RE: [dam-cmis-profile-discuss] Draft Technical Committee Charter: CMIS4DAM

["Ralph Windsor" <ralph@daydream.co.uk>]

Another update to the  CMIS4DAM Draft TC is available here (mods in red):

http://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Draft-Proposal-for-New-OASIS-Technical-Committee_r003.docx

This addresses some of the issues mentioned by Ray about the scenarios and this being too metadata-oriented.  At this point, I have not elaborated on DAM operations (like renditions) as it's a little too specific and getting agreement about all of them that are relevant might be a further source of delays, but we should do that for the more detailed work once the draft TC is approved.

DAM Foundation have proposed an outline of what constitutes a DAM solution here in this article about their proposed "10 Standards Badge":

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140520085045-17438861-the-ten-characteristics-of-a-dam-system

This is a bit loose for a technical standard of the type we're trying to establish here - it's more useful for a DAM system buyer than a developer, but it seems like it could be worthwhile trying to link CMIS4DAM up with what they have done.  I've had some conversations with Elizabeth Keathley from DAM Foundation recently when she was in London last week at DAM EU and I will contact her again to see if there is some potential for relating these two exercises.

I gather we need to get a co-proposer to progress this for approval.  If anyone is interested, please myself (and the list) know.  Also any comments and further feedback on the current draft in terms of the higher level objectives.

Thanks,

Ralph

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Gauss II [mailto:ray.gauss@alfresco.com] 
Sent: 09 May 2014 15:13
To: ralph@daydream.co.uk
Cc: dam-cmis-profile-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [dam-cmis-profile-discuss] Draft Technical Committee Charter: CMIS4DAM

Hi Ralph,

Thanks for keeping the ball rolling on this and starting the draft.

We may want to outline some of those high level use cases before solidifying the Statement of Purpose and Scope.  Those usage scenarios shouldn’t necessarily be tied to the potential standards used, but be as generic as possible and only describe the workflow, systems involved, and the type of interaction and data needed between those systems for that use case.  I hope to have some time to draft a few examples in the near future.

At the moment the Statement of Purpose and Scope sections seem primarily focused on metadata.  The definition of additional rendition kinds, and as we’ve discussed here, possibly even defining the means to request the creation of 'ad-hoc’ renditions, may end up as part of the standard.  Perhaps we could broaden those sections.

Rapid implementation should certainly be a goal of the community around the standard, but I’m not sure how much it should directly influence the standard itself, that's really up to the libraries/SDKs that work with it.  We may want to consider changing the language of the Scope section a bit to reflect that.

Is that the sort of feedback you were looking for?

Regards,

Ray


On May 1, 2014 at 3:53:06 PM, Ralph Windsor (ralph@daydream.co.uk) wrote:
> After a bit of a pause, we have made some progress on a draft technical
> committee charter in regard to "CMIS4DAM" (which is the friendlier name that
> Carol Geyer of OASIS suggested we use for this standard).
>  
> I have written a DAM News article about it and placed a link to the docs
> which you can download here (no registration required)
>  
> http://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Draft-Propo  
> sal-for-New-OASIS-Technical-Committee_r002.docx
>  
> It would be useful to get some feedback on this from list participants.
> Once agreed, we will need to have this sponsored also by five people from at
> least two OASIS organisational members.
>  
> Based on information kindly provided by Florian Mueller a few months ago, we
> are planning some basic examples also to explain how to access a CMIS
> repository and from that we will need to consider how to incorporate various
> DAM standards like IPTC, PLUS, PBCore etc so they can interoperate with
> CMIS. That is likely to be the point where we move away from the procedural
> discussion and into the more in-depth technical elements.
>  
> Any questions, comments etc, please feel free to respond to myself and/or
> the list.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Ralph
>  
>  
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