Meeting Notes

  1. News
    1. Welcome new members! full DCAT list
    2. Next meeting on August 9
    3. OAI7 update
      1. excellent turn out
      2. Iryna helped lead small group discussions: notes 
    4. DSpace 1.8 - 1.8.0 Release Notes - feature freeze on August 19!
    5. DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign: $188k with 32 sponsors so far
      1. Jonathan mentioned that DuraSpace will be making more formalized acknowledgements of committers. For those institutions who share their developer resources, DuraSpace technologies could not exist w/o these resources - individuals and their organizations are already acknowledged on the wiki, but there will be a specific section of the duraspace.org website acknowledging the institutions/organizations who contribute committer/s. There will also be acknowledgement letters sent to the organizations (will be discussed w/each committers prior to sending)
    6. Repositories and CRIS event in the UK on July 19
    7. Other news?
      1. Repository Fringe is still looking for speakers
      2. DSpace on Fedora panel discussion summary from OR11
      3. Elin Stangeland has been nominated to serve on the OR12 Planning Cmte - Congratulations!
  2. DCAT Review
    1. New feature review process
      1. Goal: primary goal of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) is to help review and facilitate community-wide discussions about new feature requests in JIRA and to provide support to the DSpace developer/committer group in producing software releases.
      2. What it is:
        1. group representing the community which make assessments about new feature requests in JIRA - the relative value and urgency for the broader community 
        2. facilitate community wide discussions on the most useful and urgent new feature requests - the purpose of which is to validate DCAT assessment, flesh out req'mts, most importantly-->find stakeholder/developer resources
        3. possibly provide communication support (announcements, etc.) to developers/committers for software releases
        4. collaborate on other projects for the community - user group mtgs, networking, mailing list participation, e-forum, attend weekly developer/committer mtgs
      3. What it is not:
        1. a group that dictates work priorities for the developers/committers
        2. having discussions just to have discussions
      4. Process overview
        1. please be sure to vote on each issue - even if it is a "+0"
        2. attending weekly committer mtg following your issue discussion week is really helpful
      5. Future discussion schedule
      6. New issues - Anyone who does not have an issue selected, please come with your selection: DCAT JIRA New Features
    2. Revised/updated metadata schema - committers have requested our input on what we want out of the box
      1. Bram has developed a survey
        1. Phase 1 - DCAT members will all respond to the survey and have discussion (on email list and/or at next mtg)
        2. Phase 2 - community-wide survey - results from DCAT survey will help focus the public survey
        3. Feedback Leonie Hayes on this
    3. Update on previously reviewed items
      1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
        1. patch submitter Jose Blanco is also working on XMLUI version
        2. Richard Rodgers and Peter Dietz volunteered to review the patch and provide their feedback - Tim and Robyn checking to confirm that Richard and Peter are still able to review
      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. virus checking is complete
        2. file format checking - Richard Rodgers/MIT is working on this and planning for it to be in for 1.8
      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. Jim and other DCAT members provided specfic requirements list to GSofC list
          1. Need feedback on steps and proposed admin UI screenshots
      4. DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
        1. XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config, Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
        2. Bram to re-send discussion link - all DCAT members to chime in on broadened scope (not just XMLUI, not just news) to come up with a general consensus of the types of optional configurable elements that the community would like to see and/or the functional req'mts (news box, statistics, list of comm/coll, what ever front page needs)
        3. After we have a consensus, we will hold a community-wide discussion for both feedback and developer resource identification
      5. DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
        1. no developer assigned yet
        2. propose writing scripts for the most common database/operating sys
          1. Database: PostgreSQL 264, MySQL 43, Oracle 39, Other 6
          2. Operating Sys: Linux 224, Microsoft Windows 88, UNIX 28, Solaris 22, HPUX 2
        3. Michael to attach scripts to JIRA issue that they have developed
        4. hold community-wide discussion/solicitation of other upgrade scripts already written or interested parties
  3. Meeting Attendees:
    1. Bram Luyten - @mire
    2. Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
    3. Claire Bundy - BioMed Central
    4. Elena Feinstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    5. Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
    6. Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
    7. Jennifer Laherty - Indiana University
    8. Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
    9. Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
    10. Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    11. Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace
    12. Tim Donohue - DuraSpace
    13. Jonathan Markow - DuraSpace,

OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON AUGUST 9, 2011 at 9:00 am Eastern/13:00 GMT  

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  1. Iryna Kuchma

    piratepad for the repository manager discussion at OAI7 DSpace User Group Meeting: http://piratepad.net/jq3Y7p0Swv

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