Introduction
The Fedora Web Administrator provides a web-based user interface to perform repository administration. The application, which was built using Adobe Flex, uses a Flash plugin to run within a web browser. All coordination with the Fedora repository is performed using the Fedora REST API. The Fedora Web Administrator can be used to discover, display, ingest, modify, and purge objects and datastreams within a Fedora Repository.
The Fedora Web Administrator was first released as part of Fedora 3.2. This is considered the beta release of the Web Administrator, as it has yet to be tested thoroughly enough to be considered production ready. For more information on the Web Administrator in Fedora 3.2, consult the Fedora 3.2 documentation.
The goal of this page is to discuss the features and issues that should be addressed in future versions of the Web Administrator.
Links
Web Administrator in the Fedora 3.2 Documentation
Original mockups for the Web Administator UI
Old Administrator Features Comparison
Considerations for new features
These are features which may be included in the new Administrator in the future. Some of these may also be significant enough to warrant a stand-alone interface.
- User administration
- Repository configuration (fedora.fcfg)
- Statistics / Reporting / Validation
- RELS search
- Saved search queries
- Saved search result sets
- Search result count (with no returned result set)
- Dublin Core editor
- Relationship browser
- Smart object builders (FCREPO-525)
- Use rebuilder
- Collection semantics
- Plug-in manager
- Security policy (XACML) editor
- Ability to specify sort order on search results
- I18N support
- Copy Object function
- Multiselect on search results to allow opening and/or purging multiple objects
- Datastream version view