260220 SPARC OS Ops Agenda

Date

Feb 20, 2026

11:00 am EST

Participants

Releases

• SPARCFulfillment v.3.7.0 - Ruby/Rails Upgrade Winter 2026

  • Members can view currently planned stories on SPARCFulfillment Dashboard

• RMID v1.9.0 - Spring 2026

• SPARCFulfillment v.3.8.0 - Summer 2026

  • Members can view currently planned stories on SPARC Fulfillment v3.8.0 stories

• SPARCRequest v3.15.0 - Fall 2026

  • Members can view currently planned stories on SPARC OS Dashboard

Update

• For review stories - list will go out next month.

  • Members can view them on SPARCOS Dashboard and SPARCFulfillment Dashboard

2025 Yearly Summary

Link to the Executive Summary in the Wiki: Link

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Across all three systems, teams collectively completed 52 development stories and deployed five production releases, strengthening operational efficiency, data accuracy, and service delivery.

• Project Management

  • We migrated from Pivotal Tracker (PT) to Jira due to PT shutting down in April 2025

• SPARCRequest

  • Release 3.13.0: 13 stories (May 22, 2025)

    • Upgrading the Ruby/Rails Code to 3.3.1/7.0.8.1 and integrating Docker containerization

    • LACaTS contributed code for 3 stories

  • Release 3.14.0: 15 stories (Dec 19, 2025)

    • Introduced Administrative Services (OHSU request), expanded Dashboard search and SPARC Protocols reports criteria and converted development requests automated testing to the GitHub platform

• SPARCFulfillment

  • Release 3.6.0: 13 stories (Mar 25, 2025)

  • Release 3.6.1: 1 story (Apr 30, 2025)

  • These updates improved service tracking, operational workflows, and reliability for research support teams.

• RMID

  • Release 1.8.0: 10 stories (May 30, 2025)

    • These updates focused on improving external system linkages with the RMID website (eIRB), nightly data-validation jobs and search functionality for project identification.

• Open-Source Partnership & Expanding National Presence

  • Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) Translational Science 2025 Scientific Sessions

    • Several partners participated in a panel discussing SPARC collaboration and how its use cases among sites for data exchange and operations

  • Institutional Interest

    • 5 institutions reached out with interest in onboarding SPARC - the University of Florida, University of Southern California, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Indiana CTSI, and University of Oklahoma Health Sciences CTSI

Institutional Updates

• Case ~

• Children’s National ~

• Iowa ~

• OHSU ~

• LA CaTS ~ Working on Grant Renewal

• Stony Brook ~

• Morehouse ~

• MUSC ~

• UF ~ Gathering information about how the CRC works and how we will be setting up cores and services within SPARC Catalog