ESciDoc Committer Meeting 2010-03-02

Date: 02.03.2010 Start time: 14:30

Location: Karlsruhe, München (VidConf) phone: +49-89-38602-223

Participants MPDL: Natasa Bulatovic, Wilhelm Frank

Participants FIZ: Frank Schwichtenberg, Steffen Wagner, Dr. Michael Hoppe, Harald Kappus

Previous committer meeting

• ESciDoc_Committer_Meeting_2010-02-23

Next committer meetings

• ESciDoc_Committer_Meeting_2010-03-23
• ESciDoc_Committer_Meeting_2010-03-30

Topics

Core service 1.2

• RC vs Stable release
• Test results from MPDL expected

outcome

• Migration does not work, other methods are fine
• User groups/ user management - no blocker
• MPDL will send report of what is tested
• regarding Administrator-user groups - feedback from MPDL expected

Transfer Ownership

• see Issue INFR-800 (https://www.escidoc.org/jira/browse/INFR-800)
• would this be part of 1.3 release?

Outcome

• planned to improve
• 1.3 is not yet approved and final
• consider at least schema/policies change with the interface change in 1.3

PREMIS1 to PREMIS2

• Steps
  • event types (done)
    • see eSciDoc Version History Event Type and related discussion.
  • resource identifier types see discussion on identifier types
  • user defined comments in versions
    • discuss proposal where/how to set the version comment
    • See PREMIS2 Version history specification and related discussion
• schedule
• see also API changes 1.3 (item.xml, settable attributes, version comment)

new properties for OU

• Discuss/agree on proposal
• see http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/Talk:PubMan_History_of_affiliations

outcome

• not discussed

OAI-PMH Provider and DC Transformation

• inclusion of version PID and/or object PID in DC datastream in effective manner
• Coreservice URL as OAI-PMH identifier

Outcome

• Core service URL
  • according the OAI-PMH specification the identifier of OAI-PMH can not be the OAi-PMH Repository identifier
  • also fedora-identifiers given to OAI-pMH are different
  • dc:identifiers
    • Handle is persistent
    • URL is not persistent in eSciDoc
    • we have to guarantee the URLs
• technical issues with the eSciDoc XML Export
• no obvious solution at the moment
• at the moment DC transformation works only for one single(mandatory) metadata record
• initial requirement: DC transformation shall work for the Item.xml representation
• Colab Page for discussion see OAI_PMH_Provider and DC Transformation

Core-service 1.3

• start?

• Agreed on joint teams

SolR/Administrative searches/DB cache

• aspects performance, authorization
• improvements:
  • facets, tag clouds
  • date searches

Admin tools

• policies
• roles
• AA as potential reuse for non-core service AA (?)

Outcome

• MPDL prios to be communicated
• 1.3 feature list not yet confirmed

releases PubMan

• MPDL can build PubMan 6.0.1 with core-service 1.2
• Drawbacks:
  • no guarantees (not tested)
  • eSciDoc Admin solution will not run stable
• expected fully tested 6.1 pubMan Release
  • Mid April 2010

outcome

• Pubman can be delivered with core-service 1.2
  • need to be tested manually
  • no automated full GUI test coverage so far

Additional Core service questions

• can statistical service run independently
• can databases needed for core-service functionality (escidoc-core, statistics, fedora) be configured under completely separate postmasters

outcome

• statistical service at the moment uses Fedora generated IDs for report/aggregation definition, but it is not impossible (to be placed in JIRA as an impovement)
• no, they have to run under same postmaster (?)

others

• eSciDoc-Colab Page setup
• Alignment of tools and processes (e.g., Maven)
• Improved and harmonized communication of eSciDoc
• eSciDoc Blog
• service names and classification
• service-architecture board
• documentation of services
• installation guides
• eSciDoc Lab: Colab page gathering experimental modules
• Exchange of staff members for specific developments or share development

eSciDoc Colab

• domain-redirection for the eSciDoc-colab
• set up the colab and move the eSciDoc pages from MPDL colab

Outcome

• MPDL can not do it until new SysAdmin is on board

Video Conference

Max Planck Digital Library

Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe

Rights Checking

Organizational Unit

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Dublin Core

Persistent Identifer or Identification

Uniform Resource Locator

Enhanced Scientific Documentation

Extensible Markup Language

Collaboration Laboratory

Publication Management

Graphical User Interface

Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture

Error Management and Project Management Software