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Aaron - any
Andrew - recent experiments w/clover, derby status
Bill - admin ui work, related rest api updates, testing discussion w/sun
Chris - recent bugfixes, dev8d update
On Friday, gave talk on Fedora basics and upcoming
features/interesting stuff. Pointed to wiki (now publicly visible) to orient new
developers/committers: http://fedora-commons.org/go/fcrepo With the
new website, this is where the link for "Fedora Developers" or similar
will go.
Asger Blekinge-Rasmussen (State and University Library of Denmark) gave a
presentation on his Enhanced Content Model work:
http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/SICn and it looks very
promising. They have also developed an interesting web-based object
builder tool (they contracted out to do the work, but will be making
it available via Apache2). Want to help as much as possible on
getting the community's eyes on this and getting their feedback. We
discussed the possibility of bundling this somehow, or making a link
to it prominent on a future Fedora release as a means to get more eyes
on it. It probably won't be ready for any kind of bundling in time
for Fedora 3.2 (early spring), but likely sometime after OR'09. Still
more discussions to come on this. To aid in his development, Asger
has also written an improved set of documents on API-A and API-M and
is now helping to port it over to our site so others can benefit.
Matt Zumwalt gave a demo of MediaShelf's ActiveFedora. This is
similar to Ruby's ActiveRecord concept, and the basic idea is that it
makes working with Fedora objects very easy for Ruby developers. The
model of what you're working on is specified in ruby code, and the
idea is that it could be (but isn't currently) persisted in a Fedora
content model object as a description. Matt has also had some
discussion with Ben O'Steen who is doing a similar thing, but with
Python (possibly using JSon as the format in which to describe the
model?). They had been thinking that it may be possible to converge
on a single format (rather than making it Ruby-only or Python-only)
and will be investigating this more. There was also some good
discussion on the differences between the ActiveFedora approach and
Asger's work. It was noted that they came at it from very different
angles; Asger thinking more about adaptability and use in many
contexts, and MediaShelf thinking more about ease-of-use when putting
together UIs quickly. Matt is also hoping to have a "Fedora-backed
Application in 15 minutes" demo for OR'09.
Recent bugfixes:
Eddie - word+sword/dev8d update, mulgara lib update
Gert - any
Kai - any