Version 1.0 of FEDORA (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) is now available for downloading. FEDORA is an OAI-compliant, open-source foundation for interoperable, web-based digital libraries and institutional repositories. It was developed by the University of Virginia and Cornell University with a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Quoting the web site: "The version 1.0 of the software is aimed at providing a repository that can handle one million objects efficiently using only open source software. Later versions of the software will add important functionality, such as policy enforcement, versioning of objects and performance enhancement to support very large repositories." For more on 1.0, see the article by Thornton Staples, Ross Wayland, and Sandra Payette in the April 2003 issue of D-Lib Magazine. (Thanks to Ken Herold.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 5/30/2003 10:40:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
