= ESA meeting Amsterdam, October 30th and 31st, 2008 =

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present: Erik van Ingen, Heikki Doeleman, Jeroen Ticheler, Jose Garcia

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''Summary''

In this 2-day meeting we have discussed the current status of the ESA ebXML project, made some design decisions as to how to move forward, and made a list of work items.

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''Relevant OGC specs''

[http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=27092 CSW-ebRIM Registry Service - Part 1: ebRIM profile of CSW (1.0.0) - 07-110r2]

[http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=27093 CSW-ebRIM Registry Service – Part 2: Basic extension package (1.0.0) - 07-144r2]

[http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=20596 OGC Cataloguing of ISO Metadata (CIM) using the ebRIM profile of CS-W (0.1.7) - 07-038]

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''Next meeting''

The next meeting is Tuesday November 11th at 21:30 using Skype.

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== Work Items ==
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''To summarize the currently assigned work items per person:''

''Erik van Ingen''
 * Hibernate Search. Will probably be used, needs more research
 * create DAO layer
 * create Hibernate mapping for the DAOs

''Heikki Doeleman''
 * model Basic Extension Package
 * model ISO Extension Package
 * decorate the above with JiBX

''Jose Garcia''
 * support Filter Expressions 1.1 (refer also to [http://geotools.codehaus.org/ GeoTools])

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This is the full list of work items:

=== Service Layer ===

 * implement Java classes to handle CSW/ebRIM operations
  * Prio: 2
 * expose these as Web Services using (probably) Axis2
  * Prio: 2
 * decorate these with a SOAP/WSDL interface
  * Prio: 2

=== CSW/ebRIM model ===

 * model the CSW/ebRIM operations' payload in Java
  * Prio: 2
 * decorate these with JiBX
  * Prio: 2

=== Search Engine ===

 * XPATH support. How to implement this w.r.t. our DBMS / Lucene index is not immediately obvious and needs more research
  * Prio: 3
 * Hibernate Search. Will probably be used, needs more research
  * Prio: 1
  * Erik van Ingen
 * support Filter Expressions 1.1 (refer also to [http://geotools.codehaus.org/ GeoTools])
  * Prio: 1
  * Jose Garcia
 * the search engine needs an interface so we can actually use it to search
  * Prio: 1
  * NOT ASSIGNED ! 

=== ebRIM / Registry / Information Model ===

 * model Basic Extension Package
  * Prio: 1
  * Heikki Doeleman
 * model ISO Extension Package
  * Prio: 1
  * Heikki Doeleman
 * decorate the above with JiBX
  * Prio: 1
  * Heikki Doeleman

=== Persistence Layer ===

 * create DAO layer
  * Prio: 1
  * Erik van Ingen
 * create Hibernate mapping for the DAOs
  * Prio: 1
  * Erik van Ingen
 * implement Lucene index
  * Prio: 2
 * implement spatial query support (beyond Bounding Box)
  * Prio: 3

=== Access Control ===

 * read the specification and research how to do this
  * Prio: 3

=== Miscellaneous ===

 * integrate the new code with the legacy codebase
  * Prio: 3
 * ebRIM Updater: create a system that updates the new persistent storage everytime an update is done to the existing persistent storage
  * Prio: 2
 * finalize work related to Maven, Ant, and Installer
  * Prio: 3
 * create a GeoNetwork Maven repository
  * Prio: 1
  * NOT ASSIGNED !
 * write documentation and tutorials
  * Prio: 3

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