This is the March 2020 edition of the Fedora Newsletter. This newsletter summarizes the most significant activities within the Fedora community over the last month.
News
New Members
We would like to welcome Texas A&M University Libraries as our newest member in support of Fedora at the Gold level. Texas A&M has a number of Fedora-based projects, including the Alice in Wonderland exhibit and the Curator's Administration Platform, and they frequently participate in the South Central States Fedora User Group meetings. We appreciate all their support!
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, please join us today!
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.
You can find the latest demo video on YouTube, and all Fedora demo videos on the Fedora Repository YouTube channel.
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 April 6-10 sprint will have a focus on:
- Containment Index
- Notifications
The May 4-8 sprint will have a focus on:
Please add your name to any of the upcoming sprint dates on the wiki.
Activities in Related Communities
Islandora
- Registration is open for a webinar featuring a tour of Islandora 8 1.1.0 on March 24.
- The Islandora Foundation is seeking expressions of interest to host Islandoracon in 2021.
Samvera
- The Samvera Connect program committee is looking for volunteers to help with this year's conference.
- The Samvera Roadmap Council is looking for more responses to the Survey of Samvera Roadmaps & Plans.
- The Advancing Hyku project released a roadmap through 2021.
Oxford Common File Layout
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
In 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!
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
Is your repository listed in the registry? Help us maintain reliable information on the community of Fedora users around the world by registering your repository today. You can also request an update to an existing entry by selecting your entry and filling out the online form.
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.
