26-4 Data Model + Curation Sprint

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Timeline:

• Running through April 2026 and into May 2026. This sprint should be prioritizing anything deemed critical to include in the RPPR, which will be in preparation in May 2026.

Meetings:

• Kick-off: April 2 at 11:30am PT
• Close-out: April 28 at 11:00am PT

Standing Items:

• Monthly curation
• Data model release(s)?
• Data model documentation
• Data model strategy
• Other documentation Example
• Repository hygiene and maintenance
• Need to re-run CCKP Toolkit? Next run planned for May 2026 to prep for RPPR.

Considerations & Priorities for this sprint:

• Ashley, Orion, Jineta to finalize backlog deep dive + issue annotation for Year 4, Year 5, vs Renewal items

• Wrap up 26-3 Curation via 03+04-26 MC2 Curation Workflow mc2-center-dcc#139

• With above curation, pick up: [Late Q4 2025] Publication curation backlog + mop up #223

• Kick-off 26-4 Curation (ticket TBD)

• Wrap-up RFC Process / Deployment Infrastructure: Remaining Actions #219

• Discuss priority of external download-related work via https://sagebionetworks.jira.com/browse/CPO-1700 . This is close and ideal to have done by the RPPR

• Continue dataset / croissant metadata work in Dataset updates and improvements #207 . Opportunity to engage with Milan and ELITE team on this as well

• Next steps emerging from all team review and feedback on model alignment: [RESEARCH SPIKE] Alignment of MC2 Data Model to other models #217 . In particular, confirm priorities among:
  - [Audit + Update] Attributes, Valid Values, Descriptions #245 (anticipating that this can leverage AI to assist)
  - Import Sage governance + DUO model #243
  - Accomplish the above, then tackle: Curator integration plan mc2-center-dcc#140
  - TBD - CRDC aspects - discussions happening this month

• Next steps on research spike in Data model linkages #205 .

Outages / conflicts (please add):

• Aditya - April 8-14
• Orion - April 17-22 (AACR)
• Ziwei - Apr 10-13, Apr 18-22 (AACR)