Purpose

To formulate, discuss, and prioritize the next steps in the Fedora Roadmap. We hope to leave this two-day meeting with a clear vision of the development priorities of the core repository service for the next year, and a good sense of who can contribute to accomplishing them.

Where/When.

Feb 23rd: 10am - 6pm
Feb 24th: 10am - 6pm

We will be meeting in room 1.62 (room 62 on the first floor) of the Franklin-Wilkins Building on the Waterloo Campus of Kings College London. That campus is south of the Thames, very near Waterloo rail and underground stations. See maps at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/waterloo.html. The entrance to the building is on Stamford street where there is a reception that can point you towards the room. Coming out of the Waterloo Underground, there will be a varitey of exits. Head for the Waterloo Bridge and/or Kings College.

For those arriving at Heathrow Airport there are two relatively inexpensive ways to get into London. If you take the Underground, you will be on the Picadilly line, costing around 4 pounds and takes 45-60 minutes to get to central London stops. There is also the Heathrow Connect service that goes to Paddington Station (where you can connect to the Underground), costs 7.90 pounds and takes about 30 minutes. If you want to take this, follow the signs to the Heathrow Express. They run on the same tracks but the Express costs twice as much, but it is direct to Paddington in about 15 minutes.

Major Topics

Based on a poll of attendees, this meeting will focus on the following major topics:

Content Modeling Architecture (ECM, relationships, validation, sdefs/deps)
Module Architecture (OSGi, Spring)
Storage (pluggability, hierarchical, multiplexing)
Interfaces (REST API, WebDAV, messaging, SWORD)

Agenda for Tuesday

Enhanced Content Models
- Overview (Asger)
- Fold into core? (Discussion)
Proposal (Asger): Datastream Methods
Proposal (Ben): Misc SDef/SDep improvements (Outline)

Report (Eddie/Chris): OSGi experience & discussion of strategy
Dependency injection framework: Spring?

Agenda for Wednesday

Proposal (Aaron): High level storage
- Tree of stores idea (relates to multiplexing) (Asger)
Hot Topics:
- Replication and messaging (relation to DuraCloud work)
- Large File Support
- Hierarchical Storage Support
- In-place Ingest

Next Generation REST API Proposal : Relation to Datastream Methods (Asger)
ResourceIndex, Resources, and the REST API (Steve)
Proposal (Kai): WebDAV

Session lead: Thorny
Identify:

Areas needing further discussion
Agreed-upon work items from discussions
Technical dependencies
Interested parties (leads + contributors)

Attendees

Many of the committers will be attending this meeting, and we are actively seeking key contributors to come and help us define the future of Fedora. This will be a relatively small group; we are planning to have space for approx. 20 attendees.

Confirmed

Aaron Birkland (Cornell)
Andrew Woods (DuraSpace)
Asger Askov Blekinge (State & Univ Lib, Denmark)
Ben Armintor (Columbia U)
Bill Branan (DuraSpace)
Brad McLean (DuraSpace)
Chris Wilper (DuraSpace)
Dan Davis (Cornell)
Edwin Shin (MediaShelf)
Gert Pedersen (Tech Univ of Denmark)
Kai Strnad (FIZ Karlsruhe)
Paul Pound (UPEI)
Stephen Bayliss (Acuity Unlimited)
Thorny Staples (DuraSpace)