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Preparing for the call

If you can join the call, or are willing to comment on the topics submitted via the meeting page, please add your name, institution, and repository URL to the Call Attendees section below.

Call Attendees

• Terrence W Brady (Georgetown)
• Pauline Ward (Edinburgh)
• Claudio Cortese (4Science)
• Suzanne Chase (Georgetown)
• Anne Lawrence (Virginia Tech)
• Marianne Reed (University of Kansas)
• Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto)
• Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri)
• Gail McMillan (Virginia Tech)

Meeting notes

Future Topic Brainstorming

1. The role of the repository
1. The role of the repository and aggregating content that is openly available elsewhere.
2. When an institution has multiple repositories, how do you define the role of each instance.
2. ETD Best Practices
3. DSpace and Preservation 
1. What methods do you use
4. Metadata and authority control/curation tasks (enhancement ideas/wishlist)
5. ORCID and DSpace
6.  Metadata auditing/reporting options.  Sharing best practices. 
1. Example - finding duplicates
7. OpenRefine and DSpace
8. 2018 Goal: Create a channel of Repository Manager Videos
1. Model on the work done by the OJS community
2. Example: the REST API documentation is very limited and needs more examples
3. Possible Goal: create one video per month
1. TODO: Create YouTube channel (ask Tim Donohue to create one)
2. TODO: Create a DCAT sub page for useful documentation, lib guides, etc
   1. See Documentation Resources collected from DCAT Memebers
3. TODO: Create a DCAT page to brainstorm candidate videos
   1. See Documentation Resources collected from DCAT Memebers
9. Curation System - How do folks use it and what do you wish it could do
10. DSpace Testing Best Practices
11. Use case curation - review and discuss the use cases DCAT created in the past
1. The DSpace 7 Outreach group has been actively working with the documented use cases.
12. Tour of DSpace command line options

Updates from the Group

• Georgetwon: DSpace/IIIF Prototyping at Georgetown
• Virginia Tech: Migration to Symplectic V2
• U of Kansas: File Format Registry analysis
• 4Science 
  • DSpace CRIS
  • IIIF Viewer
  • Explore ecommerce integration (Wordpress)
• DSpace Entities Group update from Claudio Cortese (4Science)