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	Topic	Discussion leader
1	Questions/comments/additions to news/events update	Val
2	KnowledgeBase Preview: Umbrella KB, DSpace KB	Val
3	Moving forward on improving metedata support: priorities and community msg	Val
5	Old JIRA issues	ALL
6	New JIRA issues	ALL
7	Other items?	ALL

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Action Item	Assignee
DS456 Start community-wide discussion	Iryna
Add metadata support priorities (based on survey) as well as descriptors, specifics, examples	ALL
DS638 virus checking/check file format: create a separate JIRA issue for file format checking at submission	Robin
Distribute survey results (community and beyond)	Val, Iryna, Michael
DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml: resurrect original request and propose next steps	Jim
Select new JIRA issue	ALL

Status

Val
- survey questions added so it could be sent out to non-DSpace users DONE
  - draft priorities and community msg DONE
  - need to distribute to community and beyond
  survey closed and results distributed to DCAT DONE

DCAT meeting dates:
1. January 10, 2012
2. February 14, 2012
DSpace 1.8 Released!
1. Backup/Restore addon will be available shortly - can be used for DuraCloud and other backup/restore activities
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
PREMIS OWL Ontology now available for review
NDSA Collecting stories about data loss
DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign: $340.5k with 60 sponsors so far, 20 of which are new for 2011
Call for Proposals to Host Open Repositories Conference in 2013 and 2014
Google Summer of Code Report
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.

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