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- Announcements
- Are there any upcoming webinars/calls to announce?
- Coffee with Holger on December 17 at 12 pm Eastern (5 pm UTC) - informal opportunity to chat with Holger and learn more about DSpace community involvement. Announcement will be sent out today with zoom link
- Recap of recent relevant conferences/webinars/calls?
- NIRD24 (Northeast Institutional Repository Day, IR-agnostic conference)
- Planning group will be adding slides at https://zenodo.org/communities/nird/about soon
- ORCiD DSpace Update Call
- Recording: DSpace ORCID Update Presentation (22 minutes)
- Notes & Q&A: DSpace ORCID Update - Fall 2024
- Slides: DSpace/ORCID update - Nov. 14, 2024.pptx
- Request from Sheila Rabun:
- If your organization has been using DSpace version 5 or 6 and you have either used the ORCID lookup tool or CSV import functionality to get ORCID iDs into your instance of DSpace, please email orcidus@lyrasis.org and/or leave a comment on this Github ticket: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9530
From Tim Donohue on Github ticket
- All versions of DSpace 7.3+ and 8.x support both ways of storing ORCIDs
- The traditional way of storing ORCIDs with authority records is still supported and is described here: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/ORCID+Authority
- The new way of storing ORCIDs on Person Entities was added in 7.3. It allows for a tighter integration with ORCID (including authentication). It's described here: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/ORCID+Integration
You are correct though that there is currently no migration process to move from ORCIDs in Authority records to ORCIDs in Person Entities. I just wanted to clarify that ORCIDs in Authority records are still supported, so site can still upgrade to the latest version of 7.6.x or 8.x and use them. There's no requirement to migrate to using ORCIDs in Person Entities in order to use DSpace 7.6.x or 8.x
- All versions of DSpace 7.3+ and 8.x support both ways of storing ORCIDs
- Sheila provided an update regarding a grant to improve functionality and integration between ORCID and DSpace. As part of this grant project, Sheila's identified some issues that are more complex that will require more community involvement and discussion. Tim Donohue suggested Sheila reach out to DCAT regarding setting up a working group to dive into those issues. Kimberly noted that this work likely involves both technical and user aspects and so could involve a working group that's larger than just DCAT. Iryna expressed interest in being involved in this work. Kimberly and Sheila will meet and Kimberly will discuss with the Steering Committee chair to determine next steps.
- DSpace/DSpace CRIS Info
- Kimberly is working to see where DCAT might fit into these conversations to make sure efforts are coordinated
- Developer Meetings and DCAT Input
- Pierre Lasou willing to attend weekly DSpace developer meetings and bring back issues to the DCAT group. Don't have examples of this yet, but expect that Pierre (or others attending) could bring up issues on the DCAT listserv, potentially have quick ad hoc meetings
- Others who attend developer meetings can get involved by getting in touch with Kimberly
- DSpace and OpenAlex integration
- Timeline: hopefully released in conjunction with DSpace 9.0
- NIRD24 (Northeast Institutional Repository Day, IR-agnostic conference)
- Are there any upcoming webinars/calls to announce?
- Discussion Topics
- Outstanding info requests
- Media viewer
- Collection admin
- Genny and Pierre not on today's call, Kimberly will follow up with them about these 2 requests
- Working Group Updates
- UX (User Experience)
- will hopefully hear more about these reports in February
- Task-Oriented Documentation
- Sprint next week
- Pricilla and Laura have done a lot of work organizing for this working group
- Planning to provide contextual information regarding why an IR manager may want/need to perform particular tasks
- Introduction to DSpace (on hold)
- Advanced Configurations (Contact Pierre or Kimberly if you want to join this group - need more people)
- Feature Requests (on hold - information coming soon.
- Community agreement/code of conduct for DCAT: Kimberly's hoping to set up a working group to work on this in 2025. She noted that there aren't currently any set norms for DCAT and the monthly calls.
- UX (User Experience)
- Theme for 2024-2025
- DCAT will propose a theme for 2024-2025; 2023-2024 theme was "Community Engagement"
- "Community Input" or "Documentation" or "Robust DSpace"?
- "Accessibility"? (from a U.S. perspective, changes to Title II in new year, though Kimberly noted that no DCAT efforts are currently focused on accessibility–perhaps this would be a good idea for 2025-2026 theme)
- Kimberly will send out request on the DCAT listserv too, since it's a smaller group in today's meeting
- DSpace 9 Testathon Dates: (tentative) April 7-18; Kimberly will ask about holding the testathon slightly earlier in April to avoid both Ramadan and Good Friday holidays
- DSpace Learning:
- What do you need help with? Google Doc
- Lack of documentation, or opaque technical documentation, for tasks and options available in DSpace 7.x going forward (such as curation tasks and other tasks now available in the web-based interface that were previously only available to IT and developer staff)
- examples mentioned during call: workflows; format registry (managing and adding, as well as dos and don'ts); creating and managing groups; curation tasks; processes (specifically from the processes tab); importing data from other services/sources
- Possibly host some lunch-and-learns on some of these topics; also have some conversations with developers to understand some of these tasks better and write more user-focused documentation
- Outstanding info requests
Call Attendees
Iryna Kuchma EIFL
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Sarah Barsness, University of Minnesota
Sheila Rabun
Emily Crawford, State Library of Massachusetts
Linda Chappell, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX
Colleen Lyon, UT Austin
Federico Verlicchi, 4Science
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