Gaucho (May 2015) Release Notes

Bulk upload client: tested and now used in production; created a command-line version as well for special use cases.
Self-serve metadata import: investigated the technical feasibility of tab-delimited/spreadsheet metadata importer; this looks promising and a demo is in process.
Collection migration into Nuxeo: continued migrating existing files and metadata from local systems into the DAMS.
Migration of Nuxeo to Amazon Web Services: successfully migrated the system and its assets. Collections are now stored in the AWS S3 service, which provides effectively "bottomless storage."

Harvest from external sources: brought all identified collections from external sources (i.e. non-Nuxeo) into the test index, as identified at: Harvest/crawl collections list.
Harvest from Nuxeo: brought X number test collections (including A/V files and complex objects) from Nuxeo into couchDB/the test index.
Infrastructure: modified the infrastructure and location of the Solr index to better allow for staging and QA.
User guide: created a harvest and access user guide on the Documentation site to guide contributors through the process of identifying and sending collections for publication on Calisphere/DPLA.
QA and staging: began engaging campus partners with quality assurance of collection and institution data and finalization of collections for harvest for soft launch (July) and public release (August).

UX design: finalized most page designs in light of analysis from stakeholder focus groups and additional user testing.
Feature design: determined interaction design for three object-level features: download, citations, and contact
Continued building: created templates for all existing pages and views, and created working pages (with limited functionality) for Institution, Campus, Institution Directory, and Collection Directory
Metadata display: created metadata display specs for objects, collection and institution pages, facets, etc.
Statistics: developed a plan for statistics reporting back to contributors in consultation with campus partners.
Infrastructure: set up a Calisphere staging environment.