DCAT Meeting Notes May 3, 2011

Proposed Meeting Agenda - draft in progress

The meetings are Skype teleconferences accessed

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1. News

   1. Housekeeping - mtg time going forward
   2. Google Summer of Code - 2011 Accepted Projects
      1. SKOS Authority Controls
      2. WebMVC (Freemarker) UI development
      3. Submission Enhancements in DSpace - ties into DS164
      4. New UI built over RESTful services
   3. DSpace 1.8 - 1.8.0 Release Notes
   4. DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign launch
   5. New websites: DuraCloud.org and DuraSpace.org 
      1. based on Islandora - open source digital asset management system based on the combination of a Fedora digital repository and Drupal
      2. free DuraCloud trial accounts starting in June
   6. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace developer/committer mtg on Mon June 6, all DCAT invited to the mtg, planning a informal cocktail hour after - click here for more info an to RSVP
   7. Other news?
      1. OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace

2. New issues

   1. DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
   2. Anyone who does not have an issue selected, please come with your selection: DCAT JIRA New Features

3. Update on previously reviewed items

   1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Richard Rodgers and Peter Dietz volunteered to review the patch and provide their feedback
      2. patch submitter Jose Blanco is also working on XMLUI version
   2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Robin Taylor has added a few patches to address this request
   3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. GSoC project - do away with "item-submission.xml and input-forms.xml and instead create an Admin UI that allows repo managers reorganize the submission UI
      2. need feedback from all DCAT on req'mts
      3. need a few volunteers to work w/closely Jim and GSoC mentors (Mark Diggory and Scott Phillips)

4. Meeting Attendees:

   1. Bram, Val, Robin, Imma, Tim

DUE TO OR11 OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON JUNE 14, 2011 at 9:00 am Eastern/13:00 GMT