Euro Fedora User Meeting 2005 - 09:20 - Fedora Project Update

Fedora Project Update (PowerPoint)
Sandy Payette

version 2.1 of Fedora embodies the full core system they had envisioned

Fedora for Digital Archives and Records Management

interest in RDF capabilities

designed so that modules can be replaced

improved OAI provider service coming in 2.1, can also be used separately

objects stored as FOXML (Fedora Object XML)

variety of ingest/export formats
- FOXML, METS, METS 1.4, MPEG21 DIDL

Fedora 2.1
- introduce Fedora Service Framework (services distributed as part of the official distribution)
guarantee compatibility as Fedora evolves
- intro PROAI (OAI Provider Service) ? on sourceforge now ?
- intro directory ingest service

Authentication and Authorization improvements

* AuthN plugins
- HTTP basic auth
- Tomcat realms and login modules

* SSL

* AuthZ
- XML-based policies using XACML

developing a user interface for policy building

RDF-based Resource Index (RI)

* ontology of common relationships
* stored in Resource Index
- automatic index (using Kowari triple-store)

* RI search (search the repository as a graph)

* new in Fedora 2.1 for Resource Index
- scale and performance testing (NSDL 2 million objects, > 100 million triples)

RDF relaxed rules now permits relating to objects outside a specific repository.

There is a plan for federation and naming services.

improved logging using log4j

handle system plugin for PID generation

you can rebuiild the entire repository by crawling the FOXML,
there is now a Rebuild Utility for Repository Indices

FedoraClient utility class for building new (SOAP) clients

Fedora Future

2006
- better interface: FIRE client
- BPEL workflow engine
- advanced Fedora search
- preservation integrity
2007
- federation pid resolution
- preservation monitoring
- event notification (pub/sub)

Pathways InterDisseminator
- OpenURL access point

- "content model" specification language
- advanced object creation workbenches
- Shibboleth and Web Services security

Community Working Groups

- Preservation (Rutgers)
- Workflow (Peter Murray, OhioLink)
- Outreach (Rutgers)
  = improve Fedora web site
  = collaboration environment - Wiki, Confluence, other?
- Content Model Working Group (under charter)

There is a Fedora Advisory Board.
- define sustainability model

* there are collaborative development opportunties

* will put up a page on http://www.fedora.info/ for user-contributed tools