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The aim of this meeting was to discuss last week's Columbia and Cornell meetings with IT and internal meetings concerning our individual projects (including IT) andto continue discussion of a 2CUL component of the Linked Data for production (LD4P) grant. Cornell met as the LTS Linked Data Steering Group and Columbia met with Stephen Davis. Both meetings produced questions and concerns about technology requirements and use cases. The meetings surfaced basic questions about the goals of LD4P and defining the need/role of shared cloud space and local infrastructureinfrastructure. Questions also came up concerning the degree to which LD4P would could be naturally folded into LD4L obviating the need for a second Mellon grant and the feasibility of Columbia contributing as part of 2CUL without its own local infrastructure.
What our contributions can be in an LD4P grant are also becoming more unclear as Stanford Mellon seems less inclined to pursue approve sub-grants. It is not clear that contributing our rather specialized data to a shared cloud space would be a grant-worthy contribution.
The Administrative Team decided that it is unable to articulate a 2CUL role in LD4P without a better understanding of Stanford's thinking, especially in regard to a shared cloud space and why both a cloud and local space is necessaryare necessary. It does not seem possible to make a decision to move forward without bringing IT staff from Columbia, Cornell and Stanford together in a virtual meeting before the May deadline. The goals of such a meeting would be:
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