Coordinating Meeting September 11 2020 11:30 am AST

Agenda

Documentation Interest Group revival: New Terms of Reference proposed for a vote. Moved away from language that suggested that the DIG would be the ones to write the docs, and focused on coordination and discussion as a role. two +0 and otherwise all +1. Melissa will take the vote to email for those not present.

Metadata IG (Rosie)
IR interest group (Bryan) - Hasn't met since our last call
ISLE Interest Group (Danny) - Moving the meeting time back by 1/2 hour for the Atlantic time zone. Danny is collecting thoughts about next steps for ISLE to move it forward. Also planning an ISLE release party: a four hour Zoom drop-in on September 22 to help eachother out on running ISLE updates.
Multi-tenancy Interest Group (Brandon)

Branch rename has had a few hiccups, Danny is working to fix places where things fell out of sync.
Mirador viewer is now part of Islandora!
File versioning and replacing at the Fedora level is now in!
Thank you Eli Zoller for both additions above
Sanitized survey results have been released. TAG is working on a technical roadmap out of these (will include support timelines and 'strategic initiatives' covering broad areas of development focus), and sprints are coming (documentation and ISLE sprints likely going first). 65% of responses were from end users! More 8 sites than we expected (more 8 sites than we even knew existed!). Documentation was identified as a major need. Some other (batch editing, embargoes) have solution out there that we just need to incorporate and document. Accessibility ranked high, but may need a concerted effort from the IF to push it forward. We should start with an audit. Maybe a VPAT? Can we also encourage the use of accessibility tools among adopters of Islandora? Maybe with docs? Accessibility is done better when you plan ahead instead of "renovating" afterwards.

Amy: ICG is starting up a project to survey functional requirements. Might be interested in collaborating with the IF, because this information could be pretty useful to present to those considering Islandora 8. Still very early stages.
Danny: Good conversations are going around some fundamental Islandora questions and how to better tie the whole Islandora experience together. Probably looking at some form of "Solution Packs" coming back to the stack (in a form that works in the Islandora 8 architecture). The end results should be a much improved user experience. Melissa: The second User Call was smaller than we'd like. Please encourage colleagues to attend if they are looking at Islandora 8 from an end-user POV and would like to discuss/have questions/need help
Rosie: Making a lot of docs pull requests. Excited about the DIG gathering energy around documentation. Also working on the concept of "what is defaults?" in Islandora? We have to ship with something. Is defaults a demo or a starter configuration? Where's the balance?
Mike: UConn has had a re-org and the team has been moved into a new digital preservation unit, run by Greg Colati. David W: Another Fedora USer Group Meeting happened this week, in EU timezones. Melissa presented for Islandora. Attendance was 20-30. Recording will go online shortly.

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