March 11-12, Cosmos Club. 2121 Massachusetts Avenue, NW. Washington, D.C.
Day 1: Tuesday, March 11
12:00 Lunch, Welcome and Opening Remarks, Laura Wood, Director, Tisch Library, Tufts University
12:45 DuraSpace, “State of the Union,” Debra Hanken Kurtz, Chief Executive Officer, DuraSpace
1:15 DuraSpace Membership & Governance, One Year Later, Jonathan Markow, Chief Strategy Officer, DuraSpace
1:45 Open Source Project Overviews, Accomplishments, Goals and Strategies, Presented by Project Steering Group Chairs
- Fedora: Robin Ruggaber, Chief Technology Officer, University of Virginia Library
- DSpace: David Lewis, Dean, IUPUI University Library
- VIVO: Michael Conlon, Co-Director of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute
3:30 Table Breakout: Sustainability, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Chief Executive Officer, DuraSpace
“How can we advance our individual projects while promoting a sustainable ecosystem for our collective community endeavors?”
4:00 Product Overview, The Development and Expansion of DuraSpace Services, Carissa Smith, Services Product Manager, DuraSpace
4:30 The Evolving U.S. Data Policy Environment, Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC
5:00 European Open Data and Access Activities, Michele Mennielli, International Relations Manager, CINECA
5:30 Closing Remarks, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Chief Executive Officer, DuraSpace
6:00 Cocktail reception hosted by DuraSpace in the Crentz Room
Recording of Day 1 Presentations
Day 2: Wednesday, March 13
9:00 Day Two Opening, Tom Cramer, Chief Technology Strategist, Stanford University
9:15 Breakout Sessions: Fedora, DSpace and VIVO
Fedora Project Breakouts, Facilitated by Robin Ruggaber and the Fedora Steering Group
9:30 The Fedora 4 Pilot Projects Lead by David Wilcox
The production version of Fedora 4 launched in November of 2014. Many institutions are taking advantage of the new features and opportunities by upgrading their Fedora 3 repositories or starting new projects based on Fedora 4. This session will give representatives from these institutions an opportunity to discuss their current and planned Fedora 4 pilot projects.
10:30 Positioning Fedora for the Future Lead by Tom Cramer
Fedora 4 is increasingly moving toward adopting existing technologies and standards. By leveraging APIs and integrations rather than writing custom code, we can better position Fedora for the future. This session will feature a discussion on these technology goals, along with the emerging needs and use cases that we should have in mind as we look at Fedora 4.x development.
11:15 Sustainability Lead by Rob Cartalano
By broadening the funding base, increasing adoption, hiring a Product Manager and Technical Lead, and establishing a clear governance model, Fedora has made great strides towards becoming a sustainable community source project. But broad community engagement, particularly in the form of developer contributions, remains elusive. This session will feature a discussion on how to achieve long-term sustainability, with a focus on making the case for continuous participation.
DSpace Project Breakouts, Facilitated by David Lewis and the DSpace Steering Group
9:30 The DSpace UI(s) – Can We Converge on a Single One? Lead by Tim Donohue
DSpace currently has two user interfaces. This is not optimal and a single user interface would be preferable. This session will focus on what the strategy should be to develop a single user interface using the best possible technology.
10:30 The DSpace Strategic Direction Lead by Jonathan Markow
For the past two years the DSpace community has been working on a number of efforts to define the future direction of the DSpace software. This session will review these efforts and discuss the next steps in moving them forward.
11:15 DSpace Resources and How to Use Them Effectively Lead by David Lewis
The resource base for DSpace is different from the other DuraSpace projects. Unlike them DSpace has a significant international user and committer base. Most of the cash contributions come from North American universities and a large portion of the committers are European. The majority of the service providers are also European. This session will focus on how to most effectively leverage this resource base so as to effectively advance DSpace development.
VIVO Project Breakouts, Facilitated by Michael Conlon and the VIVO Steering Group
9:30 VIVO in Transition Lead by Dean B. Krafft
VIVO announced a new project director on Monday, March 9. Over the next several months, the Steering Committee will add members. A technical lead will be hired to coordinate the growth of contributed effort to the project. This session will provide ample opportunity to discuss the changes and their impact on the VIVO project.
10:30 Building an Open Source VIVO Project Lead by Paul Albert
To succeed in providing an outstanding solution to an organization’s information needs, the VIVO project must transform to a truly open project in all its activities. How can VIVO involve developers, ontologists, and others in the creation of an outstanding product consisting of a core, applications and tools, an ontology and documentation? Participants will discuss approaches to contributing and coordinating effort to move VIVO forward.
11:15 Improving the VIVO Value Proposition Lead by Mike Conlon
“VIVO provides an integrated view of the scholarly work of an organization.” What must the VIVO project do to make VIVO more valuable to the organizations that adopt it? What is missing? What should be better? How do we make VIVO the obvious choice for organizations looking to have an integrated view? This session will identify participant interests regarding a better VIVO product for adopters.
12:30 Breakout Session Summaries
Fedora, David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager
DSpace, Tim Donohue, DSpace & DSpaceDirect Technical Lead
VIVO, Michael Conlon, VIVO Steering Group Chair
1:30 Closing Remarks, Debra Hanken Kurtz, Chief Executive Officer, DuraSpace
