DCAT Meeting January 2025

Date & Time

• January 14, 2025, 12:00 Eastern Time
• See the world clock to determine the meeting time for your location.
• Meeting length: one hour

Join information:

We will be using the DCAT Chair's Zoom Room for our meeting.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/81605358751 (Meeting ID: 816 0535 8751 Passcode: dspace

Additional ways to join: DCAT Chair Zoom Room

Agenda:

• Announcements
  • Coffee with Holger on Tuesday, January 21st at 2 pm UTC https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-community/c/JMZiDb9w-7k (correct date is January 21st)
  • DSpace and DSpace-CRIS Strategic Planning Group 

    • DSpace Steering is extending the deadline for nominations to January 15, 2025.

    • https://groups.google.com/g/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam/c/HJ8svfGTDpM

    • Nomination Form: https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cunM0mmmOPjMmdE

    • 12 members total; chair will be Holger Lenz
• Updates
  • Working Groups
    • no major updates due to winter holidays, watch this space or google group for more updates
    • looking for chair or co-chair for task-oriented documentation working group
  • DSpace Testathon: April 7-18
    • mark your calendars!
    • global effort to try out newest dspace releases
    • test what's important to you, or pick a testing task from the provided list
    • the hope is that individuals can contribute whenever they can during the testathon, no specific day/time requirements
    • identified bugs go back to the volunteer developer pool to address and prepare release
    • goal is for a May release in time for Open Repositories conference in June
  • DSpace/ORCiD follow-up
    • December DCAT call (December minutes) included discussion of a grant project to integrate DSpace and ORCiD
    • Further discussion and planning found that our membership might be interested in participating in their project; may use DCAT membership to identify volunteers for testing or feedback
    • It may become a future official DCAT project if/when integrations become part of the core DSpace code

• DSpace Learning
  
  • Choose a function to discuss
  • goal is to learn the system and figure out ways to improve the default/core code for everyone
  • December's brainstorm: Workflows, Format Registry (managing, adding, things to do or not do), Curation Tasks and Processes from the Processes tab, Import Metadata from other sources
  • New topics: SOLR statistics and dSpace statistics
    • creating API calls to find more detailed info
    • workflow/metadata statistics (e.g., items added in a specific date span, items with a specific type of license)
    • nuanced use statistics (e.g., bitstream downloads vs item record visits, removing obvious bot traffic from downloads)
      • IRUS: https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/r5/, https://lyrasis.org/irus-us/
    • statistics for several items that aren't necessarily in the same collection or community
    • a lot of our repositories have local customizations, but core code is known to be very basic – could be helpful for future development if we articulate some specific goals
    • we'll further this discussion in February!

Call Attendees

Kimberly Chapman , University of Arizona Libraries

James Holobetz , University of Regina

Carolyn Sullivan , Université d'Ottawa

Peter Sutton-Long , University of Cambridge

Emilio Lorenzo (Arvo) 

Priscilla Carmini , University of Waterloo

Nadine Seekirchner 

Gonzalo Villegas

Sarah Barsness , University of Minnesota

Anne Shelley , Iowa State University

Marcella Huggard , Lyrasis

Holger Lenz , Lyrasis 

Emily Crawford

Silvija , World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

Linda Chapell, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas.

James Tuttle, Virginia Tech

Jack Leong, York University

Paul Gatavu, University of Burundi (repository)

Genny Jon, York University

Regrets