DLF Developers' Roundtable

This morning I attended the DLF Fall Forum Developers' Roundtable discussion. It's a technical forum intended for the discussion of common technical issues. The format of the meeting allows for each attendee to give an informal response to the prompting points: (1) cool new technology of interest; (2) over-hyped technology; and, (3) opportunities for collaboration.

I gave a response talking about the our IT architecture report, the single-business approach, service-oriented architecture, REST-based services, VuFind, AONS II, workflow analysis (BPMN) and Ruby on Rails; also mentioned that a variety of discovery systems is overhyped when a more single business approach would be better, and that there are opportunities for collaboration within the digital preservation community.

General themes were: the use of Ruby on Rails, OpenSocial API, SOA/enterprise architecture, and a tool called Twine; and Google overhyped, iPhone/gPhone overhyped, social networking tools overhyped. There was no real consensus on ideas for collaboration. It appears a number of people are using Ruby on Rails, and looking at OpenSocial API, some looking at enterprise architecture and SOA.