Why, Where, and When

The purpose of this meeting was to formulate, discuss, and prioritize the major Fedora development items for 2010, and to start identifying who can help make them happen.

It was held in the Franklin-Wilkins Building on the Waterloo Campus of Kings College, London, Feb 23-24.

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

Content Modeling Architecture
Module Architecture
Storage
Interfaces

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?

Wednesday

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

Next Generation REST API Proposal
- Aaron's Presentation
- Relation to Datastream Methods (Asger)
ResourceIndex, Resources, and the REST API (Steve)
WebDAV (Kai): Proposal Jira Issue

Session lead: Thorny
Identify:

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

Attendees

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)
Simon Lamb (Hull)
Stephen Bayliss (Acuity Unlimited)
Tim Donohue (DuraSpace)
Thorny Staples (DuraSpace)