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A high-level roadmap and more detailed development plan for Fedora 6.0 are now available. The main features of this next major release will be support for transparent persistence via the Oxford Common File Layout and a built-in query endpoint. The first two code sprints have been scheduled for September 16-27 and November 4-15. Please sign up for a code sprint to participate in this effort.
Oxford Common File Layout
A 0.3 (Beta) release of the OCFL spec is available for review. You are invited to provide feedback, which will be discussed on future community calls.
The most recent OCFL editors community call took place on TuesdayWednesday, June 18July 10. Notes and audio are available online. This call included reflections from Open Repositories, what the spec says about "versions in-process", upcoming face-to-face meeting at Stanford to set scope for version-2.0.0, reopening some GitHub issues that are in-scope for future versions of the OCFL, and new OCFL artwork!updates on current implementations, feedback from the beta, and a discussion on recent GitHub issues.
Please join the ocfl-community mailing list for further updates.
Islandora 8
The Islandora Foundation released Islandora 8 version 1.0.0 last month. This is an important milestone for the Islandora project - built using Drupal 8 and Fedora 5, Islandora 8 faithfully integrates the two as invisibly as possible, giving an experience that is both more Drupal-y and more Fedora-y at the same time. Islandora 8 unlocks all of Drupal's features along with its entire ecosystem of contributed modules, all the while quietly preserving your metadata in a Fedora 5 repository behind the scenes.
If you would like to try Islandora 8 for yourself, there are three options:
- A sandbox of version 1.0.0 is available to play with at future.islandora.ca.
- A virtualbox VM is available for download here.
- You can install a development or production environment with the Ansible playbook, which has a corresponding 1.0.0 release.
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Islandora Camp went to Switzerland for the first time this summer, with a three-day camp hosted by Lib4RI - Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH domain: Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL, and located at Eawag. You can see the full schedule ( and as many set of presentation slides as we could gather) a selection of presentations here.
Fedora Camp Atlanta
The latest Fedora Camp was held in Atlanta, GA at Emory University in May. Camp participants got a detailed introduction to Fedora, including hands-on feature walkthroughs and discussions about the next major version of the software. Slides and notes can be found on the event page.
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The annual Open Repositories conference took place June 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany. The program included many Fedora-related workshops, presentations, and panels, and the event was followed by a Fedora User Group meeting. .Slides from the Fedora update, Designing a Migration Path update, and Fedora workshop are available online.