February 24th

Roadmap Meeting February 24th

Time and Place

DGI, 1:30 - 3:30 Friday February 24th

Agenda

• Update from Jonathan
  • Current Work
    • Jonathan distributed a link to documents: design for the repository API. He is currently looking at having a release next week, which would be a low-level version, including a number of specific tests.
    • An example of a test is to test the XML coming back from Fedora so we can determine if it is a version we support.
    • Jonathan also had some ideas regarding security: Drupal could point to Fedora, but otherwise Fedora would be inaccessible to the outside world unless a hole is available through the firewall. The basic outcome is that all requests for Fedora would go through Islandora. The key requirement would be that this should be configurable to some degree. This approach may also provide additional approaches to authT/Z. This approach would not use XACML, but rather Drupal Roles/permissions for access control.
    • Jonathan will touch base with Steve B. to get a better sense of the latest XACML/FeSL developments and how we could leverage this to build the next iteration of the security layer.
  • Plans
• Securing Druapl 7
  • Remove the servelet filter, authenticate through drupal
    • See above.
  • Fix up the servelet filter code
    • This is the decision (with he addition of FeSL) that we need to go with.
  • Audit stream
    • It is critical to keep this, so we need to have an approach that preserves this.
• Using Drupal 7 Views
  • Can Drupal 7 Views use Islandora's Solr fields?
  • Can we use a well-created Formbuilder XML document to "create" a Drupal SQL table which can be exposed to Views.
  • Sync the metadata from Fedora to Drupal.
  • Have Drupal Entities recognize native Fedora data (metadata, objects).