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Advisory Group Members

• Michelle Edwards (til end of 2016)

• Dan Gillman

• Arofan Gregory (til end of 2016)
  

• Larry Hoyle

• Jon Johnson

• Jared Lyle

• Steve McEachern

• Wendy Thomas

• Achim Wackerow (Chair)

Current and Past Participants List

Moving Forward Communication Plan

Attending: Kelly Chatain, Jared Lyle, Wendy Thomas, Steve McEachern, Joachim Wackerow

Documentation

Pre-NADDI working meeting review - all documentation (not DataCapture View) has been completed. Examples, overviews, class-level text, view descriptions, etc.) Wendy updating XML examples after XML issues fixed (fixed as of 4/16/2018). Kelly to load view descriptions into LION. 

RDFS/OWL

Some organizational issues to be discussed/fixed. More on compositions/aggregations. Achim to write document on how the rules are being applied to map the UML into OWL. OWL is definitely not being included in the production framework, but will be included with the prototype. Eric is able to import both the canonical XMI (generated manually by Achim) and the LION XMI into his program.

TC Integrity Check

Ready to begin the TC Integrity check the week of April 23rd. Wendy to triage Jira issues and group accordingly for more efficient review. Kelly to create new review page for the integrity check on the wiki, to include all current documentation NOT in LION.  

The check will include a review of current Jira issues and the model as it exists against current modelling rules, consistency in patterns, classes working together, etc. 

Attending: Kelly Chatain, Jared Lyle, Wendy Thomas, Joachim Wackerow 

Documentation

Hilde Orten has been brought on board and given a full orientation. She will join the MT meeting next week on the 21st and send questions to the group in the meantime. Dan Gillman has more time to work on documentation. Jay is getting busy, but most of what he has committed to do is complete. The documentation tracker is up to date and all materials are in the Google Drive folder.
Action: Wendy to send Kelly the 2.5 - 3.2 mapping
Action: Kelly to pull together overview docs for introduction to DDI-4

RDFS and XMI

Eric has generated first OWL representation and a ShEx binding.
Thursday (March 15) a conference call with a few more RDFS people (Deirdre, Darren, Oliver, Jay, Eric, Achim) to discuss this and then it will be distributed to wider circle. The next steps will be determined (reviewing the rules document, etc.).

Exploring the model work was in parallel with looking at the canonical xmi. Achim was able to figure out a feasible way to extract a canonical version from the Drupal xmi.

Canonical XMI - While working on this, Achim was testing with 4 or 5 UML tools and ran into a few more issues (filed in JIRA). Found a lot of duplicate IDs for XMI of the PSM. This may be a bigger issue. Can we produce a canonical XMI of PSM for XML Schema for the prototype? Only worth it if it is easy to fix the PSM duplicate IDs.
Action: Achim to further explore.

Changes to the Model

TC continues to triage issues that are filed as both the RDFS, example, and documentation work progresses. TC will discuss TC-60, TC-59, TC-57, set of TC-38, 45, 51, 52, 58. Going for a formally clean model from a UML perspective. The change log is updated.

Triage levels:

1. Fast-track changes with minimal effect on model
2. Higher risk/more work problems - evaluated based on balance between ability to complete for the prototype and the seriousness of the issue.
3. Parked for resolution post-prototype release

Future Meetings

If we hold a DDI-4 sprint before EDDI, would like to have the notice/invitation sent out by the end of April.

TC proposing to DDI Executive Board to re-establish autonomous annual working meeting.

Achim will be in the U.S. beginning April 6th.

Project Management

Attending:
Kelly Chatain, Jared Lyle, Wendy Thomas, Achim Wackerow, Steve McEachern

RDFS Work:

Eric is still looking into the details of the model. He has a first rough representation and also in ShEx.  Will be talking more about this on the next RDFS team call, and then it should be worth it for others to take a look. 

TC will be looking at the issues related to the prototype as filed by priority - then update the issues that will affect the RDFS. General rule - if it is too hard to fix, then it will be parked.

Should be a discussion after the prototype on how to represent the design patterns in another way.

Future work process : more iterative between the model, the bindings, and back.

Action: Kelly to put together invitation for more RDFS people resources. 

Documentation: 

XMI: 

Who owns the XMI? Achim working on the canonical XMI representation and has made some steps forward.
How to consume the XMI in a UML tool? The type of XMI is frozen. The output XMI of Drupal will be transformed to another canonical XMI,
If it can be transformed, then it will be released for the prototype.

