Fedora in a nutshell Laurents Sesink Odense 11/12 september 2008 Laurents Sesink Odense 11/12 september 2008

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Fedora in a nutshell


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Fedora stands for


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Fedora is a software
architecture for the
• Creation
• Management
• Publication
• Sharing and
• Preservation
Of digital (research) data


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Fedora is also software....

Fedora Redhat linux

Fedora archival software


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History of Fedora 1/2
• 1997 – Research project by Sandy
Payette en Carl Lagoze
• 1998 – Public prototype by Cornell
university
• 1999 – Publications over the
architecture by Sandra Payette and Carl
Lagoze
• 2000 – Thornton Staples of Virginia
university is building a prototype to
handle 3 m objects
• 2001 - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
grants $1.000.000
• Mai 2003 – Fedora is born!


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History of Fedora 2/2
• 2004 – Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation grants $1.4M
• Juli 2007 –Fedora-commons
foundation is bron with a
grant of $4.9M from the
Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation
• December 2007 - Release
of Fedora v3.0b with the
Content Model Architecture.
• April 2008 – Release of the
Fedora roadmap


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Fedora software
• Back-end, server-side
software
• Different front-ends available
• Service Oriented Architecture
• Java, platform independent
• Open-source (Educational
Community License)
• Tools available
• Easy to install


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Fedora’s 3 mainfunctions
1. Storage
– Archive technology assures digital longivety and
integrety of digital data
2. Semantics
– Semantic relations between objects describe the
context of the object
3. Services
– Added technologies (authentication –
searchfunctionalities).

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Storage
– Archive technology assures digital longivety and
integrety of digital data


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Digital object

Visualisation of the
object


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Semantics
– Semantic relations between objects describe the
context of the object


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Metadata
Annotatie

© Institut Catholique, Paris, France
Slide author: Matthias Razum, Fiz
Karlsruhe, Germany

Annotatie

Transcriptie

Metadata

Vertaling

Metadata


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Services
– Added technologies (authentication –
searchfunctionalities).


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Fedora Services
•Information networks
•Contextualisation
•Relations
•Questions

•Version management
•Management
•Access
•Dissemination

•Authentication
•Authorisation
•Communication
•Standards
•Messaging

•Integrety checks
•Pure disk storage
•Audittrails and logs
•Replication


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Users
•Consortia
•University
•Government
•Medical centra
•Library
•Learned society
•Research group
•Archive
•Company
•Publisher


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Consortia
ARROW Project
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE)
OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons
Open Access Repositories in New Zealand
Corporations
Acuity Unlimited
Aptivate
Atos Origin
FIZ Karlsruhe
Func. Internet Integration, Netherlands
Harris Corporation
MediaShelf, LLC
Octagon Data Systems
Sun Microsystems - Honeycomb Group
Swiss Education and Research Network (SWITCH)
VTLS, Inc.
WebOPAC Application Pvt. Ltd.
Government Agencies
EntidadPublicaEmpresarialRed.es
KennisnetIct op school, Netherlands
Medical Centers and Libraries
Cornell University - College of Veterinary Medicine
Duke University - Medical Center Archives
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Department of Surgery
Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Museums and Cultural Organizations
AMOS
Chicago Museum of History - Encyclopedia of Chicago
Missouri Botanical Gardens (MOBOT)
National Theatre of Northern Greece

National/Public Libraries and Archives
Alberta Library (TAL)
e-SpacioUNED
Library of Congress
National Library of Australia
National Library of Estonia
National Library of France / Bibliothèquenationale de France (BnF)
National Library of Portugal
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Singapore
National Library of Slovakia
National Library of Sweden
LlyfrgellGenedlaetholCymru / National Library of Wales
New York Public Library
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
The State and University Library of Denmark
Publishing
CiteSeer
Digital Peer Publishing (DiPP)
Digital Publishing System (DPubS)
Public Library of Science (PLoS
Research Groups and Projects
Archaeological Data Service
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
California State University Los Angeles - CoolStateLAEnterpise System
Columbia University - Center for International Earth Science Information Network
DART Project
eSciDoc Project - Max Planck Society and FIZ Karlsruhe
Kings College London - Center for e-Research
Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research
Oxford University - Refugee Studies Center
RAMP Project
UK Data Service


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Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
Athens Archaeological Society
IT-Related Institutions
Cornell University - Cornell Information Technologies
Northwestern University - Academic Technologies
Purdue University - Information Technology
University of Queensland - Information Technology Services
University of Sydney
University of Virginia - Information Technology and Communications

University Libraries and Archives
Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham
Arizona State University - Library
Brown University - Library
Case Western Reserve University - Kelvin Smith Library
Central Queensland University
Charles Darwin University
Columbia College Chicago
Deakin University
Emory University - Library
Glasgow Caledonian University - Saltire Centre
Hamilton College
Indiana University - Library
Johns Hopkins University - Library
LaTrobe University
Macquarie University
Monash University - Library
Murdoch University
New York University - The Humanities Computing Group
Northwestern University - Library
Oxford University - Library Services
Princeton University
Purdue University

Queensland University of Technology
Rhodes College
Rutgers University - Library
Swinburne University
Technical University of Denmark
Tufts University - The Digital Collections and Archives Department
UHI Millennium Institute
UniversiteCatholique de Louvain
University College Dublin - IVRLA
University of Alberta
University of Athens - Libraries Computer Center
University of Ballarat
University of Delaware
University of Hull
University of London - The Bloomsbury Colleges Consortium
University of Mary Washington
University of Maryland - Library
Semantic and Virtual Library Projects
University of New Castle
Carnegie Foundation
University of New England
Biodiversity Heritage Library
University of New South Wales
Encyclopedia of Chicago
University of North Carolina
Encyclopedia of Life
University of Prince Edward Island
National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
University of Queensland
Open Learning Exchange Nepal
University of South Australia
University of Southern Queensland
University of the Sunshine Coast
University of Virginia - Library
University of Western Sydney
Utdanning.no
Yale University - Arabic and Middle Eastern Electronic Library
Yale University - Electronic Records Archive
University of York


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Why do users choose Fedora?
Poll 2006
1. Flexible, extensible and open
2. An architecture to build on
3. Institutional and consortium need to work
with open source software
4. Peer development opportunities
5. Service based architecture
6. Technical evaluation of appropriateness for
research repositories
http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/roadreports/2007/02/01/nsdl-presentations-at-open-repositories-2007/


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Statistics





124 registerd Fedora users
20.000 downloads in 2007
Now 2.000 downloads per month
Best known Fedora installation: NSDL
– The National Science Digital Library
– 5.000.000+ objects
– 250.000.000+ tripples
• Fedora 3.0 50m objecten


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Activities
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Open-source software development
Open Standards
Service Oriented Architecture

Open-source community building
Cooperations
Registries
Newsletter
Fedora user meetings
Mailinglists

Organisation
Requirements
Architecture
Roadmap


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Open-source Projects
1. Fedora Repository Project
– The original Fedora project

2. Mulgara Triplestore Project
– tripples database

3. Topaz Project
– Java component for semantische mappings

4. Fedora Middleware Project

Under construction

Under construction

5. Akubra Storage Project


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Model inspired by the eclipse foundation


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Front-end
Fedora = Back-end
Front-end’s are available


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System integraters


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Fedora front-ends









Muradora
Fez
PubMan
Flori
Vital VTLS
VUE
RepoMMan
Elated


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Online
• Websites:
– www.fedora-commons.org
– www.fedora.info

• Mailing lists:
– Fedora commons users
– Fedora commons developers

• Wiki
– www.fedora.info/wiki