Regular Attendees

• Washington Ribeiro <wtonribeiro@gmail.com>
• Alberto Cabezas <alberto.cabezas@redclara.net>
• Lautaro Matas <lmatas@gmail.com>
• Kathleen Shearer <kathleen.shearer@coar-repositories.org>
• debra hanken kurtz
• Carol Minton Morris

General

• Call In: https://www.uberconference.com/duraspace; Optional dial in number: 512-546-7120 – no PIN needed
• Ongoing meeting to work on approaches to DSpace collaboration
• Next meeting:

Discussion Topics

Minutes

Announcements/catch-up

• Reviewed agenda items above
• ALSO of interest:
  • INVITATION: DuraSpace Reception Celebrating Community at OR2017
  • Please join DuraSpace, a proud supporting organization of OR2017, at an open reception in celebration of our community:
    • When: Wednesday, June 28 from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Where: Stock Exchange Hotel, 131 Edward Street in Brisbane
  • Webinar: DSpace-CRIS: How it works and how to leverage it
    
    • TOMORROW, June 15th at 11:30am EDT (UTC -4) to learn more about DSpace-CRIS
    • More information here.

• • New DSpace logo to be released on June 20!
  • Welcome Michele Mennielli: International Membership and Partnership Manager for DuraSpace
    • Michele's experience will be helpful in designing curriculum and developing funding strategies

Discussion: Is this the type of DSpace training we want to offer in South America?

• Are we interested in having a user group meetings plus training?
  • Co-location would be possible
  • UG meetings are usually less formal than training and organized by the community 
• Reviewed draft Case for Collaborative International DSpace Training
  • Alberto--Camp format seems appealing, DuraSpace-tested, a couple of new issues could be added– infrastructure for data repositories
    • Materials replication/re-use, can it scale up to perhaps serve other continents, Africa and Asia?
  • Washington–Agree, step by step instructions, common tech issues; two main issues:
    • Support for basic use and configuration
    • Elegant data model (not sure I heard this correctly)
    • Aggregator system (IRs content to national repositories) prevalent in Latin America
    • Need help training people in use of DSpace and basic configurations
  • Kathleen--What do aggregators (national repos) need from people who are running DSpace or other systems?
    • General repo principles and best practices, learn how to use DSpace in the particular networked systems that exists in Latin America
  • Debra–perhaps we could meet in Brisbane (Kathleen, Alberto, Washington attending OR)

• • Other aspects to consider in a general curriculum
    • Metadata guidelines for implementation and alignment with COAR work on metadata guidelines
    • Importance of interoperability—work together on standards
    • Regional scale maybe something about statistics or best practices
    • Metadata transformation and how we can better collect information from he ecosystem
    • Licensing issues: content versions and other content availability issues
    • Integration with other systems, many institutions are looking for a CRIS system and looking for a data repository, insights or examples of these integrations
    • Point out the importance of integration of repos and national portals
    • Focus on the interface and OAI, how it could be configurable to export the metadata from the repo

Potential funding agencies outside of US

• Debra and Carol have been looking into potential Mellon and Moore funding areas
• Challenging in rest of world, no private funding, geographic area funding through national programs

Next steps

• Over the next couple of weeks, collectively add to draft Google doc
• Meet at beginning of August to include Michele Menniell