DCAT Meeting Notes November 8, 2011

Meeting Recording

Meeting MP3

Attendees

• Amy Lana - University of Missouri
• Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
• Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
• Maureen Walsh - The Ohio State University
• Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace  

Guest Attendees

• Tim Donohue

General

• Call In To: HiDef (Via Skype: +9900827047086940)
• - Indicates who will be taking minutes 

Discussion Topics

Actions from previous meeting

Status

• Val
  • survey questions added so it could be sent out to non-DSpace users DONE
  • survey closed and results distributed to DCAT DONE

News & Events

1. DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. December 13, 2011
   2. January 10, 2012
   3. February 14, 2012
2. DSpace 1.8 Released! 
   1. Backup/Restore addon will be available shortly - can be used for DuraCloud and other backup/restore activities 
3. DuraCloud 
   1. Launch open source cloud service
   2. DuraCloud Preservation Service in the Troposphere: "Meteorology for the cloud computing world"
   3. recent presentations at DLF and EDUCES 
4. PREMIS OWL Ontology now available for review
5. NDSA Collecting stories about data loss 
6. DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign: $340.5k with 60 sponsors so far, 20 of which are new for 2011
7. Call for Proposals to Host Open Repositories Conference in 2013 and 2014 
8. Google Summer of Code Report
9. Other news? 
   1. Open Access Week activities
      1. news feature on African repos: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5
      2. others?  
         1. Amy: Univ of Missouri - speaker from rival school spoke to faculty about OA, library showed how much journals costing univ
         2. Iryna: eIFL.net had events in 30 countries - she was in Estonia 
   2. Events
      1. DLF in Baltimore - report
      2. Digital Preservation Summit in Hamburg
      3. iPres 2011 in Singapore
      4. Berlin 9 in Washington DC - Bram and Jim attending
      5. Digital Curation Conference in Bristol
      6. Coalition for Networked Information in D.C.

Minutes

1. New meeting format 

• new format for agenda
• focus on the mtg is more on discussion, less about info sharing - info still on agenda - only feedback/comments/questions on info discussed
• agenda will be published on Friday before mtg - all are responsible for updating their "Actions" status as well as reviewing agenda info, noting feedback/comments/questions
• rotating note taker - starting alphabetically - will be announced by Friday before who note taker is

2. Revised meeting time

• request to move the mtg one hour later - new time will be 10:00am Eastern and 15:00 UTC - please let Val know if this time doesn't work for you

3. Questions/comments/additions to news and events

4. Moving forward on improving metadata support

• discussed observations/priorities based on about survey results: Metadata Support Priorities
• next steps
  • all DCAT members to add there observations/priorities based on survey to Metadata Support Priorities wiki page - provide as much detail and examples as possible so committers/developers know specially what community is looking for
  • finalize the priorities 
  • distribute summary of priorities and results to community and beyond
  • consult with committers on dependencies/complexities
  • form work groups for priorities/projects inviting survey and community volunteers to join

5. Old JIRA issue update - Discuss 560 & 456 and any updates to others

• DS587 tombstone (Sarah):discussion forum,JIRA
  • status as of last mtg:
    • some disagreement on tombstone reasons, what metadata would be displayed - discussion came up too late (Jose's version vs. Richard's)
    • still trying to get XMLUI tombstone reason for withdrawn item in to 1.8
• DS638 virus checking/check file format (Elin):discussion forum (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DSpace+*+DS-638++check+files+on+input+for+viruses%2C+and+verify+file+format),JIRA
  • virus checking is in 1.8, file format checking is written and tested, but did not make it into 1.8
  • status as of last mtg:
    • dependent on curation task work that MIT, not quite done, trying to follow same format for virus checking
    • can do file format checking - but NOT at submission
    • Robin to create a separate JIRA issue for file format checking at submission
• DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-164
  • 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
    • GSoC student wants to continue work on project
    • sample screenshot wiki page
  • status as of last mtg:
    • some muddling w/an adjacent GSoC project - Jim to resurrect original request and propose next steps
• DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
  • XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config, Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
  • Do we have a DCAT consensus? If so, does it still make sense to hold a community-wide discussion for both feedback and developer resource identification?
• DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
  • no developer assigned yet
  • propose writing scripts for the most common database/operating sys
  • Database: PostgreSQL 264, MySQL 43, Oracle 39, Other 6
  • Operating Sys: Linux 224, Microsoft Windows 88, UNIX 28, Solaris 22, HPUX 2
  • Michael to attach scripts to JIRA issue that they have developed
  • hold community-wide discussion/solicitation of other upgrade scripts already written or interested parties

6. New JIRA issues

Actions from this meeting