CMDI Taskforce meeting @ CAC 2014-10-23

• What?
  • General CMDI taskforce meeting
• Who?
  • Members of the CMDI taskforce and other people involved/interested in specification process
• When?
  • 23 October 2014: 15.00 - 16.00 CET
• Where?
  • ​CLARIN Annual Conference 2014 in Soesterberg, NL
    Room: TBA

Agenda

(tentative)

• CMDI 1.2 implementation and testing
• CMDI 1.2 specifications
• Organisational matters

Meeting notes

• CMDI 1.2 Specification
  • Testing framework (Maven)
    • Software components:
      • Component specs: CMDValidate (adapt to 1.2)
      • Instances: CMDI validator (already fit for 1.2)
      • XSpec… XMLUnit...? Maven (possibly wrapping Ant)
    • Test cases
      • Conversion stylesheets
      • Component specifications
        • Required attribute
        • ... (to be collected by testing working grouping)
      • CMDI instances
        • Missing MdProfile
        • reference to non-existent resource proxy
        • cues for tools: separate namespace
        • ... (to be collected by testing working grouping)
      • Integration tests
        • 1.1 profile -> upgrade, 1.1 instance -> upgrade -> validate
• CMDI 1.2 Implementation
  • ISO spec as starting point
  • Torsten does first version
    • Needs to be adapted
    • On hold...
      • Update: specification is stable according to Thorsten, specification can be worked on by the working groups
        • Someone reviews current version of the specification and marks best practices, sections needing refinement and adds TODOs regarding CMDI 1.2 features
        • Other working groups work on individual subsection
        • Work is done on the wiki page (this requires some coordination)
• Working groups
  • Test cases
    • collect a list of cases (specified based on CMDI 1.2 features)
      • specification upgrade
      • specification validation
      • instance upgrade/downgrade
      • instance validation
    • Members: Matej, Mitchell Seaton, Menzo
  • Test harnas
    • investigate options for technologies
      • input - output matching (for conversion)
        • (Matej: ANT solution? -> can be wrapped into Maven if need be)
      • validation (for valid and invalid specification and instance cases)
    • Members: Matej, Twan
  • CMDI specification document
    • Members: ??