DCAT Meeting Notes December 13, 2011

Meeting Recording

Attendees

• Amy Lana - University of Missouri
• Bram Luyten - @mire
• Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
• Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
• Jennifer Laherty - Indiana University
• Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
• Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace

Guest Attendees

General

• Call In To: HiDef (Via Skype:+9900827045407252)

• - Indicates who will be taking minutes 

Discussion Topics

Actions from previous meeting

Status

• Val
  • survey
    • draft priorities and community msg DONE
    • need to distribute to community and beyond

News & Events

1. DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. January 10, 2012
   2. February 14, 2012
2. DSpace 1.8 w/iTunes U RSS Capability 
3. DuraCloud 
   1. Launch open source cloud service
   2. DuraCloud Preservation Service in the Troposphere: "Meteorology for the cloud computing world"
   3. recent presentations at DLF and EDUCAS 
4. SPARC Conference March 11-13:
   1. conference themes
   2. call for innovation fair proposals
   3. working on a DSpace user group mtg
5. SWORD 2 and Research Data - take the survey
6. Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Launches Website
7. Closing out the DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign - still time to be a sponsor!
8. Call for Proposals to Host Open Repositories Conference in 2013 and 2014 
9. Other news?
10. Events
    1. Past: Berlin 9 in Washington DC - Bram and Jim attended - how was it?
    2. Upcoming
       1. Coalition for Networked Information in D.C.
       2. PASIG in Austin 
       3. ALA Midwinter in Dallas
       4. SPARC OA Meeting (Kansas, March)
       5. JCDL (Washington, June)
       6. Code4lib (February)
       7. OR12 July 9-13

Minutes

1. Questions/comments/additions to news and events

2. KnowledgeBase Preview

-Background:

--community feedback that documentation needs to be easier to understand, more examples/showing, more accessible language, make entry level experience easier

--also wanted a logical place to put many useful community resources that didn't belong in the official docs

--informal mtg at OR11 with interested 'advisors'

-Strategy:

--patterned after the Ruby on Rail's RailGuides - framework for including text-based guide, screencasts, presentation slides, webinar recordings

--material to be collaboratively developed by user community, developers, service providers, committers and the DuraSpace organization

-Goals

--NOT to replace/duplicate official docs - a supplemental resource including dynamic content delivered through various methods (text, screencasts, etc) using lots of examples/visuals

--make users immediately productive with wither DSpace of Fedora - help them understand how to set up and run a repository

--framework to encourage collaboration in bite sized chunks

-Framework overview

-separate wiki 'space' for DSpace, Fedora and umbrella - ability to easily jump between

-how to contribute - roles (content contributor and content moderator) laid out

-draft table of contents - topics to be covered - contributors not be limited by initial draft

-sample content developed

-What's next?

--feedback from interested advisors - now

--soft launch to the community to solicit contributors/moderators - mid-Dec

--more publicity/activity in Jan/Feb

Questions/Feedback:

-other ed materials on wiki - how to treat? references from other parts of the wiki going to the KB for updated material

-looks easy to contribute

-Flash work arounds for iPads?  

3. Metadata Support Improvements 

-Elin mentioned some questions about DC standards - Bram pointed to an analysis he did here: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/NewDublinCore 

-Bram and Elin will post edits on community message by Fri: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/Metadata+Support+Survey+Results+Community+Message

4. Old JIRA issue update - Discuss 560 & 456 and any updates to others

• DS587 tombstone (Sarah):discussion forum,JIRA
  • status as of last mtg:
    • some disagreement on tombstone reasons, what metadata would be displayed - discussion came up too late (Jose's version vs. Richard's)
    • still trying to get XMLUI tombstone reason for withdrawn item in to 1.8
• DS638 virus checking/check file format (Elin):discussion forum (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DSpace+*+DS-638++check+files+on+input+for+viruses%2C+and+verify+file+format),JIRA
  • virus checking is in 1.8, file format checking is written and tested, but did not make it into 1.8
  • status as of last mtg:
    • dependent on curation task work that MIT, not quite done, trying to follow same format for virus checking
    • can do file format checking - but NOT at submission
    • Robin to create a separate JIRA issue for file format checking at submission-->DS-1093
• DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-164
  • 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
    • GSoC student wants to continue work on project
    • sample screenshot wiki page
  • status as of last mtg:
    • some muddling w/an adjacent GSoC project - Jim to resurrect original request and propose next steps
  • Per Robin - suggest break this issue into smaller tasks, starting with (It may be that there are already existing issues for some #2 looks to be addressed by DS-464)
    • 1. A screen or screens to allow the administrator to edit the format of the metadata collection screens
    • 2. The ability to select the type of an item and collect appropriate metadata accordingly
• DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
  • XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config, Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
  • Do we have a DCAT consensus? If so, does it still make sense to hold a community-wide discussion for both feedback and developer resource identification?
  • going back to the priority of just making XMLUI news editable - Bram
• DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
  • no developer assigned yet
  • propose writing scripts for the most common database/operating sys
  • Database: PostgreSQL 264, MySQL 43, Oracle 39, Other 6
  • Operating Sys: Linux 224, Microsoft Windows 88, UNIX 28, Solaris 22, HPUX 2
  • Michael to attach scripts to JIRA issue that they have developed
  • hold community-wide discussion/solicitation of other upgrade scripts already written or interested parties

5. New JIRA issues

• Added functionality to embargo feature (?DS-908, ?DS895, ?DS-824) - Jim, Bram
  • Univ of Michigan is embarking on a project with @mire to add functionality to the existing feature
• DS-1021 - Amy
  • discussion open now

6. Other items?

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