Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund
The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.
Date
Attendees
- Carol Minton Morris (chair, DuraSpace)
- Wouter Janssens (Atmire)
- Bram Luyten (Atmire) (may occasionally sit in)
- Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London) (apologies)
- Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto)
- Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri)
- Jose Carvalho (University of Minho)
- Nelson Torres (University of Minho)
- Tom Hutchinson <thutchi1@swarthmore.edu>
Apologies
- Pauline Ward (University of Edinburgh)
Goals
- Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development.
- Next meeting Feb 22: 12:00 PM ET; UTC 17:00, on https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace
Discussion items
Notes
Catch-up, Announcements
- Note items in agenda
- DCAT providing feedback: "COAR Seeks Comments on Vision for Next Generation Repositories"; support for alignment with needs of the COAR community
Review new resources
- DSpace 7 related list of email lists
- Limited to English only?
- No, but requires volunteers to translate messages into German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian and other languages
- Jose offers to reach out to repo managers in Portugal, currently creates summary statement in Portuguese
- Do not have a DSpace list in Portugal but a strong repo manager community
- Can also translate for Brazil and reach out there
- Review of communications process
- Outreach group develops message/communication
- Those who sign up next to a list on DSpace 7 related list of email lists translate message/communication into appropriate language; a name should be included with each list
- Send the message through lists or through individual emails
- Add your initials and date to DSpace 7 related list of email lists in last column to indicate that it was sent
- This works if group takes individual responsibility for distributing messages/communications
- Develop message to community regarding attendance at indicated meetings/conferences
- Wouter attending OAI10 and will give a DSpace workshop the day before–some DSpace 7 info
- Maureen attending CNI—30 minute preso, April 3-4; Carol to reach out to Maureen
- Jose attending IDCC
- Add OA week as target for a presentation; by October will have more to show
- Also a meeting in Brazil; Jose to share information about this
- Code4Lib should be on the list
Action Items
- Carol Minton Morris Establish DSpace 7 conferences and list of lists wiki pages
- Carol Minton Morris Write DSpace 7 Update blog post for review by this group
- Jose Carvalho develop a short repository implementors survey for the DSpace community for review by this group
- Wouter Janssens (Atmire) share use cases that relate to browse and search
Overview
Content Tools