Attending

• Duncan Dickinson (DD)
• Vicki Picasso (VP)
• Nick Nicholas (NN)
• Greg Pendlebury (GP)
• Norm Lawler (NL) - Absent

Apologies

Minutes

Review of last meeting's minutes and action items

Project Manager report

• ANDS Project Plan and Progress report submitted to QCIF
• ANDS has received it
• ReDBox ingest method work has started - quick demo
• eResearch Australasia Workshop (ReDBox technical primer) preparation in full swing:
• Program: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1UaVgiusAC_MDO3czb24S_nnF4AvG7sKoK1ZZ6YG7CC4
• Question: Should we continue with fortnightly meetings?
• Agreed to continue with fortnightly

Lead Developer report

• 1.2 has been released
• Contains new curation process
• Lots of doco has gone out through the mailing list
• Work has started on 1.3
• Starting with Fedora 3 work
• Fedora community is not very responsive; Maven artefacts aren't published
• We'll focus on Fedora 3.3.1 Server to meet Vital release
• Fedora 3.5 client library is the current one - need to test it works with all 3.3 - 3.5 releases
• VP: UoN Vital upgrade project completes at the end of Oct.

University of Newcastle report

• Mint 1.2 release upgrade has been causing problems
• Can't see OAI harvest as yet
• Data migration is causing headaches
• GP: asked if Dave is building from SVN rather than using the ZIPs?
• Not sure
• GP and Dave (UoN) are working together to resolve issues
• Some issues around demo data
• VP asked about how Mint records are edited
• GP: Easiest way to edit Mint records is to change the ingest file and reharvest
• Working on eResearch Workshop
• UoN team reading through doco for 1.2 Curation
• GP asked if there was a need for more user-focussed doco
• DD mentioned presentation in technical workshop as a possible intro

ANDS report

• Response regarding UoN sub-contract work is being investigated by Legal (Monash)
• Metadata store project model has been approved
• Looking into methods for roll-out
• Working through functional and institutional requirements for fulfilment
• Details to come - wait for eResearch Conference

QCIF report

• QCIF are developing a support framework for discussion.
• Internal QCIF discussion at present

Community items

• VP will be sending an email out to CAIRSS regarding UoN Research Data Management work

Action Items