== Meeting between MPIWG group & eSciDoc team members, 16-17 October, Munich ==

MPIWG participants: R. Casties, M. Hyman, W. Schmidle, K. Thoden, J. Willenborg

=== eSciDoc architecture as of 2008-10-16 ===

    * three layers
        * common functionality
            * generalized and unified data model for all content resources
            * content modeling of resources as a specialization instrument
            * versioning
            * PID
                * currently a political problem; to be implemented really for faces etc. by year-end
            * user management, authentication and authorization
        * intermediate services (added functionality)
            * duplicate detection
            * image handling
            * metadata handler
            * validation of data
            * retrieval/download statistics
            * workflow management
        * application services (can be integrated)
            * depositing
            * publishing
            * quality assurance
            * citation manager
            * export manager
            * SearchAndOutput
            * controlled vocabularies
    * use of Fedora
        * Fedora has its own versioning model
        * versioning model is component-level
        * no version numbers (data-based versioning)
        * core services of eSciDoc implement versioning  independently
        * an eSciDoc item may be more than one Fedora object
    * three stages
        * pending
        * submitted (some quality control)
        * released (a published, valid object)
            * after release an object cannot be deleted (to ensure persistence)
   * interfaces
        * SOAP and REST

=== Overall evaluation ===

    * core eSciDoc services
        * may be of some use, but developed functionality remains unclear
        * scheduled release date for 1.0 is Q1 2009
        * missing features
            * e.g. notification mechanism (for letting us know that a relevant document has been created or modified)
        * design features & flaws
    * solutions (''links below may break at any time, since they are to demo resources'')
        * [http://faces.mpdl.mpg.de/faces/ Faces] (MPI for Human Development)
        * [http://192.129.1.123:8080/virr_presentation/ Virtueller Raum Reichsrecht] (MPI for European History of Law)
        * [http://test-pubman.mpdl.mpg.de:8080/pubman/ PubMan]
    * comments
        * partner institutions for which a solution is being developed are "privileged"
        * no public or stable repository exists yet
        * future of project is unclear
        * need to reevaluate situation in Q1 2009