ESciDoc Committer Meeting 2009-09-29

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Date: 29.09.2009 Start time: 14:30

Location: Karlsruhe, München (Video conference or TelCo)

Participants MPDL: Natasa Bulatovic, Michael Franke

Participants FIZ: Steffen Wagner, Frank Schwichtenberg, Matthias Razum, Harald Kappus

Previous committer meeting

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Topics[edit]

PIDs and PID Manager[edit]

  • configurable choice of PID System (instance) on a context level
    • we do host several external institutions on single core service instance, also several solutions on single core service instance
    • institutions may have different decisions on which PID system to use
  • multiple PIDs allowed for object or version
    • during ingestion, more or less at present PIDs are ingested as part of the metadata record
    • this prevents some linking and searching, as different metadata schema have different metadata element names where they keep the identifier (and sometimes it is not clear if it is indeed a PID or is a local identifier)
    • allowing for multiple PIDs where core services would be able to handle them indeed like PIDs (e.g. cross-check uniqueness in the repository)
    • allowing to assign any of these multiple PIDs without creating a new item version
    • allowing to assign any of these PIDs to any item version (not only to the latest version)
    • maybe special object relation types could be solution to the last problem? in this case delivery with the item.xml would not be an issue

Outcome[edit]

  • discuss it and create Colab page

Content model definition[edit]

  • shall we try to identify issues which are not clear if they indeed depend on the cModel?
    • should CModel contain structural and content specific behavior only or in addition it should contain settings for repository behavior and repository operations?

Outcome[edit]

  • should be defined and discussed
  • current CModel implementation is very simple

Read-only core services[edit]

  • based on requirement for read-only PubMan
  • interceptor for preventing modifications based on property value
    • only system administrator would be allowed to make modifications in this case
  • motivation: when some system actions are undertaken in which user are able to view, search and retrieve, but not able to make any modifications of data

PubMan Customizing[edit]

  • CSS-Classes, Style files, etc.

Outcome[edit]

  • input from Frank
    • created new skin
    • it is not so easy, the CSS classes could be better named or designed, so that people which are not in, could easily understand at what point to do what
    • first impression:
      • not everything is in the stylesheet
        • there are stylesheets in schema section and global stylesheets
        • users should really know how to do it
  • Documentation:
    • what to change
    • when to change
    • to find out how to e.g. give a line a new color
    • what is possible to change, what users would like to change
    • somehow try to mention the hierarchy of the classes in the class name
  • externalize

Follow up Topics of Meeting München[edit]

http://colab.mpdl.mpg.de/mediawiki/ESciDoc_Developer_Workshop_2009-07-29/30

Fundamental changes[edit]

  • dropping SOAP?
  • Replace atomistic model for Items/Components with compound model and RELS-INT
  • Replace DB-Cache with asynchronous Lucene Index and/or Object Database
  • synchronous Lucene Index
  • Persistent data objects in rel. DB
  • Drop latest-version from object representation
  • Remove mapping of "escidoc" MD-record to DC record in Components (set title directly)
  • Get rid of content-model-specific properties

Specifics[edit]

  • Search and administrative search
  • Admin Tools development
  • Large sets of data ingest
    • how to avoid downtime to recache and reindexing
  • Trying to add/remove members to a very large container fails with 500 Internal eSciDoc System Error
    • in Work

others[edit]

  • Alignment of tools and processes (e.g., Maven)
  • Improved and harmonized communication of eSciDoc
  • eSciDoc Blog
  • service names and classification
  • service-architecture board
  • documentation of services
  • installation guides
  • eSciDoc Lab: Colab page gathering experimental modules
  • Exchange of staff members for specific developments or share development

Planning[edit]

  • short-term 6 months

Long term issues[edit]

Release 1.2[edit]

  • a first release candidate is scheduled for end of september

PubMan clean-Up[edit]

  • beginning of november the MPDL-solutions (like PubMan, Faces,....) will run in the same JBoss as the core services

Topics for joined development[edit]

  • start the two groups

eSciDoc Colab[edit]

  • domain-redirection for the eSciDoc-colab
  • set up the colab and move the eScoDoc pages from MPDL colab