Attendees were asked to have table discussions and report out their answers to the following questions:
- What did you hear today?
- What do you have concerns about?
- What has inspired you?
- What unanswered questions do you have?
TABLE 1
- Terminology seems to matter–calling efforts projects, programs or products--programs might be better
- DuraSpce DuraSpace did not bring concerns about DSpace and Fedora sustainability to the community soon enough
- New Fedora needs to be backwards compatible and easy to migrate forward
- Everyone is keen to do open source until it gets hard
- Ownership; DuraSpace seems to be the place to do it
- Inspired that DuraSpace took DSpace and Fedora
- Lyrasis is positioning itself as a product; DuraSpace could do the same
- Curiosity about additional investment in Fedora
- What kind of governance model would enable better commitment going forward; perhaps a governance roadmap
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- Perhaps there really is a crisis for the community if DSpace and Fedora are underfunded
- "It's one thing to be in a train wreck and quite another to be driving the train; this is a community crisis"
- It's easier to see physical backlog then a digital backlog
- We need IT partners; willing academic partners in research data preservation
- Need a migration path between DSpace and Fedora? Fedora is a better choice; shift forward
- Armaggedon in the stacks?
- Appreciated the communications around Digital preservation value proposition; that conversation is happening everywhere; if we could share going forward it would be helpful
- We should all appreciate the urgency of the digital preservation problem
TABLE 8
- We need "A louder roadmap" going forward
MISCELLANEOUS FEEDBACK
we knew this day was coming – funded thru grants, at some point something needs to change – this is it – the point where we have to step up
- urgency of the digital dark age – physical backlog of books vs. a digital backlog – digital resources are vulnerable
- 70% or organizations resources are dedicated on physical objects
- only 10% of our adopter community that are sponsoring – needs to be higher
- how do we make sure non-sponsors are included in community
- multiple 20K sponsorship needs
- deficits of DSpace and Fedora are a concern, can they be resolved?
- Same/usual suspects that contribute – fatigue – need to expand contributions (financial and inkind) by other institutions
- acceleration of the creation of dig data – is there a space to consider policy workflow layers so we don’t all re-create
- appreciate DuraSpace's openess and transparency
- we are not dealing with digital humanities we are dealing with humanities that are digital
- more ways to participate
- more sharing of knowledge and expertise
- need to make the invisable visable
- need a shared value proposition for selling investment now to leadership