Regular Attendees
- Carol
- Debra
- Val
General
- Call In To: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/fedora-commons.org/all-staff
- - Indicates who will be taking minutes
Discussion Topics
1 | Announcements/catch-up
| |
2 | General international outreach
| Carol |
3 | Consortial international outreach
| Val |
Minutes
Announcements/catch-up
- Next meeting Monday July 11
General international outreach
- Does this two-pronged approach (general, consortial) make sense? Yes
- An alternative would be to look country by country instead of by language
- Some countries that are exclusively using our technologies would be reached through consortial approach
- Approach looks like a good start
- ZoHo, Kristi to do list research
- Carol to reach out to RSPs via email
DSpace meeting at OR notes
- China developments; they have developed their own flavor of DSpace forked code, looking for ways to bring them back into the community
- Ad Hoc DSpace meeting notes, July 16 at OR (David Lewis)
Another approach to membership working with RSPs
- Could atmire customers get together and pay a small amount/
- Would an additional European-focused level of membership undercut similar kinds of consortial members in NA?
- Ask/talk to RSP's about the elephant in the room: exchange of contact information and advocacy on our behalf for ??
Consortial international outreach
Pick the best 3 consortia and design an approarch
- Obtain in-depth information from those who have it
- Each approach to each consortia will be unique; no pattern
- See whats going on in the country and with repositories; where does the funding come from etc.
- No initial membership chatter
- Research fact finding task 1
- Meeting between Debra and president of the group task 2
- Bibsys Library System, http://www.bibsys.no/bibsys-library-system/ "The Library System is used by more than 100 Norwegian Libraries in higher education and research" DSpace users
- DuocUC, http://www.duoc.cl/international-affairs, Chile
- Red Clara, http://www.redclara.net/, Columbia
- Ancos, http://icolc.net/consortia/63, Turkey, DSpace users
Set up meeting with Michele
- Narrow the consortial list down; which would he pick?
Possible third prong approach
- Encourage people to engage with the DSpace ambassador program to support this kind of activity in your country
- Work towards making these connections
- A way to have regular contact with countries
- How to re-start this program?
- Possible staff discussion around ambassadors program; how to include Fedora and VIVO?
International outreach (notes from 6/23 COM)
- Outreach through RSPs for help/feedback on idea of working together on a French and Italian DuraSpace newsletters for customers and consortia
- Aim is to build data and relationships that may eventually translate into memberships
- Three types of assistance: determining what types of content would best serve users in an area, translations and customer/client lists
- key to trying to get funding from Europe is through engaging with these international orgs; consortia rather than individuals
- Pay off is more direct exposure and more opportunities to speak at other conferences abroad
- Need to be enmeshed with the orgs we want to engage with
- Seems to be interest in our OS projects in Europe, two ways to learn about needs/practices
- by country, how does it work in France and Germany?
- by academic domain, how does it work? Is there a driving scientific purpose?
- Michele is in charge of international partnerships for CINECA; working toward arranging introductory phone calls between us and consortial reps
- Challenge is to make the initial org introductions to learn what the needs are and how to be helpful
- CINECA status is changing, new director, efforts more towards italian universities; colleagues have splintered off and formed a division of another for-profit company—focus will be on non-profits, but activities will be the same; Michele will stay with CINECA; gained a new RSP "4Science"; CINECA status as RSP is in question
Action Items
1 | send letters to RSP contacts regarding general int outreach | Carol Minton Morris |
2 | begin list research for French, Italian users | Carol Minton Morris Kristi Searle |