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120 min

Welcome and introductions

  • Welcome
  • Thank you to meeting note-taker
  • Brief introductions of Leadership Group members and meeting attendees
Kristi Park, all
220 min

DSpace Development Report

Update on the current status of DSpace 7 development

  • 7.2 due on Feb 7. Expect 3 new major features: Embargo entire Item, Feedback form, Export metadata (to CSV) from search results.
    • Starting with 7.3, we'll move to 3 releases per year. 7.3 will be 4 months later, around early June.
  • Reminder of how we got here (See "Milestones" in DSpace Release 7.0 Status) & Prioritization of 7.x features
  • Opportunities for contribution to DSpace development
    • New features funded from DSpace budget are built in priority order. We are averaging around 3 funded features per release.
    • New features donated to DSpace are accepted at any time (regardless of priority ordering).

Tim Donohue


315 min

DSpace Community Advisory Team report

Maureen Walsh
415 minGovernance Matters
  • Elections of community-at-large members
    • The Leadership Group retains two voting seats for community participants (i.e. non-members). Nominations were solicited for these seats last month, and Leadership will select from these nominations to fill the two voting seats.
    • Ex officio, non-voting seats are also available at the discretion of Leadership.
    • List of nominees and their statements:  DSpace - Community at Large Nominations.xlsx
    • Recommendation of Steering
  • Selection of Governance chair – call for nominations for Leadership/Steering Chair and Vice Chair
  • Open nominations for Steering seats

Kristi Park, Michele, Mennielli

515 min

Financial Update


  • Recent financial reports shared in email
    • DSpace has $ 43,000 in net assets (as of 10/31/21)
    • Variances include Fundraising and related expenses (SCOSS delayed fundraising campaign start)
    • Report does not reflect 7.1 paid development expenses yet
  • Update on paid development costs
    • 7.1 dev costs estimated to be approx $ 31k (lower than budgeted)
    • 7.2 approved up to 2.0 FTE $ 63,000
    • 7.3 approved up to 2.0 FTE up to $ 84,000 (likely less)

Laurie Arp, Kristi Park

615 minSCOSS update

DSpace was selected as one of three open source infrastructure projects endorsed in SCOSS's latest funding call, which began this fall.

More about SCOSS: https://scoss.org/how-it-works/current-funding-calls/ 

Questions for consideration from potential funder:

  • is there a procedure regarding the declaration of links or conflicts of interest within the nomination process in the boards (steering, leadership)?
  • is DSpace considering writing a living will type document in the coming months/years?
Kristi Park
720 min

Product Visioning Working Group update: Preview of draft recommendations

Reference: DSpace Product Visioning Group (2021)

Scott Hanrath
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Any other business, as time allows

Opportunities for serving on working groups/interest groups 


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      • National Library of Finland contributed $15,000.
      • $10,000 remains to be matched. If you have end of year funds, great opportunity to double the contribution.

       6. SCOSS update

a. DSpace was selected as one of three open source infrastructure projects endorsed in SCOSS's latest funding call, which began this fall.

b. Questions for consideration from potential funder:

      • is there a procedure regarding the declaration of links or conflicts of interest within the nomination process in the boards (steering, leadership)?
      • is DSpace considering writing a living will type document in the coming months/years?

c. Working group to look at proposal for policy text - Conflict of Interest statement. Call for volunteers.

       7. Product Visioning Working Group update: Preview of draft recommendations

a. Scott provided an update on the work of the group to date, their charge, and their three preliminary recommendations:

      • Modularize the DSpace Architecture
      • Empower Users

      • Explicitly conform to selected standards and international
        initiatives

b. Report will be out within the next week or two

       8. Any other business, as time allows

a. No time