Fedora open source software gives organizations a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content. At its core is a powerful digital object model that supports multiple views of each digital object and the relationships among digital objects. Digital objects can encapsulate locally-managed content or make reference to remote content. Dynamic views are possible by associating web services with objects. Digital objects exist within a repository architecture that supports a variety of management functions. All functions of Fedora, both at the object and repository level, are exposed as web services. These functions can be protected with fine-grained access control policies.
This unique combination of features makes Fedora an attractive solution in a variety of domains. Some examples of applications that are built upon Fedora include library collections management, multimedia authoring systems, archival repositories, institutional repositories, and digital libraries for education.
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News About Fedora
Fedora 2.2 is available for download
The Fedora Development Team is pleased to announce that Fedora v2.2 is available for download. This milestone release includes a complete repackaging of the source and binary distribution, many new features and enhancements, performance tuning, and a number of bug fixes. Complete information on the changes in this release can be found in the Release Notes.
The Fedora User Group Conference
The Fedora User Group Conference will be held in conjunction with Open Repositories 2007 (openrepositories.org/) in San Antonio (January 23-26, 2007). The overall conference theme is "Achieving Interoperability in an Open World". The Fedora program is available online now at
openrepositories.org/program/fedora.
The Fedora Wiki is now available
The Fedora Wiki is now available. The wiki is a work in progress, but users of UVa/Cornell Fedora are invited to create user accounts and begin making use of this community workspace. The main page of the wiki can be accessed at www.fedora.info/wiki/index.php
Tools section of the website is now active
The first listing of tools available for download is now up in the Tools section. If you have an open-source client application, service, or utility that you would like listed on the Fedora website, please contact Sandy Payette.