Fedora 4 :Introduction and Overview
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Fedora is a flexible, extensible repository platform for the management and dissemination of digital content. Fedora 4, the new, revitalized version of Fedora, was released into production in November. This significant release signals the effectiveness of an international and complex community driven open source project delivering a modern repository platform with features that meet or exceed current use cases in the management of institutional digital assets. Fedora 4 features include vast improvements in scalability, linked data capabilities, research data support, modularity, ease of use and more. This webinar will provide an overview of Fedora 4 with a focus on the latest features and developments.
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Fedora 4 :Introduction and Overview
- 1. Fedora 4: Introduction and Overview David Wilcox, DuraSpace Fedora Product Manager DuraSpace
- 2. What is Fedora? Flexible Extensible Durable Object Repository Architecture Open, community source software Stores, preserves, and provides access to digital objects Designed to integrate with other applications Hydra and Islandora are popular front-ends
- 3. Fedora 4 Project Goals Improved performance Flexible storage options Research data management Linked open data support Improved platform for developers
- 4. 2014 Fedora Members (63) Arizona State University Libraries Brown University Library Case Western Reserve University Libraries Charles Darwin University Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) Columbia University Library Cornell University Docuteam GmbH Durham University Emory University FIZ Karlsruhe George Washington University Ghent University Library Gothenburg University Library Indiana University ICPSR Johns Hopkins University Libraries La Trobe University London School of Economics & Political Science LYRASIS Macquarie University National Library of Medicine National Library of Wales National Research Council of Canada Northeastern University Libraries Northwestern University Libraries Ohio State Oregon State Pennsylvania State University Princeton University Rutgers University Libraries Smithsonian Institution, Office of Research Infomation Services Stanford University State and University Library of Denmark Technical University of Denmark The Art Institute of Chicago Tufts University University of Alberta University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Barbara University of Cincinnati University of Connecticut Libraries University of Hull University of Lausanne University of Manitoba University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries University of New South Wales University of Notre Dame University of North Carolina University of Oklahoma University of Pittsburgh University of Oxford University of Prince Edward Island University of Rochester Libraries University of Texas Libraries Austin University of Toronto University of Virginia University of Western Sydney University of Wisconsin University of York Uppsala University Yale University York University
- 5. Membership Revenue is Growing $- $100,000 $200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 $600,000 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
- 8. Standards Focus on existing standards Fewer customizations to maintain Opportunities to participate in related communities
- 9. Linked Data Fedora 4 conforms to the LDP 1.0 recommendation Metadata can be represented as RDF triples that point to resources inside and outside the repository Many possibilities for sharing resources with the broader web
- 10. Benefits of LDP and Linked Data Interoperability: ● Between different Fedora implementations ● Between Fedora and LDP clients ● Between Fedora and linked data services And especially: Discoverability
- 11. Core Features and Standards Create/Read/Update/Delete - Linked Data Platform Versioning - Memento Authorization - XACML, WebAC Transactions Fixity Import/Export - RDF
- 14. External Component Integrations Apache Camel component processes event messages ● Indexing for search applications ● Support for external triplestores
- 17. Metrics A number of scalability tests have been run: Uploaded a 1 TB file via REST API 16 million objects via projection 10 million objects via REST API
- 18. Clustering 2+ Fedora instances can be clustered together Support for high-availability use cases Can also support redundancy
- 19. Fedora 4 documentation Fedora 4 wiki Fedora 4 mailing lists Useful Resources