2012-12-03 DfR Technical Meeting

Regular Attendees

• Bill 
• Dan  
• Danny 
• Jonathan  (Travel?)

General

• Call In To: Free Conference Call HD - DuraCloud Line
• - Indicates who will be taking minutes

Discussion Topic

Status

• Bill
• Dan
  
  • Incorporated revisions to object metadata to make them work better from DG (Erin) meetings
    
    • Outstanding questions include search terms
    • Sidora uses two navigation methods (1) the tree, (2) resources (We will use concepts - artificial but saves time)
      
      • Tree is only "concepts" - kind of major content bundle and generally used only once (thought not restricted)
      • "Resources" are more like content items that are to be used and re-used in association with "concepts"
      • The problem is that resources are harder to find for re-use
    • Erin will continue to work one-on-one with me to work on smoothing the data (content, metadata)
  • Performed dry run demo for Jonathan and Danny on Thursday
    
    • Succeeded at Box.com directory integration on Friday
    • Working on some improved metadata incorporation into LIDO datastream
    • Working on enabling more "viewers" in Sidora (text, pdf, CSV or equivalent)
    • Found a problem with URL qualified names for data files (work around make sure they use no restricted characters)
  • The above requires working on refactoring SimpleProcessor to permit creating demo objects and ways to easily add business logic
  • Nearly complete is a revision that permit adding a log message for ingest (the old one won't work
  • Put Droid task on old until above is done DROID by itself (30% complete) - To restarted work last week
• Danny

Minutes

• Michele Demo: planned for 1-2pm on Thursday
• Demo last Thursday for Jonathan, things mostly worked
  
  • Walked from end-to-end
  • Dan did local installation of UpSync
• UpSync using directory with some files, files were moved to SiDora
• Jonathan wants files to show in the SiDora tree
  
  • Still work to add concepts into SiDora
  • Thorny has modeled ordinary things as resources (images, etc) which do not show in the tree, but are attached to concepts
  • Need to be able to find and see resources
  • Instead, going to use concepts (there are 10 or 12 built-in concepts), all are associated with a known metadata schema
    
    • LIDO seems like the best general purpose concept
    • Dan set up files to come in as LIDO, with Dublin Core as well
• Jonathan would like:
  
  • More object-specific metadata in the LIDO
  • Of the built-in viewers in SiDora, the only one that works well is the image viewer (JPG and TIFF).
    
    • Would like to have a viewer for PDF, CSV (tabular), text
• Dan has gotten Box.com working with the UpSync tool
  
  • Would be possible to use Box.com REST API to poll for changes, then push to DuraCloud
• Jonathan, Danny, and Dan will conduct the demo: Jonathan will be talking, Dan will be running the demo
• Goal: Release code next week. No code changes the week of the 17th.
• Danny updated UpSync to capture time stamps and full file path

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