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- 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 regionServe 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
- Participate in mailing lists or discussion forums to share knowledge and best practicesFacilitate 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.
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Team Members
Committee 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 committee aims to have representatives from variety of countries/regions in order to provide broad support the DSpace user community.
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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
Julie Speer - Georgia Institute of Technology
More information
For more information about DGOCDCAT, please contact Valorie Hollister at vholister at duraspace.org.