July 2014 - ALA-Portal - lists.gbif.org

permission to push wiki
by Santiago Martinez de la Riva 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Hi Dave, Could you give me permissions in the wiki of Github?. I'm going to add more information about i18n. My user: santiagomtzdelariva Kind regards. SaMa. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Santiago Martínez de la Riva GBIF.ES, Unidad de Coordinación Tel. +34 91 4203017 x 273 Real Jardín Botánico - CSIC Fax +34 91 429 2405 Plaza de Murillo, 2 sama(a)gbif.es 28014 Madrid, Spain www.gbif.es

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Putting images in the documentation
by Burke Chih-Jen Ko [GBIF] 25 Jul '14

25 Jul '14

Hi all, Just a note here for those who need to put an image to the wiki page. From the web interface, for now we can only add an image via an URL, but in most cases we want to include the image in the wiki repo. To do this, you need to interact with the documentation.wiki.git repo[1] using git. And to be able to push changes later you'll need permission. So the first step is to express your interest by announcing your github account to the list. Then after you clone the git repo, you will see an 'img' directory inside, where we store all documentation images. Put your image inside the directory. Assuming the image name is solr-index-backup.png, adding the following line in markdown will render the image on the web page: ![Add Solr core](/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/documentation/wiki/img/solr-index-backup.png) You can then view this page as an example: https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/documentation/wiki/System-adminis… The text in the square bracket will be used for the 'alt' attribute in the html of the image. Hope it helps, Burke [1] https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/documentation.wiki.git

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Permission to push
by Arturo Vargas 24 Jul '14

24 Jul '14

Hi all I'm preparing some documentation that I would include in the wiki https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/documentation github user: turoart ...besides, I want to encourage others to participate using the tools and sharing your experience Pura vida! -- <https://www.inbio.ac.cr/donaciones/> <https://www.facebook.com/inbio> <https://twitter.com/inbiocr> <http://www.youtube.com/crinbio> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/inbio>

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Red Hat installations with Ansible
by Tim Robertson [GBIF] 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Hi all, During the workshop currently ongoing in Australia, some people have asked about operating system support and have had varying levels of success with using Red Hat based systems. The level of success appears to relate to the version of Ansible people use, and I believe there is a bug (or deliberate change) in Ansible 1.6.6 (not in 1.5.x) that stopped things working with an error “repository $datastax is not found”. With this commit [1] (today) the script will now run on a vanilla CentOS 6.5 installation and using Ansible version 1.6.6 and Ansible 1.5.5. Please update (git pull) and retry if you are seeing this issue. Regarding operating system selection: The ALA folks run on Ubuntu and that is the ALA supported version. Realistically other system support will have to be done by the community of adopters, which should not be difficult, but will require some basic Ansible knowledge. Thanks, Tim [1] https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ala-install/commit/1366d104bda867…

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Documentation project established
by Burke Chih-Jen Ko [GBIF] 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Hi all, For documentation of the ALA project, we have created a repository and established initial documentation structure here: https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/documentation If you find any errors in the docs or have any suggestions, please file them as issues. This also means the confluence wiki we used previously is now deprecated. You are very welcome to contribute to the documentation directly. Please just let us know! Thanks, Burke

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Ala-install GitHub moved
by Tim Robertson [GBIF] 22 Jul '14

22 Jul '14

Hi all, We have moved the ala-install project to the ALA github project which is: https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ala-install It no longer exists in the GBIF GitHub, and this is because it is primarily maintained by the ALA folks now. Thanks, Tim

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slides from today
by David.Martin＠csiro.au 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

Hello Here are the slides I presented today: http://bit.ly/canberra-workshop-july2014-architecture<https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nt5_4cynNHVcfYiuZ2rS0Dj5LWOKxr9RZ7y…> Thanks Dave Martin ALA

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Canberra Workshop Schedule
by David.Martin＠csiro.au 14 Jul '14

14 Jul '14

Hello all, Here is a schedule for the workshop next week (21st-25th July 2014): http://goo.gl/mNvdoK As you will see we have structured the first 2.5 days. We are leaving the remainder of the time for hands-on installation and customisation of tools for your own regional portal. We can also arrange breakout sessions for specific topics of interest. We will identify these areas of interest at the start of the week. We plan to use EC2 instances for the workshop to provide users with an environment they can run Ansible scripts against. Ansible is only supported on Linux or Mac OSX. For this reason please bring a Linux or Mac OSX laptop if possible. For Windows users, please bring a laptop with VirtualBox installed. If you can, its also advisable to install Ansible [2] and Vagrant [3] before you get here. We have migrated nearly all of the ALA projects to GitHub [4]. For those without GitHub accounts, it is probably worth creating one and gaining some familiarity with Git and Github. Looking forward to meeting you all, Thanks Dave Martin ALA [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads [2] http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html [3] http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html [4] https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia

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Terminology and their relationship
by Burke Chih-Jen Ko [GBIF] 09 Jul '14

09 Jul '14

Hi Martin, (I guess this question should be addressed to you, but others are very welcome to comment.) I am clicking around the "metadata management" section and wondering about how these units, i.e. institution, data hub, data provider, collection and resource, are related to each other. I believe having a picture of the collection management model here would be helpful for those who want to adopt ALA portal for their data management workflow. So far I can see: 1) Within data provider, one can create a data resource. The data provider and add collections or institutions as "record consumer"; 2) Within data resource, one can add collections or institutions as "record consumer"; 3) Within institution, one can create a collection and also go to data resource to add the institution itself as "record consumer"; 4) Within collection, one can go to data resource to add the collection itself as "record consumer"; 5) However, when creating a data hub, it's not clear how a data hub is associated with other units. Semantically it sounds like a super unit for data providers. But I am not sure and please correct me. Here a graphic in omnigraffle and pdf format is attached: OmniGraffle: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhc3ha089mgxpih/Collectory%20relationship.graffle PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ul95nwojl3nxkkw/Collectory%20relationship.pdf In the graph, only resource is drawn in solid line because I consider that's where the actual data resource and it links to the processing in the occurrence store (biocache). Is the graph looked right to you? Having correct understanding of the model will be helpful for me to explain the what's happening among those technical components. Please feel free to tweak it. Many thanks, Burke

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