2011 11 14 Meeting Minutes

Attending

    • Duncan Dickinson (DD)

    • Vicki Picasso (VP)

    • Nick Nicholas (NN)

    • Greg Pendlebury (GP)

    • Norm Lawler (NL)

Apologies

Minutes

Review of last meeting's minutes and action items

    • eResearch Australasia (general):

      • Duncan met with a number of people regarding ReDBox and support options

      • Information about those receiving ANDS' metadata store funding became more widely known

      • There is confusion about ReDBox/Vivo/Tardis/etc options - clarity may be needed

    • eResearch Australasia (ReDBox Workshops):

      • Thank you to Vicki, Kai, Peter, Greg and Dave for running a very well-received set of workshops

      • We had a good range of attendees

Project Manager report

    • eResearch 2011 is over but we're expecting a number of enquiries to start coming through post-conference and on the back of ANDS Metadata Store funding

      • The website was updated for a cleaner look and to provide easier access to the documentation.

      • The documentation has been expanded

    • Duncan to work with Norm to produce support options through QCIF

Lead Developer report

    • v1.3 will be released tomorrow (15th November).

    • Outline 1.4 planning and timelines:

      • Focus of v1.4 will be in backend and optimisations.

      • This week and next will be focused on documenting intended scope of works.

      • December will be spend on development for a New Year's release.

University of Newcastle report

    • v1.3 Upgrade work continuing. David's focus this week is on upgrading UoN Handle server(s).

    • Metadata stores funding letter has been received by Office of Research.

      • Internal UoN discussions now taking place regarding this.

ANDS report

    • DD would like a copy of the Metadata Store funding requirements (if possible) => NN has sent this through via email.

    • Metadata stores funding progressing quicky:

      • 22 Institutions received a letter: 10 responses to date, 4 acknowledgements of receipt; the others will be sent a reminder letter soon.

      • Well developed solutions with core deliverables covered are being asked to address desirables.

      • Technical product decisions expected in first few months of project (~ April 2012).

      • ANDS is providing documentation on scope and deliverables, as well as project templates.

      • One deliverable is to encourage implementations to migrate to NLA for Party records.

        • It was discussed that staff changes at NLA make it difficult to pin down who to talk to, and each implementer approaching NLA independently may generate confusion/annoyance for NLA staff.

          • NN proposed to organise some dialog involved both NLA and ANDS via teleconference.

          • GP will email NN some discussion points with any concerns from ReDBox side of things.

QCIF report

    • NL is working with Rob Cook to continue work on support contract offerings, particularly in response to feedback from discussions at eResearch Australasia.

    • NL currently working on the support contract to UoN for DH's time now that ERA is over.

Community items

    • No issues or action items, although some discussion over traffic on mailing list and possible outcomes of ERA.

Action Items

    • DD/GP to ensure that VP has access to create new feature requests in Pivotal Tracker.

    • GP to email NN information on Party integration with NLA.

    • NN to organise dialog with NLA.