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DCAT meeting recording (recording was started a bit late -- so the review of some of the news is missing)
News
- Welcome to our 9 8 new members! (full team)
- Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
- Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
- Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
- Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
- Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
- Bram Luyten - @mire
- Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University
- Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
- Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
- DSpace 1.7.1 release - bug fix release (no new features, just resolves issues found in 1.7.0)
- resolves a medium-level security issue found in 1.7.0 (see DS-858)
- fully supports Oracle databases
- resolves several SWORD-related bugs
- some other minor issues were resolved - for a full list, please see the 1.7.1 Release Notes and Version History
- DSpace 1.8
- target date for Oct 2011
- Robin Taylor - release coordinator
- what might be included: 1.8.0 Release Notes
- Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
- DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
- DSpace committer mtg on Mon June 6, all DCAT invited to the mtg, planning a informal cocktail hour after
- Other news?
- OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace
- Nepal, Thailand and Laos -- how did the FAO DSpace training - eIFL.net provided DSpace 1.5.2 training in Laos in March go?
- Welcome to our 9 8 new members! (full team)
e-Forum
- need a co-moderator, ideally in Europe, Asia or Australia/NZ
- future topic suggestions?
- statistics (particularly, being able to share stats with users)
- copyright procedures (how do you research copyright for things you put in your repository?)
- citation management (is there a need to provide a way to pull out citations out of your repository?)
- upgrade process - how do you upgrade, testing, bringing in customizations
- other suggestions
- summary page on wiki - links to discussion on mailing list - give overview - w/Twitter & FB links
- links on Twitter and FB - when it starting/ending, during discussion highlight interesting issues/feedback/participation
- start discussion by providing something to react to - a use case, example, strawman proposal, etc.
New feature review process
- Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
- What it is:
- group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community
- facilitate community wide discussions on the most useful and urgent new feature requests - the purpose of which is to validate DCAT assessment, flesh out req'mts, most importantly-->find stakeholder/developer resources
- possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
- collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
- What it is not:
- a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
- having discussions just to have discussions
- What it is:
- Process overview
- Future discussion schedule
- Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
- - went well
- Sarah -- through Mortensen Ctr at Univ of Illinois she is going to Univ of Ghana in July to consult on repository policies, metadata, etc (not technical)
e-Forum
- participation low in last e-Forum
- Val to talk w/Alice about next steps
- SPARC's new e-forum on "subject repository development and success"
- subject repos a unique need, without a lot of resources - not a direct overlap w/the DSpace e-forum
- participation low in last e-Forum
DCAT new feature review process - please see last month's meeting notes
Update on previously reviewed items
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
- Proposed next steps:
- Jim to have Jose add note in JIRA indicating whether or not authorization groups / access controls (Mark Woods points) are/is included in his current JSPUI patch
- Sarah to talk w/Tim about someone reviewing Jose's latest JSPUI patch and whether or not there is someone available to help Jose create the XMLUI patch
- Proposed next steps:
- DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum , JIRA - (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DSpace+*+DS-638++check+files+on+input+for+viruses%2C+and+verify+file+format), JIRA
- Proposed next steps:
- Elin currently working w/Robin to understanding the curation framework
- and investigating/
- figuring out a next steps
- virus check - is part of MIT curation tools planned for 1.8 (some in 1.7 already)
- file format - Elin to f/u w/Robin, possibly look at UofM implementation (done many releases ago - before other curation work done)
- figuring out a next steps
- Proposed next steps:
- DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA - Jim says it is ready for community wide discussion, he will schedule
- Proposed next steps:
- Jim to build a strawman approach to breakdown the different ideas for how to improve input forms -- including a clear proposal of priority for each w/input from DCAT
- get community's response and feedback on strawman
- determine who has done / will do which work (sounds like a lot of interested parties)
- determine the gaps - are their improvements that we don't have a developer for?
- Proposed next steps:
- DS560 XMLUI news config/front page customization (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
- Proposed next steps:
- DCAT vote and assessment
- Proposed next steps:
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
Meeting Attendees:
- Bram Luyten, Michael Guthrie Elin, Sarah, Val, Iryna Kuchma, Tim Donohue, Ciarán Walsh, Valorie Hollister, Elin Stangeland, Jim Ottaviani, Imma Subraits
NEXT MEETING ON MAY 53, 2011 AT 3PM/20:00 GMT