DCAT Meeting Notes June 12, 2012

Attendees

Amy Lana - University of Missouri
Bram Luyten - @mire
Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
Claire Bundy - BioMed Central
Jennifer Laherty - Indiana University
Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
Sarah Potvin - Texas A&M
Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace
Tim Donohue - DuraSpace

Dial-in

• (209) 647-1600, participant code 373133, host code: 560833 (can be done via Skype - for directions: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in)

Discussion Topics

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News & Events

1. Upcoming DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. July 3 (moved early because of OR12 conflict)
   2. August 14
   3. September 11
2. OR12: 
   1. General Conference and DSUG schedule finalized: https://www.conftool.net/or2012/sessions.php 
   2. early bird registration ending July 18: http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/registration/
   3. Keynote Announced: http://duraspace.org/register-now-open-repositories-2012-workshops-keynote-announced
   4. Developers/DCAT mtg on Monday July 9th: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DevMtg+2012-07-09+-+OR12+Meeting
   5. DuraSpace reception on Thursday July 12
3. News 
   1. Announcing the 2012 ARL/DLF/DuraSpace E-Science Institute 
   2. On the Institutional Value of a DSpace Open Source IR at U. Maryland 
   3. NOW AVAILABLE: Open Repositories Conference 2012 Draft Program 
   4. @mire on the Importance of the Duraspace 2012 Community Sponsorship Program 
   5. World Bank Launches DSpace "Open Knowledge Repository"
   6. Introducing BioMed Central's Open Access Advocate of the Year 
   7. Developer "Office Hours" for Hydra, Fedora and DSpace--Drop-ins Welcome! - talk with Tim Donohue every Weds from 1-4pm ET
   8. DSpace Faceshttp://duraspace.org/dspace-faces# 
4. Webinars:
   1. Upcoming Webinars
      1. Hot Topics Webinar Series 2: Managing & Preserving Audio and Video in your Digital Repository, curated by Karen Cariani, WGBH Boston
         1. Wedinar 3: Describing Audio & Video Digital Media with Metadata, June 13, 2012 - registration is closed, recording will be made available
   2. New Recordings
      1. Hot Topics Webinar Series 2: Managing & Preserving Audio and Video in your Digital Repository, curated by Karen Cariani, WGBH Boston
         1. Webinar 1: The Big Picture: Preserving Audio & Video Digital Media, May 16, 2012
         2. Webinar 2: Creating Access to Audio & Video Digital Media: The Variations on Video Project & the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, June 6, 2012
         3. Hot Topics Webina Series 1: Digital Preservation Planning  
5. Events    
   1. JASIG/Sakai in Atlanta June 10-12
   2. JCDL in Washington June 10-14
   3. OR12 in Edinburgh July 9-13

Minutes

1) News

-several news worthy items contributed by Bram/@mire

-ARL/DLF E-Science course is going to be managed by DuraSpace - a course will be run starting this fall

2) OR12 Developer mtg 

-took a look at the agenda, requested feedback (need it by end of this week - comment on wiki page or send to Tim or Val)

-morning will be less technical/more strategic discussion, afternoon will be more technical

-drinks at a pub at 4pm for everyone

-developers reviewing tomorrow, will finalize next week

-limit of 30 people based on room capacity

3)  Action items/old JIRA issues

internationalization

-msg out to Ambassadors, some comments on the wiki page, Bram to continue to solicit help at OR and perhaps around release time when it becomes more important

metadata projects

-Sarah P., Amy, Maura Valentio (works with Sue Kunda) to work on updating Dublin Core project (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Updating+the+Qualified+Dublin+Core+registry+in+DSpace+to+the+latest+standards+of+the+DCMI), Val to see if Maureen Walsh would be willing to help, suggested steps 1) document specifically what needs to change, 2)  forward proposed changes to Tim and he will put it on a developer mtg agenda,  and 3)  project team to attend developer's mtg to discuss  

Bram noted that new resource for sharing XMLUI themes has picked up momentum, 3 institutions have already shared: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Repository+of+XMLUI+themes

4) discussion this week?

Top DCAT feature/improvement priorities, led by Val

5) new issues

none

Val:how we might get some momentum going in the community

Amy: will we overwhelm developers by pushing issues? possibly, but we should have discussion anyways so we can get some visibility on the priorities

Jim: embargo feature progressing as scoped, some feedback initially, not much last month

Bram: should we reframe DCAT's role as more of a think tank about feature reqmts - develop a comprehensive set of reqmts and outline what DCAT sees is missing, try to get cmtrs interested and solicit community participation, but really focus on scoping reqmts

Tim: really need to get communicate new features/improvement discussion somehow to those people that manage developers - so that if they are aware / interested they can make their developer time available 

Val: suggest we work on communicating better / more simply, create an 'executive ' summary of the top DCAT priorities

-identify what 3 features DCAT views as most important / revalent for the most number of DSpace users - create hit list, include in presentation at OR

-Claire suggest that these are emailed out regularly - simply expressed/executive summary

-some examples that pop to mind:

--Bram: altmetrics, e.g. measuring alternative forms of impact/web usage of resources. for example, hooking DSpace up to http://total-impact.org/

--Bram: better integration between DSpace and social media

--Bram: exposing dspace as linked data

--Bram: ORCID integration http://orcid.org

-Bram also recommended we include encouragement in our community communications for everyone to vote/comment in JIRA on specific features

-Val nominated this for our DCAT discussion this week - identify the top priorities (big or small, but it would be good to identify one that has a chance of getting in for 3.0) 

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