Date & Time
- September 11th 15:00 UTC/GMT - 11:00 EDT
Zoom meeting:
We will be using the DSpace Zoom Meeting Room for our meeting.
Meeting location: https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace
Enter Meeting ID: 502 527 3040 , followed by #
Zoom information: DSpace Meeting Room
Agenda:
- Training and Documentation for DSpace
- Discuss potential working group and call for volunteers
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.
Meeting notes
Ongoing training activities:
COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) Training materials planning:
- Maximizing the visibility and discoverability of content in repositories: Search engine optimization, Repository registries, Repository registries
- Software implementation and upgrading: Out-of-the-box implementation of DSpace; Customizing DSpace; Upgrading to the most recent version
- Repository Interoperability: Best practices for metadata - Dublin Core; An introduction to vocabularies, COAR vocabularies, Instructions on how to implement in your repository; DOIs - what are they and why are they important; How to implement
- Usage statistics
- Repository networks and aggregators: Preparing your repository for harvesting - see discoverability; Harvester technologies.
Making training materials available from Peru Repository Workshop: https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-media/peru-repository-workshop/
Questions:
- Which training materials do we need?
- How do we make them available, e.g. recorded tutorials?
Call Attendees
- Maureen Walsh (Ohio State University)
- Marianne Reed (University of Kansas)
- Kimberly Chapman (University of Arizona)
- Iryna Kuchma (EIFL)
- Pauline Ward (University of Edinburgh)