Where are we going?

That depends on you. This roadmap is a reflection of the priorities of the Fedora user and developer community. Want to help define it?

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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

• Semantic Web - Indexing and searching RDF
• Content Modeling - Describing structure, relationships, and formats of content.
• Disseminators - Dynamic representations and behaviors of digital objects
• Interfaces - Lightweight, Standards-Based, and Fedora-specific Interfaces

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