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Should state how OCFL can work with Object Stores

Open neilsjefferies opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

Increasingly people are being pressed to use things like S3 for "preservation". We therefore need to explicitly say how OCFL can work with them. I know the detail has to be worked out for V2 but there are probably three points we can make right now:

  1. Abtraction between logical and storage paths in inventories allows logical file paths to be mapped to object ID's.

  2. Choice of UID to OCFL Object path mapping allows whole OCFL objects to have a flat mapping for whole object storage.

  3. Inventory based versioning is a higher level abstraction for complex objects rather than per-component versioning.

However, I don't think OCFL can promise to solve all the problems of choosing such an approach. I'm not sure recoverability from a raw set of S3 objects is possible.

neilsjefferies avatar Sep 17 '19 14:09 neilsjefferies

Decided: there is language in the introduction of V1 that addresses this. We will look at this later for V2.

rosy1280 avatar Oct 02 '19 16:10 rosy1280

Current implementation notes https://ocfl.io/1.1/implementation-notes/#an-example-approach-to-updating-ocfl-object-versions are written in the language of filesystem implementation. There is opportunity to be more helpful for those implementing over object stores

zimeon avatar Feb 02 '23 16:02 zimeon

Refer to #522 #526 #605 #521 for relevant user experiences/comments.

neilsjefferies avatar Feb 02 '23 16:02 neilsjefferies