Who will be documenting the XMI, how it does or doesn't work with EA. What are you getting out of the XMI. Pull from the XMI tracker as well.

Oliver to help with the transform from existing frozen drupal XMI to the canonical XMI.

Achim has Agents and AgentsRegistry View ready in canonical XMI. Will offer for review in the next couple of days.
If oliver can transform for prototype then he can transform for all of the other packages and views.

Achim also working on the datatypes (XML schema datatypes)

Other:

Dagstuhl workshops will be held earlier in the year , the 14th of September and 1st October.  Achim will have more information within the next four weeks.

Possible work for a pre-EDDI meeting: A looking back on the prototype responses, but then looking forward to next steps, etc.

Attending: Kelly Chatain, Jared Lyle, Wendy Thomas

Prototype Update:

• Modelling team collection documentation in Jira

  Jira Legacy
  server System JIRA columns key,summary,type,created,updated,due,assignee,reporter,priority,status,resolution serverId b62a0bb6-d990-3186-ba9e-0c3828bdee04 key DVG-27

   
• They are working through the other DMT issues for accuracy in the documents. See list on the MT minutes page under 2018-02-14 
• Prototype Project set up in Jira for Kelly to manage
• RDF work progressing, strategy for moving the work forward is out for TC review, mailing list set up, Kelly to add recipients
• Kelly to update list of deliverables on the project management page

Other:

• Future DDI Communication on Prototype – more specifics on the deliverables, maybe in March? Contact Marketing group to craft this message.
• Kelly making arrangements for the pre-NADDI work meeting (conference room equipment, etc.

Attending: Kelly Chatain, Jared Lyle, Wendy Thomas, Achim

• Modelling Team and Prototype Handoff from Modelling to Documentation (Kelly, Wendy)
  • Functional Views to be put forward for the prototype are now in LION with some minor cleaning to do:  http://lion.ddialliance.org/views
  • Modelling Team use case materials are being collected, and will be handed off for documentation group to decide where information belongs (e.g. in the class documentation, high level, etc.)
• Documentation Work Update (Kelly, Wendy)
  • Class description clean-up in LION almost complete
  • Problem with documentation outputs from LION, though builds are working fine - Jon to resolve.
  • Fixing the XMI being exported - this is the 'canonical' XMI issue for import
  • Translate the work that Deirdre and Darren have been doing (Jon, Deirdre?) 
  • Framing the DDI 4 effort within the DDI specification context as a whole, to include 3.3, etc.
  • How to frame what the prototype is, with a production version being farther into the future. 
  • Coherency across documents - resources needed

Action : Kelly to draft invitation for documentation work and send to PMG for review – should go out Feb. 5 or 6

• RDF/OWL Work Update (Achim, Jared)
  • Deliverables for prototype:
    • Suggested as required: PSM, DDI vocabularies for the three functional views in RDF-S/OWL, transform programs from PIM to PSM to RDF-S/OWL syntax, mapping table to other RDF vocabularies.
    • Suggested as optional but very important: documentation of DDI vocabularies, tests (as RDF instances, same content as the XML test instances), program for proving the metadata roundtrip between XML and RDF
  • Options for the transform:
    • PIM (EA-XMI) to PSM (EA-XMI) to RDF-S/OWL syntax
    • PIM (EA-XMI) to PIM (C-XMI) to PSM (C-XMI) to RDF-S/OWL syntax
  • Program languages for transform:
    • Currently XSLT, hard to maintain (doesn’t document itself very well)
    • Alternatives: Javascript, Java

Do we have working transforms at the moment? Yes, written by Thomas Bosch. Need to be updated, but should these xslts be changed to new language?

Action: Comments needed (after recommendation put forth) from the Technical Committee.  

RDF Timeline: When should the vocabularies be available? For Technical Committee to review, should be…1) Eric’s work, the right approach with vocabularies, then 2) What example/cases for xml (from Dagstuhl) could be transformed to RDF, 3) then validation program. What works can then go into the prototype.

• Pre-NADDI and future sprints
  • Will happen – Notice needs to be send asap. Kelly to write and sent to PMG for approval.

