DCAT Meeting November 2022

Date & Time

November 8th 12:00 EST / 17:00 UTC
Please note the time change due to ending of Eastern Daylight Savings

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DCAT is dedicating our monthly calls for the next year to support all (IR managers, developers, etc.) who are implementing DSpace 7.x

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Agenda:

Announcements
- DSpace 7: Free Webinars in November
DSpace fundraising update (Kristi Park)
- SCOSS
- Development Fund
- Membership
New DSpace Program Coordinator, Natalie Baur
- A second opportunity for DCAT to meet Natalie
- Natalie's position is funded thanks to the generous fundraising pledges via SCOSS.
Input needed: 6.x "log-based statistics" and the 7.x releases (Tim Donohue)
- The developers are seeking input on a task in Tier 3: Medium Priority. It is currently on hold so that the Dev Team can seek feedback:
  - Task: Administrative (potentially log-based) statistical reports, similar to 6.x (UI ticket #786, REST ticket #2852) (Needs feedback from DCAT & others) (Statistics)
- The proposal from the Dev Team is that we may want to drop 6.x "log-based statistics" and replace it with enhancements to "Usage Statistics" and "Quality Control Reports".
- It is unclear what is most important in these older log-based reports. In other words, the Dev Team doesn't want to lose important reporting features... but, at the same time, they feel that trying to rebuild the "log-based" statistics into DSpace 7 is a massive project. If we can instead enhance our usage statistics with more detailed reports, that may actually be a smaller project (or at least similar sized and easier to maintain for the future).
- Background (see https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/2852#issuecomment-1286064086 and https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/786):
  - Old, legacy statistics which analyzed DSpace log files using commandline scripts: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC6x/Command+Line+Operations#CommandLineOperations-Legacystatistics
  - The Dev Team currently feels these log-based statistical reports should potentially be retired in favor of one (or both) of the following:
    - Usage Statistics (Solr Statistics) - Which already exist in DSpace 7, but could be enhanced with additional reports (as required to provide features of those older log-based reports)
    - REST Based Quality Control Reports - Which don't yet exist in DSpace 7, but discussion/work has begun in
    [DS-4301] Ensure that DSpace REST Report capabilities are part of the DSpace 8 REST API #7641. These similarly could be enhanced with additional reports (again as required to provide features of those log-based reports)
DCAT Task Force on User-facing Documentation Learning DSpace
New Business

Preparing for the call

If you can join the call, or are willing to comment on the topics submitted via the meeting page, please add your name, institution, and repository URL to the Call Attendees section below.

Meeting notes

Summary of DCAT discussion about Log-based statistical reports was added to the ticket on that topic: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/2852#issuecomment-1307797383
Two new tickets were created for new Statistical features requested in this meeting:
- Enhance Community/Collection statistics to include aggregate stats for Items: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8572
- Provide a way to export Solr Statistics to CSV for external analysis: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/8573

Call Attendees

Maureen Walsh The Ohio State University Libraries

Kristi Park Texas Digital Library

Tim Donohue LYRASIS

Natalie Baur LYRASIS

Irene Buso 4Science

Fede Federico Verlicchi 4Science

Anne Lawrence Virginia Tech

Iryna Kuchma EIFL

emilio lorenzo Arvo

Isabelle Lorrain

Melissa Anez LYRASIS