From David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager The early bird price for Fedora Camp at NASA [1] ends on Friday, March 16, so be sure to reserve your spot soon! The camp takes place May 16-18. Training will begin with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts – no prior Fedora experience is required. Participants can expect … Read More
Preservation and archiving
Recording and Slides From CLAW Webinar: Islandora + Fedora 4
Last Friday February 23rd the University of Toronto Scarborough hosted an Islandora CLAW + Linked Data Lunch and Learn session. The recording is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC1mujWB30k&t=12s. Webinar presentations: 0:00:14 – Introduction to Islandora CLAW and Linked Data (Danny Lamb, Technical Lead, Islandora Foundation) Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PaSXTGWekQAADA0NSL6e4-oC2fP12xj5wj57ATlMT1A/edit#slide=id.g3220567843_1_112 1:02:32 – Islandora Metadata Interest Group Update (Rosie LeFaive, UPEI, Mike Bolam, … Read More
Instructors Announced for Fedora Camp at NASA
From David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager The Fedora team will offer a Camp from Wednesday May 16 – Friday May 18, 2018 at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C. The instructors include Esmé Cowles, Princeton University; Josh Westgard, University of Maryland, and the DuraSpace Fedora team; David Wilcox, Andrew … Read More
Don’t Miss Fedora Camp at NASA
Are you new to Fedora and wish to learn more or are you ready to take your Fedora to the next level? Fedora Camp offers everyone, the newbies and the veterans, a chance to dive in and learn all about Fedora. The Fedora team will offer a Camp from Wednesday May 16 – Friday May … Read More
Registration Open: “Getting Started with Fedora” Webinar
DuraSpace presents a community webinar, “Getting Started with Fedora” Wednesday, February 28, 2018 12:00 p.m. Eastern Presented by David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager Fedora is the flexible, modular, open source repository platform for the management and dissemination of digital content. It is especially well-suited for digital libraries and archives, both for access and preservation. It is also … Read More
Supporting FAIR Data Principles with Fedora–Workshop at IDCC 2018
Are you planning to attend the 13th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC18), to be held Feb 19-22, 2018? Fedora Product Manager David Wilcox will offer a workshop entitled Supporting FAIR Data Principles with Fedora on Monday, Feb. 19, at the NH Collection Barcelona Tower. Fedora supports FAIR data principles by providing services that help make … Read More
Welcome New Fedora Committer Ben Pennel
From Andrew Woods, Fedora Tech Lead, on behalf of the Fedora committers and leadership The Fedora Project committers and leadership have asked Ben Pennell,UNC University Libraries, to become a committer and we are pleased to announce that Ben has accepted. Ben is a skilled developer and has worked with Fedora 4 since its earliest days. From … Read More
Next Steps: A Fedora API Test Suite
As described in the the Fedora API specification (specification charter), the specification is designed to: Define the characteristics and expectations of how clients interact with Fedora implementations Define such interactions such that an implementation’s conformance is testable Enable interoperability by striving to minimize the need for modifications to client applications in order to work with … Read More
A Busy Fall for Fedora
From David Wilcox, DuraSpace From the United Kingdom to Quebec to Japan, Fedora was well-traveled in September. Fedora and Samvera Camp Held in Oxford, UK September 4-8. Attended by 24 people. Instructors included David and Andrew from DuraSpace, Mark Bussey and Bess Sadler from DCE, and Julie Allinson from the University of London. The Full … Read More
Come to Fedora camp in October
Austin, TX You are invited to join experienced trainers and Fedora gurus at Fedora Camp, co-hosted by University of Texas Libraries and Texas Digital Library, to be held October 16-18 at the Perry-Castañeda Library at the University of Texas, Austin. Fedora is the robust, modular, open source repository platform for the management and dissemination … Read More