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We are pleased to announce that Fedora Camp Texas, co-hosted by Texas Digital Library and the University of Texas Libraries, will be offered at the University of Texas at Austin's Perry-Castañeda Library in Austin October 16-18, 2017. Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts–no prior Fedora experience is required. Participants can expect to come away with a deep dive Fedora learning experience coupled with multiple opportunities for applying hands-on techniques working with experienced trainers and Fedora gurus.
Register today and today and join us in Austin! An early bird rate is available and attendance is limited to the first 40 registrants. Local accommodations are available at a reduced rate.
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The Fedora community is working to establish a clearly defined specification for the core Fedora services. This specification details the exact services and interactions required for a server implementation to be verified as "doing Fedora".
A charter for the specification effort has been published, and an editorial team has been established. The team members include:
- Ben Armintor, Columbia University
- Esmé Cowles, Princeton University
- Danny Lamb, Islandora Foundation
- Simeon Warner, Cornell University
- Andrew Woods, DuraSpace
The draft specification has been published and is looking for community comments. Following this round of input, we plan on an initial release of the specification in the spring of 2017.
Fedora API Adopters Guide
As the formalization of the Fedora API Specification matures, it will be increasingly important for existing applications and frameworks over Fedora to adjust client/server interactions to the specification. The services defined in the Fedora API Specification are the same ones that are currently provided by Fedora 4, but the interaction models in some cases are changing to be more in line with broader standards. The effort of this group is to facilitate the adjustment of client-side tooling by detailing the "deltas" between the current Fedora 4 implementation and the emerging specification.
Please stay tuned for updates and opportunities for engagement.
Community-driven Activity
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The Fedora project relies on many individuals and institutions to ensure the project's success. We are grateful for their commitment and will showcase their contributions in a series of community profiles aimed at recognizing our contributors’ achievements, and introducing them to the rest of the community. The second article in the Fedora Repository Contributor Profile series features Bethany Seeger from Amherst College Library, who has been a contributor to the Fedora repository team for two years. Her focus is on MODS XML to RDF mapping as Amherst College Library migrates to Fedora 4. The full article can be found on the DuraSpace website.
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