Upcoming Releases

Fedora 3.3 (Fall '09)

• WebAdmin updates (deprecation of Java Administrator) and REST API out of beta (completely subsumes existing API-M/A-Lite)
• Akubra updates (migration away from from LLStore)
• Fedora built via maven2
• Other priorities as identified/implemented by community
• TODO: link to JIRA query for 3.3

Fedora 4.0 (1 Year+)

• Fedora plugins = OSGi bundles
• Add/configure Fedora plugins via web interface

Roadmap Themes

Theme: Semantic Web

• RELS-INT
• More control of what's indexed
  • Granular control of which triples (e.g. by predicate) to index, or to omit from the index.
  • Index user-defined RDF datastreams
• Improved SPARQL support

Theme: Content Modeling

• Incremental Improvements
  • Specify 0 to N datastreams
• Enhanced Content Models
• ActiveFedora

Theme: Disseminators

• Improved easy-of-setup
• Support for PUT/POST/DELETE

Theme: Lightweight Interfaces

• AtomPUB
• ORE
• WebDAV
• FedoraFS
• Simple Queue Service (supporting ingest and workflow)

Theme: Storage

• Transition to Akubra
• DuraCloud Plug-in
• Replication
• Migration
• Large Datastreams

Theme: Security

• Fedora Enhanced Security

Theme: Scalability and Performance

• Ongoing contributions from FIZ Karlsruhe
• Dan Davis & Sun Storage Team

Theme: Improved Modularity

• Modern Builds: Maven2
• Modern Plug-in Architecture: OSGi/SpringDM

Theme: Fedora-DSpace Integration

• DSpace-on-Fedora Efforts
  • Google Summer of Code project
  • DSpace 2
• DSpace-Fedora replication via messaging