This is the February 2020 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.
News
Islandora and Fedora Camp in Arizona
The upcoming Islandora and Fedora Camp at Arizona State University, February 24-26, 2020 is nearly full - if you would like to attend the event please contact us directly.
Islandora and Fedora Camp, hosted by Arizona State University Libraries, offers everyone a chance to dive in and learn all about the latest versions of Islandora and Fedora. Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts–no prior Islandora or Fedora experience is required. Participants can expect to come away with a deep dive Islandora and Fedora learning experience coupled with multiple opportunities for applying hands-on techniques working with experienced trainers from both communities.
The curriculum will be delivered by a knowledgeable team of instructors from the Islandora and Fedora communities, including:
- David Wilcox, Fedora Program Leader, LYRASIS
- Melissa Anez, Islandora Project and Community Manager, Islandora Foundation
- Bethany Seeger, Digital Library Software Developer, Amherst College
- Seth Shaw, Application Developer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Danny Lamb, Technical Lead, Islandora Foundation
Fedora 6 Development Progress
The first 2020 Fedora 6 Sprint is now complete. The team focused on resource management (CRUD) operations, Archival Groups, containment, and rebuildability. This was a 1 week sprint with 7 participants. 14 tickets were closed, and 4 remain in review.
High-level accomplishments:
- Create Binary Resources (POST and PUT)
- Update Binary Resources (PUT)
- Support POST on RDF resources
- Create Container as Archival Group (in order to nest resources within an OCFL Object)
- Rebuild from Fedora generated OCFL
- Transmission fixity
- Groundwork laid for fixity on demand
- Containment index (preliminary step for supporting display of containment relationships)
- Progress on migration-utils (Fedora 3->6)
- Bug fixes
Activities in Related Communities
Islandora
- Slides and a recording of the recent Islandora 8 at the University of Nevada Las Vegas webinar are now available.
- Slides and a recording of the recent Paged and Complex Content in Islandora 8 webinar are now available.
- The next Islandora Camp will be held on Prince Edward Island, July 20-22.
Samvera
- The Samvera Roadmap Council put forward a new set of goals for 2020.
- The Hyrax Metadata Application Profile Documentation Review Working Group announced a call for participation.
Oxford Common File Layout
- The latest OCFL community meeting took place on January 8. Notes and audio from the call are available online. The meeting focused on a review of recent community work, including the Fedora 6 implementation, as well as a review of the 1.0 specification roadmap. The next community call will take place on February 12.
Conferences and events
In an attempt to simplify the task of keeping up with Fedora-related meetings and events, a Fedora calendar is available to the community as HTML and iCal .
If you have not already joined the fedora-project Slack workspace please start by visiting the self-registration form. Come join the conversation!
Upcoming Events
CNI Spring Meeting
The next CNI Spring Meeting will take place March 30-31 in San Diego, CA.
Past Events
South Central States Fedora User Group Meeting
The South Central States Fedora User Group met at the University of Houston on January 29-30. Each of the institutions represented provided an update on their work with Fedora, and the group also received online updates from representatives of the Avalon, Samvera, and Islandora communities. Slides from the presentations are available on the wiki.
Register Your Repository
Is your repository listed in the registry? Help us maintain reliable information on the community of Fedora users around the world by registering your repository today. You can also request an update to an existing entry by selecting your entry and filling out the online form.
Membership
Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of LYRASIS members that allocate their annual funding to Fedora. This year's membership campaign has a goal of raising $500,000 to fund staff to work on Fedora and provide technical leadership, direct strategic planning, organize community outreach, and coordinate timely software releases. Membership also provides opportunities to participate in project governance and influence the direction of the software. If your institution is not yet a member of LYRASIS in support of Fedora, please join us today!
Get Involved
Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. An easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort is by helping resolve outstanding bugs. If you have an interest in gaining a better understanding of the Fedora code base, or a specific interest in any of these bugs, please add a comment to a ticket and we can work together to move your interest forward.
