DCAT Meeting Notes March 8, 2011

Meeting Agenda

Due to capacity constraints on the teleconference line, if you plan to attend the meeting please email Valorie Hollister at vhollister[at]duraspace.org in advance to ensure their will be space. This month's meeting will occur Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 9:00am Eastern/14:00 GMT. For dial in instructions, click here.

1. News

   1. Welcome to our 6 new members!
   2. DSpace 1.7 promotion
      1. Universidad Nueva Esparta
      2. School of Information, University of Texas-Austin
      3. Runfo SA
      4. Webmed Limited
      5. Malmö University
      6. University of Michigan, Deep Blue?
   3. Next major DSpace release
      1. Oct 2011
      2. what might be included: release notes
   4. e-Forum on March 23-24: Collaborating with contributors: "Project workflows" hosted by Alice Platt
      1. need a co-moderator, ideally in Europe, Asia or Australia/NZ
      2. future topic suggestions?
         1. statistics (particularly, being able to share stats with users)
         2. copyright procedures (how do you research copyright for things you put in your repository?)
         3. citation management (is there a need to provide a way to pull out citations out of your repository?)
         4. upgrade process - how do you upgrade, testing, bringing in customizations
   5. Documentation Mgmt Team
      1. useful info from mailing list - procedure to get answers from mailing list to wiki docs or in a FAQ/discussion forum: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC/DSpace+Documentation
   6. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
      2. DSpace committer mtg on either Mon June 6 or Tues June 7 - joint DCAT/committer mtg/cocktail hour afterwards?
   7. Other news?

2. New feature review process

   1. Goals
   2. Overview
   3. Future discussion schedule

3. Update on previously reviewed items

   1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah)
   2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin)
   3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim)

4. Meeting Attendees:

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