2016-07-21 Requirements Meeting

Owned by Tom Johnson (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jul 21, 2016 by Mark Matienzo (Unlicensed)

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  • KriKri Datastore Requirements
    • Based on assumptions that we need LDP and SPARQL; need to support generalized schema for RDF (i.e., not just DPLA MAP).
    • Scaling up vs. Scaling out - need to scale up first. We scale out if we have use cases to support it. 
      • If scale out is required as part of our needs, that changes some of our needs related to concurrency, etc
    • Open source - part of assumption that we prefer FLOSS is based on our mission. 
      • Cost/benefit - internal business need trumps tech team principle if there's no other option
      • Keeping smaller scale is OK as well. 
      • New requirements:
        • MUST be a production-ready FLOSS persistence implementation that the software supports
        • SHOULD be a FLOSS implementation for DPLA that provides commercial support, etc. 
    • PATCH would be nice
    • Bulk export - subject for discussion 
    • High availability - not a requirement but a plus
    • Scalability and relationship to throughput 
    • General Purpose RDF in LDP-RS - relates to behavior of LDP implementations like Fedora 4; strongly preferable 
      • Does it make sense for us to maintain data about resources not under our control? Don't really use them at this point. 
    • Reasoning - YAGNI
    • Versioning - probably requires a larger discussion 
  • Next steps
    • Environmental scan - due august 9 
    • Benchmarks 

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