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Charge of the DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT)
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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 team member is around 5-10 hours a month. For more details about the new feature request review process, click here.
- 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
- Network regularly with other DSpace users in country/region
- Participate in mailing lists or discussion forums to share knowledge and best practices
- Periodically attend the DSpace Committers meetings
Meetings
The team meets on the 1st Tuesday of every month via a conference call, alternating times every month between 9:00am Eastern/14:00 GMT or 3:00pm Eastern/20:00 GMT to accommodate those in different time zones. The purpose of the meeting is primarily to share news/information and refine our review process. Most of the work of DCAT takes place outside the meeting, so if there are members who cannot attend either meeting they can still contribute significantly to the DCAT efforts. For more information and meeting notes, click here.
Discussion Schedule
The team will hold weekly new feature request discussions among members as well as broader, community discussions each month. For the discussion schedule, click here.
Team Members
Team 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 team 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
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.
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.Beth Tillinghast - University of Hawaii at Manoa
More information
For more information about DCAT, please contact Valorie Hollister at vholister at duraspace.org.the co-chairs Bram Luyten (Atmire) or Maureen Walsh. Any question or comment is also welcome on the open mailing list.