CodeSprint Tasks

Deliverable

At the end of the code sprint we would like to have the following:

• Re-architectured Core Islandora Module
  • Core Drupal Module
  • Tuque Fedora API
  • Fedora Abstraction Layer
• XML Form Builder
  • Updated for D7 Forms
• Solr Module
  • Updated for D7
  • Theming Features
• Porting Scripts
  • Script to migrate fedora objects from d6 to d7 (if necessary)

These will be using Fedora 3.4.x and Fedora 3.5 on PHP 5.3.x.

Tasks

• Create a Object Model for Islandora
  • Define schemas for XML datastreams
  • make sure our xml datastream is versioned
  • This will abstract the contents of an Object away from viewers. This layer would act as the "M" in a MVC architecture. Given an ID one could query the object for the interfaces it implements and then call concrete implementations of those functions.
  • For example the thumbnail interface would have a function getThumbnail. This could be implemented any way, but it would allow us to get thumbnails for objects.
• security
  • create security model for islandora
  • this needs to be based on XACML or on something in drupal like the http://drupal.org/project/content_access module
  • I would prefer to take the drupal approach, but I'm still investigating the content_access module, so we may have to stick with XACML for now.
  • Update to FEZL if we continue to use XACML
• Drupal
  • create an islandora entities module
• Islandora Core
  • tabs?
  • detailed list of content
  • make the management functions have their own page (possibly using drupal tabs)
  • port the existing code
  • add template files
  • Remove all the dead code
  • Remove all unused menu paths
  • Remove all of the plugins
  • Add hooks
    • ingest page registration
    • ingest alter
    • purge
    • add datastream
    • add datastream alter
    • purge
    • edit metadata
  • change references in the code to fedora repository
  • split much of the functionality into modules
• xml forms
  • port code to d7
  • change the code to be compatible with the new form API
  • further improvements to metadata
• solr module
  • take existing port of the solr module and make sure its up to date
  • add new template support

User Stories

• An object can live in multiple collections so that the Jonathan Green object can live in two collections: AwesomePeople and Developers.
• Objects need to have security so that only certain users and roles and access (and search for) objects and collections.
• Security policies should be inherited, so that objects are given a reasonable policy when they are ingested.
• I have a collection of objects that are all restricted so that only members of the institution can see them. The blackout date for this collection has expired so I need to make all the members visible to the world.