On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 3:32 PM, MG Schultz <collab
...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
> This is just a welcome back message for all the folks who participated in
> our RESTful Bag Server group discussions last year. It was a pleasure from
> Educopia's perspective to get to connect with so many people doing great
> work with resources like BagIt and various other micro-service approaches.
> We learned a ton!
> As indicated on my last message before the holidays, I'd like to continue
> helping to facilitate monthly discussions around the maturing spec, if
> folks are still interested. But rather than jump to the conclusion that our
> old meeting time works for everybody, I'd like to get a temperature reading
> through a Doodle poll for the last week in January (
> http://www.doodle.com/cetpkcpqi2b6yuhw). Folks can indicate which
> days/times might work. Please approach this as a standing time-slot for the
> final week of each month going forward. Poll is in ET, and I'll close it
> out next Friday, January 20th.
> These calls have been helpful for some of the more invested developers to
> check in with each other and discuss implementations of the spec, as well
> as to welcome any new and interested folks who just want to lurk (and maybe
> dive in deeper as time goes by).
> If I see enough of the old faces filling out the poll, and hopefully a
> decent handful of new and interested faces, I'll get a call scheduled
> during that last week in January. If not, I'll take it to mean we've
> reached a point with the spec where folks are ready to explore
> implementations in a more independent and ad hoc fashion. In that event,
> I'll probably hold off on resuming until I get a critical mass of requests
> from the community.
> Other groups and individuals are always welcome to pick up the ball and
> run with facilitating group calls in the future as well.
> Notes from our last call are available in the previous message. And as
> always the spec can be found here:
> https://github.com/acdha/restful-bag-server.
> Thanks,
> Matt Schultz
> Program Manager
> Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
> http://www.metaarchive.org
> matt.schu...@metaarchive.org
> 616-566-3204
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 2:56 PM, MSchultz <collab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Everybody,
>> We just enjoyed a fruitful update from Chris Adams (Library of
>> Congress) whose has done much of the lead work in defining the RESTful
>> Bag Server spec - as found on our github site:
>> https://github.com/acdha/restful-bag-server
>> We discussed the importance at this point of heading in the direction
>> of furthering some of the initial implementations of the spec, and
>> encouraging any other interested groups and parties to begin building
>> out some preliminary implementations. A couple of implementations
>> already underway include:
>> Play Framework Implementation:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/digital-curation/browse_thread/thread/...
>> Java Bag Server:
>> http://groups.google.com/group/digital-curation/browse_thread/thread/...
>> Chris is very eager to encourage other groups to just dive in and
>> establish a reference server implementation and request to fork the
>> repository as desired to help inspect and finalize the test suite.
>> He'll do what he can to make his own progress in those areas, but
>> others should not feel held up.
>> Chris will peek in on the open issues and close out those he can, but
>> most of these do not seem like outright impediments to beginning
>> implementations using the spec as defined. So, if there are folks out
>> there who have an immediate use case for the spec please be encouraged
>> to proceed. You are welcome to get in touch with Chris via github - he
>> may be able to handle minor questions here and there.
>> As we are heading into the holidays we will not be scheduling any
>> conference calls for November or December. We will pick back up again
>> beginning Friday, January 27th at 3pm ET. Call-in info will be the
>> same: 1-270-400-2000, 282929#.
>> In the meantime, if you have any questions concerning the spec please
>> don't hesitate to contact me: matt.schu...@metaarchive.org.
>> Thanks,
>> Matt Schultz
>> Program Manager
>> Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative
>> http://www.metaarchive.org
>> matt.schu...@metaarchive.org
>> 616-566-3204
>> On Oct 25, 11:56 pm, MSchultz <collab...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Everybody,
>> > Last month's RESTful Bag Server call was rescheduled to this Friday,
>> > Oct. 28th. Apologies again for not being able to host a call the past
>> > couple of months. I'm looking forward to catching up with those who
>> > can make it.
>> > We'll have to move the call to 2pm ET instead of 3pm ET due to some
>> > other Educopia-related project conflicts. The call-in info is still
>> > the same: 1-270-400-2000, 282929#.
>> > Below are a few items that might be worthwhile discussing:
>> > 1. Next steps development
>> > 2. Resolving open Issues
>> > 3. Future calls & timeline
>> > Thanks,
>> > Matt Schultz
>> > Program Manager
>> > Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperativehttp://www.metaarchive.org
>> > matt.schu...@metaarchive.org
>> > 616-566-3204
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