Date
Time
- 10:00am Eastern/14:00 UTC
Dial-in
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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
Discussion Items
| Time | Item | Who |
|---|
| | 1) Debrief on DSpace Steering Group mtg | Maureen & Sarah |
| | 2) Metadata panel at OR14 | Metadata team |
1) Debrief on DSpace Steering Group Mtg
- 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 will be in Leadership Group, Steering Group, etc.
- determined permanent working groups: DCAT , Technology Planning Group (TPG), Product Planning Group (PPG), Implementation Group (IG)
- roles to be formalized
- membership not a reqmt to be on a working group - reqmts for DCAT membership shouldn't change - willingness to participate, DSpace membership not reqd
- DCAT will serve as advisory group to SG, TPG, PPG, IG
- chair of DCAT will sit as an ex officio member of the SG discussion
- SG wants to hire project manager - who will chair PPG
- Implications for development - DSpace 5 will develop as normal - incremental changes/ad hoc changes contributed 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
- SG has made the following requests of DCAT for now
- gather use cases from community by Sept, currently the TPG only looked at use cases that came out from the survey
- what is DSpace going forward - anything/everything on the table for consideration (do we need a 3rd user interface? brand new architecture?)
- what are the end to end functionality needs (no prescribing HOW something should be implemented – but identify what needs there are in the community)
- one of the key areas would be about metadata – identify use cases / how best to address metadata needs
- use cases gathered should be consistent with the recent vision that was developed and agreed to - institutional repositories / open access / etc
- what are core use cases vs. integration use cases
- agree on which prominent use cases will NOT be addressed by core DSpace
- i.e, not a collaboration tool for work in process / unfinished work (data or otherwise)
- by OR14, rewrite the "charge" (mission/goal/activities) of DCAT to include the governance - codify what is the charge of this working group
- will DCAT be able to choose some of the work we do? yes, we should be able to help bring issues to the attention of SG - both respond to requests and initiate discussions
- DCAT represents the non-technical part of the community - acknowledged that there is a difficulty in involving those from Asia/other time zones - how can we integrate DCAT charge - state minimum effort for engaging in DCAT topical discussions
- get re-written charge finalized by May 30 and sent to SG, get SG feedback and finalize for OR by June 6
- Bram has started Google doc for everyone to provide input on: http://bit.ly/dcat-charge
- Val to send out Doodle for mtg week of 5/26 to discuss charge
2) Metadata panel at OR
- Should we change focus to be more broadly about metadata use cases?
- Should we have a mtg with panelists in advance? Yes, if we add another person to the panel
- Val to send out Doodle to see if we can find time the week of June 2 to discuss - REVISION - propose we just use the next DCAT mtg on June 3 to discuss
Action Items