2013-01-07 DfR Technical Meeting

Regular Attendees

• Bill 
• Dan  
• Danny 
• Jonathan

General

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

Discussion Topic

Status

• Bill
• Dan
  
  • Supported BOA demo
    
    • Refined data for demo
    • Worked with Jonathan for practice
    • Completed but not pushed "name" bugfix ( Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration. )
    • Enabled a PDF as SWF viewer
  • Updated JIRA to date (code in freeze except bug fix)
  • Succeeded at Box.com directory integration
  • Completed but did not push adding a log message for ingest (the old one won't work
  • Deployed OCS on own instance
  • Conversations with Thorny
• Danny

Minutes

• Funding has ended as of the end of 2012
• Demo for Michele and advisory group is complete
• Demo for Josh Greenburg at the end of the month
• Conversation with Josh will likely help us to know what our direction will be
  
  • If Josh would like us to continue, we will likely look for partners
  • If not, we will likely "put things in moth balls"
• Question: What to do through this month
  
  • No new development
  • Might finish up some bits for the demo
  • Demo as it is now is likely good enough
  • Still need to complete documentation
• Thorny would like to provide some funding for Dan to work on an integration of DfR (OCS) and Taverna
• Demo status
  
  • There are a few small bugs to fix
  • There are some small data improvements that would smooth out the demo
    
    • Would like to show an automated conversion from PDF to SWF format (for display)
    • Would like to be able to display tabular data
    • Would like to experiment with the exhibition feature
  • Other potential updates
    
    • Metadata extraction would be useful, could populate more of the fields in the metadata forms
    • LIDO form is likely the best place to store this data
    • This is likely a few days of work, and is pretty easy to split out and stop as necessary
• One issue that showed up in the demo: the upsync didn't appear to finish
  
  • One thing to look out for: make sure mouse doesn't stay over the section that should be updating, as updating is paused on mouse hover
• Advisory demo
  
  • Clearly pointed out that we should be working with institutions that can make researchers available, but no recommendations about which institutions those might be
• Note: trying to deploy in the same container as Fedora, there were conflicts between JMS brokers. Will just deploy on independent instances.
• Jonathan to prepare for final demo the end of next week
• Need to determine which items (code, documentation) are necessary to have available for Josh at the demo

Items to complete by the end of next week

• Finish up code bug fixes - Dan
• Pull out any additional metadata field values - Dan
• Prepare for final demo - Jonathan, with assistance from Dan

Items to complete before the official end of the DfR funded project

• Finish up the documentation - Jonathan/Dan
• Make sure all Jiras are updated and closed - Danny/Bill/Dan
• Get copyright notice header on all code files - Danny/Dan
• Cut final code release, publish the code - Dan/Bill

DfR Deliverables (from the original proposal)

1. Report from one invitational workshop - JJM
2. Scenarios and use cases from our early requirement docs - Dan/JJM
3. Do export of Jira items for DfR and technical document - Dan will coordinate; Jonathan will support; others will contribute
4. DfR new source code - sum of all things done to make project work - Do appropriate file headers and licensing. -Dan: file headers; Bill will assist and flip switch
5. White paper on value proposition and business case - JJM
6. We have presentations - JJM
7. Public release has Shibboleth work; Private demo release - to be made public Dan and Bill
8. Final report on DfR - Dan: a few paragraphs saying what we did, pointing to the documentation. Short doc, references other docs, financial statement, lists accomplishments -JJM (find out from Sloan what they're expecting)
9. Launch DfR service - Not going to happen

Action Items