Minutes ISC meeting 2015-03-26

Election of a secretary for the meeting

• Falko

Approval of the agenda

• approved without changes

Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting

• minutes not uploaded yet, will be given later
• main items last meeting were:
  • discussions about Specify 7 (now released)
  • one DINA member wants to use Specify 7

• Decision : We will stick to the Specify data model until we have a collection manager interface

DINA-TC (Technical Committee) issues

1. DINA software licensing
   • GPL for repositories
   • agreed on using open licences
   • TC will work out potential licenses and try to reach convergence
   • issue on licenses could be discussed in a special call of ISC + TC members
   • Decision: ISC needs a 1-page proposal on licensing from TC
2. DINA logo
   • new logo is set and approved
   • license for font style and vector format is still missing, but the creator will be asked
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3. DINA data components: technical Web API requirements
   • close to being adopted
   • poll for approval will be arranged
   • Decision: ISC will endorse the API 1.0 once TC is ready with it
4. DINA module map with Web service blueprints
   • high-level overview of the modules on GitHub
   • module map is needed for assigning tasks
5. DINA collection manager user interface
   • The Stockholm team has started collecting requirements
6. DINA replacement for Specify Workbench (Dina Data Tool)
   • GitHub presence of the online Workbench (DDT)
   • physical meeting between the teams of Stockholm and Denmark
   • CSV based archive format upload (workflows using non-SQL tools like OpenRefine)
7. DINA media server
   • Requirements revision, review and quality control completed with help from Ottawa team and others
   • Part of integration project with Vagrant
8. DINA taxonomy module
   • Stockholm team has starting to look at it together with the Tartu team
   • Also part of integration project using Vagrant
9. DINA user management module
   • The TC needs to set up requirements for the user module before we formally assign this important task to one of the teams..
10. Any other business from DINA-TC
    • none

Brief reports from members of the consortium

• Berlin
  • one developer left
  • things went slowly through limited resources
  • submitted a national project proposal for re-organizing portal on geo-scientific collection data (www.geocase.eu); Could be a nice addition for a geo-module in the DINA system

• Copenhagen
  • Specify customization
  • Rolling out Specify in Denmark will be done in 6 months

• Edinburgh
  • absent

• Ottawa
  • absent

• Stockholm
  • New project could be the embryo of the collection manager
  • Alpha deliverable for EUBON project makes good progress
  • New layout with responsive design of the Naturalist / Naturforskaren, then the media server will be implemented in productive version
  • Karin will send the link to Naturforskaren (test platform)

• Tartu
  • absent

Any other business

• DINA Poster + Flyer for TDWG in Kenia
• Anders Telenius will go there and send a poster
• Karin will take the lead for developing the poster and flyer

Next meeting

• 8th June 2015 15:00-17:00 CEST (13:00-15:00 UTC/GMT)