DCAT Meeting Notes May 14, 2013

Attendees

Amy Lana - University of Missouri
Bram Luyten - @mire
Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
James Evans - Biomed Central/Open Repository
Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
Sarah Molloy - Queen Mary, University of London
Sarah Potvin - Texas A&M University
Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace

Time

• 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC

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Discussion Topics

Discussion Notes/References

1) News

DSpace roadmap meeting last week 

• Val
  
  • born from discussions at the sponsor summit in March - desire to plan for how DSpace can meet challenges in the next 3-5 years
  • a dozen people from about 10 institutions got together - w/input from a few more
  • group began discussion of what the future DSpace should look like and began to discuss the use cases that it would aim to serve
  • will be on-going virtual discussions about what should be in core space - clear need to rearchitect it into a flexible, simple, extendable core that allows for integration w/3rd party svcs or add-on modules - needs have really changed from when it was originally designed 
  • group not prepared to offer vision/roadmap yet -- but will be working on it over the next several months
  • next steps 
  • • there will be some more communication on the mtg - both on the listserv and duraspace blog post
    • more virtual discussions to develop vision
    • presentation/discussion at OR - get more feedback from the community
    • following having a vision/high level roadmap will be another set of discussions on governance - who will be paying for and shaping the next DSpace
• Sarah S.
  
  • tension between DSpace that does 'everything' or DSpace that has core funtionality that is important for repository activities - find a way to scale back to core, but make more modular to allow for extensability, integrations
  • DCAT is likely an appropriate group to help represent community
    
    • silent majority - use older version of DSpace, don't upgrade, aren't involved/aren't communicating with community about needs
    • active group - think and contribute to community
    • pushing the boundaries group
  • pushed back on DSpace as a Hydra head - for now - need vision before making any specific decisions about direction
  • governance discussion needs to be separate from an 'ask' for support/resources - so that there is clarity in what the vision is 
• Jim
  
  • governance and how it relates to the vision
  • vision requires a lot of buy in from active users - establish core use cases and construct DSpace so that it addresses those needs
• Sarah P.
  
  • role of the hosted solution - DSpaceDirect - and how it may play into development
  • looking to satisfy current DSpace users or attract more / broader users 
• Amy
  
  • DSpace / Fedora merge - might end up there - need to work on vision first

DCAT/Committer mtg - sign up on the mtg page, propose topics: DevMtg 2013-07-08 - OR13 Meeting

2) Proposed tweaks on how DCAT works together

• Val: re-visit the idea of DCAT working on JIRA tkts – or is being involved in projects like the metadata improvements project as much as we can manage?
• Bram: the value added to JIRA tkts varies - depends on individual's knowledge and time available, Bram works on documentation related JIRA issues
• Maureen: DCAT members could still work on JIRA tkts if we aren't working on other projects
• Elin: Objectives of doing 3 issues per month might have been too much – to much for everyone to read, think about and comment on 
• Val: So is it reasonable to re-start JIRA review if we set reasonable objectives - maybe just one JIRA issue for all of DCAT per month? one discussion leader and one issue? (everyone generally agreed)
• Re-post/reminder of tools for JIRA discussions:
• Val: also want to talk at some point about joint mtgs between DCAT and committers - DCAT always welcome to attend cmtr mtgs can certainly get on the formal agenda. Propose putting on the potential mtg topics for OR mtg a proposal to have 4x a year cmtr/dcat mtgs. 

3) Metadata improvements project

• Bram: confirmed taht checksum is not an issue
• No further work yet on proposal refinement and provocative questions
• Maureen: Would be good to have time to discuss this with the community – answer questions and discuss as opposed to present proposal 
• Val: Will check on getting time for it
• Iryna/Bram: Might be good to get on OAI8 user group agenda - will discuss further together 

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