1. Fedora Filling the “Sweet Spot” in the Information Landscape
Sandy Payette
Co-Director, Fedora Project
Researcher, Cornell Information Science

2. Fedora is enabling technology for…
Scholarly Workbenches
New Models of Publication
Museums and Education
Collaborative Information Spaces

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. Generic, Flexible Building Blocks: Digital Objects with Relationships

7. Use Case: scholarly objects and annotation in the humanities
URI-100
Xx:interprets
URI-55
yy:certifies
scholarly objects
museum objects
commercial web content

8. Fedora Community

9. Arts and Humanities

10. Sciences
Education

11. 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

12. 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

13. Fedora Web Site www. fedora. info Community Open Source Tools www
Fedora Web Site Community Open Source Tools Fedora Wiki