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DCAT meeting recording (recording was started a bit late -- so the review of some of the news is missing)

  1. News
    1. Welcome to our 8 new members! (full team)
      1. Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
      2. Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
      3. Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
      4. Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
      5. Bram Luyten - @mire
      6. Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University
      7. Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
      8. Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
    2. DSpace 1.7.1 release - bug fix release (no new features, just resolves issues found in 1.7.0)
      1. resolves a medium-level security issue found in 1.7.0 (see DS-858)
      2. fully supports Oracle databases
      3. resolves several SWORD-related bugs 
      4. some other minor issues were resolved - for a full list, please see the 1.7.1 Release Notes and Version History
    3. DSpace 1.8
      1. target date for Oct 2011
      2. Robin Taylor - release coordinator
      3. what might be included: 1.8.0 Release Notes
    4. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
      2. DSpace committer mtg on Mon June 6, all DCAT invited to the mtg, planning a informal cocktail hour after
    5. Other news?
      1. OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace
      2. Laos -- how did the efiltnet DSpace DSpace training - eIFL.net provided DSpace 1.5.2 training in Laos in March - 1.5 training went well
      3. Sarah -- through Mortensen Ctr at Univ of Illinois she is going to Univ of Ghana in July to consult - policyon repository policies, metadata, less etc (not technical)
  2. e-Forum
    1. participation low in last e-Forum
      1. Val to talk w/Alice about next steps
    2. SPARC's new e-forum on "subject repository development and success"
      1. subject repos a unique need, without a lot of resources -
      overlap?
      1. not a direct overlap w/the DSpace e-forum
  3. DCAT new feature review process - please see last month's meeting notes
  4. Update on previously reviewed items
    1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
        1. put together a strawman set of requirements
        2. get community's response/feedback on strawman
        3. determine if UofM is will to modify/help modify feature per community req'mt
        4. 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
        5. 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 patchidentify other developer resources, if necessary
    2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DSpace+*+DS-638++check+files+on+input+for+viruses%2C+and+verify+file+format), JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
        1. Elin currently working w/Robin to understanding the curation framework and investigating/figuring out a next steps
          1. virus check - is part of MIT curation tools planned for 1.8 (some in 1.7 already)
          2. file format - Elin to f/u w/Robin, possibly look at UofM implementation (done many releases ago - before other curation work done)
    3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
        1. 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
        2. get community's response and feedback on strawman
        3. determine who has done / will do which work (sounds like a lot of interested parties)
        4. determine the gaps - are their improvements that we don't have a developer for?
    4. DS560 XMLUI news config/front page customization (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA 
      1. Proposed next steps:
        1. DCAT vote and assessment
  5. Meeting Attendees:
    1.  Elin, Sarah, Val, Iryna, Ciarán, Jim

NEXT MEETING ON MAY 53, 2011 AT 3PM/20:00 GMT