Coordinating Meeting May 10th 2019 11:30 am AST

• Chair: Janice Banser
• Notes: Gavin Morris

Per: Schedule

• Attending:

Agenda

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes

New Business

• Move Oral Histories IG to islandora-deprecated (because it's mission complete)
• Islandora community events - is there a better/easier way to do this?

Interest Group Updates

• Metadata IG (Rosie)
• IR interest group (Bryan)
• ISLE Interest Group (Martha or Gavin)

Islandora 8

Islandora Camps

Round Table

Next meeting May 24

• Chair: Gavin Morris
• Notes: Bryan Brown

Minutes

Old Business

• No updates on old business.

New Business

• Move Islandora Oral Histories to Islandora Deprecated on Github.com

  • Melissa was doing maintenance on Github.com and noticed that the fedora 4 interest group was deprecated due to mission completion. Group is not on hiatus as it has achieved its mission goals.
  • Proposal: Call to vote to move Islandora Oral histories to Islandora Deprecated on Github.com
  • Question: (Martha) Is solution pack still in labs or in core?
  • Answer: (Melissa) Still in labs.
  • Additionally, Melissa has issued PRs across all interest groups for them to clearly indicate group status especially if on hiatus.
  • Will continue to email voting for those missing the vote during the call.

• Islandora community events pages

  • Fedora community maintains list of events and with folks who want to meet up.
    • https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Conferences. Proto-type but not pretty or user-friendly.
  • Melissa thought that this type of list might also be useful for Islandora community for people to link up.
  • Discussion ensued on using Meetup.com, privacy concerns, noise to signal on list and providing more context of what these meetings / conferences are on the list.
  • David Wilcox mentioned that the Fedora list:
    • functions well as list of events that the Fedora team is attending but also very handy for the Fedora community and other communities at large.
    • formatting is questionable. Tabling in Github is messy
    • List needs improvement for context, it doesn't use all columns e.g. for leadership meetings.
  • Melissa: Develop our own list?
    • Challenges with duplication
    • Encourage Fedora list to have more changes
    • Merge lists to focus on Islandora
  • Martha: this is a good resource too https://github.com/Islandora-Labs/islandora_bibliography
  • Next steps: David and Melissa to collaborate on modifying and improving list.

Interest Group Updates

• Metadata IG (Rosie)

  • Notes available here
  • Thought they were finished with mapping but got stuck with MODS subject. Reviewing.
  • Implementing a survey for those working on project for feedback for next steps.

• IR interest group (Bryan)

  • Nothing to report

• ISLE Interest Group

  • Upcoming Islandora Consortial Group (ICG) Hack / Doc
  • Please join us in Troy, New York!
  • Work continues with a demo for Monitoring and Dashboards and CI next week.

Islandora 8 Update

• Announced release date Friday, May 31st for Islandora 8
• Working thorough set of manageable issues
• Milestones https://github.com/Islandora-CLAW/CLAW/milestone/17 (Keep tabs here)
• From the testing sprint and feedback from pilot projects: lots of recent changes which has led to nice new features:
• Fedora stuff was buried with extra steps. Bubbled all up with pseudo field for URI with Fedora version. Theme-able. Saved several steps.
• Using Fedora 5 external content features now. Now can index technical metadata and can refer to files not stored in Fedora 5 e.g. Drupal or AWS.
• Thumbnail creation functionality for all rest of types now have PRs up e.g. for thumbnail extraction of pdfs and videos. (currently only images)
• Communication to follow about the upcoming release etc. along with solicitations to the Islandora community for more needed features.

Islandora Camps

• Islandora camp Europe nothing to report. One month out

• Closed Islandoracon CFPs

  • Record number of submissions (36). Nice balance between Islandora 8 & 7 proposals.
  • 28 slots are available but that number isn't final based on timing.
  • Planning committee reviewing now and meeting up next week for final selections.
  • Letting people know the Monday after the 17th.

• Islandoracon Early bird rate closing on June 1st. This month is the last month.

  • Hotel block at Delta with half off rate. Limited number of rooms. Book early please.
  • Notifications will go out to selected speakers prior to the closure of the early bird window.

Round Table

• Melissa

  • Nothing to report.

• Bryan

  • Working with Matomo API and Drupal 8 to build custom modules and custom APIs for usage stats.
  • Can now export in json or csv
  • Recreating current views for PIDs and downloads.
  • Hoping to come up with solution for querying with node id to avoid issues with disagreements on how to query or extensive customization.

• Danny

  • Nothing to report.

• David W.

  • Sent out survey to community recently for a grant project on assessing the upgrading process from Fedora 3.8.1 to Fedora 4 or 5.
    • Survey has now closed with 111 responses. Great turnout.
  • Compiling data now and will share results shortly. Perhaps even a presentation at Open Repositories.

• Don Richards

  • Still looking for a full stack developer position

• Gavin

  • Nothing to report

• Martha

  • The Islandora Code of Conduct survery is still open with only 8 responses. Please reply here

• Michael

  • Nothing to report

• Rosie

  • Currently documenting and diagramming what an Islandora 8 object looks like with Danny and Eli
  • Making sure types and objects are what we expect or understand
  • Thanks to Danny and Eli but also to Jared Whiklo for PRs on this topic

• Wei

  • Nothing to report

• Will

  • Nothing to discuss today.

• Janice

  • Last fall, we received a collection of over 250K promotional posters from Perry "the Poster Man" (now deceased) who had hung them up all over Vancouver, Canada for the last 40 years. We've now digitized of many of them (35k) into a great online collection along with a map which can be found here