FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 21, 2009
Contact: Thornton Staples; Chris Wilper
Go Get It: Fedora 3.3 Available Now!
Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA Today, the DuraSpace not-for-profit
organization and the Fedora digital repository project announced the
release of Fedora 3.3 (http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/jQ3S).
This release marks a new milestone in the process of developing the
Fedora open source software. For the first time, the Fedora community
came together under the leadership of a Community Release Manager who
facilitated the software development process and the integration of
community contributions. The effort was led by Kai Strnad, Software
Engineer with FIZ Karlsruhe (http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/) and member
of the eSciDoc project team (https://www.escidoc.org/).
Download Fedora 3.3 here: http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/jQ3S.
Thornton Staples, Director of the Fedora Project from DuraSpace,
observed, “The process of developing open-source software with a
community-based process requires dedicated effort by many community
participants, both developers and users. Though there is a perception
that open-source software gets written by hobbyist programmers working
on their own late at night, it is more commonly written by programmers
working for institutions that are committed to the software and
understand its shared benefits. FIZ-Karlsruhe has done us all a great
service by making Strnad available to manage this release, getting us
off to a running start in a community-led development process.”
Chris Wilper, Fedora Technical Lead and Developer from DuraSpace,
said, "It's exciting to see so many contributors stepping forward to
take a hand in Fedora's evolution. A wide variety of perspectives and
a willingness to give back to the community are key to making the
Fedora software better for everyone."
There are many new features in Fedora 3.3 including:
• Support for relationships among datastreams within digital objects,
including API methods for manipulating relationships and indexing
• Integration of the Fedora Enhanced Security Layer (FESL), a new
community-developed module to support a wider range of authentication
methods
• Improvements to the Fedora REST API
• Support for retrieving content using a File URI scheme during ingest
• Support for Microsoft SQL Server
• Support for Mulgara to 2.1.4, proving a significant performance boost
• Upgrade of bundled Tomcat to version 6
• Support for HTTP Proxy server for getting external content
• Improvements and enhancements to the Fedora documentation
• Bug fixes, improving the overall stability of the repository
Many individuals and institutions support the development of the
Fedora open source repository software. The Fedora Project would like
to extend thanks to members of the worldwide community whose
contributions made the release of Fedora 3.3 possible, especially
Benjamin Armintor, Columbia University; Asger Askov Blekinge, State
and University Library, Denmark; Steve Bayliss, Acuity Unlimited;
Aaron Birkland, NSDL-Cornell University; Bill Branan, DuraSpace;
Daniel Davis, Cornell University; Gert Pedersen, Technical University
of Denmark; Edwin Shin, Media Shelf; Kai Strnad, Fedora 3.3 Community
Release Manager, FIZ Karlsruhe; Chris Wilper, DuraSpace; and Andrew
Woods, DuraSpace.
The Fedora Project is supported by the DuraSpace not-for-profit
organization.
GET INVOLVED!
The Fedora development community welcomes new participants. Meetings
of the Fedora Committers team are held weekly to discuss overall
development strategy, prioritize new features, and plan new releases.
All are welcome to participate or to just listen in. Archived audio,
IRC logs, upcoming meeting agendas, and dial-in details can be found
at:http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCREPO/Developer+Meetings
.
ABOUT THE FEDORA PROJECT
Fedora (http://Fedora-Commons.org) is a robust, modular repository
system for the management and dissemination of digital content. It is
especially suited for digital libraries and archives, both for access
and preservation. It is also used to provide specialized access to
very large and complex digital collections of historic and cultural
materials as well as scientific data. Fedora's flexibility enables it
to integrate gracefully with many types of enterprise and web-based
systems, offering scalability (e.g., millions of objects) and
durability (e.g., all of the information is maintained in files with
no software dependency, from which the complete repository can be
rebuilt at any time). It also provides the ability to express rich
sets of relationships among digital resources and to query the
repository using the semantic web's SPARQL query language. Fedora has
a worldwide installed user base that includes academic and cultural
heritage organizations, universities, research institutions,
university libraries, national libraries, and government agencies.
ABOUT DURASPACE
DuraSpace (http://DuraSpace.org) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization. DuraSpace software and services are used worldwide as
solutions for open access, institutional repositories, digital
libraries, digital archives, data curation, virtual research
environments, and more. DuraSpace provides leadership and innovation
in the use of open source and cloud-based technologies to serve
libraries, universities, research centers, cultural heritage
institutions, and other knowledge stewards. The organization’s open
source technology portfolio includes the DSpace open access repository
application, the Fedora open repository platform, and the Mulgara
semantic database. DuraSpace is the home of DuraCloud, an emerging
cloud-based service that leverages existing cloud infrastructure to
enable durability and access to digital content. The DuraSpace team
includes recognized leaders and experts in the management of digital
information. The team works with an active and diverse international
community committed to the durability of digital resources.
The DuraSpace technology portfolio inherently addresses the issue of
durability of digital content. Our values are expressed in our
organizational byline, “open technologies for durable digital content.”
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Carol Minton Morris
DuraSpace
Director of Marketing and Communications
[email protected]
Skype: carolmmorris
607 255-2702
twit...@duraspace
http://DuraSpace.org
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