1. Five fantastic Fedora Commons projects in five minutes, in no particular order Carol Minton Morris Communications Director National Science Digital Library, Fedora Commons Cornell University

2. Fedora: Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture, or as Mark Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island, University Librarian describes it....

4. 1. Which begs the question: Can Fedora really run a University?

7. Fedora, enables the creation of durable, reusable and independent resources for a new kind of scholar who does not yet know how they will be used to create warranted knowledge in the future.

8. Fedora Commons, home of Fedora software, is at the intersection of key social and technical trends: Open Scholarly Contexts Technical Contexts scholarly publication service-oriented e-scholarship web 2.0 collaborative digital library semantic web e-science web 3.0 museums

9. The Fedora Commons community consists of: Consortia Corporations Government Agencies Medical Centers National Libraries and Archives Professional Societies Publishers Research Groups and Projects Semantic and Virtual Library Projects University IT Departments University Libraries and Archives

10. NSDL is also at the intersection of social and technical trends. The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) uses Fedora to create a semantic educational layer on top of over 2.5 M repository objects in support of new forms of e- scholarship. Connections between content items are captured and stored in Fedora as semantic relationships describing both the linkage and its meaning.

11. 2.What if you could provide a set of high quality, vetted resources aligned to standards so that teachers could create their own on-the-fly classroom eZines?

14. 3.Wouldn’t it be cool if you could mix and match scholarly repository resources with other stuff from the web?

20. 4. Can popular culture assets be made available for scholarly research while managing intellectual property rights?

23. 5.Wouldn’t it be great to use freely available technology like Google Maps to mash-up repository holdings with geographic location information to add additional semantic meaning to resources?

25. While Rob Chavez was at Tufts University, where Fedora is used to manage digital collections, he experimented with using Fedora data streams to disseminate repository content in a way that Google Earth could use: Fedora allows repository managers to model and manage data in such a way that familiar tools —Google Earth—can access and provide context for loads of Fedora managed data. The content itself can aggregate even more Fedora managed content. Next steps: to use the same tools to aggregate this data temporarily—time and space browser of Fedora data— to manipulate the data and push it back to Fedora.

26. Questions? Open Repositories 2008, Call for Papers--Dec. 7, 2007 http://or08.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ Carol Minton Morris, Communications and Media Director cmmorris@ fedora-commons.orgcmmorris@ fedora-commons.org (607) 255-2702