Meeting Notes

DCAT meeting recording


  1. News
    1. Housekeeping - mtg time going forward will always be at this time - 9am Eastern/13:00 GMT (except when daylight savings time changes vary between countries)
    2. Google Summer of Code - 2011 Accepted Projects
      1. SKOS Authority Controls
      2. WebMVC (Freemarker) UI development
      3. Submission Enhancements in DSpace - ties into DS164 (see below)
      4. New UI built over RESTful services
    3. DSpace 1.8 - 1.8.0 Release Notes
    4. DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign launch
    5. New websites: DuraCloud.org and DuraSpace.org 
      1. based on Islandora - open source digital asset management system based on the combination of a Fedora digital repository and Drupal
      2. free DuraCloud trial accounts starting in June
    6. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace developer/committer mtg on Mon June 6, all DCAT invited to the mtg, planning a informal cocktail hour after - click here for more info an to RSVP
      2. Tim is looking for agenda ideas to help generate discussions between DCAT/committers -- ideas?
      3. conference hotel is filled up! there is a waiting list
      4. DSpace user group mtg until noon on Saturday, Jun 11
    7. Other news?
      1. OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace
        1. Rob Tansley
        2. 43 of 50 registrants
        3. add social events
        4. Robin to get 1.8 slides to @mire/other presenter
      2. interesting repository just launched for the United Nations - UNECA
  2. New issues
    1. DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config
      2. Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
      3. Bram to start DCAT discussion this wk - will send out email  
        1. need to hear functional req'mts (news box, statistics, list of comm/coll, what ever front page needs)
        2. would like to hear what types of optional configurable elements that the community would like to see
    2. Anyone who does not have an issue selected, please come with your selection: DCAT JIRA New Features
      1. Imma - narrowing selections down - will select a discussion week and put it on the schedule
      2. Ciaran - DS832 statistics add on from Univ of Minho
        1. many people using Minho stats -- this is an important upgrade
        2. From Robin/Tim:
          1. committers need to decide how to treat this -- as an addon vs. incorporated in DSpace
          2. committers still need to review code
        3. Ciaran to hold DCAT discussion/DCAT vote on usefulness/need/desire for this pkg (in addition to the @mire stats pkg in currently in DSpace)
        4. Ciaran to follow committers communications/progress, might be able to help XMLUI development
  3. Update on previously reviewed items
    1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Richard Rodgers and Peter Dietz volunteered to review the patch and provide their feedback
      2. patch submitter Jose Blanco is also working on XMLUI version
      3. Tim to check in with Richard and Peter on the code review status
    2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DSpace+*+DS-638++check+files+on+input+for+viruses%2C+and+verify+file+format), JIRA
      1. virus checking - Robin Taylor has added a few patches to address request, waiting on other developers to review
      2. file format checking - Richard Rodgers is working on this, Robin hoping to use his work, will be in for 1.8
    3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. GSoC project - do away with item-submission.xml and input-forms.xml and instead create an Admin UI that allows repo managers reorganize the submission UI
      2. Jim to send msg to get feedback from all DCAT on req'mts
      3. need a few volunteers to work as active consultants w/Jim and GSoC mentors (Mark Diggory and Scott Phillips)
        1. put together req'mts, send to Mark and Scott and have a discussion
        2. DCAT consultants get on GSoC mailing list: DuraSpace-GSoC
        3. keep discussion going throughout the summer
  4. Meeting Attendees:
    1. Bram, Val, Robin, Imma, Tim, Ciaran, Jim

DUE TO OR11 OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON JUNE 14, 2011 at 9:00 am Eastern/13:00 GMT  

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