Joint CMDI & Curation taskforces virtual meeting 2018-04-05

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• What?
  • CMDI 1.2 best practices
• Who?
  • Members of the CMDI or the Curation taskforces and other people involved/interested in the specification of best practices for CMDI
• When?
  • 5 April 2018, 14:00 - 16:00 CEST (on basis of ​doodle)
• Where?
  • Zoom: ​https://clarin.zoom.us/j/534115968
  • Note: If using Zoom for the first time, allow for some setup time before the meeting. The above link should get you started. See ​documentation for more information.

Documents

• ​CMDI Best Pratices draft on GitBook
• Best Practices editing guide
• ​**OLD** draft CMDI Best Practices doc on Google Docs (please do not edit!)
• ​Proposal for a recommended general info profile (work in progress)

Preparation

• {all} Common approaches section of the document: contribute and/or read contributions
• {all} Work on (other) ​change requests
• {all} Read up on ​open discussions
• {Thomas, Susanne, Twan} Evaluate proposed ​GitBook alternatives (HackMD, StackEdit, new version of GitBook)

Agenda

(Tentative)

• GitBook
  • Status
  • Evaluation of ​alternatives (TODO Thomas, Susanne, Twan)
    • HackMD
    • StackEdit
    • new version of GitBook
• Recommendations
  • 'General info' components (see ​general component comparison sheet)
    • See ​first draft for aggregated version of this (TODO Twan)
  • Look at ​Basic Language Archive Metadata (BLAM) effort
• Common approaches section
• (Other) open ​change requests
• Open ​discussions
• Planning
  • Next/first 'release'?

Notes

GitBook alternatives

• HackMD (Susanne)
  • Looks quite straightforward
  • Everyone has an account, there is a history
  • Colour scheme for collaboration.
  • View with markdown
  • Markdown comments
  • Syntax highlighting for code snippets
  • Features added in pro version probably not needed
  • Publishing: export to Gist
  • Might get more messy, no change requests
  • Susanne will try to import, publish
• StackEdit (Thomas)
  • Google doc syncing worked
  • GitHub syncing did not work but should
  • Export to HTML (and PDF in 'sponsored' mode)
  • Thomas will test some more
• New GitBook
  • beta.gitbook.com available now
  • books can be converted to new GitBook
  • Twan will test with a fork of our book

Susanne, Thomas, Twan will report at the next meeting

Recommendations

• Menzo: align with generic concepts (CCR coordinators)
• BLAM
  • We will get in touch with Felix et al to see if they are interested in discussing this further

Common approaches section

Sections that have been worked on:

• Modelling for metadata conversion (merge next time?)
• Optimising for discoverability (perhaps turn into CAC submission)
• Dealing with changes
• Multilingual metadata

Discussions

• ​#24 priority of C13 and C14 has to be aligned (both high), Menzo will take care of this and add some text to indicate that missing concepts should be requested

Planning

• 'Release'
  • Replace link at ​https://www.clarin.eu/content/cmdi-best-practice-guide with link to GitBook (and add PDF)
  • Resove in-line notes and TODOs first
  • Any notes/todos that cannot be resolved need to be discussed
• Next meeting
  • ​Doodle