With regards to 'DS-638 Enable virus checking during submission' could I also just acknowledge the contributions of Jose Blanco at the University of Michigan and the MIT folks for providing the Curation Task.
Cheers, Robin. On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 15:00 +0100, Valorie Hollister wrote: > ~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 [email protected]. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
