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Results of the 2023 Prioritization Exercise - The Higher Priorities

The following are the results of the prioritization exercise on January 18th, 2023. We drew a line about halfway down the list and determined that priorities that were above this line were the higher priorities and the ones below the line were lower priorities. That didn't mean that the lower
Feb 22, 2023 4 min read

Prioritization Exercise for 2023

This year, we formalized setting our priorities for the coming year through a "prioritization exercise." On Wednesday, January 18 from 9-11am, we completed a prioritization exercise called 20/20 Vision. An explanation of the exercise can be found at Gamestorming. Step 1 For each Surfliner product we asked the Tech
Feb 22, 2023 2 min read
Comet

Comet Sprint 20 (December 2 - December 20, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 20? The goal of this Sprint was to continue work on batch ingest and export, and tying in ingest through Comet into the geospatial platform, Shoreline. Accomplishments of Sprint 20: * Updated the GBL1.0 to Aardvark JSON converter to meet Shoreline needs * Produced a
Dec 21, 2022 1 min read
Comet

Comet Sprint 19 (November 16 - November 29, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 19? The goal for the overall work cycle is to shore up batch work for ingest and extend it to get batch round trip working so that you can do an export of batch metadata in some format, make changes in the exported format
Dec 9, 2022 2 min read
Comet

Comet Sprint 18 (November 3 - November 15, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 18? The goal for this Sprint (for the overall work cycle) is to shore up batch work for ingest and extend it to get batch round trip working so that you can do an export of batch metadata in some format, make changes in
Nov 17, 2022 1 min read

Summer 2022 End-of-Workcycle Update for Stakeholders (September 7, 2022)

End of workcycle review for all products that were on sprint during the Summer 2022 workcycle. For each product we will answer the following questions and give a high-level stakeholder-focused demo. 1. What was the goal of the workcycle? 2. What were the accomplishments of the workcycle? 3. Did we
Sep 7, 2022
Comet

Comet Sprint 17 (August 3 - August 16, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 17? * Pushing collections to the OAI endpoint (tidewater) and making the set harvestable from OAI * IIIF Image Server (Cantaloupe) wired into staging and production environments for each campus * Workflow-driven “publish” from Comet to the Shoreline geodata platform What is the milestone that this sprint
Aug 18, 2022 2 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 16 (July 20, 2022 –August 2, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 16? * Editing and adding descriptive and other user defined metadata for existing objects * Running workflow and event triggered work (characterization, access derivatives) * Assigning permanent identifiers (primarily interested in the short term in ARKs as canonical IDs) * Publishing that content to a public access platform
Aug 9, 2022 1 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 15 (July 6, 2022 - July 19, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 15? * Adding/editing descriptive and other user defined metadata * Running workflow and event triggered work (characterization) * Assigning permanent identifiers (ARKs) * Publishing to a public access platform (OAI, IIIF, Shoreline) What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? To have a robust publish lifecycle
Jul 21, 2022 1 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 14 (June 22, 2022 - July 6, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 14? * Uploading content singularly and in batch * Editing and adding descriptive and other user defined metadata for existing objects * Running workflow and event triggered work (characterization, access derivatives) * Assigning permanent identifiers (primarily interested in the short term in ARKs as canonical IDs) * Publishing that
Jul 15, 2022 1 min read
Sprint Review

Starlight: Sprint 13 (April 13- 26, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 13? The Surfliner team has been experimenting with regular dedicated off-cycle sprints to focus on maintenance, upgrades, and new features for in-production products such as Starlight (in production since 2019). The goals of Sprint 13 were a combination of all of these things. A
Apr 26, 2022 2 min read
End of Workcycle

Winter 2022 End-of-Workcycle Update for Stakeholders

End of workcycle review for all products that were on sprint during the Winter 2022 workcycle. For each product we will answer the following questions and give a high-level stakeholder-focused demo. 1. What was the goal of the workcycle? 2. What were the accomplishments of the workcycle? 3. Did we
Apr 6, 2022
Shoreline

Shoreline: Sprint 24 (March 2-15, 2022)

