Fedora Filling the “Sweet Spot” in the Information Landscape Sandy Payette Co-Director, Fedora Project Researcher, Cornell Information Science
Fedora is enabling technology for… Scholarly Workbenches New Models of Publication Museums and Education Collaborative Information Spaces
Must avoid the pitfalls of ignoring the underpinnings of our exciting new applications… Scholarly Applications Digital Libraries Web 2.0 Applications Fedora provides flexible, robust repository underpinnings to enable management, integrity and longevity of scholarly, cultural, and scientific information.
Fedora – Core Services Integration Digital Objects Manage Access Versioning Storage Information Networks Relate Objects Contextualize Inference Query Repository Semantic Enterprise Preservation Integrity Monitoring Alerting Migration Replication Workflow Messaging Transactions
Fedora Basics – Digital Objects, Repositories, Semantic Technology Flexible Digital Object Model, with versioning Stable and scalable XML-based storage Simple web service interfaces to manage and access information Focus on interoperability, integrity, longevity of information RDF index of repository facilitates powerful query/discovery XML-based Digital Object Store RDF-based Repository Index Relationships Core and custom properties Dublin Core
Generic, Flexible Building Blocks: Digital Objects with Relationships
Use Case: scholarly objects and annotation in the humanities URI-100 Xx:interprets URI-55 yy:certifies scholarly objects museum objects commercial web content
Fedora Community
Arts and Humanities
Sciences Education
Status in a Nutshell Fedora 2.2 Released Next 1st Architecture Summit Packaged as .war Selective versioning Search Service Replication Service Checksums New scalable triplestore Next Enterprise orientation Dynamic service binding Fedora Commons non-profit org 1st Architecture Summit 15 community invitees First step toward collaborative design and development outside core team New system requirements Shared prioritization Commitment to co-develop
Fedora Commons Non-Profit Fedora Timeline 2001 2005 Now Q4 2007 Q2 2009 2010 2011 onward Fedora Phase 1 and 2 Core Repository Semantic Technologies Service Framework Fedora Enterprise Workflow Engine and Supporting Tools Message-Oriented Middleware and ESB Scholarly Middleware positioning Fedora Commons Non-Profit Technical: Evolve Semantic-Repo-Service Platform Community Building: Foster and Outreach Business Model: Secure ongoing funding sources
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