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Roadmap Meeting Jan 23 2015 2pm AST

Melissa Anez edited this page Jan 23, 2015 · 8 revisions
  • Chair: Jennifer Eustis
  • Note taking: Melissa Anez

Per: Schedule

  • Attending: David Wilcox, Nick Ruest, Paul Pound, Donald Moses
  • Apologies: Mark Leggott

Old Business

  • Previous meeting notes (for review)
    • Nigel has some fresh info on the METS issue from Donald and may have news in the future
  • New module offered to the Foundation: Disk Image SP from Nick Ruest
    • All absentees voted +1; accepted into the IF
    • On GitHub

Interest Groups

  • Preservation Interest Group (Donald/Nick)

    • Mark Jordan has put out a poll for the next meeting
    • PREMIS working group met last Friday.
  • Archival interest group (Melissa)

    • The IAIG met on December 18, 2014 for a short planning meeting to determine the interest group's direction for the coming year. The notes are here. Significant outcomes:

    • We set up a meeting schedule for 2015, which can be viewed here.

    • We established that there will be a roles roster for chairing and note-taking.

    • Themes were proposed for our next three meetings: in January we will discuss the Manuscript Solution Pack, in February we will discuss Islandora and Archival Description Platforms, and in March we will discuss Archivematica-Islandora integration. In April, we'll review these meetings to ensure that everyone's happy and brainstorm more discussion topics.

    • Our next meeting is Thursday, January 29th.

  • Documentation interest group (Kirsta)

    • Met on Jan 19th, reviewed results of documentation survey. Wiki will be the focus. We have a new sandbox wiki to try out some radical restructuring of the docs.
  • Fedora 4 Interest Group (Nick)

    • Reconvened as a project group for the Fedora 4/Islandora 7 integration project
    • first meeting at the end of January. Danny Lamb will present a proof-of-concept
    • Will use GitHub as a clearing house for suggestions, use-cases, discussions. Github Issues will be the discussion venue.
    • Nick and Danny have joined Fedora 4 tech calls
    • York University is doing a Fedora 3 -> 4 upgration pilot case
      • Working through modelling content models
      • Will inform a generic Islandora 3.x -> 4.x migration because York's repos are close to standard Islandora
    • Duraspace is starting a working group around Fedora-level utilities that effect different Fedora user communities (us, Hydra, etc)
    • Project funding is sending Nick to join Danny at Code4Lib for face-to-face and promotion.
  • GIS Interest Group

    • First meeting will be Jan 27 at 2:00 PM Atlantic

Islandora Camp updates

New Business

  • Roundtable

  • Jennifer: UConn is building up an administrative back-end for multisite front-end for their consortium, and gathering partners every day. Around 20 so far.

  • David: Lots of Islandora related stuff in the Fedora 4 area. Working on a training curriculum for Fedora 4 (sent a note to the listserv with proposed topics). 2 or 3 day camp-style event.

  • Donald: UPEI is trying to implement SFU's research data management modules. Built a drupal-based data planning tool. Working with partners in CAIRN and interested in UConn's model of dealing with admin backend for a consortium multisite.

  • Melissa: Islandora Foundation is welcoming new Partners LYRASIS, McMaster University, and University of Manitoba, due in large part to support for the Fedora 4 integration project.

  • Nick: updated YUDL twitter bot to use twitter cards.

  • Nigel: dgi is adding pdf-based ingest to the Book SP. Much easier than splitting up pdfs and uploading with batch importer.

  • Paul: migrating content from Drupal 6 to 7 and into new version of Fedora.

Closing Remarks

Next meeting: February 6

  • Chair: Mark Leggott (Nick alternate)
  • Notetaker: David Wilcox

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