DCAT Meeting December 2024

Date & Time

• December 10, 2024, 12:00 Eastern Time
• See the world clock to determine the meeting time for your location.
• Meeting length: one hour

Join information:

We will be using the DCAT Chair's Zoom Room for our meeting.

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/81605358751 (Meeting ID: 816 0535 8751 Passcode: dspace

Agenda:

• Announcements
  • Are there any upcoming webinars/calls to announce?
    • Coffee with Holger on December 17 at 12 pm Eastern (5 pm UTC) - informal opportunity to chat with Holger and learn more about DSpace community involvement. Announcement will be sent out today with zoom link
  • Recap of recent relevant conferences/webinars/calls?
    • NIRD24 (Northeast Institutional Repository Day, IR-agnostic conference) 
      • Planning group  will be adding slides at https://zenodo.org/communities/nird/about soon
    • ORCiD DSpace Update Call 
      • • Recording: DSpace ORCID Update Presentation (22 minutes)
        • Notes & Q&A: DSpace ORCID Update - Fall 2024
        • Slides:  DSpace/ORCID update - Nov. 14, 2024.pptx
        • Request from Sheila Rabun:
          • If your organization has been using DSpace version 5 or 6 and you have either used the ORCID lookup tool or CSV import functionality to get ORCID iDs into your instance of DSpace, please email orcidus@lyrasis.org and/or leave a comment on this Github ticket: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/9530

          • From Tim Donohue on Github ticket

            • All versions of DSpace 7.3+ and 8.x support both ways of storing ORCIDs
              • The traditional way of storing ORCIDs with authority records is still supported and is described here: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/ORCID+Authority
              • The new way of storing ORCIDs on Person Entities was added in 7.3. It allows for a tighter integration with ORCID (including authentication). It's described here: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSDOC7x/ORCID+Integration

            You are correct though that there is currently no migration process to move from ORCIDs in Authority records to ORCIDs in Person Entities. I just wanted to clarify that ORCIDs in Authority records are still supported, so site can still upgrade to the latest version of 7.6.x or 8.x and use them. There's no requirement to migrate to using ORCIDs in Person Entities in order to use DSpace 7.6.x or 8.x

        • Sheila provided an update regarding a grant to improve functionality and integration between ORCID and DSpace. As part of this grant project, Sheila's identified some issues that are more complex that will require more community involvement and discussion. Tim Donohue suggested Sheila reach out to DCAT regarding setting up a working group to dive into those issues. Kimberly noted that this work likely involves both technical and user aspects and so could involve a working group that's larger than just DCAT. Iryna expressed interest in being involved in this work. Kimberly and Sheila will meet and Kimberly will discuss with the Steering Committee chair to determine next steps.
    • DSpace/DSpace CRIS Info
      • Kimberly is working to see where DCAT might fit into these conversations to make sure efforts are coordinated
    • Developer Meetings and DCAT Input
      • Pierre Lasou willing to attend weekly DSpace developer meetings and bring back issues to the DCAT group. Don't have examples of this yet, but expect that Pierre (or others attending) could bring up issues on the DCAT listserv, potentially have quick ad hoc meetings
      • Others who attend developer meetings can get involved by getting in touch with Kimberly
    • DSpace and OpenAlex integration
      • Timeline: hopefully released in conjunction with DSpace 9.0

• Discussion Topics
  • Outstanding info requests
    • Media viewer
    • Collection admin
    • Genny and Pierre not on today's call, Kimberly will follow up with them
  • Working Group Updates
    • UX (User Experience)
    • Task-Oriented Documentation
      
      • Sprint next week
    • Introduction to DSpace (on hold)
    • Advanced Configurations (Contact Pierre or Kimberly if you want to join this group - need more people)
    • Feature Requests (on hold - information coming soon.
  • Theme for 2024-2025
    • DCAT will propose a theme for 2024-2025; 2023-2024 theme was "Community Engagement"
  • DSpace 9 Testathon Dates: (tentative) April 7-18
  • DSpace Learning:
    • What do you need help with? Google Doc

Call Attendees

Iryna Kuchma EIFL

Paige Morgan , University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press

Sarah Barsness, University of Minnesota

Marcella Huggard 

Holger Lenz

Sheila Rabun

Emily Crawford, State Library of Massachusetts

Linda Chappell, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX

Colleen Lyon

Federico Verlicchi, 4Science

Regrets