DCAT Meeting March 6, 2012

Potential Attendees

Amy Lana - University of Missouri
Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
Bram Luyten - @mire
Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
Claire Bundy - BioMed Central
Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
Elena Feinstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
Jennifer Laherty - Indiana University
Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland
Maureen Walsh - The Ohio State University
Michael Guthrie -
Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace
Yan Han - University of Arizona Libraries

Guest Attendees

Dial-in

(209) 647-1600, participant code 373133, host code: 560833 (can be done via Skype - for directions: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in)

Discussion Topics

	Topic	Discussion leader
1	Questions/comments/additions to news/events update	Val
2	Action item status updates	Val
4	Google Summer of Code possible projects, last year's project summary	Val
5	Old JIRA issues	ALL
6	New JIRA issues	ALL
7	What's up for discussion this Thurs/Fri?	ALL
8	Other items?	ALL

Actions from previous meeting

Action Item	Assignee	Status
DS-456 Start community-wide discussion (after the holidays?)	Iryna
Provide additional thoughts/feedback to Val on how DCAT has been working / what could improve	ALL
DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml: resurrect original request and propose next steps	Jim
Updating language packs - find out what needs to be updated, contact original authors and DSpace Ambassadors for help	Bram	?
Google Summer of Code possible projects, last year's project summary brainstorming on potential student projects - metadata improvements, easy upgrade script DS-456, others?	ALL	call out from Tim soon
For all selected DCAT issues, DCAT discussion leader should update the current status in JIRA, if there is something that needs to be done (brainstorm on finding a developer, more community discussion, etc) those discussions should be added to the Thurs/Fri discussion or to the next DCAT mtg agenda - for an index of all DCAT issues to date visit here	Sarah, Jim, Bram, Amy, Elin, Iryna	Mar 6
DS-456 Easy upgrade script - start community-wide discussion?	Iryna	?
Hold DCAT discussions via email / the discussion forum this Thurs and Fri, topics? Input on the DCAT Discussion Schudule page. 1) ???? 2) ???? 3) ????	ALL	Feb 15
Metadata priorities - email out to each volunteer group to solidify participation and possibly identify co-leaders	Val	Mar 6, in process
Select new JIRA issue	ALL	Mar 6

News & Events

Upcoming DCAT meeting dates:
1. April 10
2. May 8
3. June 12
DSpace 1.8.2 released last week: news piece, full release notes
OR12 deadlines
DSpace Developers' Virtual Summit
News
1. DuraSpace Open Technologies By the Numbers:
  1. over 1200 DSpace repositories in over 100 countries
  2. new countries: Iraq, South Korea, Rwanda, Sudan
  3. biggest growth in Brazil +23, India +18, United States +17, Spain +15, Japan +14, Ukraine +14, Portugal +13
2. New Open Source Video Digitization Tools from the National Archives
3. DSpace Repositories in January 2012 CSIC "Top Institutional Repository Ranking"
4. Sorting Through the Data: BioMed Central Launches "Systematic Reviews"
5. Fighting Poverty Together: Open Repository Partners with Oxfam
6. "AIMS Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship" White Paper Available
New Hot Topics webinar series
1. Recordings available for 2 of the 3 "Knowledge Futures: Digital Preservation Planning" Series
2. Upcoming webinar: "Preservation and Archiving Highlights from the Alliance Digital Repository" on Tuesday March 27, 2012
Other webinar recordings: "DuraCloud: A Community Cloud for Higher Education" by Michele Kimpton and Jonathan Markow
Other news?
Events
1. Upcoming -
  1. SPARC OA Meeting in Kansas March 12-13 and Dpace User Group Meeting March 14
    1. conference themes
    2. DSpace user group mtg and Crowdvine
  2. CNI in Baltimore April 2-3
  3. JCDL in Washington June
  4. OR12 in Edinburgh July 9-13

Minutes

Old JIRA issue update

DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum,JIRA
DS1093 file format checking at submission (originally part of DS638: discussion forum,JIRA) (Elin)
DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
Added functionality to embargo feature (?DS-908, ?DS895, ?DS-824) - Jim
DS-1021 Add integration with an online document viewer (Amy) - discussion forum, JIRA

New JIRA issues

Actions Items from this meeting

Action Item	Assignee	Deadline

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