Present: Amit, Bill, Frian, John N. Phil, Sara, Steve, Tim

We discussed the document on Agenda Items for DataAnalytics and agreed that it largely captures the items requiring further discussion. Amit requested that the question of how to describe collections in MONK be added to the agenda, and we agreed to pursue this in a separate workgroup/conference call invovling Amit, Brian, Martin, and Tim.

Ther hackfest is ready to go and does not need particular new data or instructions.

John Norstad's work on Prior is proceeding. He expects to have a workable version by late February, and needs no particular inputs from others at this time.

We discussed the reworking of Abbot into a more robust application in which the Duck tape of shell scripts would be replaced by JBPM. The discussion included the possible role of Fedora in this project Bill warned that Fedora did not solve any workflow problems, and that the critical aspects of the Abbot would have to be thought through independently, whether or not Fedora would be used.

As work on the Abbot progresses, it is becoming apparent that the outputs of different stages serve not merely as inputs for a MONK data store but may have other uses. This is the case with a TEI-A file prior to or after linguistic annotation. Maintaining the outputs of several Abbot stages as independent products with a range of possible uses will be an important priority.