Proposed Meeting Agenda

DCAT meeting recording (recording was started a bit late -- so the review of some of the news is missing)

  1. News
    1. Welcome to our 8 new members! (full team)
      1. Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
      2. Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
      3. Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
      4. Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
      5. Bram Luyten - @mire
      6. Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University
      7. Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
      8. Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
    2. DSpace 1.7.1 release - bug fix release (no new features, just resolves issues found in 1.7.0)
      1. resolves a medium-level security issue found in 1.7.0 (see DS-858)
      2. fully supports Oracle databases
      3. resolves several SWORD-related bugs 
      4. some other minor issues were resolved - for a full list, please see the 1.7.1 Release Notes and Version History
    3. DSpace 1.8
      1. target date for Oct 2011
      2. Robin Taylor - release coordinator
      3. what might be included: 1.8.0 Release Notes
    4. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
      2. DSpace committer mtg on Mon June 6, all DCAT invited to the mtg, planning a informal cocktail hour after
    5. Other news?
      1. OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace
      2. Laos DSpace training - eIFL.net provided DSpace 1.5.2 training in Laos March - went well
      3. Sarah -- through Mortensen Ctr at Univ of Illinois she is going to Univ of Ghana in July to consult on repository policies, metadata, etc (not technical)
  2. e-Forum
    1. participation low in last e-Forum
      1. Val to talk w/Alice about next steps
    2. SPARC's new e-forum on "subject repository development and success"
      1. subject repos a unique need, without a lot of resources - not a direct overlap w/the DSpace e-forum
  3. DCAT new feature review process - please see last month's meeting notes
  4. Update on previously reviewed items
    1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
        1. Jim to have Jose add note in JIRA indicating whether or not authorization groups / access controls (Mark Woods points) are/is included in his current JSPUI patch
        2. Sarah to talk w/Tim about someone reviewing Jose's latest JSPUI patch and whether or not there is someone available to help Jose create the XMLUI patch
    2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DSpace+*+DS-638++check+files+on+input+for+viruses%2C+and+verify+file+format), JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
        1. Elin currently working w/Robin to understanding the curation framework and investigating/figuring out a next steps
          1. virus check - is part of MIT curation tools planned for 1.8 (some in 1.7 already)
          2. file format - Elin to f/u w/Robin, possibly look at UofM implementation (done many releases ago - before other curation work done)
    3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
        1. Jim to build a strawman approach to breakdown the different ideas for how to improve input forms -- including a clear proposal of priority for each w/input from DCAT
        2. get community's response and feedback on strawman
        3. determine who has done / will do which work (sounds like a lot of interested parties)
        4. determine the gaps - are their improvements that we don't have a developer for?
    4. DS560 XMLUI news config/front page customization (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA 
      1. Proposed next steps:
        1. DCAT vote and assessment
  5. Meeting Attendees:
    1.  Elin, Sarah, Val, Iryna, Ciarán, Jim

NEXT MEETING ON MAY 3, 2011 AT 3PM/20:00 GMT

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