Attendees

  • Andrew
  • Bill
  • Brad
  • Chris
  • Dan
  • Jonathan

Minutes

  1. Draft functional requirements (inserted below)
  2. Box.net development APIs

DTR Functional Requirements

  • Signup** Register for DTR Account
    • Use my institution provided account (Internet model?)
  • Data Management Plans** Provide boilerplate to specify DTR as part of plan
    • Pull settings from my DMP from [DSPINT:insert links to projects that help creation of DMPs, such as the UK dmponline and the CDL effort]
    • Interface for office of Research / university policy people? (JHU model)*** bootstrap configuration / initialize account
      • review compliance (later)
      • ...
  • Data Modeling / Organization  (N.B. all of these should be optional!)** Import the Smithsonian / Thorny model
    • Specify my automatic metadata capture rules
    • Select existing data models / schemas that I want to use (by discipline?)
    • Specify my access rights and policies*** What to encrypt (for storage)
      • How are my keys managed
    • Specify data lifetimes
  • Daily use** (silently save everything for me and index it too, and feed my cat)*** Security of scraping and transit mechanisms - encrypt?
      • Provenance (who, when, what)
      • What:  context (software used, formats, tools, policies, etc) and data
    • Capture the Lab Notebook if possible
    • Create a view / exhibit (deploy a site with a dataset)
    • Create a citation (and its target view if needed)
    • Specify / adjust data lifetimes
    • Extract data set
    • Search / browse / locate data set or data item (private and/or public; E.G. desktop search)
    • Augment metadata post-ingest
    • Transfer data to curator
    • Run visualizer or transformation on data set
    • Import / Export to VREs, other adjacent systems.
  • Curator / Archivist views** Receive data transfer from researcher
    • Put it in a box in the basement

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