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General Questions about Fedora
- #What is Fedora?
- Does Fedora come as an "out of the box" solution?
- How does the license for using Fedora work?
- What is the Fedora Services Framework?
- Is Fedora "preservation ready"?
- What is meant by the term "durable digital information?"
- What kind of search functionality is provided by Fedora?
The Fedora AbstractionsConcepts
- What is a data object?
- What is a persistent identifier?
- What is a content model?
- What is meant by "relationships among objects?"
- What is a behavior of an object?
- What is a policy?
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Is Fedora "preservation ready"?
It would be more accurate to say that Fedora is very "preservation friendly." By design, Fedora is intended to be as neutral to specific use cases as possible. It does provide a variety of features that can be used to create a very preservation ready repository. It can automatically create versions of content, calculate and track checksums, keep audit trails, and listen for and act upon events that happen within the repository, and more.
More basically, every Every Fedora object is represented by an XML file that is just a file in the file system, that has all of the preservation metadata about the object mentioned above registered within it. All content is managed as files in the file system. As long at the repository is backed up properly, and all of the files can be restored, a re-builder utility that is provided can completely re-build the running repository from the files. There is no dependency on a database that must be preserved.
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