This is the draft outline for an intensive 3-day Fedora workshop for developers and repository administrators. The workshop days will be broken up into smaller modules that build on each other. Module materials will be developed to serve in both instructor-led and self-paced learning environments.
Reference
Here is an outline from DSpace training.
Common Topics
presentation slides
Name | Learning Goals | Activity | Prerequisites | Number of Sessions | Presenter | AuthorLead | |||
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Introducing Fedora Repositories | role of Fedora repository software review some case studies general knowledge of core features wiki tour | discussion | none | 1 | David Wilcox | ||||
Start up a Repository | Start Fedora:
Fedora HTML API:
REST API highlights
| guided steps | Fedora JAR | David Wilcox | |||||
Plan Your Project | role of Fedora in a repository project data-centric design role of other repository components:
planning your repository project | presentation discussion | none | David Wilcox | |||||
David Wilcox | |||||||||
Fedora Front-ends | tour of Islandora, Hydra, and custom front-ends interoperability between front-ends ingest methods | discussion | none | 1 | Unknown User (acoburn) | ||||
Content Migration | migrating content from Fedora 3 to 4
| guided steps | VirtualBox workshop Vbox image migration-utils test content | 1 | Michael Durbin | ||||
SPARQL-Update | introduction to SPARQL-Update SPARQL cheat-sheet updating resources in Fedora 4 | Configuring Fedora | guided steps | VirtualBox workshop Vbox image | 1 | Andrew WoodsGreg Jansen | |||
Linked Data Platform | what is linked data and how is it used
linked data formats supported advantages of the LDP standardization
| discussion | none | 2 | |||||
Indexing Fedora | demonstrate admin search and limitations explain message queue (fcrepo-message-consumer) set up Solr indexing set up Fuseki indexing add objects with properties query indexes | guided steps | VirtualBox workshop Vbox image | 1 | Greg Jansen | ||||
Authentication and Roles | authN: concepts and components built-in authentication (fedora as back-end) Apache authN (E.G. mod Shibboleth) Tomcat authN (E.G. LDAP Realm) basic roles authorization | presentation slides | none | 0.5 or 1 | Greg Jansen | ||||
Extensible Authorization | XACML: request flow and components configuration of XACML authorization module policy language available request attributes and how to add more adding more object (aka resource) attributes arbitrariness of XACML roles ACL model and how to link to policies | presentation slides | 1 | none | Greg Jansen | ||||
Content Modelling Practice | implication of Fedora/LDP containers:
distinguishing other uses of containment:
linking for reuse (E.G. XACML policies) hands-on practice: Using containment and other relationships between objects and datastreams, coming up with two ways to model your group's example data. Review models (after break) | group work | none | 1 | Greg Jansen |
Dev/Ops Topics
Name | Learning Goals | Activity | Prerequisites | Number of Sessions | Presenter | AuthorLead | |||
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clustering for high availability metrics achieved in Fedora testing storage options projection over arbitrary storage | presentation | none | 0.5 or 1 | Andrew Woods | |||||
Using the
| explore key configuration files how to run playbooks:
basic Fedora host variables:
additional Fedora playbooks:
how ansible works how to configure hosts, host variables, etc how to run Fedora playbooks available Fedora playbooks | guided steps | VirtualBox workshop Vbox image | nice to have, but lower priority postponed if we do it. | |||||
Extending Fedora | extension points and how best to use them adding REST services adding messaging modules adding other services | presentation | none | Apache Camel framework API extension architecture
| presentation slides | none | 0.5 or 1 | Greg Jansen | |
why project participation is the best intro building, maven project structure IDE setups for module development Fedora sprints and how to participate | presentation | none | 0.5 or 1 | Andrew Woods |