydra as Middleware

Background

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Credit: abkldesigns.com

Agile Development

Agile

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Scrum Framework

Agile

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Evolution of User Stories into Product Features

• Library ITS• Digital Library Technology Services (DLTS)• Collections & Research Services• User Experience (UX)• Knowledge Access Design & Development (KADD)

• Part of Knowledge Access & Resource Management Services (KARMS)

Agile

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Initiative Participants

• Scrum Master• Product Owner• Development Team

Agile

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Roles

• Library ITS• Digital Library Technology Services (DLTS)• Collections & Research Services• User Experience (UX)• Knowledge Access Design & Development (KADD)

• Part of Knowledge Access & Resource Management Services (KARMS)

Agile

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Initiative Participants

• backlog grooming• sprint planning• daily scrums• sprint reviews• sprint retrospectives

Agile

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Scrum Events

Agile

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Agile

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Backlog grooming

Agile

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Evolution of User Stories into Product Features

Agile

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Sprint planning

• Spatial Data Repository (SDR)• Faculty Digital Archive (FDA)• Ephemeral NGO Reports• Numeric Datasets• Archived Web Sites• Digital Library publishing (Drupal sites, digitized texts, video, audio,

etc.)

Agile

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Initial Target Collections

Agile

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Dedicated Portals

Agile

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BobCat

Agile

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User Story in Pivotal Tracker

Agile

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User Stories into Product Features

Agile

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Sprint planning

Agile

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Cucumber Tests

Agile

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SDR record in its native environment

Agile

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SDR record as it appears in Ichabod

Agile

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In-browser editing form in Ichabod

Agile

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SDR record in Bobcat

Agile

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Agile

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More Complex Story 1

“As a curator, I want to be able to describe existing resources at the collection level so that I can add information to them.”  Acceptance criteria:  •All existing collections in Ichabod are changed to use a Collection object rather than Resource Set to store collection information

•Collection Abstract field exists, and is editable

•UI is unchanged as a result of this modification.

More Complex Story 2

As a collection curator, I want to see my resources organized in Ichabod by collection, because that’s the way I think.

 Acceptance criterion:  • There is a collection object in Rails with these fields: Collection Name,

Abstract, Rights, Discoverability Flag, Provider, and Department.

Agile

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Next Steps & Conclusions

•Collect and refine user stories for additional resource sets• ISAW Flickr channel for archeology images• Ancient World Online blog posts• Digitized special collections (via finding aids portal)• Indian Ocean Postcards

•Integrate UX assessment more tightly into feedback loop

•Expand range of assessment inputs to include • application transaction logs• web analytics• direct interviews with students and researchers

Next Steps

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Recap

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Strategic Initiative: Bring together disparate collections

Agile Development• User story

• Functional requirement• Keep focus on user needs

• Backlog grooming• Sprint planning• Daily scrum

Support interdepartmental collaboration

Questions?

________Contact: daniel.lovins@nyu.edu