Advisory - Project Management Group

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)

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