====== Community Database Meeting (3/20/2013) ======

**Meeting Time:**  5:30 pm CDT

**Connection Details:**

We will use Big Blue Button.  Instructions below.
  - Go to the following website: http://shemp.physics.smu.edu/physics/index.jsp
  - Enter your name in the box 'Full Name'. This is how your name will be displayed for everyone to see.
  - Select 'Virtual Room - AARM Conference Room' from the pull down session menu.
  - Enter the pswd for the conference.
  - Hit the 'Join' button.

====== Agenda ======

  * Hamilton Scholar Event on March 27 (next Wed.) - Prof. Cooley
  * Update on EXO data import - Matthew
  * Update on ILIAS data import - Ben
  * Update on Poster for LRT - Keith
  * New Task for Keith - Search Function {{:universal_data_base:search_problem.pdf|(details and suggestions)}}

====== Minutes ======

  * Hamilton Scholar event is next week.  Dr. Cooley will contact Phyllis Payne to get poster board.  We will meet in the lab next week at 5 pm for a quick meeting before we go over.  Dress code - suit.
  * Matthew was not able to attend.  However, he sent a report.  He has finished the json documents for the EXO data.  Dr. Loach is checking them.
  * Ben hasn't had time to work on the ILIAS data import.  Ben plans to get back to work on this Friday.  He hasn't run into any major issue yet.  One thing to note is that not all the files are in the same format.  The data seems to fit into 4 different csv files (ie 4 formats).  Ben is writing a bash script for importing the csv files.  Ben wants to know where to upload the data to - should we do it on a local installation and then at some point upload to cloudant.  Email Dr. Loach about how/when to upload to cloudant.  
  * Poster we are waiting for Dr. Loach to get back to us with the outline.
  * There is a new project for Keith which is to fix the search engine.
  * Adam could not attend but sent an email with his updates.  The JSON schema specification has been encoded and in the repository. Instructions in Python on how to use this have been provided. The next step is to implement some javascript to require that any data sent to the database conforms to this schema. The best way to accomplish this, to ensure that absolutely any data sent to the database follows our specification, would be to implement this in the _design doc's 'validate_doc_function'. Cloudant recently implemented support for CommonJS, which means that we can import modules, such as JSV (https://github.com/garycourt/JSV) into the valdate_doc_function and use it to ensure that all docs follow the schema.