Minutes, ISC meeting 2014-11-05

DINA International Steering Committee (ISC)
Google Hangouts Meeting 2014-11-05, 16.00-18.00 CET

Election of chairman and secretary for the meeting

• Fredrik as chariman, Falko as secretary

Approval of the agenda

• approved as it is
• Morphbank moved to the top of the agenda (see here)

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting

• No changes

DINA MoC and founding members

• all founding members signed the MoC (4 core + 2 associate members)
• as a result of the TDWG meeting many several other institutions as interested in DINA
• updated version of the MoC in the wiki: "DINA / Specify" changed to "DINA"

DINA consortium web presence

• DINA moved to biowikifarm
• Falko volunteers to implement changes on the homepage and to integrate a different wiki skin
• Fredrik volunteers to give suggestions for restructuring the homepage and navigation

Reports from meetings

• DINA EU-BON workshop and hackathon, September 15-18 in Stockholm
  • main point: API standard => will be an important product to sell and spread the idea of the DINA system
  • some discussions on critical points / constraints
  • minutes of the meeting on wiki (see: Workshop:_EU_BON_-_Stockholm,_16.-18._September_2014)

• TDWG 2014, October 27-31, Jönköping, Sweden
  • several people very interested in general idea
  • interested in the API and the product as soon as it is ready
  • time in TC meetings is limited => online meeting for guests should be arranged separately
  • we should open a meeting after the API is published (January 2015), so we have something to report and discuss to get specific questions from guests
  • but those external people might want to get more formal ISC information (e.g. on the MoC)

Technical Committee issues

• DINA data components: technical Web API requirements
  • all in the ISC agreed: TC should decide on the API standard

• DINA module map with web service blueprints
  • first draft by NRM => will be discussed on the wiki

• DINA media server
  • requirement revision, review and quality control
  • make sure that the first release is compliant to the DINA API standard

• DINA taxonomy module
  • each DINA partner should test the taxonomy

• DINA user management module
  • single sign-on, authentication, permissions, roles etc across DINA modules ?
  • open issue: should there be a module manager / framework development / user management ?
  • internal vs. external services => still open issue, too

• Any other business from TC
  • News on the collection manager?
    • we are not limited to the Specify6 data model, but could use an adapted model
    • all past and recent efforts in Specify6 should be still worth doing
      • we will create a Specify6-to-DINA migration path
      • nothing should go lost, but we can't guarantee backwards compatibility
  • (code) licenses
    • which license should be used ?
    • need for research / talking to organizations => work in progress
  • graphical identity for DINA
    • functional vs. beautiful => there should be an efficient workflow, so this can work in parallel
      • => create use cases / user stories!
    • NRM puts a proposal for a logo on http://www.99designs.com

Brief reports from members of the consortium (alphabetical order)

Berlin

• chance to get some developments funded via the project GFBIO

Copenhagen

• new people in Copenhagen: Martin, Thomas, David
• Martin: rolling out Specify in Denmark
• Thomas, David => DINA developments
• new installation of Specify6 in Copenhagen
• training
  • agreement to do 2 training courses with the Kansas team
  • exchange experiences from training courses
  • maybe we could use video streaming during the training

Edinburgh

• impressed by positive feedback on the DINA
• migration to Specify 6 is going on => hard job, but visible progress
• documenting special import workflows / solutions

Ottawa

• API contribution, resources to make SEQ-DB DINA compliant
• additional developer (0.5 FTE) => could do something for DINA
• Agent manager (collectors, users etc). => Paul Morris could contribute knowledge and module
• high interest in the taxonomy module => contribution could be done, too (testing phase involvement)
• Morphbank PHP code base upgrade => testing will be done in Canada

Stockholm

• media server: DINA compliance & Morphbank connection
• Ottawa team could already test the media server module even if there is no compliance yet
• web module for uploading Excel sheets

Tartu

• (not in the call)

Any other business

• none

Next meeting

• originally: 17th December 2014 15-17:00 CET (= UTC + 01:00)
• postponed to 18th December 2014 samte time