[oslc-ArchMgmt] OSLC involement in proposed asset management CMIS4DAM TC?

[Martin P Pain]

I saw this charter proposal for an asset management protocol TC at OASIS, 
and wondered if there is anyone who is interested in representing OSLC AM 
there, or whether that would be a worthwhile endeavour.

The proposed TC is particularly aimed at adapting an existing standard 
named CMIS (so I'm not saying they should use OSLC instead of starting a 
new TC), but they say they are intending to try & incorporate the 
different standards and protocols, etc, that service providers may use 
relating to asset management. So it might be worth being represented there 
so (1) OSLC AM can be integrated into their work [not that I know of 
anyone who would find that useful) and (2) it will increase exposure of 
OSLC AM, to people who are in the AM software business.

I've only read the "statement of purpose" (below. along with the rest of 
the charter) but these are a few of the sentences that stand out relating 
to how OSLC AM might link in well:
"the range of alternative metadata standards used by the rich media stored 
inside DAM [Digital Asset Management] solutions also requires a more 
adaptable framework that can share the common elements of a widely adopted 
standard like CMIS while leaving open the opportunity to [use 
domain-specific standards with it]."
"a further objective of CMIS4DAM is to define a series of common 
operations which compliant DAM solutions will respond to in a predictable 
and consistent fashion"
and "The goal of CMIS4DAM is to enhance the cohesion between different DAM 
solutions and provide a more flexible protocol that is easier for a wider 
range of participants to engage with than the core CMIS standard alone 
offers."

Just a thought...

Martin Pain
OASIS OSLC Automation TC Chair

----- Forwarded by Martin P Pain/UK/IBM on 15/09/2014 10:54 -----

From:   Chet Ensign <chet.ensign at oasis-open.org>
To:     tc-announce at lists.oasis-open.org, members at lists.oasis-open.org, 
OASIS Charter Discuss List <oasis-charter-discuss at lists.oasis-open.org>
Cc:     ralph.windsor at daydream.co.uk, Ray Gauss II 
<ray.gauss at alfresco.com>, irina.guseva at gmail.com, Mark Davey 
<mark at damfoundation.org>, kenb <kenb at ccs.neu.edu>, 
john.newton at alfresco.com, shomeier at meyle-mueller.de
Date:   02/09/2014 20:54
Subject:        [members] Call for Comment: proposed charter for CMIS4DAM 
TC



To OASIS Members:

A draft TC charter has been submitted to establish the OASIS Content 
Management Interoperability Services for Digital Asset Management 
(CMIS4DAM). In accordance with the OASIS TC Process Policy section 2.2: (
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—- TC Charter 

(1)(a) TC Name  

OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services for Digital Asset 
Management (CMIS4DAM) Technical Committee

(1)(b) Statement of Purpose  

The Content Management Interoperability Services for Digital Asset 
Management (CMIS4DAM[1]) TC aims to resolve interoperability challenges 
facing Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution providers and their end 
users by leveraging the existing CMIS standard already adopted by the 
Enterprise Content Management sector.  

CMIS is a comprehensive standard, however the specification’s scope and 
scale sometimes makes it difficult for DAM vendors to benefit from 
adopting it; many require only small subsets of CMIS capabilities, and 
many have limited time and staff resources to devote to understanding CMIS 
in sufficient detail to identify and implement those parts they can use. 
This is unfortunate[2] because for each type of vendor, elements of the 
CMIS standard can enable important, needed interoperability capabilities. 
 

Further, the range of alternative metadata standards used by the rich 
media stored inside DAM solutions also requires a more adaptable framework 
that can share the common elements of a widely adopted standard like CMIS 
while leaving open the opportunity to expand its scope on a case-by-case 
basis.   For example, a photo management solution may need to interoperate 
with general CMIS Enterprise Content repositories as well as with 
photo-specific metadata standards such as IPTC or PLUS, while a 
video-focused media asset management application might substitute the 
latter for audio-visual standards such as PBCORE.  The range and 
significance of each of these associated endeavors and the necessity for a 
given solution provider to integrate with them cannot be accurately 
predicted and will change over time.  

In addition to enabling metadata interoperability, a further objective of 
CMIS4DAM is to define a series of common operations which compliant DAM 
solutions will respond to in a predictable and consistent fashion.  As 
with metadata, the range and scope of these is intended to be flexible and 
extensible, such that individual applications can support certain 
functions to a greater or lesser extent according to areas in which each 
specializes.  A core or baseline series of operations will be defined as 
part of this activity.

CMIS4DAM is intended to offer a layer of abstraction between CMIS and a 
range of external metadata classification protocols, together with common 
operations used within the DAM domain, especially as they relate to 
individual classes of rich media assets such as images and video.  The 
purpose is to assimilate these models and to use CMIS as the conduit to 
enable interoperability between them.  The goal of CMIS4DAM is to enhance 
the cohesion between different DAM solutions and provide a more flexible 
protocol that is easier for a wider range of participants to engage with 
than the core CMIS standard alone offers. 

(1)(c) Scope  

CMIS4DAM needs to provide a flexible and structured framework which can be 
rapidly implemented at a basic level to enable widespread participation, 
while at the same time enabling a wide-ranging series of related standards 
to be connected into it on an as-needs basis.  It is anticipated, 
therefore, that a major element of the work of the Committee will be 
education oriented to meet the first objective, and the second may need to 
be accommodated with Subcommittees to address the specific needs of 
individual standards and the characteristics necessary to facilitate their 
integration into CMIS4DAM.  The scope of this TC is to provide a framework 
rather than to prescribe a finite list of external metadata standards that 
should be adopted.  

