dora 2.1 is a very significant release of Fedora since it introduces the new Fedora security architecture (with pluggable authentication and XACML-based policy enforcement), the Fedora Service Framework, and many other new features. The introduction of the new security architecture resulted in a significant amount of code refactoring, therefore, Fedora 2.1 has been tested with an extensive suite of new JUnit tests. The codebase and supporting libraries have also been updated making Fedora 2.1 compatible with Java 1.5. Some of the system documentation is still evolving. Most documentation is complete, but several documents are still being enhanced and improved. To identify documents that will continue to evolve, please look for an icon that says "Draft Doc" under the document title. As revisions are made, we will publish the most updated versions of these documents on the Fedora web site and send alerts to the Fedora Users mail list. This release of Fedora was also tested against a large production testbed collection, where bulk loading was performed on for a collection of 2 million digital objects with approximately 160M triples in the Kowari-based Resource Index. Also, coinciding with this release is the publication of the Community-Developed Tools page on the Fedora web site. This is a clearinghouse for community-developed, open-source applications, tools, and services that work with Fedora repositories.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/03/2006 02:43:00 PM.
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.
