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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Comet

Comet: Sprint 4 (June 30 - July 13, 2021)

What was the goal of Sprint 4? To close the loop on FileSets and Collections and to be able to demonstrate those relationships. Configurable metadata was a top priority for this Sprint, and a schema loader was implemented such that a coded metadata config file is readable and configurable based

Starlight

Starlight: Sprint 12 (June 9 - June 29, 2021)

Note: We did not record a formal sprint review because the nature of the work accomplished is not something that translates well to a demo. What was the goal of Sprint 12? Spotlight 3.0 was released upstream earlier this year and the goal of this sprint was to make

Comet

Comet: Sprint 3 (April 28 - May 11, 2021)

What was the goal of Sprint 3? Customizable metadata... * that meets our current needs. * that allows for separate per campus metadata configurations. * that drives how object metadata gets stored and indexed. What is the milestone that this sprint is supporting? We have a barebones UCSB metadata config file that is

Comet

Comet: Sprint 2 (April 14 - April 27, 2021)

What was the goal of Sprint 2? 1. Get staging and production deployments up for Comet. * To be able to do this at both campuses. 2. Configure the object storage backend. * Actual deposited files should go into an S3 compatible object store. 3. Configure user authentication using Google Authentication services.

Comet

Comet: Sprint 1 (Mar 31 – Apr 13, 2021)

What was the goal of Sprint 1? To deploy a full stack and save a “work” in a staging capacity with minimal metadata. We will measure success as: being able to deposit something with a title without the stack throwing an error at us. What is the milestone that this

DevOps

DevOps: Sprint 5 (January 27-February 9, 2021)

Note: We did not record a formal sprint review because the nature of the work accomplished is not something that translates well to a demo. What was the goal of Sprint 5? Sprint 5 was scheduled as a discrete sprint when we were off workcycle. We wanted to get both

End of Workcycle

Fall 2020 End-Of-Workcycle Update (Dec. 17, 2020)

End of workcycle review for all products that were on sprint during the Fall 2020 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

Shoreline

Shoreline: Sprint 20 (Dec. 2-15, 2020)

(This session was not recorded) What was the goal of Sprint 20? For Sprint 20, the following goals were set: * Document the purpose of Shoreline * Make changes to the ingest script based on the modified metadata workflow that uses a CSV and ISO XML * Test CSV to ISO XML script

Shoreline

Shoreline: Sprint 19 (Nov. 12 - Dec. 1)

This session was not recorded. What was the goal of Sprint 19? For Sprint 19, the following goals were set: * Finalize an enhanced, improved metadata workflow methodology that speeds up editing and quality control * Document the purpose of Shoreline * Check how changes to bounding boxes are affected by changes to

Shoreline

Shoreline: Sprint 18 (Oct. 21 - Nov. 10)

This session was not recorded. What was the goal of Sprint 18? For Sprint 18, the following goals were set: * Develop an enhanced, improved metadata workflow that speeds up editing and quality control * Document the purpose of Shoreline * Check how changes to bounding boxes are affected by changes to shapefile

Shoreline

Shoreline: Sprint 17 (October 7-20, 2020)

There was no recording made of this session. What was the goal of Sprint 17? For Sprint 17, the following goals were set: * Get a signal out of GeoServer and Solr to determine status (functioning vs. offline) * Fix the GeoServer stability issue * Determine metadata principles for Shoreline (handling original metadata;

Congratulations Starlight Team!

Information technology staff from UC Santa Barbara Library and UC San Diego Library were recognized at the Virtual UC Tech Conference hosted by UCLA on Aug. 11 with a Golden Sautter Award for their work on Starlight. The annual Sautter Award Program, created by the UC Information Technology Leadership Council

DevOps

DevOps: Sprint 4 (July 29-August 11, 2020)

Note: We did not record a formal sprint review because the nature of the work accomplished is not something that translates well to a demo. What was the goal of Sprint 4? Sprint 4 was the last sprint of the Summer 2020 workcycle. The top priority of this sprint was

Shoreline

Shoreline: Sprint 16 (July 29 - August 11, 2020)

What was the goal of Sprint 16? For Sprint 16, the following goals were set: * Finalize short-term workflow for ingesting data into UCSB and UCSD Geodata * Determine the look and feel of UCSB Geodata * Add rights metadata field to Geodata interface * Determine stakeholder priorities for next development cycle * Add QA/

DevOps

DevOps: Sprint 3 (July 15-28, 2020)

Note: We did not record a formal sprint review because the nature of the work accomplished is not something that translates well to a demo. What was the goal of Sprint 3? The goals of sprint 3 were to finish consolidating the duplicate shell scripts and the Starlight deploy pipelines,

Shoreline

Shoreline: Sprint 15 (July 15-28, 2020)

What was the goal of Sprint 15? For Sprint 15, the following goals were set: * Continue meetings with stakeholders to update them on the progress of Shoreline and to hear their thoughts about new features; * Review input from stakeholders at both campuses; * Diagram workflows at CU Boulder and Cornell following

DevOps

DevOps: Sprint 2 (July 1-14, 2020)

Note: We did not record a formal sprint review because the nature of the work accomplished is not something that translates well to a demo. What was the goal of Sprint 2? There wasn’t really a specific goal for this sprint outside of working through the outstanding DevOps issues

Shoreline

Shoreline: Sprint 14 (July 1-14, 2020)

What was the goal of Sprint 14? The goals of this sprint include: * Meet with stakeholders to update them on the progress of Shoreline and to hear their thoughts about new features * Speak with other institutions about their ingest workflows * Diagram workflows at CU Boulder and Cornell following meetings with