Attending

• Duncan Dickinson (DD)
• Vicki Picasso (VP)
• Nick Nicholas (NN)
• Greg Pendlebury (GP)

Apologies

• Norm Lawler (NL)

Minutes

Review of last meeting's minutes and action items

Project Manager report

• No issues to report
• DD working on ANDS project plan and progress report
• DD and GP spoke with Frans Henskens team (Newcastle) about their project and interoperability with ReDBox
• All went well. Frans and Vicki will need to discuss configuration and infrastructure.

Lead Developer report

• Working on 1.2. Should be available for public testing on Monday next week.
• Overhaul on forms
• Documentation is available on the developer wiki
• Sent out post on identities over a curation boundary to news group

University of Newcastle report

• VP: Met with Kim Nolan on Frans' team at UoN
• VP: Had contact from Macquarie Uni for a teleconference and demo
• Having technical issues with data management toolkit
• Issue fixed
• Extra resources to be added
• ReDBox 1.1 testing has gone well
• GP raised issue of cross-browser concerns, limited by resources
• Testing on IE 8, Firefox 3, Chrome and Safari on Windows
• VP asked GP to confirm that Version 1.3 will be ready by the end of October
• GP confirmed but will advise of any slippage.

ANDS report

• Metadata stores extension project still being formulated

QCIF report

Community items

• Alerts from upstream systems
• Group happy with concept - start planning
• Identity working paper
• DD will send out draft for comment (when people have time)
• ABS Field of Research codes
• UQ, ReDBox and Griffith staff are working on a solution (using free systems)
• VP asked about PURLs for activity records (ARC, NHMRC)
• NN: Will be part of next ANDS system release - communication will come soon.
• NN: Naming scheme for PURLs hasn't changed
• DD: 1.2 of Mint will be able to use these PURLs as part of the distribution

Action Items