Evidence Base at Birmingham City University has once again been commissioned to undertake an important survey of developers working and studying in education (largely in universities and colleges in the UK) and their stakeholders on behalf of DevCSI:

http://svy.mk/devcsi12

If you are developer, you work with developers, or your work is affected by the work of developers, please fill in this important survey. The broad topics of this survey include: benchmarking developers across the sector; examining stakeholders' views of software development; discovering examples of local innovation; and gathering suggestions about the on going future development of a developer community in UK education.

The survey is very important for informing the future work of the DevCSI project and should provide useful ...

The DSpace Community Advisory Team (DCAT) has published the results of the user survey on the metadata support of DSpace. The results have shown that there is a need for readjustments based on the Dublin Core Metadata scheme, which is the most relevant for the DSpace user. The DCAT has pointed out several toDo’s for the DSpace Developers and community:

1. Add metadata authority controls/vocabularies to the data model. Since there is an existing add-on for controlled vocabularies, DCAT interprets this to mean that we should open up the rights to use a controlled vocabulary and possibly link it from an external source. Some examples would be the National ...