This is the draft outline for an intensive 3-day Fedora workshop for developers and repository administrators. The workshop days will be broken up into smaller modules that build on each other. Module materials will be developed to serve in both instructor-led and self-paced learning environments.
Reference
Here is an outline from DSpace training.
Common Topics
Name | Learning Goals | Activity | Prerequisites | Number of Sessions | Lead/ Deadline | Reviewers |
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Introducing Fedora Repositories | review some case studies general knowledge of core features wiki tour | presentation discussion | none | 1 | David Wilcox | |
Start up a Repository | Start Fedora:
Fedora HTML API:
REST API highlights
Configuration options:
| guided steps | Fedora JAR | 1 | David Wilcox | |
Plan Your Project | role of Fedora in a repository project data-centric design role of other repository components:
planning your repository project | presentation discussion | none | 0.5 | David Wilcox | |
Linked Data Platform | what is linked data and how is it used
linked data formats supported advantages of the LDP standardization
| discussion | none | 1 or 2 | Greg Jansen | Julie Allinson |
Indexing Fedora | demonstrate admin search and limitations explain message queue (fcrepo-message-consumer) set up Solr indexing set up Fuseki indexing add objects with properties query indexes | guided steps | VirtualBox workshop Vbox image | 1 | Greg Jansen 2015-05-01 | |
Authentication and Roles | authN: concepts and components built-in authentication (fedora as back-end) Apache authN (E.G. mod Shibboleth) Tomcat authN (E.G. LDAP Realm) basic roles authorization | presentation slides | none | 0.5 or 1 | Greg Jansen 2015-05-08 | |
Extensible Authorization | XACML: request flow and components configuration of XACML authorization module policy language available request attributes and how to add more adding more object (aka resource) attributes arbitrariness of XACML roles ACL model and how to link to policies | presentation | none | 1 | Greg Jansen 2015-05-15 | |
Content Modelling Practice | implication of Fedora/LDP containers:
distinguishing other uses of containment:
linking for reuse (E.G. XACML policies) hands-on practice: Using containment and other relationships between objects and datastreams, coming up with two ways to model your group's example data. Review models (after break) | presentation group work | none | 1 | Greg Jansen 2015-05-22 | |
PCDM | 1 |
Dev/Ops Topics
Name | Learning Goals | Activity | Prerequisites | Number of Sessions | Lead | Reviewers |
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Scaling Fedora Up and Out | clustering for high availability metrics achieved in Fedora testing storage options projection over arbitrary storage | presentation | none | 0.5 or 1 | Andrew Woods | |
| explore key configuration files how to run playbooks:
basic Fedora host variables:
additional Fedora playbooks:
| guided steps | VirtualBox workshop Vbox image | nice to have, but lower priority postponed if we do it. | ||
Extending Fedora | extension points and how best to use them adding REST services adding messaging modules adding other services | presentation | none | 0.5 or 1 | Greg Jansen 2015-05-29 | |
Developer Resources | why project participation is the best intro building, maven project structure IDE setups for module development Fedora sprints and how to participate | presentation | none | 0.5 or 1 | Andrew Woods |