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Zoom information: DSpace Meeting Room
Agenda:
- DSpace Documentation and Training (continuation of our September discussion) - Community Forum Call facilitated by Iryna Kuchma
Updating Guides and FAQs …
- Do want to suggest any changes to User FAQ? Looks up to date
- Five suggested changes to TechnicalFAQ and questions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0YYfSb-QLqdGSZHgwCqE9S8KFjnOytGY1DlvSd0J4o/edit#
- Anything to add to Repository Planning at Guides and FAQs?
- I suggest to add EIFL checklist: How to make your DSpace open access repository work really well
- COAR Repository Toolkit https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/
- Cornell University Library Repository Principles and Strategies Handbook https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/57034
- Installing DSpace at Guides and FAQs - the link in Start with the DSpace System Documentation doesn't seem to be working, replace with Documentation? Any other suggested changes?
- How can we update Customizing DSpace section at Guides and FAQs, use this doc for suggested changes https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0YYfSb-QLqdGSZHgwCqE9S8KFjnOytGY1DlvSd0J4o/edit#
- How can we update Documentation for New DSpace Administrators at Guides and FAQs? E. g, add to The DSpace Curator's Handbook: The DSpace Curator's Handbook? and include https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/help/index.jsp?
- How could we update this page: https://duraspace.org/dspace/resources/training-materials/? The DSpace Course is mentioned first, but it's very old. What do you think about Community Presentations - points to Meetings and not sure very relevant in training materials
- DSpace Documentation and Training (continuation of our September discussion) - Community Forum Call facilitated by Iryna Kuchma
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
Guides and FAQs … discussion:
- We would like to make each question - a page - to be able to tag it, some questions would belong to more than one category and it would be possible to include them in all relevant ones. Anchor a question.
What’s the difference between the wiki and https://duraspace.org/dspace/? How can we ensure cross-linking and avoid unnecessary duplication?
Discussion about User FAQ https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/User+FAQ
- Define a user? Who is this for? Target certain sections to certain users. E.g.:
- Thinking about DSpace?
- For librarians, library administrators, repository administrators and managers
- Getting started
- For Repository managers and repository administrators
- Already using DSpace?
- For Repository managers and repository administrators
- Thinking about DSpace?
- Hosting your own repository or using a hosted solution?
- For Repository managers and repository administrators
- Use labels from testathons to structure the page - ACTION: create the topical navigation
- We suggest to target the following categories of users:
- Potential DSpace adopters
- Repository managers - the first priority for our group, e. g, add to The DSpace Curator's Handbook: The DSpace Curator's Handbook?
- System administrators
- General users (submitters, everyone else), e.g. re-use https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/help/index.jsp?
- ACTION: create the User type navigation as well
- Delete from https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/User+FAQ#UserFAQ-WhatmetadatastandardsdoesDSpacesupport?CanIcreatemetadatausingthe[SCORMorVRAorFGDCorMARCormyOwnSchema]? This sentence, which is not relevant any more: “HP and MIT also has a research project called SIMILE which is investigating how to support arbitrary metadata schemas using RDF as applied by the Haystack research project in the Lab for Computer Science and some of the Semantic Web technologies being developed by the W3C.”
- Update https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/User+FAQ#UserFAQ-WhocanjointheDSpaceCommunity? With information about DCAT, Slack. Encourage institutions to financially support DSpace, it was clearer on the old DSpace website.
- Define a user? Who is this for? Target certain sections to certain users. E.g.:
- Discussion about https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/TechnicalFAQ
- To group into four-five questions sections
- Target system administrators
- https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/TechnicalFAQ#TechnicalFAQ-WhatisthemostcurrentreleaseoftheDSpacesoftware? Replace the first sentence The most recent stable version of DSpace, recommended for production use, is available from GitHub. With the following text: Check the Releases page for the most recent stable version of DSpace, recommended for production use.
- Action: Go through DSpace mailing list and pick up most frequently asked questions, provide the answers.
Action: Add to Repository Planning at Guides and FAQs
- COAR Repository Toolkit https://coartraining.gitbook.io/coar-repository-toolkit/
- Cornell University Library Repository Principles and Strategies Handbook https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/57034
- EIFL checklist: How to make your DSpace open access repository work really well
- Fixed: Installing DSpace at Guides and FAQs - the link in Start with the DSpace System Documentation didn’t work, replaced with Documentation. Any other suggested changes?
Action: Update this page: https://duraspace.org/dspace/resources/training-materials/? The DSpace Course is mentioned first, but it's very old. Discuss Community Presentations - points to Meetings and not sure very relevant as training materials
We are happy to keep working on this during further DCAT meetings and meet twice a month if needed to make progress on this
- For detailed notes, please check https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_0YYfSb-QLqdGSZHgwCqE9S8KFjnOytGY1DlvSd0J4o/edit#
Call Attendees
- Iryna Kuchma (EIFL)
- Kimberly Chapman (University of Arizona)
- Gail Steinhart Cornell
- Felicity Dykas (U of Missouri)
- Claudio Cortese (4Science)