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On June 10, 2008, DSpace and Fedora representatives met to discuss possible collaborations.
From Fedora: Sandy Payette, Dan Davis, Chris Wilper, Thorny Staples
From DSpace: Michele Kimpton, Richard Rogers, John Erickson, Robert Tansley, Bradley McLean
The meeting was skypecast, and most of the meeting was recorded.
Morning: Familiarization on both platforms
Richard Rodgers presented Make DSpace more modular. Inflow of code and patches not well supported.
New information model which can handle improved structure
Flexible workflow
Maven being used to build now.
Based on recommendations from over a year ago.
Decentralized development but it is hard to take on more complex, larger tasks without centralized help. Example is major change to information model and supporting core code.
Committer driven process but is a lot of work including documentation and testing.
When no organization started brought together a core team to coordinate some of the major modifications using community to do coding. To complete in Feb-Mar timeframe.
Formed Fedora Commons about a year ago to provide a home for Fedora and collaborations
Initial Roadmap published and uses an Eclipse like approach. From key contributors and project architects and conferences outputs.
Must get repositories behind what is actually going on and must support where the Web at large is going. And improved storage approaches.
Themes: Interface with the Web much better (e.g. new REST API; Sword API). Ways to provide easier update as Solution Bundles. Collaborate with DSpace, ATOM, OAI-ORE are examples of how to provide better defined service interfaces. Better plug-in architecture for core Repository Service (e.g., Spring)
Integration with distributed services Web, Web Services.
Workflows, service orchestrations. Difficult but want to find low complexity approach which is good enough outside the Repository.
Introduction of Content Models to aid in usability/creation of objects.
5 Employee Committers, addional 10 Committers, 10-15 Contributers.
Thorny Staples forming Solution Councils to create Solution Bundles.
Seed Question: Why are people excited about collaboration?
Thorny - Conceptual semantics. Getting our assumptions together. Explicitly state assumptions. Shared idea about content models and use cases. Collective wisdom.
Sandy - Look forward to where the world is going. Anticipate the future directions that form our place in the new world. What is our role?
Richard - Mission Statement.
Sandy, Thorny - More of a conceptual framework. Sustain the use of data.
Sandy - Not low hanging fruit more ongoing process.
Brad - Practical on the ground services needed now. But support where world needs more than one model.
Thorny - For now, just a first cut conceptualization.
Sandy - Can we do some common services which both communities can use. Especially for exchange.
Brad - Service and protocols implementation could serve as a model for customizations.
Peter Murray - Consider focusing on Web (e.g. REST) API instead of Web Service (SOAP) implementations. Maybe not Sword. \[I'm pretty sure I didn't say this. I'm definitely sure I didn't mean to say it. [Peter Murray|Peter Murray] 23:09, 22 June 2008 (EDT) \] |
John - Protocols too low, need to be problem focused. Solve needs for real users who cannot accomplish what they want to do. Look for users with both Fedora and DSpace. Steward Lewis. Uncover problems and solutions.
Thorny - Workflows may be a good place to understand needs. Hull worked with BPEL and has added People extensions.
John - Imperial College integration with Enterprise IS is example.
Sandy - Submission workflow is a common example.
Dan - Also very light web, Web orchestration solutions for distributed organization often virtual organizations.
Sandy - Big ingest.
Brad - Workflows to move between repositories, into repositories.
Thorny - We need to the services to do the steps and we share them in common. This is an obvious low hanging fruit.
Richard - Exposing repository to Workflow not embed.
Thorny - But it needs to be coherent and have good integrations.
Michelle - What about Manakin on Fedora?
Thorny - It would fit the solution bundle approach.
Sandy - Synopsis of Google+Summer+of+Code
Rich - It is ambitious, but can be scoped to be doable in 8 week timeframe. Basic goal is provide a DSpace interface on top of Fedora backend.
Brad - look really hard at the ingest process; where are commonalities
John - New DAO+layer has been added to DSpace which may provide an interface layer.
Rich - Push data and metadata pushed to Fedora instead may be more practical.
Sandy - Think about collections too to show the graph.
John - The work should be done incrementally.
General thinking it is good to store relationships particularly collections.
