Armg 7 April 2008
ARROW Repository Managers Group Meeting - Teleconference
Monday 7th April 2008
AGENDA
Teleconference starts 2pm prompt. See guide for accessing meeting.
- Welcome. (Chair: ARROW Central, Minute Taker: Ballarat University)
- Apologies:
- Previous minutes:
- No Action items from previous minutes
- ARROW Project Managers Report (David G.)
- HERDC Report on progress and deliverables (HERDC minute taker)
- Customer Service Report (An opportunity for partners to verbally report to ARROW Central and the community on their experiences, 'good, bad and otherwise', with VTLS' Customer Support)
- Reporting of problems with Customer Service
- Issues arising from Implementation Table
- Other business.
- Next Meeting: Date: 05/05/2008 (Chair: ARROW Central. Minute taker: LaTrobe University)
WEBEX DEMONSTRATION - Valet (by Tom Ruthven) 2:45pm
MINUTES
- Welcome. (Chair: ARROW Central, Minute Taker: Ballarat University)
- Apologies: Newcastle, Macquarie and NLA
- Previous minutes: Accepted without change
- Action items from previous minutes: No Action items
- ARROW Project Managers Report (David G.)
- Attended Open Access Repositories Conference, Southampton, UK. Information available on Blog, eg. trends.
- Met with VTLS; new customer (University of Geneva); company restructure – all VITAL staff in same area of building; new developers starting; international VITAL customers to participate on Google group, sharing information.
- Attended meetings with other VTLS customers and company representatives.
- Imminent release of version 3.3.1; basically a patch for problems Monash was experiencing.
- Version 4.0 now at quality testing stage; Beta available soon, feedback welcomed. VTLS want to put this version up first before ARROW dev goes live.
- Fedora version 3 in Beta testing; to be implemented with VITAL when standard release 3.0; Fedora 3 not 100% bedded down.
- David gave presentation of Fabulous on behalf of Prashant to the Fedora Group, receiving positive feedback and interest in further development.
- HERDC Report on progress and deliverables (HERDC minute taker)
- Notes available under the Committee link. http://arrowiki.lib.monash.edu.au:6080/JSPWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=HERDCHigherEducationResearchDataCollectionWorkingGroup
- Next teleconference will be extended to four hours to focus on workshopping issues around the four original models identified.
- Interim Report for 16 April will be postponed until this work has been finalised.
- QUT asked if the group was discussing the new src:class codes and implications in retrospectively changing codes in existing repository records. The HERDC group is not looking at this, but it will be put on the agenda at a later stage for discussion.
- ACTION: HERDC member to report on the new src:class codes implications
- Customer Service Report (An opportunity for partners to verbally report to ARROW Central and the community on their experiences, 'good, bad and otherwise', with VTLS' Customer Support)
- Reporting of problems with Customer Service: No reports
- Issues arising from Implementation Table
- Monash seeing poor performance with 3.1.1, no better than with 3.3. Possible memory capacity – problem experienced by other members (USA, USQ); changing RAM capacity doesn’t appear to make a difference. Discussion re impact of user numbers. Prashant to report to Google Group on results of testing.
- Swinburne have problem with statistics resetting on an ad hoc basis; VTLS has been informed. Resetting is random/no pattern apparent. Macquarie also has experienced the problem.
- ACTION: ARROW Central to take to VTLS for advice on the problems.
- Other business.
- Next Meeting: Date: 05/05/2008 (Chair: ARROW Central. Minute taker: LaTrobe University)
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