DC_Fedora_User_Group_2014-03-10.pdf

What

D.C. Fedora User Group Meeting

Where

National Museum of the American Indian
Washington, D.C.

Room 4018, which is a space just off the main hall, so no need for special access

When

10 Mar 2014
10:15 am until 5:00 pm

 

Attendees

Agenda/Presentations

TimeTopicPresenter
10:15 10:30Welcome and introductions all aroundThorny Staples, Smithsonian
10:30 – 10:50The Fedora community and DuraSpaceDavid Wilcox, DuraSpace
10:50 – 11:20Fedora 4 developmentAndrew Woods, DuraSpace
11:20 – 11:50?mystery?Bria Parker and Kevin Rice, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Library
11:50 – 1:00Lunch on your own 
1:00 – 1:30Fedora Membership and the DC user communityJonathan Markow, DuraSpace
1:30 – 1:50RUcore and their research data portalRon Jantz, Rutgers University
1:50 – 2:10Federal Science Repository ServiceWayne Strickland / Gail Hodge, Information International Associates
2:10 – 2:30break 
2:30 2:50SIdora, a research support environmentThorny Staples, Smithsonian
2:50 – 3:30Short Presentations 
  • Don Gourley, National Agricultural Library
  • Ben Wallberg, University of Maryland
  • John Doyle, National Library of Medicine
  • Anyone else?
3:30 – 4:00Discussion and wrap-up 

 

Summary

10:15 – Welcome and introductions all around
10:30 – 10:50 David Wilcox – update on the Fedora community and DuraSpace
10:50 – 11:20 Andrew Woods – update on Fedora 4 development
F4 Timeline
Questions:
  1. Migration path from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4
  2. Ron Jantz
  3. Jonathan
  4. Transactions
11:20 – 11:50 Bria Parker and Kevin Rice, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Library – update
11:50 – 1:00 Lunch on your own
1:20PM - DuraSpace - Jonathan Markow
  1. Q:Rob Jantz
1:50 – 2:20 Ron Jantz, Rutgers University – update on RUcore and their research data portal
  1. Questions:
    1. Robin
      • ORCID - give them a choice
      • Ron
        • fair amount of faculty pushback
        • Universities trying to do University-wide
          • don't want to fill out "yet another profile"
        • some faculty pushback
    2. Tom
      • upload a whole directory of files, is it one fedora object?
        • Yes
    3. Any migration to other formats?
      • Ron - we do. We take Word documents, migrate to XML, keep original
2:10 – 2:30 Wayne Strickland, Information International Associates – Update on the Federal Science Repository Service.
3:00PM - 3:30 Thorny Staples, Smithsonian – update on SIdora, a research support environment
3:40 - Don Gorley, National Agricultural Library
3:45PM Ben Wallberg, UMD
4:00PM - National Library of Medicine
Thorny - Closing Discussion

Other Attendees