[Fedora-commons-developers] Developer positions available at Indiana University

2010-02-12 Thread Dunn, Jon William Butcher
(Please excuse cross-posting) The Indiana University Digital Library Program is seeking a skilled software developer to join our team and contribute to the ongoing development and management of Indiana University's Fedora-based digital library infrastructure. See below for a copy of the posting

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] FeSL: Make XACML policies first-class Fedora digital objects (FCREPO-577)

2010-02-12 Thread Edwin Shin
FCREPO-577 aims to represent, as Fedora objects, the same policies currently stored and managed by DBXML and applied against the repository and its objects. Either a decorator or observer persists changes to the policy objects to DBXML. The determination of which policies apply to the repositor

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] FeSL: Make XACML policies first-class Fedora digital objects (FCREPO-577)

2010-02-12 Thread Asger Askov Blekinge
Hi On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 17:19 +0100, Edwin Shin wrote: > I definitely support the proposal to have an object that represents the > repository itself (just as I would like to see objects that represent > fedora.fcfg, users, groups, etc.). Even before FeSL, we'd discussed the > desirability of r

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] FeSL: Make XACML policies first-class Fedora digital objects (FCREPO-577)

2010-02-12 Thread Edwin Shin
I definitely support the proposal to have an object that represents the repository itself (just as I would like to see objects that represent fedora.fcfg, users, groups, etc.). Even before FeSL, we'd discussed the desirability of representing policies as Fedora objects (in contrast to the set o

Re: [Fedora-commons-developers] FeSL: Make XACML policies first-class Fedora digital objects (FCREPO-577)

2010-02-12 Thread Asger Askov Blekinge
Hi I have been following this discussion with great interest. Firstly I support the promotion of policies to first class objects. It brings several advantages to Fedora 1. An easy way to provide metadata about a policy (as the first class object can of course have other datastreams) 2. An eas