SETF conference call - 11. June 2014

Introductions

• Christopher Lewis, Chief Bioinformatician in Biodiversity at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• James Macklin, Research Scientist, Botany and Biodiversity Informatics at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada *Elspeth Halston, Deputy Herbarium Curator at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
• Robert Cubey, Plant record officer at Royal Botanic Garden Edingburgh
• Mario …, Programmer at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburg, will be helping out with the migration into Specify/DINA. *Nikolaj Scharff, Head of collections and databases at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
• David Konrad, Programmer hired to implement the Media/Morphbank part in the DINA-system.
• Falko Gloeckler, in charge of databases and all informatics issues in our MfN’s digitization efforts
• Ingimar Erlingsson, Programmer Media server/The Naturalist, Stockholm
• Kevin Holston, Domain Specialist DINA/Specify, Stockholm
• Karin Karlsson, Group leader Bioinformatics team, Stockholm
• Stefan Daume, Hosted and chaired this SETF call and will be coordinating the distributed development in the DINA-project, Stockholm

Next actions

Wiki setup and content – distribution of tasks among partners

1. Falko is currently creating accounts for everybody in the Biowikifarm.
2. Falko; option in Biowikifarm, do we want to use shared media and files or not? Need to set that up from the beginning. Stefan; implications? Falko; the whole idea of the Biowikifarm, we can share the uploaded files to every wiki.
   • We decided on the sharing media/file option.
   • Elspeth; we could have a private place in the wiki, links to files posted elsewhere.
3. Stefan; please create one page for every partner for your contribution to the DINA-system.

Workshop  15-18^th of September in Stockholm

1. 15th of September SETF face-to-face meeting
2. 16-18^thof September – EU-BON workshop: “Alpha version of mobilization system“
   • Target group: Programmers, developers and system engineers, but open to anybody who might be interested to contribute or learn more about the DINA-system.
   • Suggestions for content to the workshop:
     • Presentations from all DINA-partners
     • Case studies
     • Delivery options:  creating installations from hosted environment, virtual machines down to code.
     • Repositories?
     • Tracking system?
   • Workshop expectations from the group:
     • Elspeth: would like to see installation techniques on the agenda. Suggestion; please record it and make it available on Youtube or similar.
     • James: high technology path and roadmap for developers. James would like to have the opportunity to participate online.
     • Stefan;  APIs, service oriented architecture,  guidelines and principles on how to build a module and join the DINA-system would definitely be on the agenda.
     • James: suggests that we should focus on use cases requirements over the summer, especially needed now with the new UI replacing Specify 7. Who is building this interface?
     • Falko: second that! Also would like to see something about how we do the testing of the modules and how to install a module. Falko is willing to test everything from user interfaces to APIs.
     • Stefan; we should also define how we are collaborating within the project, use cases, finding bugs and also how we can make it easy for others to use our system.
     • Stefan raised the question about license. It’s for the steering group to decide but we should give some advice on that.
   • Expected participants from the SETF group:
     • Nikolaj:David or/and Christian
     • Elspeth:Rob
     • Falko and possibly a colleague
     • James; strict travel budget but have applied for three of them to go to Stockholm. Chris, Allan and possibly one more.

Tentative schedule for future SETF calls

• 2^nd of July at 3 pm CET
• 23^rd of July at 3 pm CET
• 27^th of August at 3 pm CET
• 3^rd of September at 3 pm CET
• 10^th of September at 3 pm CET