Islandora IR Interest Group

September 28, 2017, 3:00 - 4:00 PM EST (Join Skype)

Attendees

Rachel Smart 🐔
Carolyn Moritz ✏️
Bryan Brown
Devin Soper
John O’Connor
Brandon Weigel
Don Richards
Kim Mears

Notes

New meeting time:
- CLAW UI Interest Group potential conflict
- Moving forward IRIG will continue with this time unless CLAW UI/other conflicts arise
7.x-1.10 release updates
- License and README audits complete!
- Official release still targeted for Oct 31
- RC VM comes out next week (Tuesday, Oct 3)
- Code freeze in effect
- Documentation IG: Email forthcoming around tomorrow re:
  - Deleted states, terminology for deleted but not purged content
  - Inconsistency between Duraspace wiki and Islandora wiki, to be modified
- Fixed RC deadlines will be in tomorrow’s email
- Still some bugs to fix in Scholar (help needed ASAP)
  - https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/ISLANDORA-1945
  - https://jira.duraspace.org/browse/ISLANDORA-1291
  - Have to do with DOI Importer, FSU unfamiliar and requesting outside help
CLAW IR MVP presentation to CLAW committers
- Features absolutely necessary for CLAW migration
- Post-presentation, determined many features not IR-specific
- Bryan’s presentation (see notes linked above) approved
Complex Objects in Islandora (John O’Connor)
- BC is using DigiTool for special collections & Islandora IR
- Looking to move to single software, John pushing for Islandora
- Requesting feedback/experiences on managing complex objects in Islandora
- Perception: “Islandora technically does complex objects but not very well”
- Concerns: Nesting - can it, and how well does it work? How does it display?
- Clarification: “Complex objects” = Digitized physical object, diary as example
- Desire: Individual images associated in context but not individually findable
- How long/robust does everybody expect Islandora 7x to be? Not looking to do multiple migrations in short time frame. Opinions/thoughts requested.
  - Don: Deliberate in accommodating different Islandora usage and putting forth the effort for backwards compatibility
  - John/BC will do further research and requests additional info/listservs while moving forward
  - Bryan: Even after CLAW, many will continue to use Islandora 7x for the foreseeable future
- Bryan endorses “complex object” functionality while acknowledging its a difficult thing to do for any repo
- Additional feedback request: How robust is navigation between parent/child objects in compound objects? (?)
  - Lots of people share examples in practice:
  - Wilhemina: documentation/tech info on content models
  - Brandon: http://ecuad.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/ecuad%3Atheses
  - Devin: http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A217560#page/Front+Cover/mode/2up
  - Bryan: https://fsu.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fsu%3A274046
Submission Workflow module design plan - feedback requested
- Similar to UTK’s work on ETD Submission Workflow, but general toolkit for customizable submission workflows
- Call for feedback on plan for implementation
- Goal: Customizable/usable as possible for IRs at different institutions
- Doc contents: General explanation, module dependencies, primary components, security concerns (and how to circumvent them) as requested by FLVC
- Awaiting writing code until feedback received
- FLVC meeting: Security concerns, anonymous Drupal users’ ability to upload files; Submission Workflow’s security section includes suggestions and best practice, useful to show administrators et al. with institutional security concerns
- Agenda item for next meeting to give people time to read Workflow at their own pace

Next Meeting

Thursday, October 26, 2017 - 3pm EDT
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