Meeting Time
November 3-7, 2008
Meeting Notes
Arrival and Departure Schedule
Bill Branan - Arrive late on Nov 2 (Sunday), leave early on Nov 8 (Saturday).
Eddie Shin - Arrives night of Nov 2, leaves afternoon of Nov 7.
Paul Gearon - Arrives night of Nov 2 (with Eddie), leaves afternoon of Nov 7.
Times You Have to Reserve, Suggested Agenda Times
Monday Morning Arrival and Admin 8-10 AM
Aaron - NSDL Meeting Mon 1-2, Wed 10:30-11:30
Carol - NSDL Meeting Mon 1-2, Tues. p.m., Wed 10:30-11:30
All Hands Meeting - 10-12 Thursday Thursday
Calendar – http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/fedora-commons.org/render
Topics
Process
- Project Structure, Process and Branching
- Testing
- Contributions
- Community Transparency
- Developer Wiki and Resources Redesign
- Outstanding Tracker Item Review (from Oct 28th discussion)
- Topaz transfer to FC and Topaz project leadership
- DuraSpace by DSpace and Fedora; planning grant approved by Mellon; connection to Akubra/Cloud
Implementation
- Replacement for Admin GUI
- Object Builders
- Extension of the FC Object Modeling Language (including SDefs and SMechs)
- RI/Mulgara Plans
- Future of GSearch
- Future of XACML
- Workflow/BPE, Messaging, ESB, Transformations
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- Plone 101 (High-priority)
- REST URIs
- What would it mean to have a writable dissemination?
- Cloud integrations
- Discussion of S3/EC2 Fedora investigation
- Microsoft Azure (Sandy spoke to Lee Dirks last week)
- Google (general; datasets)
- Improvements to current SOAP APIs
- Critical Review of REST API
- Per-object dissemination discovery (which are available for X object?)
- CMA Best Practice: Which dissem(s) considered representations of current object?
- Future of RISearch (outside, inside, query lang support)
- Discovery of services related to "this" repository
- Repository as microkernel (core "disseminations" get built upon)
- Future of the CMA language
- RELS-INT
- Akubra Design
- Topaz integration
- FedoraShare
- Familiarization w/NSDL use case
- DSpace information model
- DSpace summer of Code (it's fall)
- ORE Integration
- Role of CMS
- CMA Share Repository
- Muradora Integration (Invite Chi)
- Cornell Web 2.0 (Invite Dirk Swart)
- Service Ladder
- Fedora as a tool for federation and/or clustering of Fedora
- Fedora in Federation with other repositories
Other Topics
- Conferences
- TBD