Meeting Notes 20101020 NEMO core meeting - NEMO portal demo and presentation

Agenda

We presented recent work on the [NEMO portal] and demo'ed it as well.

There are two sets of slides since there were two presenters:

Not many notes here, since I was presenting! Roughly:

Infrastructure to support project is up and running, including:
- Git code repository
- Redmine (project management software)
- Yard Documentation
- Capistrano Multistage Deployments
- mod_rails (rails on Apache via Passenger)
- OpenID for single login (signon)
Described mapping from ontology to database, specifically:
- ontology terms => database columns
- ontology terms => choices in a drop down box
Described code that allows us to provide a tooltip to the ontology term for a form element (such as a text field label)
Described Class Table Inheritance implementation for DataFile < Artifact

Dejing suggests that Jason speak with Paea regarding best strategy for data modeling -- specifically, is Class Table Inheritance a good approach?
Dejing suggests looking at Paea's paper on building a database directly from an ontology.
Jason will fix "unoptimized SQL performance problem" bug, then stage to staging.portal.nemo.nic.uoregon.edu, then email core requesting feedback.
Interested parties (including Kurt, Jason, and Gwen, others?) should meet and build a list of features to be completed within 2-3 weeks.