ISC conference call - 4th November 2022

ISC conference call - 4th November 2022
Title	ISC conference call - 4th November 2022
Location	Online on Zoom
Date Start	2022/11/04 13:00 UTC
Date End	2022/11/04 15:00 UTC
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Agenda

1. Election of a secretary for the meeting
2. Approval of the agenda
3. Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
4. Review of DINA ISC decisions (Redmine)
5. Report from DINA TC (Satpal)
6. DINA roadmap workshop report
7. DINA TC representation in the ISC
8. DINA as a research infrastructure, web page revision (James)
9. Open CMS collaboration vision (Falko)
10. DINA data model paper (James, Falko)
11. Report from TDWG meetings
12. Partner reports
13. Any other business
14. Next meeting

Minutes

Participants: Fredrik, James, Marcos, Jana, Falko, Michaela, Etta, Volker

1. Election of a secretary for the meeting
   • Falko elected
2. Approval of the agenda
   • Added round of introduction
   • approved
3. Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
   • approved
4. Review of DINA ISC decisions
   • nothing to do => done
5. Report from DINA TC
   • refining the roadmap
   • quick onboarding of new developer
   • AAFC security checks passed
   • November/December => DINA in production @AAFC
   • Who does technical adoption / documentation work? Does it work well?
     • workshop on documentation planned in February 2023
   • Scaling up the code collaboration
6. DINA roadmap workshop report
   • workshop was a success
   • increased interest in DINA
   • TODO: write email to attendees as soon as the final roadmap is on GitHub
7. DINA TC representation in the ISC
   • TODO @all: update https://dina-project.net/wiki/International_steering_committee
     • appoint official representative and a substitute
     • update https://dina-project.net/wiki/DINA_Technical_Committee
   • Satpal representative
     • TODO: Find a TC representative who attends the ISC meeting and reports on the activity
8. DINA as a research infrastructure
   • conversations with major large institutions => Open CMS approach: most agree with the appraoch
   • DES + GBIF data model changes: research needs to be the main outcome
   • DINA is the core, now we need to add the research data pieces
     • e.g. measurement data need to be linked to the specimens / samples
   • strategy: DINA is a CMS at heart, but moves to be more research driven design: flexibility of model, modular architecture => easy to connect and extend for research
     • web site needs to reflect this approach
   • TODO: James to create a draft text to improve website
     • highlight LIMS and workflows for research
     • make data available for research
     • combine the ideas of CMS and can fit into a major infrastructure
     • research components need to stay associated with the specimens/samples (e.g. environmental samples)
   • TODO: Jana, Falko, James to coordinate tasks to update the website (revamp the website)
9. Open CMS collaboration vision
   • have a clear DINA vision
   • manuscript for the principle of the collaboration
   • data model first
   • as second or third step: maybe adoption story of UEM
   • summary: focus on DINA vision/roadmap, then broader Open CMS collaboration perspectives (as publication and/or webpage)
10. DINA data model paper
    • bring this in the strategy part of the (bi-)weekly meeting
    • use cases: permission to recycle from the (unpublished) manuscript
    • ideally by the end of the year
    • circulate manuscript before Christmas => so it can be discussed in the next ISC meeting
11. Report from TDWG meeting
    • full success!
    • Linking the samples, research and publication
    • how to keep track of the provenance
    • things are changing: environment samples, bio films, living cultures,
    • CMS meetings LIMS, protocols and research workflows linked
    • 45 min discussion (most about GBIFs new data model, which is very close to DINA's model)
    • audience became more aware of the challenges about how to keep the connections and data is not flat.
    • Open CMS spirit was highlighted
    • lots of conversation
      • e.g. Belgium DiSSCo consortium => very divers. There won't be a single system to cover everything, so DINA is very interesting for them as one component
12. Partner reports
13. Any other business
14. Next meeting
    • Thursday, January 26, 14:00-16:00 UTC