Re: Seeking status of 'Rep API' and 'JSR-170' shim from "Sakai Repository API Design"

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I am truly grateful for the comments received today on the proposal to
link Sakai and Fedora, both publicly and privately.  Based on those
comments, I've reconsidered and withdrawn the idea of creating a
substitute implementation of the ContentHostingService interface.  To
echo one of the private comments, it would not be wise to set up one of
the Google Summer of Code interns to fail.

Further, our developer team is not likely to have sufficient capacity in
the near future to, as Charles put it, "design and develop a plugin
pattern that allows Content Hosting to precisely outsource things like
Blob storage and Metadata storage...."  At most I can offer, at this
point, is to document the comments received from the perspective of an
outsider in the hopes that we or someone else can pick up the thread
later.  This sort of deep integration is on our long-term list as well
(obviously) so in the event we get more resources to bring to bear on
the problem we'll consider tackling it.

In the meantime, Beth Kirschner's work and Anoop Kumar's work on
bringing a Fedora repository into Sakai as a tool seem like the most
likely prospects for integration.  If there is a way OhioLINK could be
of help by sponsoring a Summer of Code intern to complete a roughly
12-week chunk of work, please let me know.

One final related note:

On 4/26/06 8:48 PM, Charles Severance wrote:
> A summer of code could very naturally explore [a plugin pattern that
> allows Content Hosting to precisely outsource things like Blob 
> storage and Metadata storage] and come up some ideas and proposals as
> to how to do this properly.

- -- Alex Trebek to contestant:  "Could you restate that in the form of a
question, please?"  Or rather, "Could you restate that in the form of a
coding project, please?"  The /code/ part is heavily emphasized in the
Google Summer of Code program.  Creating documentation, proposals, and
other non-coding activities are not accepted.  As you might imagine,
from the comments received today I'm a bit reluctant to propose a coding
project along these lines.

Thanks again for everyone's comments.  I wish I could meet most of you
in Vancouver next month, but I need to save my travel allowance to get
to the other side of this equation -- the Fedora Users Group meeting in
June.


Peter
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Peter Murray                       http://www.pandc.org/peter/work/
Assistant Director, Multimedia Systems  tel:+1-614-728-3600;ext=338
OhioLINK: the Ohio Library and Information Network   Columbus, Ohio
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