Date & Time
- September 10, 2024, 12:00 Eastern (time change due to daylight savings time)
- See the world clock to determine the meeting time for your location.
- Meeting length: one hour
Join information:
We will be using the DSpace Zoom Meeting Room for our meeting.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://lyrasis.zoom.us/my/dspace (Meeting ID: 502 527 3040) Passcode: dspace
Additional ways to join: DSpace Meeting Room
Agenda:
- Announcements
- DSpace North American User Group Meeting September 23-25, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- "A Coffee with Holger"
- Webinar: New Features for Organization Information in DSpace with ROR
- Sponsored by 4Science and ROR (Research Organization Registry)
- Featured presenter Andrea Bollini, CTIO 4Science
- October 3, 2024, 11:00 am - EST
- Meeting Registration - Zoom
- Updates
- DCAT UX Working Group
- News from Leadership
- Call for DCAT Chair 2024-2025 (November 2024 - October 2025)
- Guest presenter at October meeting (accessibility)
- Discussion Topic: DSpace 8 Documentation
Minutes
- Updates
- DCAT UX Working Group (update from Colin Lukens)
- Working with collaborators at UX programs at DSpace institutions
- Schools collaborated with a testing script. Working group then created assets and worked with Lyrasis to get these into the D8 demo site.
- Currently recruiting UX testers (many who are totally new to DSpace).
- WG will collect data from the testers on their experiences, then collate the data, assess and analyze the feedback.
- WG will bring this feedback to DCAT later this year / early 2025.
- Information will also be shared with national user groups for input, then to Steering/Leadership groups for discussion.
- Unlikely that any recommendations will impact DSpace 9.
- News from Leadership (update from Kimberly Chapman)
- Special meeting of Leadership to discuss planning and priorities for DSpace 9 and 10. DSpace Release 9.0 Status
- Plan is to have a new release every spring
- Focus for D9 has not yet been determined
- Much of the development for D9 is currently focused on technical/infrastructure improvements
- Will likely have another testathon in early spring prior to D9 release
- Call for DCAT Chair 2024-2025 (November 2024 - October 2025)
- Kimberly will send the announcement to the DCAT Google Group; DSpace Steering appoints the new Chair
- Guest presenter at October meeting (accessibility)
Discussion Topic: DSpace 8 Documentation
- 3 main themes emerged from our last meeting
- 1. Introduction to DSpace
- Foundational overview for new repository managers or are new to DSpace
- 2. Task oriented documentation
- E.g., how to set up a submission form, how to set up an embargo, etc.
- 3. Advanced configuration settings
- E.g., developer requests (tasks/features you can’t do from the admin UI)
- Aiming for a more lightweight approach as we are all volunteering our time
- Some documentation is better than no documentation
- Lots of enthusiasm in last meeting for sharing documentation from own institutions
- Remove any locally specific information, repurpose the general info
- Preparing for the documentation
- Timing for writing docs? What works best for folks?
- On your own time? Testing ‘jog’? (2 or 3 weeks)
- Various comments
- "I think it would be nice for folks to divide themselves into subgroups to have clearer goals.
- I also like the idea of a jog.”
- “Focused time would be helpful for people to schedule dedicated time to work on this.
- I also like some space between a couple 2-week time frames - could make it easier for more people to participate depending on their interests and abilities.”
- Suggestion to solicit submissions of existing documentation from schools which can then be repurposed
- Next steps
- First step: Set up working groups for the 3 themes via call on DCAT Google Group, then we can decide on dates; different working groups can identify dates that work best for their group
- We can also involve the National User Groups
- Additional comments:
- Welcome volunteers to write in multiple languages
- Okay to get started right away by adding pages to the wiki
- Suggestion to ask community what docs they need or would like to see improved
- Logistics for participating in the documentation:
Next Steps
- Kimberly will send a call to DCAT Google Group for working groups and call for interest for DCAT Chair, 2024-2025
Thanks to notetaker, Julia Gilmore.
Preparing for the call
If you can join the call, or are willing to comment on the topics submitted via the meeting page, please add your name, institution, and repository URL to the Call Attendees section below.
Call Attendees
Kimberly Chapman , University of Arizona Libraries
Holger Lenz , Lyrasis
Iryna Kuchma EIFL
Carolyn Sullivan , Université d'Ottawa, Canada
Peter Sutton-Long , University of Cambridge
Fede Federico Verlicchi , 4Science
Gary Maixner, Indiana University Indianapolis
Colin Lukens, Harvard Library
Jadeen Young , Lyrasis
Jen Cwiok , Lyrasis
Jere Odell , Indiana University Indianapolis
Marcella Huggard , Lyrasis
Marianne Reed , University of Kansas
Melissa Anez , Lyrasis
Genny Jon , York University, Toronto
Philip Young , Virginia Tech
Pierre Lasou, Université Laval
Priscilla Carmini ,University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Anne Shelley Anne Shelley, Iowa State University
Sarah Barsness , University of Minnesota
Julia Gilmore , Scholars Portal / University of Toronto
Regrets