Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries to build a consortial repository...
On Friday, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries announced the creation of a consortium-wide digital repository project similar to that of the Ohio Digital Resource Commons.Colorado Alliance...
View ArticleSakai gets JSR-170 support; possible integration point with FEDORA?
Earlier this year, I was on a quest to hook a FEDORA content repository into the Sakai collaboration and learning environment. What looked at first to be a fairly easy integration turned out to be...
View ArticleJava Application for Batch Processing FEDORA Objects
We had a need today to transform an XML file with a custom DTD into Dublin Core; the custom XML file is a datastream in our FEDORA repository and we want to put the Dublin Core XML file back into the...
View ArticleLooking Forward to Version 2.2 of FEDORA
Sandy Payette, Co-Director of the Fedora Project and Researcher in the Cornell Information Science department, announced a tentative date for the release 2.2 of the FEDORA digital object repository.The...
View ArticleBuilding an Institutional Repository Interface Using EJB3 and JBoss Seam
This tour is designed to show the overall architecture of a FEDORA digital object repository application within the JBoss Seam framework while at the same time pointing out individual design decisions...
View ArticleOpen Repositories Presentation: Building an IR Interface Using EJB3 and JBoss...
Below is the outline of the Ohio DRC presentation from today’s FEDORA session at Open Repositories conference. Comments welcome!Executive Overview of the Ohio Digital Resource CommonsFacets of the...
View ArticleA Vision for FEDORA’s Future, an Implementation Plan to Get There, and a...
This morning, Sandy Payette of Cornell University and FEDORA project co-director, gave an update on the FEDORA project including a statement of a vision for FEDORA’s future, information about the...
View ArticlePresentation Summary: “MPTStore: Implementing a fast, scalable, and stable...
Chris Wilper gave this presentation on behalf of the work that he and Aaron Birkland did to improve the performance of the Fedora Resource Index.Presentation slides via SlideShareVersion 2.0 of the...
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Disseminators As the Core of an Object Repository
I’ve been working to get JBoss Seam tied into Fedora, and along the way thought it would be wise to stop and document a core concept of this integration: the centrality of Fedora Disseminators in the...
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Fedora plus Sakai, Any Interest?
There was a time when I was moving in both the worlds of the Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment and the Fedora Commons digital content repository. It seemed like a good idea to bring these two...
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