[pdb-discuss] Meeting summary

Thu Aug 9 00:05:53 UTC 2007

Great notes Rufus, things moved much last week when I had to present at
wikimania in Taipei...looking to launch our service very soon in order
to get community contributions...

Jon

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 17:56 +0100, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Below is a rough summary of the meeting. I've also posted them on the wiki:
> 
> http://okfn.org/wiki/PublicDomainWorks/meeting-2007-07-19
> 
> ~rufus
> 
> === Present ===
> 
>    * Becky Hogge (ORG)
>    * Michael Holloway (ORG)
>    * James Casbon
>    * Jon Phillips (CC)
>    * Rufus Pollock (OKFN)
>    * Yves Raimond
>    * One other
> 
> === Notes ===
> 
> These are some rough notes. They may not be perfectly accurate so please 
> feel free to amend and improve.
> 
>    * Summary of public domain works project (genesis and current state)
>      * Have data (though need to parse)
>      * Database system in progress
>      * Want to store our data elsewhere and act as a thin front-end
>    * Jon Phillips: summary of the CC project for a public domain registry
>      * based on drupal
>      * versioned data
>      * focus on verifying status
>    * Key points:
>      * Probably not going to be one single metadata store
>      * So want to be able to share data
>      * Data should be open (see http://www.opendefinition.org/)
>      * Should have some standard way to get data
>        * RDF/web api
>        * for model could use http://www.musicontology.org/
>    * General discussion of how we build distributed, versioned data stores
>      * interesting and hard problem
>      * issue isn't raw storage but how we are able to write and update 
> in a reasonable (real-time) fashion
>    * Actions
>      * Yves and James to work on parsing
>      * Further disucssion with Jon about possibility of uploading to 
> their backend
>      * Rufus to contact musicbrainz further about write as well as read 
> access
>      * Rufus to get webapp running
> 
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