2011 09 19 Meeting Minutes
Attending
Duncan Dickinson (DD)
Vicki Picasso (VP)
Nick Nicholas (NN)
Greg Pendlebury (GP)
Apologies
Norm Lawler (NL)
Minutes
Review of last meeting's minutes and action items
Project Manager report
No issues to report
DD working on ANDS project plan and progress report
DD and GP spoke with Frans Henskens team (Newcastle) about their project and interoperability with ReDBox
All went well. Frans and Vicki will need to discuss configuration and infrastructure.
Lead Developer report
Working on 1.2. Should be available for public testing on Monday next week.
Overhaul on forms
Documentation is available on the developer wiki
Sent out post on identities over a curation boundary to news group
University of Newcastle report
VP: Met with Kim Nolan on Frans' team at UoN
VP: Had contact from Macquarie Uni for a teleconference and demo
Having technical issues with data management toolkit
Issue fixed
Extra resources to be added
ReDBox 1.1 testing has gone well
GP raised issue of cross-browser concerns, limited by resources
Testing on IE 8, Firefox 3, Chrome and Safari on Windows
VP asked GP to confirm that Version 1.3 will be ready by the end of October
GP confirmed but will advise of any slippage.
ANDS report
Metadata stores extension project still being formulated
QCIF report
Community items
Alerts from upstream systems
Group happy with concept - start planning
Identity working paper
DD will send out draft for comment (when people have time)
ABS Field of Research codes
UQ, ReDBox and Griffith staff are working on a solution (using free systems)
VP asked about PURLs for activity records (ARC, NHMRC)
NN: Will be part of next ANDS system release - communication will come soon.
NN: Naming scheme for PURLs hasn't changed
DD: 1.2 of Mint will be able to use these PURLs as part of the distribution