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Attendees: Eli, Giannis, Kostas, Rui (partly), Nelson, Adam, Peter

Agenda:

1. Look at the Personas
2. How to transform requirements into basic features for both the engine and the web portal
3. Reference repository <=> reference web portal (demonstrators)

Notes:

Peter summarised the key requirements comming from the Personas proposed at the last meeting. The group made an effort to categorise the Personas. Two main categories have been identified:

  a) End-users; such as students, professors and researchers (i.e. A, B, C, D, G, K)

  b) E-learning administrators; such as service managers and system/service integrators (i.e. E, F)

Giannis suggested to extract the requirements from the Personas and identify the list of "top problems" that we are trying to give an answer to.

Attendees had a consensus on writting an initial study that leads to some clear design requirements concerning both the aggregation engine (back-end) and the web protal (front-end).

Such a study must be done by mid August 2014 as the latest so that the necessary software developments and deployments (recommended by the study) can be done by the end of the year.

Eli (IUCC) agreed to coordinate the production and delivery of such a study and Giannis (GRNET) offered to contribute to the harvesting engine related technical parts of the study. Adam (NIIF) and Nelson (FCCN) will check back whether they could also contribute to the study, provided that the draft table of content of the study is agreed.

The attendees did a short brainstorming on the potential content of the study. Peter suggested that the study should start with a technical overview on the state-of-the-art content repositories and their basic characteristics. Giannis said that the overall picture should also be described including similar global (e.g., GLOBE) and European (e.g., openeducationeurope.eu) initiatives and their relation to TERENA OER. The basic information model, metadata schema, and protocol set should also be suggested by the study. Contribution to the user interface and the web front-end requirements is necessary. The functional description should look ahead to 3-5 years in time taking into account the latest trends in on-line teaching & learning  .

The study must be delivered by 15 August 2014 as the latest, the harvesting engine adaptation and deployment as well as the web portal development can then go hand in hand base don the recommendations of the study.

The next meeting will be dedicated to the discussion on the Table of Content of the study.