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Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of DuraSpace members that allocate their annual funding to Fedora. We will be kicking off our 2018 membership campaign in the Spring but it's never to too early to join or upgrade your membership! If your institution is not yet a member of DuraSpace in support of Fedora, please join us today!
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Previous Fedora Camps include the inaugural camp held at Duke University, the West Coast camp at CalTech, NYC camp held at Columbia University, and the most recent, Texas camp co co-hosted by by Texas Digital Library and the University of Texas Libraries. The The camp curriculum will provide a comprehensive overview of Fedora by exploring such topics as:
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Standards
Fedora API Specification
The Candidate Recommendation of the Fedora API Specification is still available for public review.
As described in the charter, this specification is designed to:
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This is an extremely important milestone for the Fedora project. If you are interested and available to participate in either or both of these sprints, please add your name to the sprint planning page.
Oxford Common Filesystem
The second OCFL call too place took place on Friday, January 19. Notes, video, and audio are available online. This call featured a review of the HathiTrust storage architecture, a review of the OCFL discussion paper, and a discussion on how to move toward a community draft of the Oxford Common Filesystem Layout. To this end, we are collecting use cases in a GitHub repository. The next meeting will be March 9th at 11am ET (US). Please join the pasig-discuss mailing list for further updates.
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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 .
Additionally, thanks to the community contribution of Michael B. Klein from Northwestern University, the fedora-project Slack workspace now has a self-registration form. Come join the conversation!
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The 13th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC18) will be held February 19-22, 2018. Fedora Product Manager David Wilcox will offer a workshop entitled Supporting FAIR Data Principles with Fedora on Monday, February 19. Workshop details and a draft agenda are available. Please register in advance to attend.
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