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1. Upcoming DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. April 10
   2. May 8
   3. June 12
2. DSpace 1.8.2 released last week: news piece, full release notes
3. OR12 deadlines
4. DSpace Developers' Virtual Summit
5. News
   1. DuraSpace Open Technologies By the Numbers: 
      1. over 1200 DSpace repositories in over 100 countries
      2. new countries: Iraq, South Korea, Rwanda, Sudan
      3. biggest growth in Brazil +23, India +18, United States +17, Spain +15, Japan +14, Ukraine +14, Portugal +13
   2. New Open Source Video Digitization Tools from the National Archives
   3. DSpace Repositories in January 2012 CSIC "Top Institutional Repository Ranking"
   4. Sorting Through the Data: BioMed Central Launches "Systematic Reviews"
   5. Fighting Poverty Together: Open Repository Partners with Oxfam
   6. "AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship" White Paper Available
6. New Hot Topics webinar series 
   1. Recordings available for 2 of the 3 "Knowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning" Series
   2. Upcoming webinar: "Preservation and Archiving Highlights from the Alliance Digital Repository" on Tuesday March 27, 2012
7. Other webinar recordings: "DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education" by Michele Kimpton and Jonathan Markow
8. Other news?
9. Events
   1. Upcoming - 
      1. SPARC OA Meeting in Kansas March 12-13 and Dpace User Group Meeting March 14
         1. conference themes
         2. DSpace user group mtg and Crowdvine
      2. CNI in Baltimore April 2-3
      3. JCDL in Washington June
      4. OR12 in Edinburgh July 9-13

Minutes

1) News/Other
Amy: what is does citation metadata mean to you? Maybe here's a resource: http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-citation-guidelines/ 
Bram: should DCAT help with updating language packs for 1.8?

• current packages: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/I18nSupport
• many are not updated for 1.8
• might be that it is to challenging to figure out what specifically needs updating
• Bram to consult w/committers on what files need to be translated, touch base with original authors as well as the DSpace Ambassadors to get updates made
• DSpace Developers' Virtual Summit - periodic mtg for developers to discuss improvements for DSpace

2) "Action Item" status

• going forward, once the agenda is published (and before the mtg), everyone should update the status of their "Action Items"  

3) SPARC DSUG meeting feedback - whether or not you are attending, what topics would you like to hear about at a user group mtg?

4) OR12 DSUG topic feedback - whether or not you are attending, any feedback/suggestions on mtg content look

5) Google Summer of Code possible projects, last year's project summary

• brainstorming on potential student projects - metadata improvements, easy upgrade script DS-456, others? 

6 & 7) JIRA Issue Discussions

• going forward, all selected DCAT JIRA issues will be updated in JIRA, rather than in DCAT mtg notes
• all discussion leaders for any previously selected open JIRA issues should update JIRA w/the most current info
• if there is something more/new to be discussed or if we need to brainstorm on how to find developer resources, etc, it should be brought up during the monthly Thurs/Fri discussions or placed on mtg agenda
• we will no longer include any status updates in DCAT mtg notes - not public or dynamic enough
• DCAT members should schedule new issues discussions/additional issue discussion on the DCAT Discussion Schedule page - this page also includes an index of all DCAT selected issues

LAST TIME THE DETAIL BELOW WILL APPEAR IN THE MTG NOTES - GOING FORWARD DETAIL SHOULD BE PUT INTO JIRA

Old JIRA issue update 

• DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum,JIRA
• status as of last mtg:
  • some disagreement on tombstone reasons, what metadata would be displayed - discussion came up too late (Jose's version vs. Richard's)
  • still trying to get XMLUI tombstone reason for withdrawn item in to 1.8
• DS638 virus checking/check file format (Elin):discussion forum,JIRA
• virus checking is in 1.8, file format checking is written and tested, but did not make it into 1.8
status as of last mtg:
• dependent on curation task work that MIT, not quite done, trying to follow same format for virus checking
• can do file format checking - but NOT at submission
Robin to create a separate JIRA issue for file format checking at submission-->DS-1093DS1093 file format checking at submission (originally part of DS638: discussion forum,JIRA) (Elin)
• DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-164
  • GSoC project - do away with item-submission.xml and input-forms.xml and instead create an Admin UI that allows repo managers reorganize the submission UI
    • GSoC student wants to continue work on project
    • sample screenshot wiki page
  • status as of last mtg:
    • some muddling w/an adjacent GSoC project - Jim to resurrect original request and propose next steps
  • Per Robin - suggest break this issue into smaller tasks, starting with (It may be that there are already existing issues for some #2 looks to be addressed by DS-464)
    • 1. A screen or screens to allow the administrator to edit the format of the metadata collection screens
    • 2. The ability to select the type of an item and collect appropriate metadata accordingly
   
• DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config, Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
• Do we have a DCAT consensus? If so, does it still make sense to hold a community-wide discussion for both feedback and developer resource identification?
• going back to the priority of just making XMLUI news editable - Bram
14/2: put a ping on JIRA to ask if a developer wants to take this on
• DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
• no developer assigned yet
• propose writing scripts for the most common database/operating sys
• Database: PostgreSQL 264, MySQL 43, Oracle 39, Other 6
Operating Sys: Linux 224, Microsoft Windows 88, UNIX 28, Solaris 22, HPUX 2Michael to attach scripts to JIRA issue that they have developed
• hold community-wide discussion/solicitation of other upgrade scripts already written or interested parties -->look at Iryna's announcement

New JIRA issues

• Added functionality to embargo feature (?DS-908, ?DS895, ?DS-824) - Jim
• Univ of Michigan is embarking on a project with @mire to add functionality to the existing feature
• DS-1021 Add integration with an online document viewer (Amy) - discussion forum, JIRA discussion open now

New JIRA issues

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