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1) Welcome and overview of the cmte's cmte’s purpose
a. Foundation doesn't doesn’t have funding or the staff to put on trainings or events around the world – but we are hoping that by helping you all to connect with each other on the cmte and with other DSpace users in your country/region, you can in essence, help yourselves to find resources.
b. Foundation's Foundation’s role / Valorie's Valorie’s role is really that of a facilitator.
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i. Dorothea Salo's Salo’s work is an example of a forum for this type of very specific feedback and we encourage cmte members to participate in these discussions
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iii. Christina will look into the possibility of using MIV or Multipoint Interactive Videoconferencing through NITLE (http://www.nitle.org/index.php/nitle/information_services/multipoint_interactive_videoconferencing)\\
3) Initial thoughts of cmte members: What are some of the challenges you face as at your institution and some of the ways you think the cmte might be able to help the larger DSpace repository manager community?
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c. Elin – UK has an advantage with the JISC funded project RSP (http://www.rsp.ac.uk/) which offers training and start up help. RSP also gets repository mgrs networking/communicating and runs workshops specifically for repository managers. There is an upcoming one on copyrights, for example. Also UKCoRR (http://www.ukcorr.org/), a Sherpa run project that provides some resources too. Elin's Elin’s sees here role on this cmte to help connect repository managers with DSpace Foundation through a her collobration with RSP. Elin was also curious about the DSpace instance list and how it compares with Open DOAR register. Valorie to post the full list with use case categories onto the DGOC Google Group page and to look into who qualifies to be on the Open DOAR list (and would they want our list?)
d. Iryna – works with transitional countries, performs outreach to libraries, offers materials and resources to library directors who are not necessarily technical – on why they should chose DSpace vs. other platforms, she helps to explain how they will need to support their repository, populate it. Her challenges are having DSpace resources materials in different languages for librarians, she is also interested in a comparative guide to the open source platforms. Michele added here that Sandy Payette has promised to help w/the Fedora piece and Michele will help to identify resources who may be willing to work on the DSpace piece. Iryna would like have more information on successful use cases for DSpace, how they did it, what resources it took, etc.
e. Ronee – Doesn't Doesn’t know a lot of people using DSpace, would like to network w/other users
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g. Rea – Has been at DSpace for awhile, have an institutional repository group in Canada to help support each other. Needs help with content recruitment, how to get commitments from academics when things aren't aren’t written down, preservation is an area of concern. Raised question about how much is DSpace specific vs. repository challenges in general.
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e. Structured networking forum (like NITLE's NITLE’s user group mtg)
f. Set up specific topics/questions at tables (similar to Barcamp)
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l. Dial in option for those who can't can’t attend or a video (like Epresence, freeware that streams video and can be run w/Powerpoint slides and chat)
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