MPDL Developer Meeting 2011-02-08

MPDL

Agenda

 * beta release core service 1.3
 * to be tested
 * probably objectID is not in rest representation to be checked
 * no common presentation of REST and SOAP!
 * check the status of Java client API 1.3
 * no java client for 1.3 available
 * put to the latest-core service
 * tbd


 * PubMan - Run
 * new QA release - aiming for new release begin next week


 * Pubman-other Runs
 * reporting functionality with citation manager & search and export
 * to have separate meeting on the topic


 * PubMan - Migration
 * purging FHI - re-importing coNE authors and publications
 * CBS activities - look pretty fine
 * migration slots:
 * good to tell people when they have to be ready with preps
 * we can not judge on our site how long it takes


 * Imeji
 * started run
 * Bastien, Marco, Rupert, Kristina
 * aim: fix and improve the current demonstrator esp. multiple user problem
 * ends in March


 * Digitization life cycle
 * preparing sandbox
 * samples will be ingested for each project partner
 * the sandbox is initially based on virr 3.0. All samples will be in a single collection.
 * metadata discussions


 * dlib-journals (MPIER)
 * preparing test ingestion of journals
 * ingest > 500.000 items on r-coreservice
 * change of current VIRR solution in order to deal with dlib-journals
 * using the r-coreservice ingestion apis?
 * ingestion tool developed for Digilife cycle would be reusable


 * starvation salvage (FAO)
 * final creation of FOXML objects


 * Workshops/Conferences
 * Jboss workshop (see brainstorming results below)




 * JSF conference - would be good to prepare JSF 2.0 for new or existing solution to gain some experience upfront (April 2011)
 * Lu
 * EPIC Amsterdam Workshop 12-13 April
 * Bastien
 * SHAMAN Workshop 2 February
 * Vlad


 * Selenium
 * see PubMan_and_Selenium_tests and provide feedback


 * CoNE
 * Freebase testing
 * to check where the problems are lying with cone - load tests
 * DARIAH
 * EHRI - meeting with DANS outcome


 * INdexing problems core service
 * 900 FT on Pubman which are not indexed
 * check how the items are created and when
 * check PDF format / size
 * input from FIZ: pdfBox does not parse properly the PDFs from some reason. We shall try it with XPDF (updated fedoragsearch.war to be placed on dev-coreservice and external command line tool to be configured in escidoc-core properties)
 * escidoc - exceptions in releases, deletion
 * exceptions in triple store selects
 * fedora triples rebuilt, items re-indexed on productive server,oai-provider had been removed (as it reported errors during reindexing),
 * NUMBERS (ca. 50ms to reindex an item (it creates oaipmh index as well, even though oai-provider is removed), reindexing in repository with ca. 30000 items: ca 5 hours to understand what to reindex + ca. 3 hours to reindex ca 3000 items)


 * whenever multiple threads (in pubman migration)
 * ToDo: never run the migration procedure in multiple threads until clear what is going on


 * to be communicated to FIZ before next VidConf and evtl discuss on the next vidConf
 * VidConf cancelled by FIZ preference


 * archiva is up to date on 1.3.3
 * problems are not resolved, considering Nexus again
 * check first if using of Derby database might be a problem
 * check why Archiva has to run behind Apache (as this obviously is identified as the problem for connections to the database)


 * updates of servers
 * many dependencies
 * failover or clustering
 * only one escidocadmin for all instances?
 * the outdating is known at DELL
 * I will call with Eberhard and we will firstly update the bios of srv06 and srv07.
 * After the success update we all must plan the bios update for the other 6 servers.
 * not known where is the new server yet (in cloud?)
 * is in the GWDG, the server need a storing position, which needs forms ... (Bürokratie)
 * than the server need cabeling für SAN card
 * And if this is finished, Eberhard must install Sles 11 SP1 with Configuration.
 * than i can use the server


 * Living Reviews
 * moving services from Golm to GWDG in progress