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This meeting is a hybrid teleconference and IRC chat. Anyone is welcome to join...here's the info:

Attendees

Agenda

  1. F4 Java Client
  2. 3.7.2 / 3.8.0 release status
  3. Moving from beta to production, next steps
  4. RDF/Linked-Data opportunities
    1. Shared content models?
  5. Feature/training video topics
  6. ...

Minutes

  • OR2014 summary
    • Lots of F4 engagement
    • Chris Beer showed a successful integration of Spotlight over F4
      • Good demo of benefits of linked data
  • Fedora 3.7.2/3.8
    • Benjamin Armintor implemented conditional GETs and byte-range requests
      • Partially tested
      • Need to do some profiling against them
    • In the cleanup and testing phase of the release
    • Looking for help writing code tests (unit and integration)
    • Should be 3.8 because it requires Java 7
  • F4 Java client
    • Konrad is interested and available to pushing this forward
    • Others at OR2014 are also interested
    • Need to review Chris Beer’s Ruby code and do something similar for Java
    • There may already be a Java library we can use (Marmotta)
    • Who is interested?
    • Konrad will send an email to the tech list to see who else is interested in participating
    • Tentatively setting first IRC meeting on this topic for the week of July 7th
  • Moving from Beta to Production
    • Loading real data at a decent scale
    • Update and bug requests need to be founded on real world testing and use cases
    • Columbia plans on identifying a subset of content to be added to a new F4-based repository, but this has not happened yet
    • Art Institute of Chicago will test a million objects in an F4 staging server
      • Will test a single node setup but interested in clustering as a possible solution if a bottleneck appears
    • We won’t push out a production release until the beta is thoroughly tested

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