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- DCAT meeting dates:
- February 14, 2012
- March 13, 2012 - conflict w/the SPARC mtg, hold March 6 instead
- DSpace 1.8.1 released
- DuraCloud: 2 months free, 1.3 released
- KnowledgeBase announcement: Umbrella KB, DSpace KB
- Metadata survey news piece
- SPARC Conference March 11-13:
- conference themes
- call for innovation fair proposals
- working on a DSpace user group mtg
- DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign Summary
- Call for Proposals to Host Open Repositories Conference in 2013 and 2014
- Call for Proposals for EDUCAUSE
- Other news?
- Events
- Upcoming
- PASIG in Austin Austin (Jan)
- ALA Midwinter in Dallas (Jan)
- Code4lib (February)
- SPARC OA Meeting in Kansas (Kansas, March)
- JCDL in Washington (Washington, June)
- Code4lib (February)
- OR12 in Edinburgh July 9-13
- Upcoming
Minutes
1. Questions/comments/additions to news and events
2. KnowledgeBase Preview
-Background:
--community feedback that documentation needs to be easier to understand, more examples/showing, more accessible language, make entry level experience easier
--also wanted a logical place to put many useful community resources that didn't belong in the official docs
--informal mtg at OR11 with interested 'advisors'
-Strategy:
--patterned after the Ruby on Rail's RailGuides - framework for including text-based guide, screencasts, presentation slides, webinar recordings
--material to be collaboratively developed by user community, developers, service providers, committers and the DuraSpace organization
-Goals
--NOT to replace/duplicate official docs - a supplemental resource including dynamic content delivered through various methods (text, screencasts, etc) using lots of examples/visuals
--make users immediately productive with wither DSpace of Fedora - help them understand how to set up and run a repository
--framework to encourage collaboration in bite sized chunks
-Framework overview
-separate wiki 'space' for DSpace, Fedora and umbrella - ability to easily jump between
-how to contribute - roles (content contributor and content moderator) laid out
-draft table of contents - topics to be covered - contributors not be limited by initial draft
-sample content developed
-What's next?
--feedback from interested advisors - now
--soft launch to the community to solicit contributors/moderators - mid-Dec
--more publicity/activity in Jan/Feb
Questions/Feedback:
-other ed materials on wiki - how to treat? references from other parts of the wiki going to the KB for updated material
-looks easy to contribute
-Flash work arounds for iPads?
3. Metadata Support Improvements
-Elin mentioned some questions about DC standards - Bram pointed to an analysis he did here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/NewDublinCore
Open discussion on how DCAT is working / how it could improve
3. Improving metadata support project teams formation-Bram and Elin will post edits on community message by Fri: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/Metadata+Support+Survey+Results+Community+Message
4. Old JIRA issue update - Discuss 560 & 456 and any updates to others
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