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
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

News & Events

1. Upcoming DCAT meeting dates: 
   1. August 14
   2. September 11
   3. October 9
2. OR12: 
   1. General Conference and DSUG schedule finalized: https://www.conftool.net/or2012/sessions.php 
   2. Developers/DCAT mtg on Monday July 9th: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DevMtg+2012-07-09+-+OR12+Meeting, drinks at Pear Tree House Pub at a pub at 4pm 
   3. DuraSpace reception on Thursday July 12 at the The Counting House, 38 west Nicolson Street
3. News 
   1. 2012 DuraSpace Sponsorship Program Update 
   2. Open Repositories 2013 to be Held on Prince Edward Island, Canada
   3. Introducing Ivan Masár: New Member of the DSpace Committer Team
   4. On the Institutional Value of a DSpace Open Source IR at U. Maryland  
4. Webinars/Podcasts/Courses:
   1. Upcoming
      1. E-Science Institute
      2. DuraCloud Brown Bag, July 25, 2012
   2. New Recordings
      1. Podcast: C. Lynch with J. Hilton on the Digital Preservation Network (DPN)
      2. DuraCloud Details Available: "Brown Bag" Recordings, June 27, 2012 
      3. Webinar 3: Describing Audio & Video Digital Media with Metadata, June 13, 2012
      4. Other recordings from the Hot Topics Webinar Series available here: http://duraspace.org/web_seminars  
5. Events    
   1. OR12 in Edinburgh, July 9-13
   2. 76th Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists, August 6-11

Minutes

1) News

2) OR12 Developer mtg 

3)  Action items/old JIRA issues

internationalization

-msg out to Ambassadors, some comments on the wiki page, Bram to continue to solicit help at OR and perhaps around release time when it becomes more important

metadata projects

-Sarah P., Amy, Maura Valentio (works with Sue Kunda) to work on updating Dublin Core project (https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Updating+the+Qualified+Dublin+Core+registry+in+DSpace+to+the+latest+standards+of+the+DCMI), Val to see if Maureen Walsh would be willing to help, suggested steps 1) document specifically what needs to change, 2)  forward proposed changes to Tim and he will put it on a developer mtg agenda,  and 3)  project team to attend developer's mtg to discuss  

Bram noted that new resource for sharing XMLUI themes has picked up momentum, 3 institutions have already shared: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Repository+of+XMLUI+themes

4) discussion this week?

Top DCAT feature/improvement priorities, led by Val

5) new issues

none

Val:how we might get some momentum going in the community

Amy: will we overwhelm developers by pushing issues? possibly, but we should have discussion anyways so we can get some visibility on the priorities

Jim: embargo feature progressing as scoped, some feedback initially, not much last month

Bram: should we reframe DCAT's role as more of a think tank about feature reqmts - develop a comprehensive set of reqmts and outline what DCAT sees is missing, try to get cmtrs interested and solicit community participation, but really focus on scoping reqmts

Tim: really need to get communicate new features/improvement discussion somehow to those people that manage developers - so that if they are aware / interested they can make their developer time available 

Val: suggest we work on communicating better / more simply, create an 'executive ' summary of the top DCAT priorities

-identify what 3 features DCAT views as most important / revalent for the most number of DSpace users - create hit list, include in presentation at OR

-Claire suggest that these are emailed out regularly - simply expressed/executive summary

-some examples that pop to mind:

--Bram: altmetrics, e.g. measuring alternative forms of impact/web usage of resources. for example, hooking DSpace up to http://total-impact.org/

--Bram: better integration between DSpace and social media

--Bram: exposing dspace as linked data

--Bram: ORCID integration http://orcid.org

-Bram also recommended we include encouragement in our community communications for everyone to vote/comment in JIRA on specific features

-Val nominated this for our DCAT discussion this week - identify the top priorities (big or small, but it would be good to identify one that has a chance of getting in for 3.0) 

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