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Welcome new members - Jenn to put out a call for participation on the Community list–we gained new members
- Plans to meet with LYRASIS leadership (Laurie and Meg) on how we can increase the visibility of DSpace
| DSpace 7 Documentation Task Force - Organized sprints run by DCAT
- Planning Sprint in early October, date TBD
- Would like Marketing Interest Group representative(s) to coordinate work with this group and to recommend videos and overview materials
| - Will be announced soon, looking for marketing group participation!
| Deliverables and timeline for DSpace 7
Marketing goals: DSpace 7 Marketing Goals
- what do we need to have ready for encouraging adoption of DSpace 7? What materials do we create, who has time, what do we need to be prepared for the push to move to DSpace 7?
- Who can take action on these goals in the next three months?
- . Welcome Taphros and Emilio!
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| Emilio and Taphros are new to the Marketing Interest Group and participated in today's call. Emilio spoke about how we should market and promote What is DSpace and especially the strange and unique ways people are using DSpace. Susanna talked about broadening our scope and market to businesses. FACT: Italy has a law that if a business has been active 40+ years that they must have a digital archive. INTERESTING! |
- Our ideas on increasing visibility
- Social media: DSpace twitter account, blog, website
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| Twitter. The DSpace twitter account hasn't had a lot of tweets thus not much growth. We are working on a Google Form for the community to use to provide content. The Marketing group will then tweet. Other updates needed: the webpage, Wikipedia, new videos--what is DSpace, features and general marketing brochures/marketing pieces are needed. |
New members review and contribute to DSpace Comm Plan |
| Will do next meeting | Notes from Heather | Important to talk about the transition from 5 or 6 to DSpace 7. Should focus and document some use cases we are aware of. Documentation for migration will be important to focus on. Fact sheet or highlight sheet of what DS7 can support, and a good explanation of entities. Training to support this will also be important. Video to highlight and show off DSpace 7 functionality. Something very short we can show off on the website, and share in a blog post. Should make sure we have translations for the most important languages for the materialsOnce it is out: Demos, Webinars on upgrades, events where we want to start talking about DSpace and highlight specific aspects and featuresWhat can we communicate AHEAD of the release? Getting people to install, getting people to participate in the testathonParallel promotion via the user groups. All the promotional materials shared for translation. They will also have ideas about what will work in their own regions about what will work for their regionsWe can set an agenda of webinars, and offer to the user groups to translate and present the webinarTimeframe is important. Heather thinks end of 2020 for 7.0 releaseWill need to promote the testathon to get as much participation as possibleJenn and Heather are reviewing the list of conferences LYRASIS is participating in, and which should include DSpace materials For these events, will need to develop a DSpace 7 coming soon materialsNeed two weeks for creating translations. Can start to create some basic Introducing DSpace 7 materials, even right now, to give to the user groups to translate and share at release |
Other business, news to share | All | - LYRASIS is working internally on the timeline for merging the two websites. Website update will be on every meeting agenda. Mic has plans for good translations on the future website.
- The Annual Report is in draft! The Interest group will see a rough draft in a couple weeks to add/edit/approve
- Concerns about the market. Elsevier bought Digital Commons, Exploro, others? How can we emphasize DSpace's functionality, affordability, and global usage to gain new users?
- LYRASIS is working on the draft for the Annual Report. We hope to have something for this group to review during our 3rd Wed of the month meeting-- aiming for Oct 21.
- DSpace 7.4 Beta is out! We are working on the community announcement, blog post, and will tweet.
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Action items
Item | Who |
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| Work on Annual Report | LYRASIS |
| Susanna is working on DSpace 7.0 Beta 4 videos (DONE) | Susanna |
| David is working on a What is a repository blog post | David |
| Build a Google Form, beef up twitter usage | Jenn/All Marketing Interest Group |
| DSpace 7.0 Beta 4 Marketing launches | All. |