As the DiSSCo Transition Project (DTP) is in full swing, the DiSSCo Development team will be giving regularly updates on the progress. This progress will mainly focus on Task 3.1 – Further develop the piloted Digital Specimen Architecture (DSarch) into a minimum valuable product. However, as the development team is also involved on other tasks within DTP, as well as other projects such as BiCIKL and TETTRIs, we will also include updates on our work there.
In this first session, we gave a live demo on what the team has been developing in the last couple of months. After the demo, we had a short look at the roadmap and there was room for discussion. The group for this first session was relatively small, we would like to include a broader audience in the future.
The following topics were presented in the demo:
— JSON schema’s exposed through https://schemas.dissco.tech/
— New version of openDS and annotations deployed on https://sandbox.dissco.tech/
— Deeper dive into Machine Annotation Service
— Introduction of Machine Job Records
— Development of generic taxonomic name resolution service, based on ChecklistBank data and GBIF matching algorithm
— New icons for topicDiciplines and specimen
— Discussions and new path forward with minting of DOIs with DataCite
— TETTRIs marketplace mock-ups
— A plan for a CETAF/DiSSCo Collection Registry
Looking forward to our next demo, which is now scheduled on the 24th of April, we hope to show the following topics:
— Mint DOIs with DataCite
— Integrate taxonomic name resolution service in ingestion process
— Batch annotation for Machine Annotation Service v1
— Landing pages for Source Systems, Mappings and Machine Annotation Services
— New filter options, especially for searches on taxonomy
— Scheduling and automatic triggering of translator services based on cron
— Update MIDS calculation to the latest version
— Virtual Collections (stored searches, mutable)
— Infrastructural upgrades
— Centralised logging and monitoring solution
— Automated auto-scaling of EC2 instances (Karpeter)
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