Sept 12, international outreach

Regular Attendees

• Carol 
• Debra
• Val 
• Jonathan
• Mike
• David

General

• Call In to:
•  - Indicates who will be taking minutes
• This is a bi-weekly meeting to work on approaches to international outreach

Discussion Topics

Minutes

1) Announcements/catch-up

• Working on IMLS grant application w/Northwestern (Evviva) for Hydra international outreach
• Trip to Cape Town in December - Michele has helped to coordinate funding for Debra to attend to talk about all things DuraSpace

2) Prospects

• Membership/partnership outreach
  • BIBSYS
    • No response from Frode yet
    • Michele recommends making finding personal connections/introductions - he may have some 
    • BIBSYS is using XLIbris
  • SURF - Michele may have some connections for personal introductions
  • RIAN
    • Michele doesn't know much about this org - but will talk with contact at Trinity College, John Marves and get some info
  •  Canadian Federation of Library Associations
    • no one knew anything about this org
    • Mark Leggot has a new role with Canadian Research Libraries - VIVO is working on that connection
• Other outreach opportunities
  • Less ideal targets:
    • DUOC 
      • Michele doesn't see a direct interest in DuraSpace activities - might not be an ideal target for outreach
      • Debra agrees the connection may not have ideal alignment and likely not membership potential, but that it may be an introduction/gateway for other connections; she attended conference in Santiago, they were very interested in Hydra
    • Ankos - because of coup in Turkey it may not be worth effort right now, Michele had contact he spoke with before coup and they wanted a closer connection with community and DuraSpace, Michele will contact again when things stablize a bit
  • Ideal targets
    • COAR - Michele will make some personal introductions
    • CAUDIT - Michele suggest that we may want to add them to the target list
      • organization of CIOs 
      • Michele will contact Ann Kelly/Virginia Barbara about closer relationship with DSpace community
    • Red Clara
      • Michele doesn't have specific contacts, but has met someone at a mtg from RedClara; has spoken with Clara Martinez, the executive director from the Columbian Institute of Science and Technology, they want to collect research data
      • Discussed Columbian DSpace instance list: http://registry.duraspace.org/registry/dspace?f[0]=field_country%3Acolombia, Val mentioned that Columbian DSpace has been growing rapidly over the past few years so may be worth looking at 
      • Michele suggested we validate the instance list 
      • Jonathan suggested that there might be opportunities for VIVO 

Action Items