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Charge of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT)

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DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT)represents the interests of repository managers and administrators across the globe and, indirectly, DSpace end users. DCAT is a permanent Working Group that advises other DSpace project governance and leadership groups (e.g., DSpace Steering Group, DSpace Product Planning Group). The Team solicits feedback through community-wide discussions, surveys, etc. to help ensure future software releases address the needs of the community. DCAT submits an annual report to the DSpace Steering group that makes the report public after review

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Activities

The following are a list of potential activities for the team members. Team members will help develop and refine priorities as necessary.  Estimated time for each committee member is around 10 hours a month.

• Attend monthly team teleconferences
• Review JIRA new feature requests, provide draft of recommendations and lead DCAT discussion on the request
• Provide feedback in JIRA about specific new feature requests
• Facilitate community-wide discussions on selected new feature requests - flesh out minimum requirements and potential project team / stakeholders and developers
• Collaborate on other project, tools, resources which serve the community
• Help to organize user group meetings

Take part in forums to share training and best practices in your country/region

• Network regularly with other DSpace users in your region

• Serve as a resource to new or potential DSpace users within your country/region on the DSpace platform

• Help develop agenda and host user group meetings

• Help guide the priorities of the DuraSpace organization to better serve the needs of repository managers

• Facilitate feedback from your country/region on the DSpace platform design in order to make the development process more balanced and informed about the repository manager's needs and the variety of use cases

Meetings

The committee meets on the 1st Tuesday of every month via a conference call. We hold two different calls to accommodate members from different time zones. For more information and meeting notes, click here.

Committee Members

Committee members are volunteers from the world-wide DSpace user community. Members will be primarily made up of individuals who function as DSpace repository managers at their institution and have an interest in developing resources/tools for DSpace users and as well as to advance the user community network world-wide. The committee aims to have representatives from variety of countries/regions in order to provide broad support the DSpace user community.

Rea Devakos - University of Toronto

Ronee L. Francis - Vanderbilt University

Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace

Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net

Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan

Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library

Beth Tillinghast - University of Hawaii at Manoa

Emeritus Committee Members

Ezra S. Gbaje - Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria

Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland

Alvin Hutchinson - Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Jayan C Kurian - National University of Singapore

Yohannes Mulugeta - Addis Ababa University Libraries

Joy Wheeler - Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Christina Richison - NITLE

Monica Roos - University of Bergen

Michael Soupios - Seton Hall University

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 A specific area of focus for DCAT is defined annually by DCAT and the Steering Group.

DCAT Membership

DCAT members are primarily individuals who function as DSpace repository managers at their institution. Members have an interest in advancing the development of the DSpace software and expanding the DSpace user community. DCAT aims to have global representation in order to provide broad support to the DSpace user community. DCAT members generally devote approximately 5-10 hours per month to the Team.

DCAT Chair

The DCAT Chair is responsible for facilitating the Team. This includes:

• Building consensus among Team members to set the group’s priorities

• Establishing meeting agendas and running meetings

• Reporting and communicating results of these meetings

• Serving as an ex-officio member of the DSpace Steering Group

• Establishing sub-teams to work on various projects    

DCAT Meeting Frequency

DCAT holds open monthly teleconference meetings. The DCAT Chair distributes the agenda at least one week in advance. 

For more information and meeting notes visit DCAT Meeting Notes.

Regular DCAT Member Activities

Most of the DCAT members partake in these regular activities:

• Contribute to recommendations for the DSpace Steering Group and other leadership and working groups on DCAT perspective and community feedback

• Participate on DCAT projects requested by the DSpace Steering Group and other DSpace leadership and working groups

• Champion particular feature requests or bug reports. This may include but is not limited to facilitating community-wide discussions on new feature requests, fleshing out minimum requirements and trying to identify potential a project team, interested stakeholders and developers.

• Participate in mailing lists or discussion forums to share knowledge and best practices

• Attend monthly DCAT teleconference

Other Possible DCAT Member Activities

Some DCAT members are engaged in additional activities:

• Collaborate on projects, tools and resources, including the DSpace Documentation, which serve the community

• Organize physical or virtual user group meetings

• Attend the DSpace Committers meetings

• Survey the DSpace community to solicit comments and suggestions on developments for the software (archived surveys)

• Network regularly with other DSpace users locally and internationally

• Network regularly with the larger repository community, to stay abreast of initiatives and developments elsewhere from which DSpace could benefit.

Mailing List

Members of DCAT use a Google Group mailing list for their communications. Anyone from the community is welcome to join.

Current Members of the DSpace Community Advisory Team

@Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital

Bram Luyten (Atmire) (Co-Chair) - @mire

Bharat Chaudhari - School Of Petroleum Management, Gandhinagar, India

Claire Bundy - BioMed Central

@Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net

Elin Stangeland - University of Oslo

Felicity A Dykas - University of Missouri

Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net

James Evans - Biomed Central/Open Repository

Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan

Suzanne Chase - Georgetown University Library

Kathleen Schweitzberger - University of Missouri

Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland

Anna Dabrowski - Texas A&M University

Maureen Walsh (Co-Chair) - The Ohio State University Libraries

Pauline Ward - University of Edinburgh, Data Library

@Roger Weaver - University of Missouri

Sarah Molloy - Queen Mary, University of London

Sarah Potvin - Texas A&M University

Steve Van Tuyl - Oregon State University Libraries & Press

Terrence W Brady - Georgetown University Library

Yan Han - University of Arizona Libraries

Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace

History

The DCAT is a reconstituted version of it's predecessor, the DSpace Global Outreach Committee.Julie Speer - Georgia Institute of Technology

More information

For more information about DGOCDCAT, please contact Valorie Hollister at vholister at duraspace.orgthe co-chairs Bram Luyten (Atmire) or Maureen Walsh. Any question or comment is also welcome on the open mailing list.