Our next meeting is on Tuesday, April 13 at either at 9am or 3pm, Eastern DAYLIGHT Time (GMT-5).
Conference Dial-in Number: (605) 475-4825
Participant Access Code: 440208#
1st Call:
Jim
Elin
Monica
Val
2nd Call:
Leonie
Alvin
Ronee
Rea
Val
THIS MONTH'S TO DOs:
-OR10 DSUG: Please contribute your thoughts to the mtg planning -- you may not be able to go -- but we'd really like to put together some great content for repository mgrs -- AND record it for you and others, if possible! What would you like to see? Pleases your ideas/thoughts/observations here: http://groups.google.com/group/dspace-global-outreach-committee/web/or10-dsug-repository-manager-session-workshop
-RELEASE PLANNING: Please read the 3 proposals on the wiki: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Proposals#Release_Cycle.2FProcess_Proposals. Please also read the transcript of the developers/cmtr mtg from Wed, March 10: http://duraspace.org/irclogs/index.php?date=2010-03-10. Please forward me any comments/thoughts/observations -- or better yet, post them to the release process proposal wiki page.
1) News/Updates-1.6 has been downloaded over 700 times (doesn't include SVN): http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/duraspace/2010/03/08/dspace-16-users-are-off-and-running/
-Overview webinar on DSpace 1.6 and Fedora 3.3 on Mar 17: http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml
-OR10 DSUG planning cmte: Elin Stangeland (chair), Sarah Shreeves, Leonie Hayes, Scott Phillips and Ben Boseman
-new release planning - cmtr/dev mtg tomorrow Wed at 3pm EST
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3) Dynamic Database Review
Lets see a version!: http://www.dspace.org/component/option,com_formdashboard/Itemid,31/
Issues:
-URL in detail veiw (content item) not a hyperlink
-why have a sort in the table on SITE (link)
-some links have an extra 'http'
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Another option: have a work session where developers and repo mgrs w/specific interests (metadata, stats, etc) split up into groups and explore what modifications would be helpful, specific as possible-->output would be a list of recommendations
For more, see: http://groups.google.com/group/dspace-global-outreach-committee/web/or10-dsug-repository-manager-session-workshop
5) Community discussions: DSpace Forum - DIDN'T COVER THIS IN EITHER MTG
This series would be a moderated discussion lead by designated persons. Roughly 6 X / year, the moderated discussion will engage the DSpace community encouraging them to share experiences and ideas to other repository managers, catalogers, technical librarians and committers. The forum can be from 1-3 days with a new topic each day. A general call for topics will help to define issues to be discussed. Results of each day of forum will be complied and posted on the DSpace website to be used as a resource. I propose we have one person responsible for the forum in general and allow volunteers to serve as moderators, either from DGOC or larger community.
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Questions for DGOC:
1. Is this a good investment of our time?
2. What to call forum? (e-forum, discussion group, chat, exchange, meet, gab fest, groupthink, rap session, idea exchange...exchange….)
3. How will results be saved and shared? In email string or compiled into one document.
4. Can forum moderator responsibilities be shifted to different people throughout the year with a designated forum coordinator? Same program – different moderator. Consistency will come in the program format.