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Hydra Tech Call 2014-10-29
Date: 2014-10-29
Time: 8:30am PDT / 11:30am EDT
Call-In Info: 1-530-881-1400, access code 651025
Moderator: Karen Estlund
Notetaker: Peter Binkley
Attendees:
Nick Ruest
Mark Jordan
Steven Ng
Kevin Reiss
Jim Coble
Corey Harper
Carolyn
Esmé
Adam Wead
scossu
Michael Klein
Tom Azures
Justin
Andrew Woods
Karen Estlund (Oregon)
Trey Terrell (Oregon State)
Joe Essburger
Brian Keese
Chris Colvard
Aaron Coburn
Former user (Deleted)
(apologies for missing or mangled names - still getting to know the group by name and voice - please fix where needed. -pbinkley)
Agenda:
Call for Agenda Items
Versioning for ActiveFedora if we upgrade to ActiveTriples 0.4.0 (https://github.com/projecthydra/active_fedora/pull/500)
Should we have ActiveFedora 8 for what is currently on master, and make fedora-4 target ActiveFedora 9?
Justin: Tom's pull request will break a few things, with active work toward Fedora-3 and Fedora-4, with different dependencies etc.
proposed solution: go to four-number scheme, with least-significant keyed to Fedora version? Should send this out for discussion; potential for confusion is great. Or: create AF3 gem. Will write up and send out.
WebAccessControl
How do the Hydra, Islandora and Fedora communities work together to come up with a common access control strategy that works for everyone?
update (Justin) - pull request in Hydra head - keeps Hydra API on back end, serializes to standard - nearly ready to merge into Fedora 4 - would like feedback this week: https://github.com/projecthydra/hydra-head/pull/211
process (Esmé) - how can we move this forward? What forum? - this call for Hydra community;
would like to add to Fedora as third option for access control
other communities: Islandora (Nick Ruest): is behind Hydra on adopting Fedora 4, stuck on XACML until Drupal 8, which will break a lot of things and give opportunity for big change - if WAC offered at Fedora level, will probably adopt it in some form - at least a year away from doing anything
another proposal: take Fedora 4 role-based model, use as basis for WAC, then put XACML on top of that for backwards compatibility
Stefano: custom system to serve content to Fedora 4 - working on XACML policies - want access control on indexing (triplestore or Solr), which is maintained by separate app
this is motivation for Hydra access controls: so can write filter queries, embed as RDFa in HTML, etc.
Forum: Fedora Tech Call
Update on Works use-case synthesis
Almost done - found a lot of overlap - will put doc on wiki this week
Some points of difference will be complex (collections linking to files, objects linking to parts of other files, etc.) - will aim to support these as options, to allow simple implementations to ignore complexity
Action items
Justin: reqs for AF8 versioning to be sent to hydra-tech
All: provide feedback on PR for WAC, https://github.com/projecthydra/active_fedora/pull/500 by end of the week
Andrew: add WAC discussion to Fedora tech calls (updates will be given on hydra tech calls)
Karen, Esmé, Tom to finish use-case synthesis and add to wiki by end of the week
Hydra Developers Meeting
Please linger on IRC at 9 am (Pacific) on Thursday, November 6th to help set agenda/contribute to discussion for developers meeting in Portland
Next call: November 12 (no call next week because Portland)
Moderator: Justin
Notetaker: Esmé