2018.09 Face to Face Editors Meeting - OCFL/spec GitHub Wiki

September 5-7, 2018, Oxford, UK

Present:

  • Andrew Hankinson (Bodleian Libraries)
  • Simeon Warner (Cornell)
  • Julian Morley (Stanford)
  • Neil Jefferies (Bodleian Libraries)
  • Rosalyn Metz (Emory)
  • Andrew Woods (DuraSpace)

Agenda

September 5

  • Review Use cases, in particular decide which proposed use cases are in or out of scope. Rewrite or assign rewritings for clarification. Create new issues as appropriate. (timebox 2h?)
  • Review and prioritize Issues, plan work for rest of day (timebox 1h?)
  • Work on issues, review text and merge in real time

September 6

  • Re-review and re-prioritize Issues, plan work for the day (brief)
  • Perhaps start by tackling a tough one: renaming
  • More on issues, review text and merge in real time

September 7

  • Re-review and re-prioritize Issues, plan work for the day (brief)
  • More on issues, review text and merge in real time
  • Plan future work
  • Discuss implementation
  • Plan communication and feedback strategy

Desired outcomes

  • Draft of OCFL specification with text for all sections (possibly excluding examples and implementation considerations)
  • Greater clarity on OCFL scope as defined by use cases that are determined in or out of scope

Notes

Friday afternoon

  • Work on specs until 3:30pm
  • Discuss versioning the spec
  • Roadmap
    • Alpha
      • October community call we will release (OCFL Editors and PASIG Discuss)
      • Review feedback in the November community call
      • Then determine release date based on the amount of feedback
    • Beta
      • A spec we are happy with
      • Experimental validation tool
      • Determine who else to push this out to
    • Release 1.0
      • One production ready validator
      • Test suite and fixture objects
      • Two institutions committed to backing the initiative (should define that)
  • Community Call Agenda
    • Review Roadmap (Simeon)
    • Review F2F meeting outcomes and walkthrough of the specification (Andrew H.)
    • Review upcoming meetings/presentation proposals (Rosy)
  • Editorial Agenda
    • Review Open Pull Requests
    • Review Issues with label Question
  • Action Items
    • Andrew: add a roadmap page to the wiki
    • Rosy: create proposal for CNI (plus Julian and Andrew W.)
    • Neil: copy Rosy's proposal for JISC
    • Neil: lightning talk at PASIG
    • Simeon: propose workshop for OR2019
    • Simeon: will move the current data into a draft directory and create a new index.html page.
    • Julian: put in nomination for digital preservation awards
    • Rosy: identify a journal to publish a paper about the spec

Next Steps

These are pull requests that we indicated during F2F that we needed to go back and review.

  • Review implementation notes
  • Review section 3 pull request
  • Review section 4 pull request