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Amy Lana - University of Missouri
Bram Luyten - @mire
Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
Claire Bundy - BioMed Central
Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
Maureen Walsh - The Ohio State University
Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace
Yan Han - University of Arizona Libraries

Guest Attendees

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Status

• Val - survey distributed

News & Events

1. DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. February 14, 2012
   2. March 13, 2012 - conflict w/the SPARC mtg, hold March 6 instead
2. DSpace 1.8.1 released  
3. DuraCloud: 2 months free, 1.3 released   
4. KnowledgeBase announcement: Umbrella KB, DSpace KB
5. Metadata survey news piece
6. SPARC Conference March 11-13:
   1. conference themes
   2. call for innovation fair proposals
   3. working on a DSpace user group mtg
7. DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign Summary
8. Call for Proposals to Host Open Repositories Conference in 2013 and 2014 
9. Call for Proposals for EDUCAUSE 
10. Other news?
11. Events
    1. Upcoming - 
       1. PASIG in Austin (Jan)
       2. ALA Midwinter in Dallas (Jan)
       3. Code4lib (February)
       4. SPARC OA Meeting in Kansas (March)
       5. JCDL in Washington (June)
       6. OR12 in Edinburgh July 9-13

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• DS587 tombstone (Sarah):discussion forum,JIRA
  • status as of last mtg:
    • some disagreement on tombstone reasons, what metadata would be displayed - discussion came up too late (Jose's version vs. Richard's)
    • still trying to get XMLUI tombstone reason for withdrawn item in to 1.8
• DS638 virus checking/check file format (Elin):discussion forum (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/dsforum/DSpace+*+DS-638++check+files+on+input+for+viruses%2C+and+verify+file+format),JIRA
  • virus checking is in 1.8, file format checking is written and tested, but did not make it into 1.8
  • status as of last mtg:
    • dependent on curation task work that MIT, not quite done, trying to follow same format for virus checking
    • can do file format checking - but NOT at submission
    • Robin to create a separate JIRA issue for file format checking at submission-->DS-1093
• DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/DS-164
  • GSoC project - do away with item-submission.xml and input-forms.xml and instead create an Admin UI that allows repo managers reorganize the submission UI
    • GSoC student wants to continue work on project
    • sample screenshot wiki page
  • status as of last mtg:
    • some muddling w/an adjacent GSoC project - Jim to resurrect original request and propose next steps
  • Per Robin - suggest break this issue into smaller tasks, starting with (It may be that there are already existing issues for some #2 looks to be addressed by DS-464)
    • 1. A screen or screens to allow the administrator to edit the format of the metadata collection screens
    • 2. The ability to select the type of an item and collect appropriate metadata accordingly
• DS-560 XMLUI News in config dir (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA
  • XMLUI interface is not as useful as JSPUI for news config, Bram proposed to have a more flexible front page
  • Do we have a DCAT consensus? If so, does it still make sense to hold a community-wide discussion for both feedback and developer resource identification?
  • going back to the priority of just making XMLUI news editable - Bram
• DS-456 create easy upgrade scripts (Iryna): discussion forum, JIRA
  • no developer assigned yet
  • propose writing scripts for the most common database/operating sys
  • Database: PostgreSQL 264, MySQL 43, Oracle 39, Other 6
  • Operating Sys: Linux 224, Microsoft Windows 88, UNIX 28, Solaris 22, HPUX 2
  • Michael to attach scripts to JIRA issue that they have developed
  • hold community-wide discussion/solicitation of other upgrade scripts already written or interested parties -->look at Iryna's announcement

5. New JIRA issues

• Added functionality to embargo feature (?DS-908, ?DS895, ?DS-824) - Jim
  • Univ of Michigan is embarking on a project with @mire to add functionality to the existing feature
• DS-1021 Add integration with an online document viewer (Amy) - discussion forum, JIRA 
  • discussion open now

6. Other items?

Actions from this meeting

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