Roadmap Review
This discussion carried over from Wednesday. The list below includes items from a) Chris' original roadmap slides, b) Wednesday discussion, and c) Thursday morning discussion:
- Lightweight Interfaces
- SWORD, ORE, WebDAV, AtomPub
- Lowered Barrier to Entry
- Developers: Build and pluggability improvements
- Users: Install and config improvements
- Users: Improved object builders
- Users: Making RDF manipulation/viewing easier (e.g. browse to objects by relationship)
- RDF/Semweb
- Mulgara: MPTStore Resolver
- Mulgara: XA2 Improvements
- Multiple writers
- Design offers better throughput for many small writes (each in transaction)
- RELS-INT
- Indexing other datastreams, with potential of multiple graphs.
- Allowing arbitrary RDF with choice of which model to put it in.
- Storage Improvements
- Akubra (improved pluggability)
- Replication to DuraSpace
- Content Modeling
- ActiveFedora (MediaShelf)
- Enhanced Content Models (Asger)
- Performance
- Contributions from FIZ (Kai)
- Sun Performance Testing w/The Grinder (Dan)
- Security
- FESL (Eddie, MediaShelf, UPEI, others)
- Ingest and Workflow
- Queue Service for supporting workflow (Dan/Rick)
- Possible replacement for DirIngest using above service (Dan/Rick)
- Ingest files, automatically have them wrapped in Fedora objects
- FCREPO-454 (Use of "workflow state" attribute?)
- Survey to community re: Workflow use/needs (Carol)
Module/Plugin Architecture
Review of New Website
Agenda:
9:30-9:45 - Roadmap Review
Dan:
- Finishing out Mellon grant
- Threads: Testing and Queue Service for supporting workflow (e.g. Ingest)
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11:00-11:30 - Documentation + Website discussion
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