Hydra Tech Call 2016-08-10
Time: 9:00am PDT / Noon EDT
Call-In Info: 1-641-715-3660, access code 651025
Moderator: @Adam Wead
Notetaker: @justin
Attendees
Esme Cowles (Princeton)
Steven Ng (Temple)
Colin Brittle (VT)
Anna Headley (Chemical Heritage)
Ben Armintor (Columbia)
Christina (Cornel)
Cory Harper (NYU)
Jennifer (Northwestern)
Tom Johnson (DPLA)
Mike Giarlo (Stanford)
Peter Binkley (University of Alberta)
Agenda
Roll call by timezone per following order (moderator)
folks outside North and South America
Eastern timezone
Central timezone
Mountain timezone
Pacific timezone
folks who were missed or who dialed in during roll call
Call for additional agenda items (moderator)
Reversing Collection membership to improve performance (Esmé)
Collections with many members are very slow — but we can reverse the member relationship (have Objects link to Collections they are members of). This performs much better when Objects are in a handful of Collections.
See https://github.com/projecthydra/hydra-pcdm/pull/227 and https://github.com/projecthydra/curation_concerns/pull/888
Justin: what about discoverability of members of a collection? Esme: We can use inbound references (a prefer header in fedora)
Justin: Will fedora get faster? I don't want to do this unless it's required. Esme: Probably not in the short term
Peter: U of A had to do this in Sufia 6.
Ben: The migration for this change will be ugly. We'd have to provide one. Esme: the change is to go through each collection, and add the collection to each object.
Esme: Hearing some hesitation about this. Will make this a proof of concept for now.
Jennifer: Would support this change.
Anna: Can you document this so people can pick it up? Esme: I can write a wiki page on it and post to list serve
Ordering in Sufia
Looking to bring over functionality from Curation Concerns, which uses a 'file manager' page. Sufia UI group had talked about integrating this functionality into the work edit page, 'files' tab.
See https://github.com/projecthydra/sufia/issues/2321#issuecomment-238658462
Justin: Fully in support. Having feature parity is a step in merging curation_concerns and sufia.
Removing Datatstreams from ActiveFedora 11
Justin is looking for stakeholders and testers
Jennifer is willing to test
Tom suggests that Justin send an email to the listserve
Moderator/notetaker for next time:
Moderator: Stephen Ng
Notetaker: Ben Armintor.