DCAT Meeting Notes May 3, 2011

Proposed Meeting Agenda - draft in progress

1. News

   1. Google Summer of Code
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   3. DSpace 1.8
      1. target date for Oct 2011
      2. Robin Taylor - release coordinator
      3. what might be included: 1.8.0 Release Notes
   4. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
      2. DSpace committer mtg on Mon June 6, all DCAT invited to the mtg, planning a informal cocktail hour after
   5. Other news?
      1. OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace
      2. Laos DSpace training - eIFL.net provided DSpace 1.5.2 training in Laos March - went well
      3. Sarah -- through Mortensen Ctr at Univ of Illinois she is going to Univ of Ghana in July to consult on repository policies, metadata, etc (not technical)

2. e-Forum

   1. participation low in last e-Forum
      1. Val to talk w/Alice about next steps
   2. SPARC's new e-forum on "subject repository development and success"
      1. subject repos a unique need, without a lot of resources - not a direct overlap w/the DSpace e-forum

3. DCAT new feature review process - please see last month's meeting notes

4. Update on previously reviewed items

   1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
         1. Jim to have Jose add note in JIRA indicating whether or not authorization groups / access controls (Mark Woods points) are/is included in his current JSPUI patch
         2. Sarah to talk w/Tim about someone reviewing Jose's latest JSPUI patch and whether or not there is someone available to help Jose create the XMLUI patch
   2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
         1. Elin currently working w/Robin to understanding the curation framework and investigating/figuring out a next steps
            1. virus check - is part of MIT curation tools planned for 1.8 (some in 1.7 already)
            2. file format - Elin to f/u w/Robin, possibly look at UofM implementation (done many releases ago - before other curation work done)
   3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
         1. Jim to build a strawman approach to breakdown the different ideas for how to improve input forms -- including a clear proposal of priority for each w/input from DCAT
         2. get community's response and feedback on strawman
         3. determine who has done / will do which work (sounds like a lot of interested parties)
         4. determine the gaps - are their improvements that we don't have a developer for?
   4. DS560 XMLUI news config/front page customization (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA 
      1. Proposed next steps:
         1. DCAT vote and assessment

5. Meeting Attendees:

   1.  Elin, Sarah, Val, Iryna, Ciarán, Jim

DUE TO OR11 OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON JUNE 14, 2011 at 9:00 am Eastern/13:00 GMT