DCAT Meeting Notes November 8, 2011

Meeting Recording

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Attendees

• Amy Lana - University of Missouri
• Augustine Gitonga - Aga Khan University Hospital
• Bram Luyten - @mire
• Ciarán Walsh - Enovation Solutions, Ltd
• Claire Bundy - BioMed Central
• Dibyendra Hyoju - Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya/eIFL.net
• Elena Feinstein - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Elin Stangeland - Cambridge University Library
• Imma Subirats - OEKC, FAO of the United Nations
• Iryna Kuchma - eIFL.net
• Jennifer Laherty - Indiana University
• Jim Ottaviani - University of Michigan
• Leonie Hayes - University of Auckland
• Maureen Walsh - The Ohio State University
• Michael Guthrie - BioMed Central
• Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
• Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace  

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General

• Call In To: HiDef (Via Skype: +9900827047086940)
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Discussion Topics

(full To-dos and Timeline)

Actions from previous meeting

News & Events

1. DCAT meeting dates:
   1. December 13, 2011
   2. January 10, 2012
   3. February 14, 2012
2. DSpace 1.8 Released! 
   1. Backup/Restore addon will be available shortly - can be used for DuraCloud and other backup/restore activities 
3. DuraCloud
   1. Launch open source cloud service
   2. DuraCloud Preservation Service in the Troposphere: "Meteorology for the cloud computing world
   3. recent presentations at DLF and EDUCAUSE 
4. DuraSpace 2011 Sponsorship Campaign: $328k with 58 sponsors so far, 19 of which are new for 2011
5. Call for Proposals to Host Open Repositories Conference in 2013 and 2014 
6. Google Summer of Code Report
7. Other news?
   1. Open Access Week activities
      1. news feature on African repos: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5
      2. others?  
   2. Events
      1. Open Access Week Oct 24-30
      2. 5th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference (MTSR 2011) in Turkey - Bram is presenting
      3. EDUCAUSE in Philadelphia 
      4. DLF in Baltimore, report
      5. Digital Preservation Summit in Hamburg
      6. iPres 2011 in Singapore
      7. Berlin 9 in Washington DC - Bram and Jim attending

Status

• Val
  • survey questions added so it could be sent out to non-DSpace users
  • survey closed and results distributed to DCAT

Minutes

New meeting format 

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Revised meeting time

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Questions/comments/additions to news and events

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Moving forward on improving metadata support

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Old JIRA issue update

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New JIRA issue update

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