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- #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?
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What is the Fedora Services Framework?
The basics of the Fedora architecture are implemented in the Fedora Repository service which is the core service in a set of services that are designed to be used together. The Fedora Service Framework is the set of these services that are kept in sync by Fedora Commons as the software evolves. It includes services to provide such things as OAI service, generic searching, and batch ingest, all integrated with a messaging service that can coordinate communications among them. More information can be found here.
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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.
More basically, 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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What is meant by the term "durable digital information?"
Durable digital information is both sustainable for the very long term and in active use. While Fedora is very suitable for use in building dark archives, in which data is preserved but not used directly, it has been developed and optimized for use in building complex networks of digital information in which the history and stability of digital objects can be assured while providing them in a variety of contexts as appropriate to what is allowed by their owner.
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