The TC will develop example CMIS mappings targeted at DAM applications to 
assist DAM solution developers to rapidly access assets (represented as 
documents) in existing CMIS-compliant repositories.  

The TC will propose an initial list of candidate external standards (with 
a specific interest in those relating to asset metadata) which will be 
included in the first iteration of the standard documentation.

The TC will reach out to bodies responsible for additional external 
standards that may be utilized by DAM with the aim of encouraging their 
participation.

The TC will solicit opinions from DAM vendors, industry associations, and 
journals to define a baseline set of operations or functions which 
compliant DAM solutions should support.

The TC will define protocols that allow the baseline operations to be 
extended on a selective basis by system developers while still allowing 
them to maintain a compliant solution.

The TC will develop a documented procedure for incorporation of new 
DAM-related metadata standards so that this process can become more 
efficient and incorporate best practice methods (as well as any subsequent 
refinement of these same procedures).

(1)(d) Deliverables  

Deliverables include: 

* A document describing the specific use cases of CMIS4DAM that the TC 
plans to address in its work product

* Introductory core CMIS implementation models intended for managers and 
technical practitioners that explain how to implement CMIS4DAM at a basic 
level

* Advanced implementation models and frameworks that expand upon the 
introductory items to include coverage of any initial metadata standards 
encompassed by CMIS4DAM

* Terminology guidelines and glossary (to be integrated with the DAM 
Glossary being developed at damglossary.org)

* Documentation describing core operations and instructions for extending 
them to support specialized functionality in a compliant manner

(1)(e) IPR Mode  

Non-Assertion Mode

(1)(f) Audience  

DAM solution providers and end users  

Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution providers who have 
implemented CMIS and wish to integrate with a broader range of DAM 
solutions  

(1)(g) Language  

English

Section 2: Additional Information

(2)(a) Identification of Similar Work  

CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Services) - Content Management 
Interoperability Services (CMIS) Version 1.1. 23 May 2013. OASIS Standard. 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/cmis/CMIS/v1.1/os/CMIS-v1.1-os.html. CMIS 
provides the foundation upon which the TC will do its work. 

DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) –  A series of core metadata 
elements used to describe both digital and physical resources - 
http://dublincore.org/

IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council) Photo Metadata 
Standard – A standard which defines a range of metadata fields for use 
with photos (often stored within the image file itself) - 
http://www.iptc.org/site/Photo_Metadata/Overview/

(2)(b) First TC Meeting  

The first meeting of the TC will be held 28 October 2014 at 12pm ET.  The 
first meeting will be held by teleconference. Daydream will sponsor the 
first meeting and provide the conference call facilities. 

(2)(c) Ongoing Meeting Schedule  

The TC will meet biweekly on a schedule to be determined at the first 
meeting. Hosting of the meeting will rotate through the TC members.

(2)(d) TC Proposers  

Ralph Windsor, Individual, ralph.windsor at daydream.co.uk

Ray Gauss, Alfresco, ray.gauss at alfresco.com

Irina Guseva, Individual, irina.guseva at gmail.com

Mark Davey, DAM Foundation, mark at damfoundation.org

Ken Baclawski, Northeastern University, kenb at ccs.neu.edu

John Newton, Alfresco, john.newton at alfresco.com

Sascha Homeier, Meyle+Mueller, shomeier at meyle-mueller.de

(2)(e) Primary Representatives' Support  

- I, John Newton <john.newton at alfresco.com>, as Alfresco's primary 
representative, support the proposed CMIS4DAM charter and intend to 
participate in the Technical Committee. I can confirm the participation of 
our employee Ray Gauss as a member.

- I, Mark Davey <mark at damfoundation.org>, as the DAM Foundation's Primary 
Representative, support the proposed CMIS4DAM charter and intend to 
participate in the Technical Committee.

I believe the DAM (and all associated acronyms) industry needs an 
interoperability standard that works for end users, integrators and 
 vendors alike. We need to move this needle as complexity grows. I would 
like to see and help OASIS bring the CMIS4DAM into being.

- I, Ken Baclawski <kenb at ccs.neu.edu>, as Northeastern University's 
Primary Representative, support the proposed CMIS4DAM charter and intend 
to participate in the Technical Committee.

I am especially interested in the metadata feature of DAM as this could 
provide important new functionality beyond that provided by CMIS.

- I, Sascha Homeier <shomeier at meyle-mueller.de>, as Merle+Mueller's 
Primary Representative, support the proposed CMIS4DAM charter and intend 
to participate in the Technical Committee.

I think this work is worth doing because I really value the parent 
standard CMIS and its benefits and during my work on implementing a CMIS 
server and several CMIS clients I noticed that CMIS does not cover some 
points which we, at Meyle+Mueller as DAM vendor, would like to address. 
This mainly includes services to get previews (proxy images/renditions) 
and workflow support.

Provided that such a profile gets widely adopted I personally think it 
offers good prospects in respect to interoperability. This also was the 
main reason why we decided to integrate CMIS: Our DAM can easily ‘speak’ 
with other systems.

(2)(f) TC Convener  

Ralph Windsor, Individual, ralph at daydream.co.uk

(2)(g) OASIS Member Section  

N/A

(2)(h) Anticipated Contributions  

N/A

(2)(i) FAQ Document  

N/A

(2)(j) Work Product Titles and Acronyms  

N/A

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