Attendees

• Andrew
• Bill
• Brad
• Chris
• Dan
• Jonathan

Minutes

1. Draft functional requirements (inserted below)
2. Box.net development APIs

DTR Functional Requirements

• Signup** Register for DTR Account
  • Use my institution provided account (Internet model?)
• Data Management Plans** Provide boilerplate to specify DTR as part of plan
  • Pull settings from my DMP from [DSPINT:insert links to projects that help creation of DMPs, such as the UK dmponline and the CDL effort]
  • Interface for office of Research / university policy people? (JHU model)*** bootstrap configuration / initialize account
    • review compliance (later)
    • ...
• Data Modeling / Organization  (N.B. all of these should be optional!)** Import the Smithsonian / Thorny model
  • Specify my automatic metadata capture rules
  • Select existing data models / schemas that I want to use (by discipline?)
  • Specify my access rights and policies*** What to encrypt (for storage)
    • How are my keys managed
  • Specify data lifetimes
• Daily use** (silently save everything for me and index it too, and feed my cat)*** Security of scraping and transit mechanisms - encrypt?
  • • Provenance (who, when, what)
    • What:  context (software used, formats, tools, policies, etc) and data
  • Capture the Lab Notebook if possible
  • Create a view / exhibit (deploy a site with a dataset)
  • Create a citation (and its target view if needed)
  • Specify / adjust data lifetimes
  • Extract data set
  • Search / browse / locate data set or data item (private and/or public; E.G. desktop search)
  • Augment metadata post-ingest
  • Transfer data to curator
  • Run visualizer or transformation on data set
  • Import / Export to VREs, other adjacent systems.
• Curator / Archivist views** Receive data transfer from researcher
  • Put it in a box in the basement

Action Items