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Overview

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How to get involved

All Fedora adopters are welcome and encouraged to participate in this community effort.  The group holds meetings via conference call on a biweekly basis, currently every second Thursday at 1pm Eastern (US) Time.  Notes from past meetings and agendas for upcoming meetings are available via the links to the right.

Participation can take many forms, from attending meetings, contributing use-cases, and drafting documentation, to acting as a stakeholder or contributing code for development efforts.  Just call in to a meeting or get in touch with some of the participants listed below to find out how you can help!

People and Roles

For more information on different ways to participate in API-X planning and development, see the "People and Roles" page.  Current participants in the API-X group includes the following:

• Aaron Birkland
• Unknown User (acoburn)
• Stefano Cossu
• Daniel Davis
• Ruth Duerr
• Elliot Metsger
• Diego Pino Navarro
• Nick Ruest
• Bethany Seeger
• Joshua Westgard
• Jared Whiklo

Links

1. Design Documents
   1. An Initial Proposal Sketch
      1. See also this presentation by Aaron Birkland from the DC Fedora Users Group (April 2016)
   2. Use Cases
      1. Initial Proposed Use Cases
      2. Use Cases Evaluation Process
      3. AIC Chicago Use Cases
      4. Metadata Transformation Use Case
      5. Full Set of Use Cases Considered
      6. Use Cases Summary
   3. High-Level Requirements (distilled from use cases)
2. Proof of Concepts (see also API-X POCs on Github)
   1. Validation POC (Stefano Cossu, Art Institute Chicago)
   2. Service Discovery and Binding POC (Unknown User (acoburn), Amherst College) – see also this Github repo 
   3. Go-proxy (Aaron Birkland and Elliot Metsger, Johns Hopkins)
3. Initial Implementation
   1. Github – https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo-api-x