Rich - High value for consciousness is DSpace over Fedora (or vice versa). Look at both roadmaps. Workflow looks good. OAI-ORE. Storage. SWORD. Atom expression of Sword deposit.
John - Policy. Binding policies to objects, workflows, services. New to users but needed. No model on how to do management in an efficient way. Need stakeholder community to drive the needs for this. Will be hard. Can start now but is a long term project.
Sandy - Look at Mulgara, McQuarie University, Chi Nguyen. In middleware, outside repository.
John - Federation. Loosely couple autonomous repositories. Virtual subject collection.
Sandy - Demand has not been well described. Except Search.
Rich - Replication networks.
John - Transformations.
Peter Murray (Skype) - Dark Archives
Dan - Can be addressed incrementally, positioning versus Cloud.
Rich, Chris - Storage to pass more than just blobs.
John - What about XAM.
Sandy - When will XAM be done.
John - There is a debate who will do XAM, vendors or open source. Vendors want not do dumb down storage.
John - we can aim for a repository storage model that maps well to XAM storage model.
Dan - What about support for Hierarchical storage.
Rob - Common event notification. Enterprise event queue.
Michelle - JSR 170?
Sandy - Levels get increasingly harded.
Chris - Xpath part is hard.
John - JBoss DNA new definition of Federation based on supergraph model.
Chris - Sharing of content models. Community registry of content models.
Sandy - How to introspect on ORE.
Dan - Common requirements for components, services, suggestions to funders, registry of availability, download support location.
John - Semantic interoperability.
Sandy - Digest the ideas. What are the next steps.
Michelle - Must be transparent and communicated broadly.
Rob - I missed his statement.
Brad - Google SOC. Ingest process.
Sandy - A roadmap of the collaboration.
John - would like to see an overlay of timelines in terms of roadmaps; analyze roadmaps; come up with a roadmap for the collaboration. Look at near term plans and see what seem to shake to top; also put the options out to the community.
Sandy - We can offer a confluence/Jira space for DSpace and Fedora Collaboration provided by Fedora Commons infrastructure
Action Item - Create a DSpace Fedora Wiki Space. Get everyone logins.
John - how would Forester or Gartner characterize what's going on here. We would have to characterize the market, the stakeholders, the trend, the features. Who's plaiying – the open repositories, but also Jackrabbit, alfresco, cloud, ad hoc solutions. Who can do this? HP is trying to do it for repository federation space. It's hard to do, especially how players address the future.
Michelle - Create a list and prioritize or order possible collaborations.
John - Characterize the various repositories and features to describe the market both open source, cloud, Jackrabbit, commercial and map to current/future needs. Plus why the need items (e.g. specific protocols & formats). Find out want our users actually want.
Michelle - Must have a lightweight agile way to satisfy needs.
Brad - View this is a layered perspective, not just software.
Michele - we should focus on the open source mission in general, beyond just the technology. Keep focused on the mission. We by collaboration we can have more people focus on the mission and less on the tactics.
John - if the mission is properly tuned, we should be able to execute it without being beholder to our existing codebases.
Sandy - We should watch out for the "innovators dilemma" where successful, well managed companies were trumped by disruptive technology (citation to Clayton Christiansen's book).
John - Make sure we are clear about the mission and ensure it looks far enough into the future. Innovator's dilemma makes this point; can execute mission well and land your plane in the mountain. Thorny made the point - what's it really about? Is it the long term preservation of bits? The long term access to information. We need to understand what that mission needs to be.
Thorny, Sandy - Get a clear idea who we are serving.
Michele - reminder about the Repository Roadshow (Ben O'Steen and Dave Tarrant gig that's touring the USA soon). Sandy and Michele can be present at such events ("shaking hands on the steps of the capital") . We should identify venue to bring the DSpace and Fedora communities together (e.g. barcamps, BOFs, etc.
Action - Find more joint venues for Sandy, Michelle, and DSpace/Fedora communities.
Closing action item - Michele, Sandy, Brad, and Thorny will have a beer together to summarize ideas generated in this meeting and conceive of next steps.
A strategy session was held in August 2008 to come up with a list of short term and longer term projects. Further definition on each of these can be found at DSpace Fedora jointprojects