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Fedora "Create" Community: Working together to Get Stuff Done
(formerly Solutions Integration Community)
Regardless of how we are using Fedora, or what types of content we are putting into it, we all have a number of common technical challenges that we must all overcome. One of the greatest strengths of Fedora Commons is the fact that it has an active and innovative community of software architects, developers, archivists and librarians working to tackle those challenges in ways that range from pragmatic to visionary.
We've formed a Solutions Community around identifying, documenting, discussing, and solving these technical challenges that we must all face. If
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Challenge Areas
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Until then, let's get to work.
Challenge Areas
These are areas of technical difficulty that we are all facing together. For each of these topics, there are at least a handful of people who are actively working to reduce these challenges to non-issues. Are you one of those people? If you are, make sure we all know about your work, and make sure it's reflected here on the wiki.
- Indexing and Search
- User Management & Access Controls
- Filtering Search Results by Access Rights
- Scalability, Replication, Redundancy and Failover
- Backups and Disaster Recovery
- Content Modeling and the CMA
- Writing Client Applications for Fedora: Choosing Frameworks, Languages, etc.
- Managing Large Files
- Video
- ORE & Atom
- Workflow (people-based)
- Workflow (service orchestration)
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These are areas of technical interest that the Fedora Community takes special interest in discussing
- Choosing Frontend UI and/or programming languages, and when to write one from scratch
- Understanding the technological differences between Fedora and other Repository or Content Management Systems.
- Understanding the Fedora Data Model
- SOA/WOA best practices
- RDF Best Practices
- Metadata Best Practices
Resources
Wiki: Fedora Developers Forum
Fedora Commons Developers Mailing List
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Many developers working with Fedora maintain blogs. They also actively refer to the blogs of other developers working in related fields.
- Fedora Commons Developers Blog: Fedora Commons Developer Team
- Your Metadata Sucks: Chris Wilper, Senior Developer at Fedora Commons
- Less Talk More Code: Ben O'Steen, Oxford University, Creator of Python client code for Fedora
- MediaShelf Blog: Matt Zumwalt, Steward of the Solutions Integration Council, creator of ActiveFedora, RubyFedora and Fedora's REST API
- Disruptive Library Technology Jester: Peter Murray, OhioLink
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Visit the recommended reading, which contains some recommended posts from many of these blogs (this is only updated periodically).
Presentations
- NLM Digital Repository Server Architecture - This presentation is from the Washington, DC Fedora User's Group meeting in January 2011, and describes NLM's server architecture and approach to redundancy, replication and failover in the initial implementation of NLM's repository.