(This session was not recorded) What was the goal of Sprint 24? For Sprint 24, the following goals were set: * Determine the formatting of the URL in the CSV to support downloads of original datasets * Continue getting UCLA up to speed on Surfliner devops work * Update Geoserver to 2.19.
Mar 31, 2022 1 min read
Shoreline

Shoreline: Sprint 23 (Feb. 16-Mar. 1, 2022)

(This session was not recorded) What was the goal of Sprint 23? For Sprint 23, the following goals were set: * Research the mechanism for supporting downloads of original datasets * Research the mechanism for supporting the ingest of GeoTIFFs * Provide support for external/standalone Solr instances * Get UCLA up to speed
Mar 31, 2022 1 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 13 (March 2, 2022 – March 15, 2022)

Note: This session was not recorded What was the goal of Sprint 13? * Documentation of work done already in the work cycle. Leave things in as clean a state as possible before we break for several months * Set up meetings to address key questions and concerns before we break * Complete
Mar 18, 2022 2 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 12 (February 16, 2022 – February 28, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 12? Continuation of work for Comet API and MQ What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Deployment of Tidewater in staging and production environments and showing that data can be consumed with a consumer script Accomplishments of Sprint 12: Comet: * Can generate
Mar 18, 2022 1 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 11 (February 2, 2022 – February 15, 2022)

Note: This session was not recorded What was the goal of Sprint 11? Comet API and MQ What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Implementing Comet’s metadata API and integrating with a message broker (RabbitMQ). Accomplishments of Sprint 11: * Schema loader support that is not dependent on
Feb 23, 2022 1 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 10 (January 19, 2022 – February 1, 2022)

What was the goal of Sprint 10? * Discovery via OAI-PMH (Comet → OAI). What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Laying the groundwork for discovery for the publishing of Comet objects into any number of discovery platforms using the OAI-PMH protocol. Accomplishments of Sprint 10: * Set up an initial
Feb 9, 2022 1 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 9 (October 13, 2021 – October 26, 2021)

Note: This session was not recorded What was the goal of Sprint 9? To wrap up the collection processes that are close to being done as well as to wrap up the batch upload process which is the most critical focus at this point for UCSB. The Comet Feature List
Nov 17, 2021 1 min read
End of Workcycle

Fall 2021 End-of-Workcycle Update for Stakeholders (November 16, 2021)

End of workcycle review for all products that were on sprint during the Fall 2021 workcycle. For each product we will answer the following questions and give a high-level stakeholder-focused demo. 1. What was the goal of the workcycle? 2. What were the accomplishments of the workcycle? 3. Did we
Nov 16, 2021
Comet

Comet: Sprint 8 (September 29 - October 12, 2021)

What was the goal of Sprint 8? * Support for collections processes * Batch upload * Finalize the Comet Feature List document What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? The focus was the continued work on the support for collections processes, (which is an MVP item for us), as well as
Oct 14, 2021 1 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 7 (September 14 - September 28, 2021)

What was the goal of Sprint 7? Tying off loose ends on collections support and the default workflow as well as getting started on the batch ingest UI. What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? We finally have the default workflow completely working. We can now push Objects
Oct 1, 2021 2 min read
Comet

Comet: Sprint 6 (September 1 - September 14, 2021)

What was the goal of Sprint 6? * Continuing work for Collections support * Tying up loose ends for work on file download and the default workflow * Subject matter specialists (SMEs) prep for batch workflow What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Getting started on batch ingest work and getting
Sep 22, 2021 1 min read
End of Workcycle

Spring 2021 End-Of-Workcycle Update (Aug. 24, 2021)

End of workcycle review for all products that were on sprint during the Spring 2021 workcycle. For each product we will answer the following questions and give a high-level stakeholder-focused demo. 1. What was the goal of the workcycle? 2. What were the accomplishments of the workcycle? 3. Did we
Aug 25, 2021
Comet

Comet: Sprint 5 (July 14 - July 27, 2021)

What was the goal of Sprint 5? Workflows, support for collections, EZID minting configuration for UCSD, file download. What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? Getting workflows into the code base so that we can iterate on it, and as a first step, moving individual objects through a
Aug 10, 2021 1 min read
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