Islandora IR Interest Group

May 22, 2017, 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST (Join Skype)

Google Doc for Meeting Agendas/Notes
Volunteer for notetaker?
Introduction to new members
Discussion of rotating chairs
1.9 release is out
Islandoracon outcomes
- Emphasis on community
  - We need more volunteers to chair meetings + take notes
    - Rotating chairs?
  - We need more developers to help out with JIRA tickets
  - We need a better way for IG members to add items to the agenda ahead of time (Google Docs)
- CLAW MVP
  - Hack/Doc session shows how easy it is to build new Entities (like CModels)
  - Still in flux, maybe more changes to Entities
- CLAW Scholar MVP
  - Hack/Doc session to brainstorm "have-to-have" features vs "nice-to-have"
  - Brainstorming document cleaned up into CLAW IR MVP document
  - CLAW IR MVP document needs your feedback in order to move on to the next step
Looking forward: Islandora 1.10 release
- October 2017 deadline
- Far fewer bugs than 1.8 -> 1.9, but lots of improvements/new features to work on
- Lots of help needed to clear the backlog
  - Call for volunteers - what types of tickets can you take?

No new people :(
- its a holiday in Canada
All agreed about using Google Docs for meeting agendas/notes & having rotating chairs
- Don, Keila and Devin joined the rotation
- Rotation as it exists currently (with Don being the chair of the next meeting):
  - Don Richards
  - Devin Soper
  - Keila Zayas-Ruiz
  - Bryan Brown
Bryan will make IR list post to get feedback from IG regarding CLAW Ir MVP, then present to CLAW devs & Roadmap
Discussions about Islandoracon
- Potential users of Scholar:
  - Andrea Kosevic, York U
  - Brian Gillingham, U Pitt
  - Dwayne Collins, Trent U
  - Jeff Rubin, Tulane
  - Chris Day, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- CLAW seems functional, but a long way off from being usable for non-RDF folks
  - MODSpocalypse (conversion of MODS to RDF is an active discussion, also upcoming Working Group for this)
  - No solution to the problem of entering names into a submission form
    - Autocomplete for LOC/VIAF authorities?
    - What if they don't have an authority record? Should we mint a local URI?
    - Don suggested reading Transitioning from XML to RDF by Juliet Hardesty
- Christina Harlow's workshop was awesome
  - Ontology rot seems scary though, we need to be careful what ontologies we pick for Scholar stuff
  - Bryan suggested investigating the VIVO Ontology
Don mentioned GitHub Marketplace as being a potentially useful way to integrate other services with