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.
- Carol Minton Morris (chair, DuraSpace)
- Bram Luyten (Atmire) (may occasionally sit in)
- 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>
- Sarah Molloy (Queen Mary University of London)
- Agustina Martinez-Garcia
- Arthur Smith
- Tim Donohue
- Andrea Bollini (4Science)
- Michele Mennielli (DuraSpace)
- Lieven Droogmans (Atmire)
Meeting Details
- May 9 at 11:00 AM ET on https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace
Goals
- Convening efforts to reach out and deeply engage the DSpace community in the aspects of DSpace 7 development.
- Next meeting May 23, 2018 11:00 AM EDT in the Zoom DSpace Meeting Room Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://duraspace.zoom.us/my/dspace Note:
Discussion items
Item | Who | |
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Announcements or news to share | Carol | • Debra Hanken Kurtz will leave her post as CEO at DuraSpace to serve as the Associate University Librarian for Technology Services at Arizona State University Library. As of June 1, Erin Tripp, Business Development Manager at DuraSpace, will serve as the Interim Chief Executive Officer. Valorie Hollister, DuraSpace Director of Membership and Finance, and Bill Branan, DuraSpace Services Technical Director, will assist Ms. Tripp with the transition: http://duraspace.org/debra-hanken-kurtz-duraspace-ceo-to-join-arizona-state-university-as-associate-university-librarian/ |
DSpace 7 Update The DSpace Steering Group has been discussing whether to potentially expand the scope of DSpace 7 to include more new features such as support for storing things like Authors (to create Author Profile pages, like Bepress, etc), and some other objects that tend to be more CRIS-oriented.These ongoing discussions may mean that DSpace 7 is not *just* a new UI on existing features–what we have been focusing on for "What's in DSpace 7". The Steering Group has another meeting scheduled to discuss further and work towards making a decision–not sure when this decision will be made. We might want to hold off on publishing "What's in DSpace 7" until this discussion completes --- we can still finalize the document, but may want to just hold it until entities work is finalized. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18brPF7cZy_UKyj97Ta44UJg5Z8OwJGi7PLoPJVz-g3g/edit#gid=0 | Tim | Full update and demo planned for OR in early June; the DSpace 7 tech team is small, browse and search completed; submission in process Steering Group has been discussing entities working group conclusions (DSpace Entities Working Group)—researcher profiles, groups, grants and funder info–would like to move this work forward into the DSpce 7 release, need additional funding and/or developers to build out a prototype. Working on segmenting out the entities work. Expect a statement from the DSpace 7 steering group prior to the Open Repositories Conference. Entities group–build an extendable model for 3 entities |
Discussion–2017 DSpace Annual Report The Fedora Project Leadership Group recently published the Fedora 2017 Annual Report. A PDF of the report can be downloaded from the Fedora wiki. Draft of 2017 DSpace Annual Report similar structure: STRUCTURE Cover - 1 page Table of Contents - 1 page Summary - 1 page Membership - 1 page of text, plus map
Community Profiles - 1.75 pages
Governance, Finance, and Expenditures - 3/4 pages
Progress on Key Initiatives - 1.25 pages
Events - 1 page, including a half-page photo
Contributions to the Annual Report - a few lines | Collective effort–steerers, DCAT, user groups, service providers–it is not too late, shoot for May in 2019 annual cycle based on 2018 structure Tim keeps a running list of initiatives on the wiki; Strategic Planning |
Action items
Item | Who |
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Define a draft 2017 DSpace Annual Report structure for review and comment based on 2017 Fedora Annual Report by next meeting (May 23), emails: mariya.maistrovskaya@utoronto.ca |