The notes below reflect a summary of the March 13 open forum discussion answer the proposed questions.
What have you heard?
- makes me want to contribute more back (need to do a little clean up) instead of working on something else (Sid from Rice)
- we knew this day was coming – funded thru grants, at some point something needs to change – this is it – the point where we have to step up a little bit
- distribute slides: want numbers – Tyler Walters slides 1.4 FTE – spending so little money in this area, that we need more allocated – I want to double what we spend
- grant $s get whacked by research office – 50% taken off – can’t some of that money help the projects?
- need to make the case that we aren’t just books and stacks
- terminology does matter – project/product/program – maybe program is better – program that spins off projects
- DuraSpace hasn’t broght some of these concerns sooner – need to know what the challnges are we Fedora
- Fedora needs to be backward compatable
- really keen to do open source except when it gets hard
- what is the governance model – how do we make it better
- funding modeles and ROI – we are the choir, we are making the case at our institutions
- governanace/stakeholder engagement – project level and DuraSpace, moving from appointed to elected boards – have some people involved besides just technical
- more communication for roadmapping -
- F & D community can’t sit still
- heard fin position
- surpised that projects are in the red and that it isn’t a problem
- how do we get general presevation problem funded – long term access might be a better way to think about it – current $s vs endowment – and other funding for the whole stack
- both projects are mature, dev is difuse, might not be a good dvelopmetn strategy – look at other models – consolidating resources to make pushes (like Kuali) –
- governance – how to dev roapmap
- developing a common pitch for provost
What do you have concerns about?
- we were told we are not in crisis, but are we really in crisis?
- urgency – physical backlog of books vs. a digital backlog – digital resources are vulernable
- many people on campus don’t agree that we need an IR
- 70% or organizations resources are dedicated on physical objects
- only 10% of our adopter community that are sponsoring – needs to be higher
- would be good to have an easy way to get from DSpace to Fedora – maybe that is a priority of the community to work on
- how do we make sure non-sponsors are included in community
- multiple 20K sponsorship needs
- deficiets of D & F are a concern, can they be resolved
- need to support community at large, risk factors on relying on just one person
- need more ULs here – need to broaden the base of supporters
- shocked at how low sponsorship rate is – thought it was higher
- donations to broad community effort - DuraSpace – how does contributions benefit the platforms
- excitement around FF project – not an equivelent for DSpace – possible neglect
- same/usual suspects that contribute – fatigue – need to expand contributions (financial and inkind) by other inst.
What has inspired you?
- urgency of the digital dark age
- good to know DuraSpace not in crisis
- we have to take ownership and DuraSpace seems to be the place to take ownership
- how Lyrasis position’s itself as a svc – maybe DuraSpace would posistion itelf that way
- by the financial position of DuraSpace
- excelleration of the createion of dig data – is there a space to consider policy workflow layers so we don’t all re-create
- openess and transparency
- ROI discussion from Tyler
- Tyler – how much actual $ spent – suggests there is a lot of pontential upside – but how do we get there
- James stack – helped
- we are not dealing with digital humanities we are dealing with humanities that are digital
What unanswered questions do you have?
- Fedora – curiousity about additional investment – how much funding is needed – long term, short term, etc.
- what governance model would be effective
- need governance roadmap going forward
- more roadmap discussions
- more ways to particpate
- can we expand community of users
- can we expand ways projects use
- can we identify all who use Fedora
- more sharing of knowledge and expertise
- can we have a slide deck about meta issues for F & D
- making the invisiable visable
- do we take a bundled approach
- should Duraspace reach out to other orgs
- what are the other governance models used
- how does this relate to digital preservation /better communicate value prop of how DuraSpace fits into this larger value proposition
- share value propsition for selling to leadership
- we need a louder roadmap about going forward