ISC conference call - 17th February 2021

ISC conference call - 17th February 2021
Title	ISC conference call - 17th February 2021
Location	Fredrik's zoom room
Date Start	2021/02/17 14:00 UTC
Date End	2021/02/17 16:00 UTC
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Agenda

Election of a secretary for the meeting
Approval of the agenda
Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
Signing of the DINA MoU (update)
Review of DINA ISC decisions (Redmine)
1. SeqDB/DINA-Sequences MoU
2. DINA non-profit organization (Falko)
Report from DINA TC (Satpal)
SPNCH meeting update
DINA communication/outreach, update (Falko)
Partner reports
Any other business
Next meeting

Minutes

Participants: Frederik, James, Satpal, Falko

Election of a secretary for the meeting
- Falko
Approval of the agenda
- Approved
Approval of the minutes of the previous meeting
- Approved
Signing of the DINA MoU (update)
- AAFC => Done!
- RBGE => no update
- NRM => no decision
- Station Linné has plans to become a new member to DINA
Review of DINA ISC decisions (Redmine)
- SeqDB/DINA-Sequences MoU
  - data migration from old to new module
  - suggestion: workflow from AAFC, but conduct migration by NRM
  - Fredrik's team could be part of a focus team for testing metabarcoding in DINA seqDB
  - close ticket for seqDB MoU
- DINA legal entity (Falko)
  - keep ticket on develepoment contracts https://roadmap.dina-project.net/issues/94
  - new ticket created: https://roadmap.dina-project.net/issues/95
  - more details for DINA non-profit organization after phone call with Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
  - will be addressed in the next meeting
Report from DINA TC (Satpal)
- DINA Status
  - AAFC is reporting release 1 is Completed
    - keycloak, multimedia, agents, seqencing workflow 1
    - new format for communication with focus group => success: more meetings, faster feedback
  - gave a demo to our Management, it was really well recieved
  - we were having some friction working with our clients but some new meeting structure has smoothed everything out and now we have a lot of trust and velocity
- MfN dev team met with Christian for an overview of the codebase
  - We have talked about some deliverables for MfN to work on
  - Labels and Reports Module and Generic Data Module (GDM)
  - later will be transactions and loans
- currently we are REALLY deep into the first data points for collection management modules
  - sites, collection events, etc...
  - we are getting to a really nice place by de-coupling the verbatim text and assertions/assumptions on verbatim
  - and this will be the same pattern used for determinations and other areas
- AAFC has started back on the sequence module workflows
  - first step was placing "sample" information (DNA extration, etc..)
  - 80% of sequence module => decoupling physical entities and molecular sample data
- AAFC’s UX designer is working really well
- DINA model more samples-centric, because samples gets more important than specimens in the future
  - DINA as next generation CMS
SPNCH and TDWG meetings update
- James' SPNHC symposium => contains samples-centric view of DINA
- SPNHC 2022 in Edinbourgh => critical May/June => maybe demo session
- TDWG call we be opened soon
DINA communication/outreach, update (Falko, James)
- DINA name might be confused system vs. association
  - business model vs. system
- Invitation letter to several people
  - TODO: draft by Fredrik in Google Docs
- strong case on molecuar (biobanking) and living collections
- TODO: graphical recording
- TODO: James to contact his management about membership in an association
- release 1 DINA-AAFC
  - Tell a success story
- paper on the concept model
Partner reports
- NRM
  - Advanced Living Atlas
  - Docker HUb easy to use
- MfN
  - new Data Portal launched in January https://media.naturkundemuseum.berlin/
  - master plan: first outcomes: Data Portal, Crowdsourcing => all feeds into DINA activities
- AAFC
  - see TC report
Any other business
- none
Next meeting
- 7th April 2021