Coordinating Meeting December 7th 2018 11:30 am AST

• Chair: Wilhelmina Randtke
• Notes: Rosie Le Faive

Per: Schedule

Attending:

• Melissa Anez (chair)
• Rosie Le Faive
• Mike Kemezis
• Aaron Choate
• Brad Spry
• Bryan Brown
• Danny Lamb
• David Wilcox
• Don Richards
• Francesca Livermore
• Gavin Morris
• Jonathan Green

Agenda

Welcome new member: Mike Kemezis (UConn)

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes
• Islandora 7.x-1.12

New Business

• Can we retire some old Islandora docs?
  • Very old versions have some very wrong info. Are they worth it anymore?
• New grants in Islandoraland: Research Data in Islandora CLAW (CANARIE) and Islandora for All (Mellon)

Interest Group Updates

• Metadata IG (Rosie)
• IR interest group (Bryan)
• Security Interest Group (Rosie)
• ISLE Interest Group

CLAW

Islandora Camps

• iCampEU
• Islandoracon

Round Table

Next meeting December 21

• Chair: Melissa Anez
• Notes: Don Richards

Minutes

Welcome new member: Mike Kemezis (UConn)

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes
  • Islandora Usage Stats Charts have been voted into Islandora Labs. Moving forward to transfer ownership.
• Islandora 7.x-1.12
  • Reconsider the release process for compiling the Drupal Filter against previous versions of Fedora. Will be brought forward to the 7.x committers.

New Business

• Can we retire some old Islandora docs?

  • Very old versions have some very wrong info. Are they worth it anymore?
  • No. Wrapping them into PDF creates a pretty navigable version that can be posted instead of maintaining each version.
  • Melissa is working to put a "this is deprecated" header in the generated PDF's.
  • Proposal to PDF-ify all but the latest 6.x version, and for 7.x leave a 2+-year rolling wall (PDF-ifying 7.x-1.7 and before)

• New Grant: Islandora for All (Mellon)

  • ICG working with Common Media for ISLE and about to enter first sprint (building a blazegraph docker container)
  • Official blurb:

Williams College, in Partnership with the ICG, Awarded Mellon Grant for Islandora for All.



> Williams College, in partnership with the Islandora Collaboration Group (ICG) and in consultation with the Islandora Foundation, has received a 53,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Islandora for All project. This grant funds Phase II for both the ISLE and LASIR projects.


• Press Release

• Improving behaviour around pulling in LOC MODS transforms (pulling in Diego Pino's workaround)

• Improving behaviour of logging.

• Every other Wednesday afternoon the ISLE maintainer meeting is open to the public.

• New Grant: [Managing the Research Data Lifecycle using Islandora]

Interest Group Updates

• Metadata IG (Rosie)
  • Working through Subjects (including LCSH subject headings with various related subdivisions)
• IR interest group (Bryan)
  • No meeting in December. Will resume in 2019
• Security Interest Group (Rosie)
  • Nobody showed in December.
• ISLE Interest Group
  • Version 1.1 is out! See Documentation
  • See the ISLE google group for public meeting info, and also the running agenda
  • Discussions will be moving forward to v. 1.2, upgrading PHP, logging, dashboards

CLAW

• 2 new committers! Mark Jordan and Rosie Le Faive
• Work done on migrating audit datastreams from 7.x - PR forthcoming. Will result in both an XML version and more interactive fixity checking info.
• Changes made with Fedora 5's RC2, that will affect authentication. Coming out Dec 14th.
• Working on indexing EDTF dates as strings, but also be sortable.
• Massive documentation repository for greenfield (or OpenRefine) CSV migration into CLAW here

Islandora Camps

• iCampEU, June 17-19, 2019, Dübendorf, Switzerland
  • Will be opening registration and proposals in early 2019.
  • Right after OR2019 in Hamburg, Germany June 10-13
• Islandoracon, Oct 7-11 2019 Vancouver, BC
  • Right before DLF (Oct 13-17 in Tampa, FL)
  • Registration available now. Website here
  • Simon hotel (cheaper option) or conference hotel option will likely sell out - book early! With dates in October, we should be in shoulder rates (though still outrageously expensive).
  • Call for proposals will happen early 2019.
  • Monday (first day) is "Pre-conference" and will be half-day workshops, including the Islandora 101 content that has previously been in the main conference. Community members can also propose half-day workshops they want to give.
  • Tuesday through Thursday will be the Main Conference.
  • Tuesday and Wednesday will be general sessions (open to proposals - 30 minutes by default)
  • Thursday will be 90-minute workshops. There will likely be 2 tracks. The community will be polled (asap) to find out what desired workshops are, and the committee will try to arrange for instructors who would be best able to deliver those workshops.

Round Table

• Aaron: team will be presenting their work with their Mellon grant at South Central States Fedora UG meeting, January 16th
• Brad: Spent last few months writing drag-n-drop ingest for AWS Storage Gateway - a VM you run locally that interfaces with S3. Previously was using a local NAS. Fast ingest, high reliability, backed up to the cloud. Will be documenting and presenting this as soon as possible. Exploring transcriptions for oral histories using AWS transcribe. Working on IR, starting with ETD's. Brad has some great workflows that are archivist-driven, and he and his work are pretty awesome.
• Bryan: Going on vacay for the rest of 2018! Will be working on a grant-funded project for a learning disabilities database, in CLAW.
• Danny: NTR
• David: Impending 5.0 release due Dec 14 (unless anything else comes out) will coincide with publishing the API spec. Attended SWIB (Semantic Web In Libraries) in Bonn. Spoke about Fedora and CLAW. Was well-received. Slides and youtube video linked from schedule. Gave a workshop and UG meeting (note: they pay for board and travel if you get a workshop accepted).
• Don: NTR
• Francesca: Presented at DLF. Adding Digital Scholarship Tools... slides. Amherst College joined ICG - blog post. Task 1 of Improving SEO will address ISLANDORA-2262. Task 2 is Improving Matomo (following on Diego's work), and Task 3 is scholar profiles.
• Gavin: Looking forward to ICG sprints/ phase 2, including roadmap for getting into CLAW.
• Jonathan: NTR
• Rosie: Looking forward to CLAW work & Docs.
• Wilhelmina: Planning a software upgrade (caught up to latest release of Islandora) in the Spring, and planning to change their batch load process.
• Mike: Many staffing changes, now working with DGI, launched in June new instances with a new back-end. Working on the spreadsheet ingest module. It works, want to move it to the next level with linked data / paged objects. Anyone with XSLT experience want to help? Will be trying to upload some large videos shortly. CTDA (Connecticut Digital Archives; their local repository) Winter Un-Conference in the works.