Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Leadership Group Members
- Tal Ayalon, World Bank Group
- Pascal-Nicolas Becker, The Library Code*
- Corey Davis, University of Victoria Libraries
- Lieven Droogmans, Atmire*
- Rose Fredrick, Creighton University
- Scott Hanrath, University of Kansas*
- Barbara Hirschmann, ETH Zurich
- Jyrki Ilva, National Library of Finland
- Tim McGeary, Duke University Libraries
- Agustina Martínez-García, University of Cambridge*
- Robert Miller, LYRASIS
- Erik Moore, University of Minnesota
- Susanna Mornati, 4Science*
- Jere Odell, IUPUI*
- Kristi Park, Texas Digital Library* (Chair)
- Beate Rajski, DSpace-Konsortium Deutschland
- Bronwen Sprout, The University of British Columbia
- Gail Steinhart, Cornell University Library
- Ianthe Sutherland, The University of Edinburgh
- Maureen Walsh, The Ohio State University Libraries* (Vice Chair)
LYRASIS attendees
- Laurie Arp
- Michele Mennielli
- Tim Donohue
The represents who will be taking notes for a given meeting. It rotates after each meeting to the next person in the attendee list.
*Members of DSpace Steering Group
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Agenda
# | Time | Item | Information | Who |
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1 | 20 min | Welcome and introductions |
| Kristi Park, all |
2 | 20 min | DSpace Development Report | Update on the current status of DSpace 7 development
| Tim Donohue |
3 | 15 min |
| Maureen Walsh | |
4 | 15 min | Governance Matters |
| Kristi Park, Michele, Mennielli |
5 | 15 min | Financial Update |
| Laurie Arp, Kristi Park |
6 | 15 min | SCOSS update | DSpace was selected as one of three open source infrastructure projects endorsed in SCOSS's latest funding call, which began this fall. More about SCOSS: https://scoss.org/how-it-works/current-funding-calls/ Questions for consideration from potential funder:
| Kristi Park |
7 | 20 min | Product Visioning Working Group update: Preview of draft recommendations | Reference: DSpace Product Visioning Group | Scott Hanrath |
8 | Any other business, as time allows | Opportunities for serving on working groups/interest groups
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Notes:
- Welcome and Introductions
- Housekeeping: Kristi's final meeting as chair. Meet quarterly, 2 hours, no breaks. Rotate note taker alphabetically.
- LYRASIS staff and members of Leadership each introduced themselves
- DSpace Development Report
- Tim gave an update on the current status on the current status of DSpace 7 development.
- A lot of great feedback so fr on 7.0 and 7.1
- 7.2 is scheduled for February 7, 2022. Three major features expected:
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- Feedback form
- Export metadata (to CSV) from search results
- Starting with 7.3, we will move to 3 releases per year to allow a few more larger features
- 7.3 will be 4 months later than 7.3, around early June 2022.
- Reminder of how we got here (See "Milestones" in DSpace Release 7.0 Status) & Prioritization of 7.x features
- Opportunities for contribution to DSpace development
- New features funded from DSpace budget are built in priority order. We are averaging around 3 funded features per release.
- New features donated to DSpace are accepted at any time (regardless of priority ordering).
- Tim gave an update on the current status on the current status of DSpace 7 development.
- DCAT Report
- DCAT is currently working on end-user documentation for 7.x to compliment existing DSpace 7 documentation on the wiki.
- Second documentation sprint November 15-28, 2021 (2021 DSpace 7.1 User Documentation Sprints)
- Governance Matters
- Elections of community-at-large members
- The Leadership Group retains two voting seats for community participants (i.e. non-members). Nominations were solicited for these seats last month.
- Ex officio, non-voting seats are also available at the discretion of Leadership.
- Steering shared their recommendations
- Leadership voted to fill the two voting seats. Lautaro Julián Matas and Tiago Ferreira elected.
- Leadership voted to fill two non-voting seats. Victor Gomez and Ayenew Fentahun were elected to ex-officio, non-voting
- Elections of community-at-large members
b. Call for nominations for Leadership/Steering Chair and Vice Chair
- Steering: Open nominations for three three-year terms and one one-year term seats. Nominations due in one week. Specify term willing to run for.
- Once Steering is seated, a Chair (two-year term, from Steering) and Vice-Chair (one-year term, from Leadership or Steering) will be elected.
5. Financial Update
a. Laurie provided a financial update.
- Recent financial reports shared in email
- DSpace has $ 43,000 in net assets (as of 10/31/21)
- Variances include Fundraising and related expenses (SCOSS delayed fundraising campaign start)
- Report does not reflect 7.1 paid development expenses yet
- Update on paid development costs
- 7.1 dev costs estimated to be approx $ 31k (lower than budgeted)
- 7.2 approved up to 2.0 FTE $ 63,000
- 7.3 approved up to 2.0 FTE up to $ 84,000 (likely less)
- Recent financial reports shared in email
b. LYRASIS has an up to a $25,000 match for fundraising for the year outside of membership
- National Library of Finland contributed $15,000.
- $10,000 remains to be matched. If you have end of year funds, great opportunity to double the contribution.
6. SCOSS update
7. Product Visioning Working Group update: Preview of draft recommendations
8. Any other business, as time allows