2011 10 17 Meeting Minutes

Attending

• • Duncan Dickinson (DD)

  • Vicki Picasso (VP)

  • Nick Nicholas (NN)

  • Greg Pendlebury (GP)

  • Norm Lawler (NL) - Absent

Apologies

Minutes

Review of last meeting's minutes and action items

Project Manager report

• • ANDS Project Plan and Progress report submitted to QCIF

    • ANDS has received it

  • ReDBox ingest method work has started - quick demo

  • eResearch Australasia Workshop (ReDBox technical primer) preparation in full swing:

    • Program: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1UaVgiusAC_MDO3czb24S_nnF4AvG7sKoK1ZZ6YG7CC4

  • Question: Should we continue with fortnightly meetings?

    • Agreed to continue with fortnightly

Lead Developer report

• • 1.2 has been released

    • Contains new curation process

    • Lots of doco has gone out through the mailing list

  • Work has started on 1.3

    • Starting with Fedora 3 work

    • Fedora community is not very responsive; Maven artefacts aren't published

      • We'll focus on Fedora 3.3.1 Server to meet Vital release

      • Fedora 3.5 client library is the current one - need to test it works with all 3.3 - 3.5 releases

    • VP: UoN Vital upgrade project completes at the end of Oct.

University of Newcastle report

• • Mint 1.2 release upgrade has been causing problems

    • Can't see OAI harvest as yet

    • Data migration is causing headaches

    • GP: asked if Dave is building from SVN rather than using the ZIPs?

      • Not sure

    • GP and Dave (UoN) are working together to resolve issues

      • Some issues around demo data

  • VP asked about how Mint records are edited

    • GP: Easiest way to edit Mint records is to change the ingest file and reharvest

  • Working on eResearch Workshop

  • UoN team reading through doco for 1.2 Curation

    • GP asked if there was a need for more user-focussed doco

      • DD mentioned presentation in technical workshop as a possible intro

ANDS report

• • Response regarding UoN sub-contract work is being investigated by Legal (Monash)

  • Metadata store project model has been approved

    • Looking into methods for roll-out

    • Working through functional and institutional requirements for fulfilment

    • Details to come - wait for eResearch Conference

QCIF report

• • QCIF are developing a support framework for discussion.

    • Internal QCIF discussion at present

Community items

• • VP will be sending an email out to CAIRSS regarding UoN Research Data Management work

Action Items