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The most recent OCFL editors call took place on Tuesday, July 2. Notes and audio June 18. Notes are available online. This call included reflections from Open Repositories, what the spec says about "versions in-process", upcoming face-to-face meeting at Stanford to set scope for version-2...0.0, reopening some GitHub issues that are in-scope for future versions of the OCFL, and new OCFL artwork!
Please join the ocfl-community mailing list for further updates.
Islandora 8
The Islandora Foundation released Islandora 8 version 1.0.0 last month. This is an important milestone for the Islandora project - built using Drupal 8 and Fedora 5, Islandora 8 faithfully integrates the two as invisibly as possible, giving an experience that is both more Drupal-y and more Fedora-y at the same time. Islandora 8 unlocks all of Drupal's features along with its entire ecosystem of contributed modules, all the while quietly preserving your metadata in a Fedora 5 repository behind the scenes.
If you would like to try Islandora 8 for yourself, there are three options:
- A sandbox of version 1.0.0 is available to play with at future.islandora.ca.
- A virtualbox VM is available for download here.
- You can install a development or production environment with the Ansible playbook, which has a corresponding 1.0.0 release.
Conferences and events
In an attempt to simplify the task of keeping up with Fedora-related meetings and events, a Fedora calendar is available to the community as HTML and iCal .
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iPRES is the premier and longest-running conference series on digital preservation. This year's conference will be held in Amsterdam on September 16-20. The program features a Fedora workshop and a presentation on Fedora 6, which will include support for the OCFL. Please register in advance to attend.
Past Events
Islandora Camp Switzerland
Islandora Camp went to Switzerland for the first time this summer, with a three-day camp hosted by Lib4RI - Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH domain: Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL, and located at Eawag. You can see the full schedule (and as many set of presentation slides as we could gather) here.
Fedora Camp Atlanta
The latest Fedora Camp was held in Atlanta, GA at Emory University in May. Camp participants got a detailed introduction to Fedora, including hands-on feature walkthroughs and discussions about the next major version of the software. Slides and notes can be found on the event page.
Open Repositories
The annual Open Repositories conference took place June 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany. The program included many Fedora-related workshops, presentations, and panels, and the event was followed by a Fedora User Group meeting...