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Scott - The technological side is missing from the environmental scan. I talk to storage and development people. I hear a lot about complexity and no one wants to be first and performance issues and configuration. List serve traffics is lots of messages about 'I'm one person and I need to stand this up fast.' Another motivation for us is an old product and unsupported software.
David - this grant will help us validate the reasons and get the data we need to support other related projects. We want to know what the best return on investment will be. We might have a lot of surprising information in this grant.
Mark - we migrated from CONTENTdm to Islandora 3 years ago. 1.3 million objects. We created the Move to Islandora Kit. Lots of metadata profiles. We will lose people if the migration isn't reliable. The process is driven by Drupal tooling not Fedora tooling. It's a different route. Anxiety in the Islandora community around Fedora 3 to the new models in Fedroa 4 - the way MODS or any XML metadata to RDF. We have an active metadata interest group. The data model in Fedora 3 - people are used to it and comfortable with it. It's ike an email with attachments. People can't see how that will translate to Fedora 4. Echoing the software is easy and people are hard. Communications piece here. Do people think about the Fedora. What do people know about versions and difference between. Categorizations.Prepare people to migrate every 3-5 years. How will that impact decision making?
What about service providers? Do we need those?
Tim - I could look at our file system and recreate it. There's comfort in that.
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Tim - as we started looking at going to Fedora 4-5 one of our staff Ben Pennell did some testing to find ways to reduce the number of triples. There are ways to bring those down but there are trade offs.
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