Coordinating Meeting February 2nd 2018 11:30 am AST

• Chair: Gavin Morris/Derek Merleaux (Chair starts Skype call)
• Notes: David Keiser-Clark (traded places with the scheduled Bryan Brown)

Per: Schedule

• Attending: Anna St. Onge, Mark Jordan, David Wilcox, Jonathan Green, Gavin Morris, Rosie Le Faive, Daniel Lamb, William Panting, Gabriela M, Kim Pham

Agenda

Old Business

• Previous meeting notes
• IF Board approved the org chart
  • Donald's suggestion presented and discussion occurred. No changes deemed necessary.
  • ICC to keep document as is and will
  • Vote will occur by ICC to publish this Org Chart at http://islandora.ca/if/
  • Mark will send an email to the ICC members for an email vote.

New Business

• Leiden is now officially a collaborator
  • Meeting time would be 4:30-6pm for them... so possible change to this meeting might have to occur.

Interest Group Updates

• Documentation IG (Gabriela)
  • Nothing new to report.
• Dev Ops (Gavin)
  • Next meeting is this month Feb 14th (Valentines's Day!)
• Metadata IG (Rosie)
  • Met on the January 22
  • Islandora Metadata Interest Group Agenda
  • Considering Bibframe as a maximum complex use case.
• IR interest group (Bryan)
  • Not present.
• Security Interest Group (Rosie)
• Nothing new to report.

CLAW

• Danny has head down and trying to push CLAW forward as fast as he can.
• Danny reports there has been good movement on CLAW recently, with lots of merged PRs and engagement. There's been a lot of work recently towards CENTOS support in claw-playbook. Playbook can be used to spin up a vagrant, or deployed on a bare metal machine.

Islandora Camps

• Danny reports that he has updated travel and accomodations for Limmerick.

Round Table

• David Keiser-Clark

  • Grant Pre-Proposal: "Developing Islandora to be an Equitable Open-Source IR Platform"

    The Islandora Collaboration Group (ICG), in collaboration with the ISLE steering committee and the LASIR working group have successfully submitted a pre-proposal to the IMLS National Leadership Grants for Libraries, National Digital Platform, Project Grant seeking $108,600.

    The members working on this grant pre-proposal agree that CLAW is the future of Islandora. Successful grants have a very specific outcome. This pre-proposal seeks funds to develop a comprehensive set of IR features for Islandora 7x. If successful in this grant, we hope to pursue another future grant to refactor a comprehensive set of IR features for CLAW.

    Starting at 7.x with an eye toward CLAW

    Offering a direct migration to Islandora 7x from bepress could increase adoption and interest in Islandora. The ICG determined it would be in best interest to start with 7.x for adoption because 7.x is a solid working platform that has years of testing and development. This provides a solid platform to which bepress schools could migrate to current Islandora standards. We believe schools that have in the past chosen vended solutions do so at least partly out of a desire to limit maintenance and upkeep. We believe these schools will not then migrate to a brand-new, untested IR no matter how great it will be. In particular, small institutions are always trepidatious about open-source software as they have limited means to support it. They are more likely to adopt it when they feel that it is stable, secure, easy enough for them to manage, and part of a lively community AND ALSO meets their needs. At this time CLAW does not meet that criteria for those schools. In the interest of bringing more small schools into the Islandora-fold, thus increasing membership, it is in our best interest to make these enhancements to 7.x - the version which is being considered currently by many institutions - with the acknowledgement that this feature set will need to be refactored in the future. Offering a direct migration from bepress to Islandora CLAW could put the Islandora brand at risk as it does not yet suit the needs of most small institutions who might be considering the switch but don’t have Linked Data expertise.

    ISLE's dramatic impact on ease of installation and maintenance complements the proposed development of a comprehensive set of IR features. As a result of the ICG’s survey of the Oberlin Group and ICG schools, we have begun to identify needs and use cases for development of IR features that would require little technical maintenance. Top priorities to achieve feature parity with proprietary systems include:

    1. Search engine optimization plus Google Scholar integration
    2. Usage stats/impact factor/assessment, including system-generated visualizations of usage/content
    3. Scholar profiles
    4. Integration with other resources (e.g., ORCID)
    5. Creating a generalized and simplified submission workflow
    6. Ability to contribute to larger disciplinary networks, like arXiv, SSRN, RePec, etc.

    Our goal and stated outcome is to enhance Islandora for the IR use case, positioning the platform as a stable, secure, and user-friendly open source alternative to proprietary systems. Libraries across the nation, including the 300-member Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium, the 38-member Great Western Library Alliance, and the 80 colleges of the Oberlin Group, are looking for these solutions.

    Developing IR features for Islandora 7x will create a tight roadmap that will greatly inform and reduce future development work for developing IR for CLAW. We believe it is imperative to first create an attractive platform for new institutions interested in Islandora, and then to build out a fully fleshed out next generation of Islandora (CLAW). It is essential that we, our community, also build a migration path from Islandora 7x to CLAW. That migration path is an imperative ingredient if we wish to attract members leaving bepress, and if we wish to offer security to those already using Islandora 7x.

    • ICC Discussion notes:
      • Mark: If even 1/10th of these institutions went to Islandora, that would be huge.

  • ISLE Updates:

  • David K-C:

    • 3 Alpha Tests currently running (RPI, University of Pittsburgh, Williams)
    • Code4Lib ISLE workshop on Feb 13
    • ISLE Hack/Doc @ METRO, NYC on March 12-13

  • Gavin Morris working hard at documentation, as well as RPI installation, and University of Pittsburgh installation.

• Anna: nothing to report.

• Danny:

  • Exploring flysystem that would offer CLAW up to S3 integration.
  • Reports that University of Texas Austin will provide a programmer to develop paged content model in CLAW

• David Wilcox:

• Fedora Camp in Maryland,

• Webinar coming up

• Fedora spec

• Fedora Sprints

• Release Testing

• 2018-01-19 Oxford Common Filesystem Layout

• The Pasig-discuss Archives

• Gabriela: nothing to report

• Jonathan: Will miss the next two meetings. Rosie will trade notetaking with him.

• Kim Pham

• Feb 23: Organizing Upcoming Event: Islandora CLAW + Linked Data Lunch and Learn - February 23rd, 2018 re: learning about CLAW. 12-1pm in person lunch + remote participation

• Mark Jordan: Working on developing a method for preserving special collections using Islandora REST injector tool and command line tools to ensure that if you drop something into a folder it will get pipelined into Islandora automatically.

• Rosie:

  • Using the WARC solution pack (part of Islandora release). Had trouble with large indexing, created JAR file to break that into pages
  • Trying to run stuff on Islandora HEAD to serve as test case to find bugs

• Will: : nothing to report

Next meeting February 16:

• Chair: Bryan Brown (Chair starts Skype call)
• Notes: Rosie will trade places with the scheduled Jon Green