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DuraSpace and Data Curation Experts are pleased to invite you to attend the Fedora and Samvera (formerly Hydra) Camp at Oxford University, Sept 4 - 8, 2017. The camp will be hosted by Oxford University and is supported by Jisc. Previous Fedora Camps include the inaugural camp held at Duke University, the West Coast camp at CalTech, and the most recent, NYC camp held at Columbia University. Hydra Camps have been held throughout the US and in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Most recently, DCE hosted the inaugural Advanced Hydra Camp focusing on advanced Hydra developer skills. The The camp curriculum has has been published , and registration is limited to the first 40 applicants so on the wiki.
The register here soon! An early bird discount is available until expires July 10. so register here soon!
Fedora Camp Texas
We are pleased to announce that Fedora Camp Texas, co-hosted by Texas Digital Library and the University of Texas Libraries, will be offered at the University of Texas at Austin's Perry-Castañeda Library in Austin October 16-18, 2017. Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts–no prior Fedora experience is required. Participants can expect to come away with a deep dive Fedora learning experience coupled with multiple opportunities for applying hands-on techniques working with experienced trainers and Fedora gurus.
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Standards
Fedora API Specification
The Fedora community is working to establish a clearly defined specification for the core Fedora services. This specification details the exact services and interactions required for a server implementation to be verified as "doing Fedora".
After much discussion and iteration, the initial public working draft of the Fedora API Specification is now available for broader public review.
As described in the specification charter, this specification is designed to:
- Define the characteristics and expectations of how clients interact with Fedora implementations
- Define such interactions such that an implementation’s conformance is testable
- Enable interoperability by striving to minimize the need for modifications to client applications in order to work with different implementations of the Fedora API specification
This announcement for public comment on the initial working draft marks the beginning of a projected four-month period within which time we are targeting the graduation of the specification to “candidate recommendation”. Please contact the Fedora Community or Fedora Specification Editors with any general comments or if you would like to participate in implementation and/or test suite sprints. Any comments on details of the specification, itself, should be posted as GitHub issuesThe draft specification has been published and is looking for community comments. Following this round of input, we plan on an initial public working draft of the specification later this month.
Community-driven Activity
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One of the design goals of Fedora is to simplify the process of both getting your resources into and out of Fedora in a standardized way. This enables the reuse of Fedora resources in other contexts, such as exporting to a separate preservation system, as well as provides a pathway for migrating across Fedora installations. This design goal is being met by an external Import/Export tool that supports transacting in RDF and (optionally) BagIt bags.
We have just completed the fourth sprint for the import/export utility, which now supports a broader range of scenarios including:
- Lossless import/export of Fedora resources and all other resources associated by user-provided predicates as outbound relationships (e.g. pcdm:hasMember) or inbound relationships (e.g. pcdm:memberOf)
- Export of Fedora versions
- Export from a Fedora deployed on a given host/port followed by import into another Fedora on a different host/port
A new release of the Import/Export utility based on the work that was accomplished during the last code sprint is now available. Additionally, the related Import/Export Verification tool which is designed to provide assurance that exports from or imports to Fedora were complete and successful is approaching its next milestone release. A new release of the import/export utility including these improvements will be available soon. If you would like to participate as developer, tester, or to write documentation, please contact Andrew Woods.
API-X
The API Extension Architecture was featured several times at Open Repositories, including the Fedora workshop, and a presentation during the Fedora Interest Group track. Additionally, Aaron Birkland and Conal Tuohy won first prize at the Ideas Challenge for an idea that combines API-X and a web service system to produce a scripting environment for repositories. Congratulations, Aaron and Conal!
Conferences and events
In an attempt to simplify the task of keeping up with Fedora-related meetings and events, a Fedora calendar is available to the community as HTML and iCal .
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The annual VIVO conference brings together users, managers and developers from around the world to share the latest developments in semantic web academic profiles. Whether an experienced user, or just starting out, this is the event to attend. This year's conference will feature a workshop on Fedora and a session on integrating VIVO with Fedora. Spaces are limited so please register in advance!
IFLA WLIC
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) takes place August 19-25 in Wrocław, Poland. The congress will be preceded by several satellite events. David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager, will attend the congress to present a paper on Fedora and digital preservation, as well as a Data Curator’s Roles and Responsibilities satellite meeting to present a paper on Fedora and research data.