~Apologies for the cross posting~
Ithaca, NY The success of any open-source project lies with the community
contributing its collective energy, knowledge, enthusiasm, and effort. In the
DSpace community valuable contributions come not just from our numerous
volunteer developers and committers, but also a group known as the DSpace
Community Advisory Team or DCAT. The primary goals of DCAT are to help review
and facilitate community discussions about new feature requests and to provide
support to the DSpace committer group in producing software releases.
New Feature Review
Since the beginning of the year, DCAT has held detailed discussions on a half
dozen new feature requests from JIRA. The discussions started asynchronously on
the DCAT Discussion Forum, where the new feature requests were discussed and
specific requirements outlined. DCAT members also recorded their vote on the
priority level and how broadly they believed the feature would appeal to the
larger community. Once a request was determined to be high priority/broad
appeal, there would also be a discussion about it in one of the weekly
developer meetings. Additional DCAT status discussions occurred during the
monthly DCAT meetings, which Robin Taylor, the 1. 8 Release Coordinator, and
Tim Donohue, DSpace Tech Lead attended.
DCAT/Committers/Developers 1.8 Collaboration
Thanks to everyone’s efforts, particularly the committers and developers, we
are very pleased to announce that the DCAT/DSpace developer collaboration will
yield fruits in the upcoming DSpace 1.8 release. Three new features are, in
part, a result of this collaboration:
DS-749 Reordering of bitstreams, contributed by Kevin Van de Velde from @mire,
DCAT discussion leader Jennifer Laherty from Indiana University
DS-638 Enable virus checking during submission, contributed by Robin Taylor
from the University of Edinburgh, DCAT discussion leader Elin Stangeland from
Cambridge University Library
Additionally, at the request of the committers, DCAT members also consulted on
the improvements to the bulk CSV editing (the feature also known as Batch
Metadata Editing).
DS-811 Delete/withdraw items via bulk CSV editing, contributed by Stuart Lewis
from the University of Auckland, feedback provided by DCAT members
For more information about these and other new features in 1.8 please visit
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+Release+1.8.0+Notes.
Other DCAT Efforts
DCAT has also been working on a community survey to find out what type of
improvements users would like to see for metadata support in DSpace. The
survey will mark the beginning of the DCAT/committer effort to evolve the types
of metadata schemas available as well as ease customization. The community
metadata survey will be sent out in the next few weeks and will be used to
inform efforts for improvements on future releases of DSpace.
For more information about DCAT, please visit the wiki. If you would like to
learn more about how to get involved, please contact Valorie Hollister at
vhollis...@duraspace.org.
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