DCAT Meeting Notes February 14, 2012

Potential 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 - 
Sarah Shreeves - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sue Kunda - Oregon State University
Valorie Hollister - DuraSpace
Yan Han - University of Arizona Libraries

Dial-in

• (209) 647-1600, participant code 373133, host code: 560833 (can be done via Skype - for directions: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/cmtygp/DCAT+Conference+Call+Dial-in)

Discussion Topics

Actions from previous meeting

Status

• Val - survey distributed

News & Events

1. DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. March 13, 2012 - conflict w/the SPARC mtg, hold March 6 instead
   2. April 10, 2012
2. Contribute to the new KnowledgeBase and win Amazon gift cards
3. New Hot Topics webinar series 
   1. Webinar recording available: "Assessing Preservation Readiness" by Liz Bishoff from The Bishoff Group LLC and Tom Clareson from LYRASIS
4. Making the SWORD Deposit Picture Clear
5. SPARC Conference March 11-13:
   1. conference themes
   2. DSpace user group mtg
6. Call for Proposals for OR12 - due Feb 20
7. Call for Proposals for EDUCAUSE 
8. Other news?
9. Events
   1. Upcoming - 
      1. SPARC OA Meeting in Kansas March 12-13
      2. CNI in Baltimore April 2-3
      3. JCDL in Washington June
      4. OR12 in Edinburgh July 9-13

Minutes

1. Questions/comments/additions to news and events

2. Open discussion on how DCAT is working / how it could improve

-we have played a role in bridging the gap between user community and committers - success in 1.8 - JIRA issues w/DCAT interest seems to be addressed with higher priority

-clients appreciate DCAT the effort - feel like they have more access to developer community, see an improvement

-positive development

-couple people never participate - maybe pull them in on more narrowly defined project

-intimidated by lack of knowledge or skills - don't feel I can get involved

-discussions get lost among everything else - maybe need a more focused time to work on ---> team will try to have a DCAT e-forum for 2 days on the Thurs & Fri following the conference call mtg

-any other thoughts/feedback - please send email or chat w/Val

-add deadlines for tasks on the action item - Val 

3. Improving metadata support project teams formation

-based on survey results for each of the 6 projects we have about 20-25 volunteers to work on each, responses from the news piece brought a few more volunteers

-need project team leaders - maybe 2 co-chairs for each group 

-infrastructure: mailing lists, wiki space

-collaboration/coordination w/DSpace committers and DCAT

---DCAT liason

---committer liason

-preliminary code reviews - code is somewhere that is publically available - check into a public place - GetHub or Subversion - to get feedback before it is complete and gets submitted to JIRA

-join developer list and use it for the projects - as open as possible to all dev/cmtr - project work should all be brought back to dspace dev - project coordination on sep list

-send msg to volunteers and dspace devel list

-caveats on larger projects (ehnanced mtadata on comm/coll/files)

-we are the facilitators, not the coordinators

-how the team works together is up to the team - DCAT can help to kick start / solve problems

-next version of DSpace - have a lot of runway to get in, dependent on resources - early deadline for project end to allow for enough time     

-email out to each volunteer group to solidify participation and identify co-leaders - Val

-discuss proposal on collaboration w/Commtters w/Tim Donohue - Val 

4. Old JIRA issue update - Discuss 560 & 456 and any updates to others

• 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,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?

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