Goal
The primary goal of the DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC) is to help identify or develop resources and tools for DSpace users and as well as to advance the user community network world-wide.
Current DGOC 2009 Projects
1) Help organize the DSUG Meetings at OR2009 in May 2009 (https://or09.library.gatech.edu/dspace.php
) and DSUG stand alone mtg in Sweden in October 2009 (http://dsug09.ub.gu.se/index.php/dsug/dsug09)
2) Create a social network for the DSpace user community searchable by area of interest or expertise
3) Survey the DSpace user community and make all information available to the community through a dynamic database which can be queried and updated easily by users going forward (http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Community+Networking+Survey+Results)
4) Create a list of projects/integrations/addons available for the DSpace platform
5) Recruit and organize a list of regional contacts for potential/new users who want to talk to someone local
DGOC 2008 Projects - DSpace Repository Manager Meeting on Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Meeting notes can be found at http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DSpace+Global+Outreach+Cmte/SPARC_DSpace_RM_Mtg
Overview of DGOC
Activities
The following are a list of potential activities for the committee members. However, committee members will help refine and establish what is important for their region/country. Estimated time for each committee member is around 10 hours a month.
- Attend regular, virtual committee meetings
- Collaborate on projects to develop tools and resources to serve the community
- 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 monthly via a conference call. We hold two different calls to accommodate members from different time zones.
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 the ability and interest in building or further developing their DSpace user community network. 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
Ezra S. Gbaje - Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria
Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland
Valorie Hollister - DSpace Foundation
Alvin Hutchinson - Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
Jayan C Kurian - National University of Singapore
Yohannes Mulugeta - Addis Ababa University Libraries
Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
Christina Richison - NITLE
Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Julie Speer - Georgia Institute of Technology
Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
Beth Tillinghast - University of Hawaii at Manoa
Joy Wheeler - Nanyang Technological University Singapore
'''For more information about DGOC, please contact Valorie Hollister at val at dspace.org.
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