2017-07-05 RDRIWG Virtual Meeting

Agenda

1. Summary on progress
2. Discussion towards next deliverable (First draft of specification of outcome)
3. Next steps

Materials

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/13BBJ_G-eprhRadIwtDm-GY1duwP7SkrAf8aAvxF4jl0/edit?usp=sharing

Topic 1

• Finished primer document (Deliverable 1) in time
• Submitted to be published as official RDA output (author = WG members)
• Will be available for community review, soon
• After successful review, DOI assigned and publicly available
• Session proposal for P10 submitted and accepted
• Main Objectives:
  • Updating participants regarding current status of the WG discussion
  • Collecting opinions, comments, experiences with regard to the targeted outcome
  • Win over new active contributors to the discussion in the final lifetime phase of the WG 

Topic 2

• What should we aim for?
  • Option 1: Adopt one standard/technology from primer, e.g. ResourceSync
  • Option 2: Follow pragmatic approach and strive for a custom tool allowing import/export, e.g. based on BagIt providing different profiles
  • Option 3: ?
• Take-away message from P9: Aim for reasonable, adoptable recommendation.
• Idea: No centralized solution but think about client-server approach
• First step: Find a way to describe packages including their (de-)serialization in cross-platform standard format
  • Mets offers profiles, but profiles are not machine readable
  • Datacite Format has great support according to capability matrix, but should only be understood as minimum requirement (only for metadata, different versions supported, custom extensions)
• Goal: Allow to keep as much information as possible
• Check OAI-ORE and http://www.researchobject.org/ (posix-friendly)
• Idea: DataCite via OAI-PMH (not sufficient for data)
• Resource Sync not yet well supported (see platform capability matrix)
• VOSpaces (see primer document) shows how nodes may communicate

Topic 3

• Start Slack Team for direct communication (David)
  • https://rda-rdri.slack.com (Invitation only, request for application will be send out soon. Contact: dwilcox@duraspace.org)
• Start GoogleDoc with preliminary TOC for Recommendations Document (Thomas)
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VmmhNMl4ie5zqbCKkf3NDNRHtgdb2SgYF_cEn58zt7g/edit?usp=sharing
• Send around link to GoogleDoc containing a collection of packaging formats (Eoghan)
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/155lA2BcixTl-zwJHGfLkxsmg7WmQbBK00QWyP8QggkE/edit

Notes

• 2 Months until P10
• We have to present current results (primer document, first draft of final recommendations)
• Do bi-weekly virtual meetings
  • Next: 2017-07-19T14:00+00:00 (UTC)