Fedora Content Model WorkshopKarlsruhe, May 4-5, 2006 The 2-day workshop hosted by FIZ Karlsruhe was attended by 23 participants from all over Europe. Invited speakers were Sandy Payette (Fedora Co-Director) and Carl Lagoze (NSDL). The Thursday morning session started with presentations by Sandy covering an overview of Fedora Content Models and some examples of existing models (ARROW, University of Virginia, and Encyclopedia of Chicago). The afternoon was given over to presentations by the participants. Each presentation shortly depicted their current work with Fedora and some content model related questions and issues:
On Friday morning, Carl gave an overview on the content model of the NSDL. The rest of the day was spent with discussions on what is currently possible with Fedora's ability to handle content models, what is desirable, and what needs to be changed in Fedora to better accommodate for content models. Sandy gave an overview of the core developer team's current thinking of a http__--www.cs.cornell.edu-payette-fedora-designs-cmda- Content Model Dissemination Architecture. During the wrap-up of the workshop, many participants expressed their interest in a Fedora Content Model Working Group, but sadly nobody volunteered in chairing such a Working Group. (But see below) With respect to the ongoing discussion on the mailing list regarding content models, we created some more general pages on content models and invite everybody to share their thoughts and maybe content models with the community.
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