2023-02-14 DSpace Leadership Group Meeting

• Welcome
• Thank you to note-taker

Maureen

DSpace quarterly financial report (through Dec. 31, 2022) sent via email

• Budget is a plan; quarterly financial reports provide updates
• Overall, it is positive to budget (financial plan)
• The fiscal year is July 1- June 30. This reports reflects the halfway period.
• Report reflects payment of 7.4 contract labor invoices (7.5 work in progress, not invoiced yet)
• Variances include:
  • Positive to budget to date: membership dues (includes onetime donations), travel, IDC
  • Negative to budget: service provider fees, SCOSS pledges, consultants
• Will need to accelerate fundraising efforts to continue to support funded development

Fundraising Update

• SCOSS fundraising
• Development Fund
  • Funding for DSpace 7.6
• Targeted outreach

Development Update

• DSpace 7.5 - Due Feb 20, 2023.  Some new features coming soon:
  • Major performance improvements to initial page load (via additional User Interface caching & minimization)
  • Subscribe to email updates from a Community or Collection (similar to 6.x, but now includes Communities too)
  • Supervision orders allow Admins to assign a supervisor to new submissions (similar to 6.x JSPUI)
  • Ability to display user registrations or restrict them to specific email domains (similar in 6.x)
  • Support for custom Configurable Workflow steps, including "Select Single Reviewer Workflow" and "Score Review Workflow"  (which both existed in 6.x)
  • Search interface supports filtering by controlled vocabularies (similar to 6.x)
  • Support for Contextual Help Tooltips (similar to 6.x)
• With 7.5, we have completed porting all 6.x features that are listed in Tiers 1 - 3 in the prioritized list of features.
  • NOTE: There are a handful of brand new features (never implemented in DSpace before) still open in those Tiers as we've been concentrating on porting features from 6.x to 7.x.

Development Cycle and Announcement Approved by Steering

• A community announcement will be sent following Leadership meeting
• Development cycle details
  
  • DSpace 7
    • Steering will determine feature 6.x parity
    • DSpace 7 development will end when we hit feature parity milestone

      • Bug and security fixes for DSpace 7 will continue with minor 7.x releases following our software support policy, but no new features will be added

  • DSpace 8 and after
    • Return to one major release with new features per year and minor releases for bug fixes/security updates
• Comments, questions, or feedback from Leadership?

DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) update

• Meetings - all welcome
  • DCAT is dedicating monthly calls through July 2023 to support all (IR managers, developers, etc.) who are implementing DSpace 7.x
• DSpace 7.x user-facing documentation Learning DSpace
• Call for nominations for Chair

OR2023 June 12-15, 2023, Stellenbosch, South Africa

• Attending? Submitted proposals?