DCAT Meeting Notes December 13, 2011

Attendees

• Amy Lana - University of Missouri
• Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
• Bram Luyten - @mire
• Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
• Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
• Elena Feinstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
• Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
• Jennifer Laherty - Indiana University
• Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland
• Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
• Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
• Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace

Guest Attendees

General

• Call In To: HiDef (Via Skype: +9900827047086940)
• - Indicates who will be taking minutes 

Discussion Topics

Actions from previous meeting

Status

• Val
  • survey
    • draft priorities and community msg DONE
    • need to distribute to community and beyond

News & Events

1. DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. January 10, 2012
   2. February 14, 2012
2. DSpace 1.8 w/iTunes U RSS Capability 
3. DuraCloud 
   1. Launch open source cloud service
   2. DuraCloud Preservation Service in the Troposphere: "Meteorology for the cloud computing world"
   3. recent presentations at DLF and EDUCES 
4. SPARC Conference March 11-13:
   1. conference themes
   2. call for innovation fair proposals
   3. working on a DSpace user group mtg
5. SWORD 2 and Research Data - take the survey
6. Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Launches Website
7. Closing out the DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign - still time to be a sponsor!
8. Call for Proposals to Host Open Repositories Conference in 2013 and 2014 
9. Other news?
10. Events
    1. Past: Berlin 9 in Washington DC - Bram and Jim attended - how was it?
    2. Upcoming
       1. Coalition for Networked Information in D.C.
       2. PASIG in Austin 
       3. ALA Midwinter in Dallas

Minutes

1. Questions/comments/additions to news and events

2. KnowledgeBase Preview

3. Metadata Support Improverments 

4. Old JIRA issue update - Discuss 560 & 456 and any updates to others

• DS587 tombstone (Sarah):discussion forum,JIRA
  • status as of last mtg:
    • some disagreement on tombstone reasons, what metadata would be displayed - discussion came up too late (Jose's version vs. Richard's)
    • still trying to get XMLUI tombstone reason for withdrawn item in to 1.8
• DS638 virus checking/check file format (Elin):discussion forum,JIRA
  • virus checking is in 1.8, file format checking is written and tested, but did not make it into 1.8
  • status as of last mtg:
    • dependent on curation task work that MIT, not quite done, trying to follow same format for virus checking
    • can do file format checking - but NOT at submission
    • Robin to create a separate JIRA issue for file format checking at submission
• DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-164
  • GSoC project - do away with item-submission.xml and input-forms.xml and instead create an Admin UI that allows repo managers reorganize the submission UI
    • GSoC student wants to continue work on project
    • sample screenshot wiki page
  • status as of last mtg:
    • some muddling w/an adjacent GSoC project - Jim to resurrect original request and propose next steps
• DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
  • XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config, Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
  • Do we have a DCAT consensus? If so, does it still make sense to hold a community-wide discussion for both feedback and developer resource identification?
• DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
  • no developer assigned yet
  • propose writing scripts for the most common database/operating sys
  • Database: PostgreSQL 264, MySQL 43, Oracle 39, Other 6
  • Operating Sys: Linux 224, Microsoft Windows 88, UNIX 28, Solaris 22, HPUX 2
  • Michael to attach scripts to JIRA issue that they have developed
  • hold community-wide discussion/solicitation of other upgrade scripts already written or interested parties

5. New JIRA issues

• Added functionality to embargo feature (?DS-908, ?DS895, ?DS-824) - Jim, Bram
  • Univ of Michigan is embarking on a project with @mire to add functionality to the existing feature

6. Other items?

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