2016-10-05—HydraConnect 2016 Brainstorming Dinner

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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.