ABI CellML meeting minutes 2009-09-09
Present: Dougal Cowan, Andrew Miller, David "Andre" Nickerson, Tommy Yu, James Lawson, Mike Cooling, Justin Marsh.
Apologies: Poul Nielsen, Peter Hunter, Randall Britten, Catherine Lloyd.
Last week's action items:
1) James to put Ely's paper on the publications section of the website.
- Not yet done.
2) Mike to start eliciting feedback from users of PMR2.
- Done.
This week's agenda:
1) CellML namespace page
- James wanted to know if anyone had any suggestions of how to improve the namespace page.
- Andrew suggested looking at W3C for how to format a namespace page.
Action item 1) James to update the tracker item or re-do the namespace page.
2) models.cellml.org integration with cellml.org
- James started a discussion about the issues surrounding the options of keeping models and cellml.org separate, or integrating them.
- Andre said that if they are integrated, they must be completely seamless - for example, all search results should be the same no matter which part of the site you are searching from.
- Andre said that other websites may well want to access PMR2 and display repository information.
- There was a discussion of the pros and cons of each option.
3) CellML Specs - update
- No updates.
4) Metadata specifications
- No updates.
5) OpenCell development update
- Justin has fixed tracker item 1881.
- Justin continues to work on getting OpenCell working on Windows.
- Alan has done a lot of work on getting the trunk merged into his branch, which is problematic due to the SVN to Hg migration, and requires a good deal of manual work.
6) CellML API - update
- Andrew Miller is still working on the API paper, and has been corresponding with Alan about the content of the paper.
- There was a discussion about technology choice justifications.
7) cellml.org update
- James started a discussion about permissions, editing and workflows on the website.
- The website group will be wanting feedback on who is interested in contributing content to which sections of the site.
- Andrew asked what the advantage is to complicating the system; that is, what problems are solved by moving away from the current scenario (where everyone had manager rights).
- There was a discussion about problems caused both by permissions being too loose and too tight.
8) Repository contributions update
- James has been standardizing metadata and keywords.
- James may have up to four summer students doing repository work; there was a discussion about summer students, and whether the repository is in a state to sustain such activities.
- James has been teaching Alys Clark from the lung group about CellML. She has an algebraic model she wants to code up.
9) PMR2 development - update
- Tommy has been moving to a re-implementation of Zope to enable the use of more Hg libraries; he will need to re-write some small bits of PMR2.
- Tommy would eventually like to ditch Plone altogether and use raw Zope3 with a custom presentation layer.