DCAT Meeting Notes April 5, 2011

Proposed Meeting Agenda

1. News

   1. Welcome to our 9 new members! (full team)
      1. Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
      2. Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
      3. Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
      4. Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
      5. Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
      6. Bram Luyten - @mire
      7. Alice Platt - Southern New Hampshire University
      8. Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
      9. Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
   2. DSpace 1.7.1 release - bug fix release (no new features, just resolves issues found in 1.7.0)
      1. resolves a medium-level security issue found in 1.7.0 (see DS-858)
      2. fully supports Oracle databases
      3. resolves several SWORD-related bugs 
      4. some other minor issues were resolved - for a full list, please see the 1.7.1 Release Notes and Version History
   3. DSpace 1.8
      1. target date for Oct 2011
      2. Robin Taylor - release coordinator
      3. what might be included: 1.8.0 Release Notes
   4. Open Repositories Conference, June 8-11, 2011
      1. DSpace user group mtg chair, Holly Mercer
      2. DSpace committer mtg on Mon June 6, all DCAT invited to the mtg, planning a informal cocktail hour after
   5. Other news?
      1. OAI7 DSpace User Mtg on June 21 - sponsored by @mire & DuraSpace
      2. Nepal, Thailand and Laos -- how did the FAO training in Laos in March go?

2. e-Forum

   1. participation low in last e-Forum
   2. SPARC's new e-forum on "subject repository development and success" - overlap?

3. DCAT new feature review process - please see last month's meeting notes

4. Update on previously reviewed items

   1. DS587 tombstone (Sarah): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
         1. put together a strawman set of requirements
         2. get community's response/feedback on strawman
         3. determine if UofM is will to modify/help modify feature per community req'mt
         4. identify other developer resources, if necessary
   2. DS638 check file format/virus check (Elin): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
         1. Elin currently working w/Robin to understanding the curation framework and investigating/figuring out a next steps
   3. DS164 deposit interface for modifying input forms.xml (Jim): discussion forum, JIRA
      1. Proposed next steps:
         1. build a strawman approach to breakdown the different ideas for how to improve input forms -- including a clear proposal of priority for each
         2. get community's response and feedback on strawman
         3. determine who has done / will do which work (sounds like a lot of interested parties)
         4. determine the gaps - are their improvements that we don't have a developer for?
   4. DS560 XMLUI news config/front page customization (Bram): discussion forum, JIRA 
      1. Proposed next steps:
         1. DCAT vote and assessment

5. Meeting Attendees:

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NEXT MEETING ON MAY 5, 2011 AT 3PM/20:00 GMT