Fedora open source software gives organizations a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content. At its core is a powerful digital object model that supports multiple views of each digital object and the relationships among digital objects. Digital objects can encapsulate locally-managed content or make reference to remote content. Dynamic views are possible by associating web services with objects. Digital objects exist within a repository architecture that supports a variety of management functions. All functions of Fedora, both at the object and repository level, are exposed as web services. These functions can be protected with fine-grained access control policies.
This unique combination of features makes Fedora an attractive solution in a variety of domains. Some examples of applications that are built upon Fedora include library collections management, multimedia authoring systems, archival repositories, institutional repositories, and digital libraries for education.
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News About Fedora
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Awards Fedora Commons $4.9M to start non-profit organization and develop open-source software for collaborative communities
Ithaca, New York -- August 13, 2007
Fedora Commons Adds Staff
Ithaca, New York -- August 10, 2007
Fedora Software Update
Ithaca, New York -- August 10, 2007
Fedora Commons Launches Web Site
Ithaca, New York -- August 10, 2007
Enterprise Scholarly Repositories: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Cornell University $514K to Develop New Fedora Capabilities
Ithaca, New York -- March 23, 2007