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Slide1: Towards a Digital Library:
Plumbing an Information Space
with FEDORA
Thornton Staples
University of Virginia Library
Managing the Collection: Managing the Collection Provide a way to universally name all resources without respect to machine address
Track all files for resources, metadata and computer programs consistently
Enforce appropriate policies for use of Library resources
Provide a high level of security
Support preservation activities appropriately
Delivering the Collection: Delivering the Collection Deliver tools with content
Allow every resource to be used in any number of contexts
Discovery searching across the full collection
Deep searching in particular collections
Move towards a library which aware user’s can configure for themselves
Supporting Digital Scholarship: Supporting Digital Scholarship Supporting the creation of digital scholarly projects
Collecting born-digital scholarly projects
For preservation
Taking over responsibility for primary delivery
Supporting information communities
FEDORA Architectural Model: FEDORA Architectural Model
Shared Image Behavior Definitons: Shared Image Behavior Definitons
Collection objects: Collection objects
Application Services : Application Services
New Repository System: New Repository System
Repository Development Project Goals: Repository Development Project Goals An efficient, scalable, freely distributable FEDORA repository system ASAP
A complete basic management interface with the initial release
Add important digital library functionality in later releases
Multiple testbed repositories to deploy and evaluate the software
Make all software open source
Project Plan: Project Plan Phase 1: Deliver the repository system and the full management interface
Phase 2: Add more production support
Security and policy enforcement
Collection objects
Disk management
Phase 3: Enhance end-user support
Versioning and Editions
Dynamic, Context Sensitive Behaviors
Efficiency and scale optimization
Deployment Group: Deployment Group The Digital Library group, Indiana University
The Humanities Computing group, New York University
The Digital Collections and Archives Department, Tufts University
The Humanities Computing group, Kings College London
The Refugee Studies Center, Oxford University
Audio/Video Project, Library of Congress
Slide13: Uva Implementation, as of July, 2000:
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july00/staples/07staples.html
FEDORA Development Project Description:
http://www/lib/virginia.edu/dlbackstage/specprojx_fedora.html