Jun 9, 2021

Time/Place

This meeting is held virtually via Zoom, with an open channel for chatter on Slack. Anyone is welcome to join. Here is the info:

• Time: 1:00pm Eastern Time US (UTC-5)
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97345581392
• Join us on the Slack Islandora 8 Channel https://islandora.slack.com/archives/CM5PPAV28

Attendees

• Danny Lamb
• Alan Stanley
• Don Richards
• Mark Jordan ✏️
• Adam Vessey
• Eli Zoller
• Jordan Dukart
• Kristina Spurgin
• Melissa Anez
• Nat Kanthan
• Rosie Le Faive
• Willow Gillingham
• Alexander O'Neill
• Kyle Hunh

Agenda

1. OR
2. Redo: Islandora Defaults refactoring
3. Issue Roundup
   1. No new issues
4. PR Roundup
   1. https://github.com/Islandora/islandora_defaults/pull/52 So can we move on this?
5. Feel free to add agenda items...

(Last 10 Minutes): Roundtable

Notes

1. OR
   • Danny and Mark presented a community update yesterday, Arran represented Islandora at the Rodeo and did a great job.
2. Redo: Islandora Defaults refactoring
   • We need to figure out how to deploy changes to our codebase to existing sites while not hindering innovation.
   • Nate presented work they are doing at UT Scarborogh called "Islandora Lite".
     • Uses some current core Islandora components, and modifies a few more, but relies on more Drupal contrib modules than core Islanodora does. Breaks a lot of current Islandora functionality into their own smaller modules.
       • One major change is the relationship between node and media. This approach inverts Islandora's media->node to Drupal's standard node->media.
       • The advantage of this approach is that it removes a lot of the heavy dependencies that Islandora currently has, at the cost of some advanced functionality.
     • Two things that are not included yet are indexing to Fedora and derivative creation.
     • Some conversation coming out of the demo:
       • We discussed the approach of creating several content types based on metadata schemas (DC, MODS, MARC, etc.) and the pros and cons of updating these content types via update hooks.
     • Plan is to make Github issues for many of the changes Nat is recommending so we can discuss each one of them in detail.
3. Issue Roundup
   1. No new issues
4. PR Roundup
   1. https://github.com/Islandora/islandora_defaults/pull/52 So can we move on this?
   • Yes, but we need to fix Travis.
5. Feel free to add agenda items...