[SCC_Active_Members] Material on Fedora repository

[Paula Newman]

The two best sites I've found containing up-to-date Fedora info are 
  -  The proceedings, in slide form, of the May 2005 Fedora users group conference,
         http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/fedora_conf_2005/program.html
 -  A fedora information page,
       http://www.fedora.info/

  A fast net of the content is that Fedora is indeed a very interesting vehicle, but still seems to be somewhere between a framework and a system.  The current users have all put a great deal of work into creating local extensions of  the available software fo create systems for their specific purposes.   I'll try to put together 10 minutes or so worth of slides culled from the above sources, and can show them  tomorrow evening if there is interest (and time)

Paula

----- Original Message ----- 
From: H.M. Gladney 
To: SCC at CHM
Sent: 1/9/2006 8:39:05 AM 
Subject: [SCC_Active_Members] Repository evaluation at Johns Hopkins Univ.


FYI

At http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/choudhury/12choudhury.html  you can read:

"JHU was already experimenting with Fedora and had tested ingestion of content into DSpace. The opportunity to get more hands-on experience with the facilities of these two open source efforts was an additional motivator. At a higher level, though, we were even more interested in the possibility of implementing a layer of abstraction (an application programming interface or API) over existing repository applications. Such an abstraction would allow other applications to interact with at least some facilities of a repository without knowing with which repository application (e.g., DSpace, Fedora) it is interacting. The AIHT gave us an opportunity to test the feasibility of constructing such a layer and to determine the ease with which such a layer could be applied in practice. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we are conducting a technology analysis of repositories and services to continue and build on this work. More information is available on our project wiki.1 "

See the project wiki at https://wiki.library.jhu.edu/display/RepoAnalysis/ProjectRepository

Best wishes, Henry

H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.     http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/   
HMG Consulting
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