Roadmap Meeting April 17 2015 2pm AST

• Chair: Melissa
• Notetaker: David

Per: Schedule

• Attending: David, Nick, Melissa, Jen, Donald, Gabriella, Mark C, Nigel
• Apologies: Kirsta, Stephen, Paul, Mark L

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes

Interest Groups

• Preservation Interest Group (Donald/Nick)

  • People should join the Hydra metadata interest group and associated working groups
    • Mapping FITS elements to RDF in technical metadata working group
  • Mark Jordan has written a chapter on PREMIS in Islandora. Should be released soon.

• Archival Interest group (Melissa)

  • Melanie Hardbattle from SFU will join and convene group
  • Good post in Google Groups about EAD in Islandora

• Fedora 4 Interest Group (Nick)

  • Meeting on Friday, April 24
    • Preliminary agenda
  • Lots of updates
  • Focus on migration-utils
    • Generic, CLI migration utility
  • Identifying audit events and mapping to new audit service in F4
  • Investigating how to edit XML in Islandora 2.0
  • Danny has documented services
  • Working to make sure everything is PCDM compliant

• GIS Interest Group (Donald)

  • Last meeting cancelled. Nothing to report

• Documentation Interest Group (Melissa)

  • Focusing on release docs
  • Docs rewritten for installing the VM
  • Nick working on release notes - nearly done.
    • Will specifically mention community contributors

• Dev Ops Interest Group

  • Needs regular reporter. Volunteers?
  • Met for the first time
  • Added new deployments to the deployments repo
  • Working on installation docs for Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, CentOS systems
  • Working on deployment tools
  • Working on islandora-vagrant

• Metadata Interest Group

  • 56 responses to survey
  • Created Google Doc for the group
  • Putting together terms of reference
  • Would be good to host discussions on the mailing list

Islandora Camp updates

• iCampEU2

  • No budget issues
  • Melissa, Nick, Alan, and Luis will all be instructors

• Islandora Conference

  • Plotting out workshops based on community survey
    • 8 workshops in each track
    • Need to contact experts to see if they want to run the workshops
  • Everything looks good

• iCampCT

  • Days and space have been allocated
  • Have not started organizing yet
  • How to sponsor t-shirts, etc.?

• 2016 camps

  • Camps in Florida, Kansas City, and Ireland scheduled for 2016

Release Update

• No major issues
• 2 weeks away from the release
• Release candidate VM was updated with disk image SP dependencies
  • dgi basic Solr configs now being used

CLAs

• New CLAS from Melissa Anez (thanks for noticing, Nick!) and University of Manitoba (covering Jared Whiklo's contributions).

• Message to the community

  • Next time...
  • Will wait until after the release to send this out

New Business

• Update from the Board of Directors (met on April 7th)

  • New directors
  • Meeting notes

• UI Solutions Pack - discussion on the listserv. Can we support this effort?

  • Should not be called a solution pack
  • Should be supported
    • Need a group (temporary?) to do a comprehensive UI review
    • Create improvement tickets

Roundtable

• David
  • Fedora IG at OR2015 will feature both Islandora and Hydra tracks, though most presentations will be in a single track
• Donald
  • In the midst of a big VRE migration (D6 to D7)
  • Bowing Down Home launched with kitchen parties across the Island
• Gabriella
  • Starting a dark archive based on Islandora
• Jen
  • Just passed 200,000 digital assets in repository
  • Growing at 2-3% per week
  • Big storage upgrade (6TB to 25TB)
  • 14TB of maps and GIS data coming in
• Mark C
  • May be able to get involved with DevOps interest group
• Nigel
  • Solr can now drive collection views
  • Update to embargoes
• Nick
  • Spent some time doing sanity tests for Java 8
    • Current stack seems to work fine with Java 8
  • Had to update to Fedora 3.8.1 to address a bug in 3.8.0 with exports

Closing Remarks

Next meeting: May 1st Chair: Jen Notes: Donald