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Fedora has a very active developer community, both contributing to the core software development process and developing complete applications on top of Fedora that address particular use cases or application areas. This guide is designed to give you a basic understanding of the Fedora architecture and the core repository management software, and to give you some general ideas about how to use it. Whether you want to look at adopting one of the existing Fedora-based solutions or develop you own, this general introduction should be useful to you.
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The Fedora Basics
In a Fedora repository, all content is managed as data objects, each of which is composed of components ("datastreams") that contain either the content or metadata about it. Each datastream can be either managed directly by the repository or left in an external, web-accessible location to be delivered through the repository as needed. A data object can have any number of data and metadata components, mixing the managed and external datastreams in any pattern desired.
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When you are getting started with Fedora it is usually best to keep the security and policy enforcement functionality turned off. When you are interested in using that functionality, Fedora provides complete policy expression and enforcement systems that allow you to write policies that can be applied repository wide, to any object or any component of any object.
- Use our test repository- We provide instance of a Fedora repository running in the cloud that you can use without having to download and configure software.
- Installation and Configuration on your machine - This is the starting point for setting up a Fedora repository on your server, which includes a quick start option.
- The Fedora Web-based Administrator - You can use this to interactively create and update objects, as well as to administer your repository.
- Creating and Updating Data Objects - The complete guide to building objects.
- EZService - A quick start for creating service objects.
- The CMA Construction Guide - A detailed guide to creating content model and service objects
- Security
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