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Potential Attendees

xAmy Amy Lana - University of Missouri

Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital

Bharat M. Chaudhari -@ School Of Petroleum Management, Gandhinagar, India

Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd

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Claire Bundy - BioMed Central

Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net

Elena Feinstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

xIryna Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net

Jacob Andersson - Malmö University

xJames James Evans - Biomed Central/Open Repository

xJim Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan

Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland

xMaureen Maureen Walsh - The Ohio State University

Michael Guthrie - 

Sarah Molloy - Queen Mary, University of London

Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sue Kunda - Oregon State University

Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace

Yan Han - University of Arizona Libraries

Guest Attendees

xSands Sands Fish - MIT, 3.0 Release Team 

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1. Upcoming DCAT meeting dates: 
   
   1. November 13
   2. December 18 (conflict with original date of December 11)
   3. January 8, 2013
2. News 
   
   1. DuraSpace and SanDiego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) Partner to Provide Cost-Effective Cloud Storage and Preservation Services
   2. Dell and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Create Preservation Archive with Open Source Fedora Repository Software
   3. Last Chance to Become a DuraSpace Sponsor
   4. Help Define Levels for Digital Preservation: Request for Public Comments
   5. DuraCloud Helps to Ensure Future of World's Largest Archive of Social Science Data & Historic North Carolina Materials
3. Webinars/Podcasts/Courses:
   
   1. Upcoming
      
      1. Series Three: Get a Head on Your Repository with Hydra End-to-End Solutions - Sept/Oct 
      2. DuraCloud Brown Bag - Oct 31
   2. Gathering interest for future @mire webinars. Feel free to complete these surveys:
      
      1. Getting Started with DSpace
      2. DSpace 3.0 related topics 
4. Events    
   
   1. PASIG in Dubin, Ireland, Oct 17-19
   2. Open Access Week Oct 22-28
   3. Euro Med 2012 in Lemesos, Cyprus Oct 29-Nov 3
   4. 2012 Digital Library Federation Forum in Denver, Colorado, Nov 4-5
   5. Berlin 10 Open Access in Stellenbosch, South Africa, Nov 6-8
   6. EDUCAUSE in Denver, Colorado, Nov 6-9
   7. Berlin 10 Open Access Conference in Stellenbosch, South Africa, Nov 6-8, 
   8. 6th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research in Cádiz, Spain, Nov 29-30
   9. Coalition for Networked Information Fall Membership Meeting in Washington DC Dec 10-11

Minutes

1) News/info ?

• see helix84 email to DCAT list on the status of DS-531 and testing of unmerged issues 

2) Testathon help

• biggest changes
  
  • Discovery changes - will be the default interface - regardless of using JSP or XML (although changes aren't identical - common feature enhancements - will be documented)

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• • new version of OAI - should be backward compatable

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• what features

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• would be most helpful for DCAT to review?
  

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• • Discovery - exercising all functions, try a bunch of searches or different passes through the interface - try to find specific content, exercising facets, noting any errors or behavior

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• • documentation
    

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• • • check for completion, accuracy, - make note on JIRA ticket for that feature - or ask Tim Donohue for access to improve docs - flag problems

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• • stats enhancements - (what is admin access on demo?)

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-account/password info will be in email

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• • "new features" and "improvements" on 3.0 Release Notes page
• how to / logistics
  
  • will start tomorrow or Thurs and run through Fri Oct 19
  • email out to the community, including instructions, links and demo DSpace account login and password 
  • backend changes can't be tested unless you download a test version yourself

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-Amy - potentially getting computer scientist involved

-testathon thru Oct 19

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• • if a new feature is confusing / don't understand it from the interface or documentation - then provide that feedback

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• • - ideally in the original JIRA issue or send an email to dspace-release@lists.sourceforge.net (Jim validated that this is what he usually does)

• • run through your (your team's) common tasks - make sure everything works as expected
  • Potentially getting general computer scientists involved from your institution (Amy says there is some discussion/intention about this at the University of Missouri)

3) Updating DC status

• Good discussion last month in DCAT mtg, but not much of an asynchronous follow up discussion - how can we best move this forward?
  
  • Amy: need to chat with cmtrs about limitations

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• • Maureen: need more clarity of what direction we should go before taking w/cmtrs

-targeted discussion w/DCAT - where we are and what directions we think we'd like to head, then talk w/cmtrs about limitations, then talk w/community in a specific and targeted discussion - with senarios

-expanding proposal discussion - DSpace and/or wider repository community

-proposal - drawbacks / benefits / questions for cmtrs or others

• • Proposed process
    
    • 1) draft a proposal on updating DC from DC sub-team (Sarah P., Amy, Maureen, Maura)  - identify key areas to address for the update, identify proposed direction forward along with the benefits/drawbacks/outstanding questions for cmtrs and DCAT, should include:
      
      • Goal of update:
        
        • identify goal for the update - why is it important/why should it be done 
        • identify what specifically DSpace DC should be updated to - QDC vs DCTerms 
      • User Modifications: identify what if any modifications will be allowed 

      • Migration / Implementation: identify any areas/processes that will be affected (forms, imports/exports, etc.)

      • Other areas?
    • 2) hold targeted DCAT discussion - for December DCAT mtg have targeted discussion about the proposal - validating / revising DC sub-team's proposal - Val to poll DCAT to see if everyone is available on Dec 18 or if we need to re-schedule
    • 3) revise proposal based on DCAT discussion 
    • 4) discuss proposal with developers/cmtrs to understand limitations/pain points
    • 5) revise proposal based on developer/cmtrs feedback
    • 6) hold discussion / allow for feedback on proposal by DSpace community - and maybe the broader repository community

4) JIRA workflow improvements

• useful improvements that should make it easier to understand what needs to be done on JIRA issues
• more tweaks coming before implementing - more feedback welcomed (email Tim) - will discuss in detail at a later point

5) Topic for developer overlap mtg

6) Topic for Thurs/Fri discussion-Val to poll for Dec 18  mtg 

-Val to contact each DCAT discussion leader to indentify status on their issues

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