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The Fedora Futures Project: Advancing Technology for Flexible Repository Services

Join the Fedora Futures Project to address challenges and embrace opportunities in repository services. Looming technical and organizational issues require innovative solutions for future-proof repositories. Learn about the project's objectives to enhance scalability, availability, and flexibility, with a growing community of global contributors and adopters.

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The Fedora Futures Project: Advancing Technology for Flexible Repository Services

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  1. The Fedora Futures Project

  2. The Success of Fedora • Architecture is demonstrably Flexible& Extensible • Support for Durability • One foot in the linked data world • A decade of maturity & proven use • Substantial community of adopters, contributors, vendors

  3. Looming Storm Clouds Technical • Performance • Fault tolerance • Scalability • Complexity • Aging code base Organizational • Small, fixed pool of developers • Demands outstrip applied resources • Lack of vibrancy

  4. New Opportunities • Front-ends: eSciDoc, Hydra, Islandora • Attracting new energy and adopters • Creating new technical demands • Evolved technical environment • Web architectures & horizontal scaling • Linked data • Data management mandates

  5. Fedora Futures Objectives • Preserve the strengths of the architecture and community • Address the needs for robust and full-featured repository services (that we now understand very well) • Provide a platform in the repository ecosystem for the next 5-10 years

  6. Technology Overview • Highly scalable • High availability • Flexible storage* • Durability* • Reporting and metrics* • Developer-friendly* • Ease of deployment

  7. Who is in Fedora Futures so far… • Columbia • DuraSpace • FIZ Karlsruhe • MediaShelf • Oxford • Stanford • Smithsonian • UPEI / Disc.Gard. • U of Virginia • University of NSW • Indiana University • CDC • USGS? • Your name here

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