2016-10-05—HydraConnect 2016 Brainstorming Dinner

Several members of the PCDM FileSets Working Group met at HydraConnect 2016 to discuss use cases for the proposed changes. We had a very informative dinner which ended up with a lot of drawings being pinned to the restaurant wall. 

Date, Time and Place

October 5, 2016, 7pm CDT

Piattini, Boston MA

Present 

• Andrew Myers
• Esmé Cowles
• Greg Kostin
• Joshua Allan Westgard
• Julie Allinson
• Juliet Hardesty
• nikhil trivedi
• Seth Johnson
• scossu

Takeaways

• The use case drawings that we drafted during that meeting have been digitized and gathered in a shared folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByRadxtBjDyjbTdGcGhadFJEclk
• Overall agreement on the role of FIleSets in the Hydra architecture
  
  • FileSets describe digitized content, which becomes semantically separated from real world objects. This is the main motivation behind this WG. 
  • Some uncertainty around the concepts of descriptive and technical metadata; this should be addressed at an institutional level and Hydra or PCDM should not get in the way. 
  • Some assumptions may be made by Hydra: e.g. Hydra will always create a FileSet when ingesting Files, and Files cannot exist independently from a FileSet. This however is not a PCDM requirement. 
• Some use cases need further discussion in order to establish a way to fit them into the current proposal.