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Last month's newsletter reported on the Oxford Common Filesystem Layout proposal (OCFL) put forward by Andrew Hankinson. Similar to the "Portland Common Data Model," this proposal can serve to start conversations about the underlying data storage layer in our institutional repositories and arrive at some common understanding of best-practices for filesystem storage. Andrew Woods followed this proposal with a call to form an interest group around the OCFL. If you are interested in joining this effort please respond to the mailing list thread with a +1.

Fedora 5.0.0

With Fedora's support for semantic versioning and the policy to limit the number of major releases to one per year, the primary change found in the next major release of Fedora (5.0.0) will be an alignment of the RESTful API with the Fedora API Specification. Two recent sprints made significant progress towards this goal, with the current focus being on exposing versioned resources per the Memento specification.

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 .

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