October 11, 2013
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Attendees
Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (Facilitator)
Chris Awre, Hull (Notetaker)
Robin Ruggaber, UVa
Tom Cramer, Stanford
Rick Johnson, Notre Dame
Ray Lubinsky, UVa
Mark Notess, Indiana
Anders Conrad, Royal Library
Ed Fay, LSE
Mike Friscia, Yale
Eben English, BPL
Jim Tuttle, Duke
Michael Klein, Northwestern
Will Cowan, Indiana
Bess Sadler, Stanford
Karen Cariani, WGBH
Andrew Woods, DuraSpace/Fedora 4 (in attendance for the item on Fedora 4)
Agenda
Roll Call
Welcome New Folks
No new members were on the call
Call for Agenda Items
The items on Fedora 4 and Event planning had been added to the standing items
Next Call
Date: November 8th, 2013
Facilitator: Anders
Notetaker: Ed
Fedora 4 Update - Andrew Woods
Not really an update, more a request for input
Hydra is a major stakeholder in Fedora 4
Establishing open and effective lines of communication are of value in enabling Hydra to feed needs into Fedora 4 development
There is still value in identifying other regular feedback channels - thoughts are welcome
There is good overlap at the Steering Group level, and there has been Hydra committers call participation from Fedora 4 staff
Tech input also has overlap - primarily through Chris Beer and Ben Armintor
There is general interest in the where functionality needs to sit, in Fedora or in Hydra
A specific point of current interest is authorisation. Hydra rights metadata can easily sit in Fedora 4, and no other Fedora functionality would be required.
Fedora will be developing a simple but robust auth mechanism. It's use shouldn't impact on Hydra.
That's fine, but is there interest in Hydra making any use of this Fedora auth mechanism? If so, for what reasons and how?
Discussion centred on the issue of access to objects in Fedora other than through Hydra and the benefit of using Fedora auth for this where rights metadata isn't processable.
It was noted that not having this ability in Hydra has put a couple of potential partners off.
Andrew will set up a wiki page to capture use cases for Hydra use of Fedora auth. Robin will gather interested parties for a conversation post-DLF, which Mark B. will convene.
There is a DLF Fedora 4 hackathon that will look at this issue, so information added to the wiki beforehand will be useful in informing this.
It was noted that Fedora 4 are also having conversations with Islandora
Greg Jansen at UNC has been the main developer in this area for Fedora 4 so far.
Grants (upcoming, status updates)
Penn State Grant for Zotero
We are submitting our application Any Day Now.
ORCID grant by Notre Dame
Granted! Congrats! What's next? Details Posted Here: Hydra ORCID Plug-in
The link above provides further information, and also a link to the formal announcement for publicity
A news piece will be added to the Hydra website shortly
Others?
Fedora 4 is looking at available grants to accelerate the work and early adoption. Ideas for scoping these are welcome. Timescale is as soon as possible to fit in with funders' timetables.
Progress on action items
Should we go over Summary of the action points as a group and assign dates/owners for the action items so we can better track progress?
Mark N. is very interested in working on developing the approach to vendors, which aligns well with Avalon's needs.
Not otherwise discussed, due to time
Standing Community TODOs
Next Partner meetings
December event: Worldwide Hydra Connect meeting.
Dates finalized?
A set of dates in January for UCSD in San Diego?
The event is scheduled for 21-14 January 2014. This will be circulated via the lists
3n1 or 2n2?
Planning committee to decide on the structure of the event
Event Planning Team
So far Declan and Matt at UCSD and Tom, Robin and Richard have been setting this up
A separate planning committee is proposed to organise the programming of the event (UCSD will do all local logistics)
An email will be circulated to ask for volunteers to be on this committee. The email will also scope the likely level of work involved and what needs attention.
The creative aspects of this are acknowledged given this is the first event of its kind for Hydra.
2014: regional Hydra event in UK/Ireland
No update - the event will be discussed in the coming month
LibConDevX / Partner meeting
Dates finalized?
In April, avoiding code4lib end and CNI
Training
Fall Hydracamp updates
Case Western Camp went very well - details in DCE's monthly update
Modularising the training and using the tutorials approach went very well
DLF planning updates
A brief Hydra training event is planned
Strategic plan: where are we? are we on track?
Not discussed due to time
Prospective Partner Intel Sharing
Oxford and Cornell have both expressed interest in becoming partners
Case Western has also expressed an interest following the Camp
Shared IR work is pressing ahead, developing the collaboration between the partners
The Dance Heritage Coalition are considering their Fedora sustainability options - Karen, Mike G., and Bess will be attending their next meeting and will raise Hydra
Website Updates
None