Orbital has come a long way since the start of the project. Now, with it being the hub of activity around a research project, it makes more sense for the front end to be called the ‘Researcher Dashboard’. Also named because it’s the interface to the researcher.
We have implemented CKAN more fully, with a few users already using its features. The same will soon be the case with the other technologies we are using. What this also means is that we are underway linking them to the Researcher Dashboard so that the centre point of project management can be created. Soon, the project page will have links to any CKAN datasets belonging to it along with the record in the AMS. Importing projects from the AMS is still on the to do list, but will be done once we get AMS access.
Things are coming together development-wise. It’s now a case of sticking things together, rather than building them from scratch. After realising the size of our workload, we managed to finish off a lot of things and hopefully the rest will follow at a similar pace.