Fedora (software)

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Fedora (or Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) is an open source digital repository system.

Its modular architecture is built on the principle that interoperability and extensibility is best achieved by the integration of data, interfaces, and mechanisms (i.e., executable programs) as clearly defined modules. Fedora is a digital asset management (DAM) architecture, upon which many types of digital library, institutional repositories, digital archives, and digital libraries systems might be built. Fedora is the underlying architecture for a digital repository, and is not a complete management, indexing, discovery, and delivery application.

History

Fedora was originally developed at Cornell University in 1997 by Sandra Payette, Carl Lagoze and Naomi Dushay. Since then, several modifications have been made to the architecture, and in late 2005, version 2.1 was released. The current version is 3.1.

Fedora is developed jointly by Cornell University Information Science and the University of Virginia Library. Fedora began as a DARPA and NSF-funded research project of Carl Lagoze and Sandy Payette at Cornell University's Digital Library Research Group in 1997, where the first reference implementation and a CORBA-based technical implementation were built. The Fedora Project is currently supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is directed by Sandy Payette from Cornell and Thornton Staples from the University of Virginia.

See also

Links

• Fedora on Wikipedia