Project Planning (Summer 2013)

Tasks Completed

• Completed calls with 4 of 5 initial campus DAMS contributors, gathering information about collections
• Ongoing standup meetings and housekeeping
• Initiated talks with Nuxeo regarding training opportunities
• Submitted DLF poster proposal on UCLDC implementation
• Clarified thinking about product stakeholder group formulation
• Researched modular design approaches for public interface
• Started task tracking in GitHub
• Continued work on getting Shibboleth configured for DAMS

• Created very rough first draft of development road map/timeline
• Scheduled and prepared for calls with initial campus DAMS contributors
• Experimented with setting up test objects in Nuxeo Studio
• Lots of work trying to get Shibboleth up and going for DAMS

• Verified, sorted, and estimated rough ROI for all user stories (DAMS and Discovery/Delivery layer)
• Started process of hiring documentation/training role
• Met with Nuxeo staff to go over questions about Studio
• Worked out remaining licensing questions with Nuxeo

• Group review of Nuxeo Studio and functionality
• Developing initial list of questions for Nuxeo developers regarding particular aspects of Studio usage
• Working on integrating Shibboleth with Nuxeo
• OAI harvest to Solr driven by Collection registry - working prototype

• Set up user accounts for UCB staff, MySQL database for Collection Registry
• Experiments with pull requests on GitHub, orgamode/emax
• Demo of collection registry with CDL mass dig team
• Ordered new VM
• Experiments with OAI harvesting, hooking up collection registry
• Finalized project wiki structure and content

8

2013-05-20

• Received project wiki space; added and organized work-to-date; signed up users
• Call with Nuxeo staff to discuss project and challenges
• Nuxeo webinar on new DAMS features
• CDL bi-weekly meeting to discuss project plan and user stories
• Call with Tagasauris to explore possible opportunities/applications
• Scheduled all standups and and held first meeting

7

2013-05-13

• Investigated Nuxeo Silver support issue
• Met with UCB RIT regarding communications and work logistics: https://hackpad.com/CDLRIT-meeting-1-LR94xKsw2yS 
• Met with CDL mass digitization to continue talking about collection development and pipeline for digitized materials
• Worked on client for collection registry API
• Continued work planning document with questions for investigation
• Discussed communications strategy and relationship to other CDL communications, website options
• Requested mysql database
• Requested new UCSF confluence wiki
• Created plan for contacting campus representatives about initial DAMS content next steps

6

2013-05-06

• nuxeo-dev.cdlib.org environment provisioned by CDL IAS team
• statement of work approved and CDL business services transfers funds to UCB ITS Research IT group for temporary staffing
• met with POT1
• Mark and Brian review solr demo of OAI harvest and discuss requirements for OAI URLs and set specs in collection registry
• Created user stories from LT1A requirements
• Created first draft of communications plan
• Created first draft of implementation plan (high-level project overviews for each component, with questions and unknowns)
• Nuxeo purchase order received

5

2013-04-29

• Submitted cdlsys request for development environment
• Met with UC Berkeley IST to discuss staffing for Nuxeo support roles
• Discussed collection development and digitization funding opportunities with CDL mass dig team
• Created scope of work for Nuxeo support roles for business services to move hiring forward
• Discussed project technical components in more depth
• Finished initial project structure, development process, and communications outlets docs

4

2013-04-22

• Held call with Patrick S. re:  staffing resources at UCB
• Created UCLDC page on NGTS wiki
• Discussed project management models
• Met with IAS to review infrastructure requirements

3

2013-04-15

• Performed initial OAI harvesting with JOAI
• Performed Nutch/hadoop research (using nutch 1.x rather than 2.x)
• Scheduled meeting with IAS
• Developed initial project structure
• Created list of “implicit tasks”: non-technical work to support requirements

2

2013-04-08

• Turned in Nuxeo quote to Business Services
• Performed in-depth requirements review
• Created prototype of collection registry and API
• Started planning for how to verify initial set of content

1

2013-04-01

• Obtained quote from Nuxeo vendor
• Discussed UCLDC roles, organizational home in new advisory structure