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Over the last two weeks we’ve been discussing specific implementations, and one of the more complicated scenarios deserves a post here: data brokers. When we say data broker, what we mean is an intermediary who specializes in providing persistent, reliable “data hosting” for providers. Most suppliers are not going to have the in-house team, resources,… Continue reading Data Brokers and Sandpiper

Our call is on for today, Friday the 21st of January 2022, at our usual time, 10:00am US Central. We’ll discuss the updates from this week as well as implementation scenarios for Sandpiper — in general our technical calls are now going to skew more towards implementation, until we get to 1.0 proper, after which… Continue reading Technical Call Agenda 2022-01-21

After some more discussions on the technical call, and excellent questions from the team at APA Engineering, I’ve filled out more of the Plan and Interaction Model sections of the documentation. In particular I’ve described how every Actor should have a persistent UUID as opposed to objects in the Data Model. It’s an important point… Continue reading Updates and the Road to 1.0

Welcome back to the new year! Our technical call is on for the usual time (10:00am US Central) tomorrow (Friday the 7th of January 2022). This week we’re going to discuss the message codes that I’ve checked into the development branch. To recap, Sandpiper provides a “message” property in its JSON responses. This can contain… Continue reading Technical Call Agenda 2022-01-07

I’m unable to attend this week’s tech call, and next week is Christmas Eve in many parts of the world, so let’s adjourn early for the holidays. Please feel free to reach out one-on-one if there are any urgent questions or topics you have! Thank you all for the many insights, and the issues you’ve… Continue reading No Technical Call 2021-12-17 & 2021-12-24

This week I’ve been buried putting out a few fires, so I don’t have much to share as far as updates go. We’ve had some good discussions in the intervening week and still plan to meet today, with a loose agenda after a brief recap. Please feel free to join us at the Teams Link… Continue reading Topics for Technical Call 2021-12-10

We’re resuming our technical calls tomorrow, Friday the 3rd of December (10:00am US Central). This week we’ll summarize the plan proposal workflow documentation from last week, then move on to the pieces necessary to enable Level 2 synchronization for the L2 deliverable in 1.0: digital assets and other file-grain-based approaches. This category of data is… Continue reading Topics for Technical Call 2021-12-03

As this weekend is the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, Friday is going to be a vacation day for most of our US collaborators. For that reason we’re going to skip the 2021-11-26 Friday technical call and come back for the 2021-12-03 following meeting. Thank you all for the great discussion last week!