Minutes of Project meeting 27 May 2002

Present

Dave Beckett, Damian Steer (ILRT), Rachel Heery, Pete Johnston (UKOLN)

Purpose

Progress meeting

Finance

ILRT need to invoice for initial payment: Dave (Note: first payment to UKOLN from JISC due May, but no money received yet. Chase if later than mid-June: Rachel).

Web site

Link the software review review and MEG registrity creation tool work onto the web site: Pete

Software review

In preparation but overdue, to be completed by June 5: Damian

Functional Requirements

Functional requirements accepted with minor modifications : ability to search terms, change 'element/term'=>element throughout. Update it, circulate and put on web site by 31st May: Pete

Need to provide schema instances for DC v1.1, DC terms, IMS by June 24: Pete

SCART review

Demonstration and discussion of tool led to suggestions for UI.

Damian to:

• reduce size of ageny section at top of screen (into menu, separate window, just present a summary?)
• add autogenerated identifers for any new things created (elements, application profiles, encoding schemes) based on a URI namespace associated with the agency. User can edit this autogenerated identifier if required
• by default make the term usage inherit values from the term such as max values but not encoding schemes
• allow draggin encoding schemes to term usages
• make searching for element sets possible and return the results for all element in that set (search for "dc" => 15 elements and N dcterms, ...)
• change element search results display to appear by 'hierarchical folders' of element sets, elements, encoding schemes
• change term=>element throughout
• consider improving 'submit' to make it more intuitive: re-label 'submit'? Do we need 'submit all'?
• distinguish more clearly the 'live box' in which the user is working by greying out other boxes
• distinguish elements that belong to your own agency somehow, maybe by different colour?

Registry

Need to plan out milestones and dates by June 14: Dave

Workshop

Workshop needs to be in September. Need to keep in mind ECDL Rome 16-18 Sept, also Alt-C Sunderland 9-11 Sept. Pete needs to consult with MEG group to fix date. Maybe have our meeting on 16th, 19th in Ediburgh to back onto next MEG meeting (but issues with connectivity, rooms). Alternative is to have it away from that meeting in Bath or Bristol. : Pete

Schedule

Updated schedule:

• 31 May 2002: Functional Requirements completed : Pete
• 5 June 2002: Software review completed : Damian
• 13 June 2002: Early evaluation of schema creation tool (at ILRT, 12.00 visitors arrive 2.00) : All
• June 14 2002: Plan for Registry: Dave
• 28 June 2002: Schema creation tool completed: Damian
• September 2002: Workshop, need to fix date and venue: Pete
• Final recommendations: will need to follow workshop
• End of project date: if this runs over 6 months need to inform JISC : Rachel

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