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Announcements
- Coffee with Holger on Tuesday, January 21st at 2 pm UTC https://groups.google.com/g/dspace-community/c/JMZiDb9w-7k (correct date is January 21st)
- DSpace and DSpace-CRIS Strategic Planning Group
  - DSpace Steering is extending the deadline for nominations to January 15, 2025.
  - https://groups.google.com/g/DSpaceCommunityAdvisoryTeam/c/HJ8svfGTDpM
  - Nomination Form: https://osu.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cunM0mmmOPjMmdE
  - 12 members total; chair will be Holger Lenz
Updates
- Working Groups
  - no major updates due to winter holidays, watch this space or google group for more updates
  - looking for chair or co-chair for task-oriented documentation working group
- DSpace Testathon: April 7-18
  - mark your calendars!
  - global effort to try out newest dspace releases
  - test what's important to you, or pick a testing task from the provided list
  - the hope is that individuals can contribute whenever they can during the testathon, no specific day/time requirements
  - identified bugs go back to the volunteer developer pool to address and prepare release
  - goal is for a May release in time for Open Repositories conference in June
- DSpace/ORCiD follow-up
  - December DCAT call (December minutes) included discussion of a grant project to integrate DSpace and ORCiD
  - Further discussion and planning found that our membership might be interested in participating in their project; may use DCAT membership to identify volunteers for testing or feedback
  - It may become a future official DCAT project if/when integrations become part of the core DSpace code

DSpace Learning
- Choose a function to discuss
- goal is to learn the system and figure out ways to improve the default/core code for everyone
- December's brainstorm: Workflows, Format Registry (managing, adding, things to do or not do), Curation Tasks and Processes from the Processes tab, Import Metadata from other sources
- New topics: SOLR statistics and dSpace statistics
  - creating API calls to find more detailed info
  - workflow/metadata statistics (e.g., items added in a specific date span, items with a specific type of license)
  - nuanced use statistics (e.g., bitstream downloads vs item record visits, removing obvious bot traffic from downloads)
    - IRUS: https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/r5/, https://lyrasis.org/irus-us/
  - statistics for several items that aren't necessarily in the same collection or community
  - a lot of our repositories have local customizations, but core code is known to be very basic – could be helpful for future development if we articulate some specific goals
  - we'll further this discussion in February!