DCAT Meeting Notes May 13, 2014

Date

• Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Time

• 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC

Dial-in

We will use the international conference call dial-in. Please follow directions below.

• U.S.A/Canada toll free: 866-740-1260, participant code: 2257295
• International toll free: http://www.readytalk.com/intl
  
  • Use the above link and input 2257295 and the country you are calling from to get your country's toll-free dial in #
  • Once on the call, enter participant code 2257295

Future DCAT Meetings

Mark your calendars with the next several months of DCAT mtgs - time will be 10am Eastern/14:00 UTC:

June 3 (date changed because of OR14)
July 8
August 12
September 9
October 14
November 11
December 9

Attendees

• xBram Luyten (@mire) - @mire
• xElin Stangeland - University of Oslo
• xIryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
• Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
• Lilly Li, Texas A&M University
• Maureen Walsh - The Ohio State University
• xSarah Potvin - Texas A&M University
• xSarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
• xValorie Hollister - DuraSpace
• xFelicity

Discussion Items 

1) Debrief 

• Maureen and Sarah attended SG mtg as part of the Tech Planning Group (group that took over work from Vision group - collected use cases that reflect feedback from survey
• SG mtg to talk through a plan for governance 
  • agreed on structure and what membership levels mean for governance 
  • determined who is is on Leadership Group, Steering Group
  • also determined permanent working groups: DCAT (advisory group to SG, TPG, PPG), Technology Planning Group, Product Planning Group, Implementation Group
    • roles to be formalized and 
    • membership not a reqmt to be on a working group
    • chair of DCAT will sit as an exec officio member of the SG discussion
  • DCAT has been asked to gather use cases from community by Sept, TPG only looked at use cases that came out from the survey
    • what is DSpace going forward - anything on the table (3rd user interface? new architecture?)
    • end to end functionality needs (no prescribe HOW something should be implemented – but identify what needs there are in the community)
    • key areas: all of use cases around metadata and plans for metadata
    • gathering use cases consistent with the recent vision that was developed - institutional repositories / open access / etc
    • core use cases 
    • integration use cases
    • agree on which prominent use cases will NOT be addressed by core DSpace
      • not a collaboration tool for work in process / unfinished work (data or otherwise) 
  • project manager - to chair PPG 
  • DSpace 5 will develop as normal - incremental changes contributed ad hoc by individuals; but there will be a more directed process for DSpace 6 – with dedicated resources to work on directed development projects
  • SG also working on mission for DSpace - consistent with vision group work   
  • by OR14, rewrite the charge of DCAT to include the governance 

2) met

Action Items   

• Val to send Doodle to reschedule metadata mtg: http://doodle.com/udfkbipwsqc7mza4#table
• Elin to send msg to Stuart to ask him to send a msg to Vision group - notifying them that it's work is done and a bit of info about roadmap group
• Sarah to send detailed Vision survey results to DCAT
• Metadata team needs to update draft mapping
• Metadata team - need to find someone who knows about metadata in Europe to sit on OR14 panel - possibly Jessica Lindholm?
• Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. Lilly Texas A&M has patch, will submit in the next few weeks.
• Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. Lilly has talked with Texas A&M developers, looking at if they can contribute
• Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.  &  Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.  To be discussed at the next DCAT mtg: identify parameters - types of config changes that would be helpful - uploading input forms, changing themes, things that you can switch on/off, (not everything). DCAT look through config file for DSpace 4 and identify what would be most helpful to include. Elin will download 4.0 config file - DONE. Include discussion/question about JSPUI/XMLUI.