This is the February 2020 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.
Fedora is funded entirely through the contributions of members that allocate their annual funding to Fedora. This year's membership campaign has a goal of raising $500,000 to fund staff to work on Fedora and provide technical leadership, direct strategic planning, organize community outreach, and coordinate timely software releases. Membership also provides opportunities to participate in
project governance and influence the direction of the software. If your institution is not yet a member in support of Fedora,
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Fedora 6 Application Demo
We put together another Fedora 6 demo video to showcase recently added features. In the first demo we demonstrated the use of the migration tools to transform a Fedora 3 on disk representation to OCFL. Our second demo showed how you can create RDF resources via the Fedora API and see those resources represented on disk as OCFL Objects. In this third demo Bethany Seeger from Johns Hopkins University joins David Wilcox to show how to create binary resources and see how they look on disk. We also introduce the concept of Archival Groups: how to create them and how to nest resources inside them.
We'd like to thank the following people and their institutions for contributing to the most recent Fedora features:
Danny Bernstein, LYRASIS
Peter Eichman, University of Maryland
Ben Pennell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jon Roby, University of Manitoba
Peter Winckles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Andrew Woods, LYRASIS
Fedora 6 Code Sprints
Starting with April, through December of 2020, we will be holding one-week-long Fedora 6 mini-sprints during the first week of each month.
This will allow for consistent progress towards the Fedora 6 release, as well as a clear schedule for you to plan towards. If you miss one month, you can join the next!
The latest OCFL community meeting took place on March 11. Notes from the call are available online. The meeting focused on editorial updates and a demo of an OCFL client and validator from Julian Morley. The next community call will take place on April 8.
CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
n an attempt to simplify the task of keeping up with Fedora-related meetings and events, a Fedora calendar is available to the community as
HTML and
iCal.
If you have not already joined the
fedora-project Slack workspace please start by visiting the
self-registration form. Come join the conversation!
Upcoming Events
ILIDE (Innovative Library in Digital Era)
ILIDE is a major digital library conference held every year in Slovakia; it draws an international group of participants & speakers, with heavy attendance from Eastern and Central Europe. This year's conference takes place April 27-29 and will include a presentation on Fedora 6 and the OCFL from David Wilcox, Program Leader for Fedora.
Past Events
Islandora and Fedora Camp Arizona
The first Islandora and Fedora Camp took place February 24-26 at Arizona State University.
Slides from the presentations are now available on the wiki.
REGISTER YOUR REPOSITORY
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GET INVOLVED
Fedora is designed, built, used, and supported by the community. An easy and important way that you can contribute to the effort is by helping resolve outstanding bugs. If you have an interest in gaining a better understanding of the Fedora code base, or a specific interest in any of these bugs, please add a comment to a ticket and we can work together to move your interest forward.
