Training Events
Upcoming
Fedora 4 training will be offered at the following events:
Past
Fedora 4 training was offered at the following events:
- Washington, DC Fedora User Group Meeting (6-7 October 2014)
- Islandora Camp, Colorado (13-16 October 2014)
- eResearch Australasia (27-31 October 2014)
- Washington, DC Area Fedora User Group Meeting (31 March - 1 April 2015)
- Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (28 April 2015)
- Northeast Fedora User Group Meeting (11-12 May 2015)
Training Modules
These training modules are under active development. They will serve as reusable course materials that can be delivered by Fedora 4 instructors.
- Introduction and Feature Tour
- Fedora 4 for Administrators
- Migrating from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4
- How to Become a Fedora 4 Developer
Training Topics
This section lays out some possible topics for Fedora 4 training, both for administrators and developers.
General Topics
- Feature discussion
- Showcase a selection of features and explain why they are important
- Request feedback on other features that may be important
- Show how to configure Fedora 4 to expose/enable particular features
- Teach how to use particular features
Topics for Administrators
- Content modelling
- Configuring authorization
- Working with external triplestores
- Working with internal and external repository search
- Linked Data Platform tutorials
- Configuring back-end storage
- Getting good ingest throughput and handling large data
Topics for Developers
- Introduction to the software stack
- Explanation of Modeshape, Infinispan, and Fedora
- Standards and specifications as they apply to stack components
- Discussion of principles (testing, design, etc.)
- Discussion of tools (Jenkins, Pivotal, etc.)
- Discussion of process (sprints, planning, documentation, etc.)