From David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager, on behalf of the Fedora team The Fedora Team is proud to announce the release of Fedora 4.7.3 on June 7, 2017. Full release notes are available on the wiki. The Fedora 4.7.3 release is a backwards compatible refinement of the previous release, which fixes a namespace-corrupting bug that has the … Read More
Technology
Fedora 4 and the Knowledge Grid at U Michigan Medical School
Deploying Fedora 4, or Migrating from Fedora 3 to Fedora 4 is a challenge with built-in rewards. This series of articles, “Fedora 4 in Production” looks into why and how community members are working with Fedora 4 to enhance both collections and workflow at their institutions. In this article Allen Flynn, Research Analyst and Technology Lead at … Read More
Aaron Birkland–Extending Fedora Functionality
The Fedora repository project relies on many individuals and institutions to make the project successful. We are grateful for their commitment and will showcase their contributions in a series of community profiles aimed at recognizing our contributors’ achievements, and introducing them to the rest of the community. Aaron Birkland has been a contributor to Fedora since the … Read More
Recording Available–Powering Linked Data and Hosted Solutions with Fedora
On May 16, 2017 Fedora community members presented a webinar entitled ” Powering Linked Data and Hosted Solutions with Fedora.” David Wilcox, Fedora Product Manager with DuraSpace, provided an overview of Fedora with a focus on its native linked data capabilities. Hannah Frost, Manager, Digital Library Product and Service Management with Stanford University, presented Hyku, the Hydra-in-a-box repository product, … Read More
INVITATION: Fedora and Hydra Camp at Oxford
DuraSpace and Data Curation Experts are pleased to invite you to attend the Fedora and Hydra Camp at Oxford University, Sept 4 – 8, 2017. The camp will be hosted by Oxford University Oxford, UK and is supported by Jisc. Training begins with the basics and build toward more advanced concepts–no prior Fedora or Hydra experience is required. Participants … Read More
JOIN US at Fedora Camp in Texas
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 of digital content. Fedora 4, the … Read More
Nick Ruest–At the Intersection of Next Gen Islandora and Fedora
The Fedora repository project relies on many individuals and institutions to make the project successful. We are grateful for their commitment and will showcase their contributions in a series of community profiles aimed at recognizing our contributors’ achievements, and introducing them to the rest of the community. Nick Ruest is a long-time contributor to the Fedora repository … Read More
DEMO: Recent Hyku Technical Advances
From Michael J. Giarlo, Technical Manager, Hydra-in-a-Box Project, Software Architect on behalf of the Hyku tech team Stanford, CA Here’s the latest demo of advances made on Hyku. This demo covers work done in March and April of 2017 — including the consolidated dashboard with collapsible sidebar, ability to change the colors of the site via … Read More
JOIN Fedora at ELAG2017 Athens
Austin, TX The 41th European Library Automation Group (ELAG) Systems Seminar will be held at the National Technical University of Athens, in Athens, Greece from June 6 to 9 2017. If you will be traveling to ELAG2017 (http://elag2017.org) please join us at the Fedora Bootcamp, “Automating Digital Curation Workflows with Fedora,” on June 6. Bootcamp attendees will … Read More
WATCH a Hyku Demo: ResourceSync Change Lists, Bulk Import, Admin Dashboard++
From Mike Giarlo, Technical Manager, Hydra-in-a-Box project, on behalf of the Hyku repository tech team Stanford, CA Here's the latest demo of advances made on Hyku. This demo covers work done in January and February of 2017—including ResourceSync change lists, load-testing and bulk import, administrative dashboard UI refinements, and group management—and is now available: https://youtu.be/wwlr9UuiahU To view all … Read More