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

Action Items