Meeting Notes
Meeting recording: DCAT March 8 2011 mtg.mp3
News
- Welcome to our 6 new members!
- Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
- Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
- Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
- Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University
- Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
- Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
- DSpace 1.7 promotion
- Universidad Nueva Esparta
- School of Information, University of Texas-Austin
- Runfo SA
- Webmed Limited
- Malmö University
- University of Michigan, Deep Blue
- Michael: 25 instances Open Repositories will be upgraded by OR11
- Cambridge will upgrade in the summer
- 1.7.1 - March 25 - SWORD bugs and Oracle database and a few other small bugs
- DSpace 1.8
- Oct 2011
- Robin Taylor - release coordinator
- what might be included: release notes
- e-Forum on March 23-24: Collaborating with contributors: "Project workflows" hosted by Alice Platt
- need a co-moderator, ideally in Europe, Asia or Australia/NZ
- suggestions
- summary page on wiki - links to dicussion on mailing list - give overview - w/Twitter & FB links
- links on Twitter and FB - when it starting/ending, interesting issue to be links
- give something to react to - a use case
- use a discussion forum - that can link to Tweet - using Kunina and Jobsite (Michael)
- future topic suggestions?
- statistics (particularly, being able to share stats with users)
- copyright procedures (how do you research copyright for things you put in your repository?)
- citation management (is there a need to provide a way to pull out citations out of your repository?)
- upgrade process - how do you upgrade, testing, bringing in customizations
- Documentation Mgmt Team
- useful info from mailing list - procedure to get answers from mailing list to wiki docs or in a FAQ/discussion forum: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC/DSpace+Documentation
- Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
- DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
- DSpace committer mtg on either Mon June 6 or Tues June 7 - joint DCAT/committer mtg/cocktail hour afterwards?
- Other news?
- OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - program in process, welcome presenters and use cases for repo mgr session - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace
- Nepal, Thailand and Laos -- training in Laos in March
- FAO training session for agricultural univ, migrated E-LIS repo from ePrints to DSpace
- Graham Triggs working on new UI Freemarker
- Welcome to our 6 new members!
New feature review process
- Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
- What it is:
- group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community
- facilitate community wide discussions on the most useful and urgent new feature requests - the purpose of which is to validate DCAT assessment, flesh out req'mts, most importantly-->find stakeholder/developer resources
- possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
- collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
- What it is not:
- a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
- having discussions just to have discussions
- What it is:
- Process overview
- Future discussion schedule
- Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
Update on previously reviewed items
- DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
- DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA working w/Robin on understanding the curation framework and investigating, figure out a next steps
- DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA - need community wide discussion
Meeting Attendees:
- Bram Luyten, Michael Guthrie, Iryna Kuchma, Tim Donohue, Ciarán Walsh, Valorie Hollister, Elin Stangeland, Jim Ottaviani, Imma Subraits
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