2023.02.02 Editors Meeting

Call-in

See invite

Attendees

• Julian Morley (Stanford)
• Rosy Metz (Emory)
• Simeon Warner (Cornell)
• Andrew Woods (Harvard) *
• Neil Jefferies (Oxford)

(* indicates the notetaker)

Agenda & Notes

1. Pre-discussion
   • It could be valuable for v2 to require ObjectId in first 512? 4k? bytes
2. House Keeping Items
   • Any updates to previous action items?
   • Transfer action to update ocfl-java README to awoods
3. Ticket Cleanup
   • Tickets to review for moving to extensions
     • Make object ID accessible from a small file without having to parse inventory #579
       • Suggestion to implement as an extension
     • Permit file inventory of packaged content (TAR/ZIP) - E-ARK AIP format requirement #555
       • Related to use case 33
       • Suggestion: A new extension could specify maintaining separate "container inventory" file
   • Tickets tagged Implementation Discussion and Experiences. What do we do with these?
     • Several of these issues relate to object storage
       • Relevant implementation notes
       • When implementation notes are revised for v2, object store git-hub issues will be reviewed (#372)
     • "Preserving filename case"
       • Tag as 'implementation notes'
     • How much do small files like...cost
       • This issue is a discussion
       • Add to implementation notes comment on object storage implication of small files
       • Closing #521 and adding reverence to #372
     • "guarding against inconsistent version histories"
       • Outside scope of OCFL specification
4. Next Community meeting: Feb 8th @6pm ET
5. Not addressed. Add to next Editors Meeting agenda
   1. Community input on spec
      • Review email list to see if we can identify who to blast
      • Brainstorm themes to focus on for these "listening sessions"
   2. Reaching out to communities
      • Initial round
        • John Dunn (Indiana)
        • Dataverse
      • Institutions
        • Indiana U
        • Cambridge
        • Oxford
        • Berkeley
        • U Washington
        • U Michigan
        • U Wisconsin
        • Lyrasis
      • Implementers
        • Libnova (Do we talk with their community? e.g. Penn State?)
        • Aptrust?
        • Dataverse

Standing agenda items

1. Spec
   1. Open PRs
   2. Open Issues
2. Extensions
   1. Open PRs
   2. Open Issues
3. Fixtures
   1. Open PRs
   2. Open Issues

Action Items

Previous Action Items

• Neil: identify a DPC session themed with OCFL
• @awoods to update the readme for OCFL Java after move to OCFL space