DSpace Architectural Review

Notes from Wednesday, 25 Oct 2006 (JSE)

I. Review of Agenda

1. Workflow
2. ID management and ePeople
2. Authorization & Policy Implementation
3. Other?

II. Workflow

See diagram at []

1. Current Ingest "Workflow"

2. Event Mechanism (Larry Stone, MS, RR)

3. History System

4. Preservation

5. Versioning

6. Issues
what*are the first-class items we're worried about for long-term preservation?

7. Providing hooks and innovations tthat enable experimentation in this area

RECOMMENDATION: Move towards improving some sort of improved history system

8. Discussion of relationship between versioning, events and history system

9. Workflow: There have proposals to RIP OUT DSpace workflow "engine"

10. Workflow: (rob) Opportunity to use flexible worklow system for implementation e.g. preservation workflows, etc.

RECOMMENDATION (ms) Keep "lightweight" system whilst enabling access by other systems via LNI??

11. Identify Management (hj)

RECOMMENDATION: It would be useful to have persistent IDs for ePeople

12. Authorization

RECOMMENDATION: Current conflation isn't working

RECOMMENDATION: For workflows, rely on the AuthZ engines of an adopted Workflow Engine

13. Topics for Thursday and Friday