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1. Light breakfast (8:30AM – 9:00AM)
2. Prep work on Vision Statement / High Level Roadmap
3. Prioritize Use Cases
4. Plan Next Steps
   
   1. Volunteer assignments

Notes:

• Do we need two platforms? DSpace & Fedora
  
  • Need to see if the 3-5 yr "visions" overlap for the platforms. Think of as a venn diagram - may be a lot of overlap or little
  • Would be important to the University Librarians - need a message as to why give to one or both. Show that we've analyzed whether merging platforms is worthwhile
• Types of DSpace institutions
  
  • Institutions who are essentially happy with DSpace as out-of-the-box IR
  • Institutions who are stretching the boundaries of DSpace
    
    • Faculty wanting something easier to use, "flashier".  Even building their own tools, using other (non-preservation) system
  • "In between"  - like the simplicity but want "flashier"
• Is there a common vision for DSpace? (even amongst our small group)
  
  • In many ways it has morphed from it's initial use case that is was built for
  • Should it be a generic digital repository, or concentrate
• Allan - lots of integration points & access - less about preservation
  
  • DSpace is free, relatively robust.  Large User community.
  • End user deposit. published & unpublished content
  • Managing diverse research output (ORCIDs.  Data with access controls. Digital Collection & Mgmt)
  • Research info mgmt systems.  Needs good integration points
  • Integrates into a different digital preservation.
  • Streaming server, stats module were added as they went
  • (Larger list that Allan will email)
  • "Killer App" = E-Theses.  Harder stuff is images/video.
• Amy - started small and simple, constantly expanding
  
  • Initial decision was it is open source. Philosophy to support OS
  • Capturing university output
  • Getting to streaming servers
  • "In between group" - like ease of use. Small library - students used to do input
  • Migration of some content from ContentDM to DSpace.  Having requests to extend DSpace to add some ContentDM features
  • Feeding publications (university publishing) direct to DSpace
  • Getting data in and out easily
  • Went with Islandora for a Digital Library solution (better "Digital library" product than DSpace).
    
    • Question has come up whether to use Islandora instead of DSpace for some content
    • Possibility: Using DSpace as a true "preservation repository" and feeding content to Islandora (or similar)
  • Positives outweigh the negatives at this point.  But, how many systems can they really support amongst digital library / ir services?