Minutes of Meeting on 20 October 2015

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Minutes for the CMIS4DAM TC Meeting on 20 October 2015

Attendees:

Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University
Ray Gauss II, Alfresco Software
Carsten Hoffmann, Canto, Inc.

1. Report on Joint Meeting with CMIS TC

Ken summarized the joint meeting with the CMIS TC.

Asynchronous requests would be a new feature that CMIS does not currently 
provide.

CMIS does not support hierarchical property values.  The are open to 
adding and XML data type to facilitate such values.

CMIS does not support dyanamic (ad hoc) generation of renditions.

2. Discussion of aynchronous requests.

It was proposed that we specify a subtype of cmis:Item that represents a 
pending operation.  Such a type could be used to allow any request to be 
performed asynchronously.  The main difficulty is that the client must be 
able to specify whether a request could be performed asynchronously.

It was also suggested that the browser binding could be extended to allow 
for asynchronous processing.

3. Hierarchical metadata

Hierarchical metadata requires these three capabilities:

a. Search
b. Retrieval
c. Updating values

After some discussion, it was decided that SQL/XML should be considered as 
the mechanism for supporting hierarchical query capabilities.

4. Lack of participation

The last few meetings have shown a lack of participation by the TC 
members.  It was felt that we need to attract more interest if the TC is 
to be successful.

It was suggested that the problem is that the TC does not have any 
concrete proposals to discuss.  Until we have draft work products, the 
discussions are too vague to attract continuing interest.  Once some 
drafts have been contributed, we should revisit the issue of lack of 
participation.


Respectfully submitted,

Ken Baclawski
Chair, CMIS4DAM TC