Solutions Integration: Working together to Get Stuff Done
Regardless of how we are using Fedora, or what types of content we are putting into it, we all have a number of common technical challenges that we must all overcome. One of the greatest strengths of Fedora Commons is the fact that it has an active and innovative community of software architects, developers, archivists and librarians working to tackle those challenges in ways that range from pragmatic to visionary.
We've formed a Solutions Community around identifying, documenting, discussing, and solving these technical challenges that we must all face. If you would like to know more about the Community, and how you can get involved, read the page About the Solutions Integration Community. Until then, let's get down to work.
Challenge Areas
- Indexing and Search
- User Management & Access Controls
- Filtering Search Results by Access Rights
- Scalability
- Content Modeling and the CMA
- Managing Large Files
- Video
- ORE & Atom
- Workflow (people-based)
- Workflow (service orchestration)
Hot Topics
These are areas of technical interest that the Fedora Community takes special interest in discussing
- Choosing Frontend UI and/or programming languages
- Understanding the technological differences between Fedora and other Repository or Content Management Systems.
- Understanding the Fedora Data Model
- SOA/WOA best practices
- RDF Best Practices
- Metadata Best Practices
Resources
Fedora Commons Developers Mailing List
This list is intended for discussions between committers and testers of the Fedora Commons source code. Tech-heavy discussions of application integration problems seem to show up here too. There has been some discussion of creating a separate fedora-commons-tech list for those discussions.
- Subscribe to the fedora-commons-developers list
- View the list on Sourceforge
- View the list archive on GMane
Fedora Commons irc Channel
We keep talking about setting this up, but it's not clear that people will use it. If you would like to make this happen, please step forward.
Blogs
Many developers working with Fedora maintain blogs. They also actively refer to the blogs of other developers working in related fields.
- Your Metadata Sucks: Chris Wilper, Senior Developer at Fedora Commons
- Less Talk More Code: Ben O'Steen, Oxford University, Creator of Python client code for Fedora
- MediaShelf Blog: Matt Zumwalt, Steward of the Solutions Integration Council, creator of RubyFedora and Fedora's REST API
Not Fedora, but still worth watching
Visit the recommended reading, which contains some recommended posts from many of these blogs.