DDI4 Project Management Meeting - January 17, 2018

Attending: Kelly Chatain, Wendy Thomas, Jared Lyle, Achim Wackerow

Prototype Work Update - Modelling Team

• Consistency reviews, separating out documentation requirements.
• Identified classes and packages to be included.
• DMT-176 - class documentation needs listed here.
• Fleshing out the use cases - logical data description a focus to determine what it can describe, clarifying names, etc.
• Wendy and Jay working on data transformations and workflows (non-questionnaire work as well)
• Reviews of realizations, orphans, names and types (target, data)
• Oliver writing scripts for validation information, put into build process. Also writing issues for validation against XMI content.
• Working on visually cleaning up the spectator view of LION, hiding some content...
• Views will come out of the use cases.

Working Groups for prototype

• RDF work with Eric P. - Call in the next two weeks to discuss expectations.  When is the cutoff date for including this work in the prototype? End of March is goal.
• Documentation that is RDF specific required for adequate TC review. 

Action: Eric P. meeting and discussion

Documentation

Assembling the group that will do this work:

Jon Johnson
Modellers (to be used as an information resource and/or targeted content only) Wendy, Flavio(?), Jay, Dan G., Oliver, Larry
Marketing representative
Training representative
Sanda I.
Mehmood
Ask Wolfgang for someone on his team to contribute or Wolfgang himself.(Esra)
Guillaume (GSIM Resource)

Action: Kelly to send invite, consult Jon Johnson to see if there is anyone we've missed.

Action: Communicate the protoype plan and status, put out the invitation to join the documentation group.
Kelly to contact Marketing to help draft this.

Pre-NADDI Sprint

Work to be done: Finalize documentation (Invite folks when they join the documentation group) , solidly layout the Technical Committee review plan,  plan out DDI4 for remainder of the year (e.g. drupal to COGS). 
Possible attendees: Wendy, Dan G., Dan Smith, Jeremy,
(Achim in Lawrence, KS from April 6th - working on DDI in R)

Project management needs for DDI 4

• Using Atlassian for project management in addition to the issues
• Tracking the issues on a more granular level including dependencies.
• Keeping track of items that do not make it into the prototype.
• Identifying pieces that are independent of the social science discipline.

Action: Kelly to optimize the tools for use in the above areas. Will receive help from Wendy and Jon to clean up Jira issues. 

Attending: Kelly Chatain, Wendy Thomas, Achim Wackerow, Jared Lyle, Steve McEachern

1. Project Management Update: Project manager to focus on DDI Moving Forward, with other tasks taking secondary priority. To include related action items coming out of Dagstuhl, with care taken to keep focus constrained.
   
   
2. Review prototype Gantt chart
   1. Task plan and organization - Add more to the gantt-style to make sure we have all overlapping tasks and working groups, with deadlines - Kelly will work on this with Wendy. (research gantt-for JIRA or other solutions)
   2. Assignment of resources - Need to think of who we need in terms of validation, documentation, use case development, examples. Send validation doc to group for review
   3. Chur meeting was cancelled due to low confirmation number. Do we need another face-to-face meeting? - Kelly to contact BLS (Dan Gillman_ for possible three-day meeting before NADDI)
   4. If yes, who should be there for which topics? GESIS Cologne might be a possibility for a meeting.
      
      
3. Organization of new AG Group
   1. Roles: Scientific Board Chair to chair the group, Minutes to be taken by the Project Manager, Consult with PM and Wendy to set agenda, etc.
   2. Meeting times: Keep as is, meeting every other week. Next meeting on January 17th.
   3. Name (the intention is to have something more than an advisory group):
      DDI 4 Prototype Release PMG (Project Management Group) We should communicate this name change. (see below)
      
      
4. Communication for prototype
   1. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WvAX7d1LcPGQfrlELCw7oHjp1MWUVglllA1QfwqTtBM/edit: To include the renamed Project Management Group. Send to DDI-SRG (PMG:, etc.), post on website, DDI-Users
   2. https://www.ddialliance.org/sites/default/files/20171130_Executive_Board_minutes.pdf
   3. Jared will send out Monday, Dec. 18th, to users and website
      
      
5. RDF Consultant contract is finalized. Eric is ready to start working. Jared to schedule a call with Eric to discuss general process, the Dagstuhl RDF document, expected work, and the setup of RDF work group (see Dagstuhl week one report). With Kelly.
   1. Potentials for RDF group: Darren, Deirdre, Oliver (TC), Dan Smith (TC), Guillaume

Next Meeting Date: April 25/26, 2018

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