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- Yinlin Chen
- Kevin S. Clarke
- Unknown User (acoburn)
- Unknown User (escowles@ucsd.edu)
- Osman Din
- Michael Durbin
- James R. Griffin III
- Unknown User (daniel-dgi)
- Sébastien Leroux
- Nick Ruest
- Rob Sanderson
- Hélder Silva
- A. Soroka
- Jared Whiklo
- Andrew Woods
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- Kevin S. Clarke
- Unknown User (acoburn)
- Hector Correa
- Stefano Cossu
- Unknown User (escowles@ucsd.edu)
- Justin Coyne
- Michael Durbin
- James R. Griffin III
- Nick Ruest
- Rob Sanderson
- A. Soroka
- Trey Pendragon
- Andrew Woods
Summary
The focus of the Fedora 4.3.0 release was ...furthers several major objectives:
- Move Fedora towards a clear set of standards-based services
- Move Fedora towards runtime configurability
- Improve support tooling for upgration from Fedora 3.x to 4.x
- Improve support for participation in the semantic web
- Fix bugs
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Updates
Strategic Direction
Fedora is moving towards a tightly defined, standards-based, set of RESTful services that are supplemented with a pattern of integrating message-driven, asynchronous services for non-core capabilities. The 4.3.0 release includes several updates that move the software in that direction.
- Aligning with LDP [5] by
- Returning a 400 response when illegal triples are not persisted
- Advertising constraints in responses when an update request fails due to a repository constraint
- Showing inbound references for indirectly contained resources
- Tightening the core repository services by
- Forbidding the update of resources that are not the target of the request
- Removing the leakage of the underlying UUID to repository clients
- Allowing "mimeType" and "filename" properties to be mutable
- Moving towards full OSGi [6] deployability for runtime configuration and feature activation
- Ensuring modules are property packaged as OSGi bundles
- Ensuring modules are importing and exporting correct dependencies and services
- Creating a Fedora features.xml for dependable deployment into Apache Karaf [7]
- Enhancing external services with the Apache Camel [8] integration framework by
- Adding a "reindex" endpoint
- Adding a "fixity" invocation service
- Adding support to the REST API for the JSON-LD "Accept" header "profile" parameter
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A primary focus of the ongoing Fedora effort is to facilitate the upgrade/migration of Fedora3 repositories to Fedora4. To those ends, a number of improvements have been incorporated into the "migration-utils [9]" upgration utility.
- Packaging the utility as a standalone executable application
- Using opaque identifiers for migrated resources
- Adding support for user-provided RDF namespace mappings
- Providing specific mappings of Fedora3 to Fedora4 properties
- Improving support for migrating resources with non-existent datastreams
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After the completion of the Audit Service [10] sprints this spring, there remained two items to be completed:
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One of the primary goals of Fedora is to participate as a first-class member in the world of linked data. Two updates are included in the 4.3.0 release related to that goal:
- Cleaning the Fedora ontology [11] by removing the obsolete "fedora:Blanknode" class
- Creating a JSON-LD @context file for the Portland Common Data Model [12] ontology
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Fedora Java Client
The Fedora Java Client library [13] was updated for this release by
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Housekeeping and Bugfixes
Numerous refactorings, bugfixes, and clean-up tasks were addressed in this release. Some of the highlights include:
- Using more Java8 idioms
- Returning a 403 response code when trying to create a resource under a PairTree element
- Returning a 400 response code when trying to create a resource with an empty element, i.e. "//"
- Updating library dependencies
- Improving wiki and source documentation
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[1] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FF/Downloads [2] http://docs.fcrepo.org [3] https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo4-upgrade-utils/releases/tag/fcrepo4-upgrade-utils-4.3.0 [4] https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo4-upgrade-utils/blob/cc77a50b3fac62f791ce2d4fa17cc6b5cfc3ea33/README.md [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/ [6] http://www.osgi.org/Technology/WhatIsOSGi [7] http://karaf.apache.org [8] http://camel.apache.org [9] https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/migration-utils [10] https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/FEDORA43/Setup+Audit+Service [11] https://github.com/fcrepo4/ontology [12] https://github.com/duraspace/pcdm [13] https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo4-client |