2012 04 30 Meeting Minutes

Attending

    • Duncan Dickinson (DD)

    • Vicki Picasso (VP)

    • Amanda Nixon (AN)

    • Simon Pockley (SP) - absent

    • Greg Pendlebury (GP)

    • Norm Lawler (NL)

Apologies

Minutes

Review of last meeting's minutes and action items

Project Manager report

    • ReDBox v1.5RC2 to be released May 7

      • DOI Functionality has had to be dropped due to ANDS timelines. This can be added at a future date.

    • GP has submitted his resignation

      • Last day June 1

      • Heading down south to the NLA

      • DD would like to thank GP for his great work

      • DD and NL to start determining a replacement

    • Meetings with a number of Universities regarding their Metadata Stores projects

    • Discussions are occurring regarding a number of ReDBox project possibilities

    • EIF048 has about 6 weeks left

      • Need to prepare a final report for ANDS

Lead Developer report

    • GP has been very active on the mailing list, helping the community with technical questions

    • Last week:

      • Geospatial map interfaces completed (RC2)

    • Now:

      • Working on SRU interfaces (for NLA) (RC2)

      • Responding to UAT reports from RC1

    • Post 1.5RC2 release:

      • LDAP plugin

      • Training new developer

      • Possible ANDS DOI integration

University of Newcastle report

    • Installed 1.5RC1 and testing

      • Will write up test results and send through

      • Has sent 1.4 UAT results to GP

    • User group:

      • VP: to email list to check who is UAT'ing and get feedback by Friday

      • VP: demo for RC2 next week

Flinders University report

    • 1.5RC1 installed and undergoing testing

    • AMS started

    • Staffing AMS project

      • DD to send through position description

ANDS report

    • Absent

QCIF report

    • Looking at post-EIF048 project opportunities

    • Hiring a replacement for Greg

      • Also bringing on a 2nd developer to assist with knowledge transfer and as back-up

    • Arranging a meeting with Intersect and VeRSI re ReDBox

      • Need to plan development work across states

      • Need to work out how to contract feature development that crosses multiple institutions

        • NL: ANDS don't want to be the primary conduit for this work

      • VP: Need to know who's picked ReDBox

        • DD to follow-up with SP

        • NL to contact community day attendees and check ReDBox selection

Community items

    • VP: what is RDA Test access now that sandbox is being shut down?

      • SP: determine process

    • DD: UAT groups should get their NLA access sorted out in the near future.

Action Items