Fedora: A Year in Review
David Wilcox
Andrew Woods
Membership and Adoption
2015 Fedora Members by Level
2014 Fedora Members by Level
Funding Over Time
Fedora 4 Adopters
Development
Fedora Committers
Ben Armintor, Columbia University
Chris Beer, Stanford University
Aaron Coburn, Amherst College
Esmé Cowles, Princeton University
Osman Din, Yale University
Mike Durbin, University of Virginia
Nick Ruest, York University
Adam Soroka, University of Virginia
Jared Whiklo, University of Manitoba
Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
Core Releases
Fedora 4.0 (Nov 27/2014): First production release
Fedora 4.1 (Feb 4/2015): Camel Component
Fedora 4.1.1 (Mar 27/2015): Released by Mike Durbin
Fedora 4.2 (May 19/2015): Audit Service
Fedora 4.3 (July 24/2015): Released by Nick Ruest
Fedora 4.4 (Oct 12/2015): Web Access Control
Camel Component
Well-established Apache project
Middleware for integrating with external systems
Can handle any asynchronous, event-driven workflow
Audit Service
Maintains a history of events for each repository resource using the existing event system and an external triplestore
Both internal repository events and events from external sources can be recorded
Designed and developed by the community
Web Access Control
W3C standard for linked data based authorization
Opportunity for interoperable access control
Designed and implemented via community participation
API Extension Architecture
Community approach to extending Fedora 4
Bulk ingest, Ingest pre-processing, Content model validation, etc.
Currently reviewing use cases and looking for more stakeholders
Asynchronous Storage
Support for high-latency storage systems
e.g. Amazon Glacier, HSM, Tape
Manage large datasets
Currently collecting use cases
Performance and Scalability
Stakeholders interested in testing performance and scalability
Need to establish clear categories for testing
Currently establishing process for testing and benchmarking
Hydra/Islandora Interoperability
Hydra and Islandora on a common Fedora 4 repository
Focus on PCDM as a data model
Strong interest in doing common tasks the same way
Roadmap
Closer alignment with LDP
Identifying and aligning with community standards
Shrinking and maintaining the codebase
Training
Fedora 4 Workshops
13 one-day workshops in 2015
400+ participants
Highly successful Vagrant/Virtualbox VM
Re-usable materials
Fedora Camp
41 participants
3 instructors (plus David and Andrew)
Re-usable materials/curriculum
Next camp already scheduled at Caltech in April
Attributions
“Camel in Saharan Desert” by Wildlife Wanderer, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wildlifewanderer/12797259525
“Hunting History…” by Vinoth Chandar, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/vinothchandar/8053137993
“Locked” by Karol Franks, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/karolfranks/15136260663
“Ladder” by Georgios Karamanis, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/karamanis/1106389375
“Glaciers of Graham Land” by David Stanley, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidstanleytravel/16073407809
“scale” by Anjan Chatterjee, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/anjan58/4688619057
“365-211” by Canned Muffins, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/cmuffins/5101164988
“The workshop” by highlights6, Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/highlights6/14699054200