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- There will be support in the spec for extensions (generally speaking) at the ocfl-object level
- Proposal right now is that there'd be a directory (maybe called "extensions") whereby OCFL extensions can define a subdirectory to put stuff in, functioning as a sort of namespace. All content under the "extensions" subdir must be in a subdirectory defined by some extension.
- Peter Winckles started a draft proposal for a mutable head extensions
- Mutable head was brought up at the leaders meeting, holding a vote right now (through tomorrow, Nov 1) for approval.
- Folks seem to be aligning around the mutable head direction
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- PW doesn't think it'll be that challenging to implement. Not very far into it yet.
- Peter Winckles started a draft proposal for a mutable head extensions
- Seems fairly robust, helped mitigate risk
- A fair number of changes were made 10/30, now would be a great time to re-read it.
Updates, Persistence API:
- Key thing to be aligned on going into the sprint
Actions
- Aaron Birkland to look explore notion of OCFL client with database as authoritative metadata source + asynchronous writing of the inventory.json file
- David Wilcox will review the NDSA matrix and pull out the concrete technical requirements that could be considered during the Fedora 6 development.
- Call for comments on https://docs.google.com/document/d/18rSFqqoxixmozZrgPKON59Ojpg5iOu4lsHDNMm23soY/edit# till tuesday
- Clarify in in documentation that multiple simultaneous writes to OCFL are not supported
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